Viscosity

A Poem by Pete

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds. - Thoreau

i dug for diamonds

striking viscous oil instead

opaque heart of lead

© 2022 Pete

Author's Note

"To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to work our mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure." - Thoreau

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Added on April 12, 2022
Last Updated on April 12, 2022

Author

Pete

Boston, MA

About

I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..