My Hammock Full of Stars

• Artist: Leik-chamma
• Description: This poem illustrates how different the world around us can be when we're alone, and we can look into things by ourselves. It portrays how the world can look to you when you see what you want to see, and not what other people think you should see. I hope it can teach us to appreciate our times of solitude as oppurtunities to see beauty in our own ways. Most of my poems are humorous, and aren't as deep as this one; however, I really enjoyed writing this.
• Date: 01/01/2009
• Tags: hammock full stars deep imagination

In my withdrawn summers,
My moments of peaceful solitude,
My placid world of loneliness,
I see things differently.

With company, I see a spider's web,
Laden with debris of the downpour,
Suspended, weakly,
On the window sill.

Humanity is my company,
Is my only attention,
And marvels of the world are absent,
Swept away to make room for my world of interaction.

I see the web, but not do I notice it,
Nothing out of the ordinary.
I do not see the beauty that swings,
Nestled in the cold rainy night.

Alone I see a world of difference.
I stop to see how it swings, resilient and strong,
Gripping the frame against the torrent,
Nature fighting itself to preserve its meager being.

I see how the silken strings are so delicate,
Flimsy and weak,
A gossamer lattice,
A hammock of Nature's fabric.

Pearls glow dimly,
Clinging to the hammock's mesh.
Raindrops shining
In the gleam of streetlights.

They are glistening stars,
Sleeping in their swaying hammock,
Snug, untouched by the tempest,
A detatched portrait of benevolence.

I see this only in my lonely world.
It disappears when I live in the world of life.
My secret, mysterious world.
My hammock full of stars.

Comments

[Kittiepup12]

This was ahhhhhmazing!
I was reading this and i was like finally! A good poem!
Not some crap poem that sounds like a sixth grader wrote it!
And truly, bravo.

[Brandonk526]

awesome. that was uhmazing!

[the silver belladonna]

This is absolutly amazing. One of the best i've read.

[dmaticic]

Bravo! Perfect five! Your use of language is impeccible, and your description is great. I can picture it all clearly. Write more deep stuff!