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Poetry: A thing so small, by Robert Stone

Here is another sonnet just written. It is not so upbeat. Strange how a small thing can set one's mind off. I went to the Horse Cave Heritage Festival music stage set up in front of the entrance to the cave, not so far away and almost forty feet below sidewalk level. Hazel Johnson, Mark Whitley, and Dave Foster were playing.


Leaves and a few very small fronds were falling, swaying in the breeze. And then, a walnut fell about six or seven feet from where I was sitting, between me and the stage. No more fell but a few people entertained the notion that another walnut could crack one's skull.-Robert Stone
A thing so small

a sonnet by Robert Stone
The autumn leaves in windy gentle sway
are drifting down upon my head and then
a walnut falls a body length away.
Another nearer comes I know not when.

The music notes in pleasant melody
are lulling all the other sounds and yet
a spoken word breaks up the harmony
.Another louder comes with certain fret.

Unknown companions only sharing shade
are showing neither fear nor hope yet I
Above see lines of phantoms on parade
displaying truth: the end is always nigh.

A warning unexpected takes control
of hidden fears of body, mind, and soul.
--A Sonnet by Robert Stone, Saturday, 19 September 2009


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