Where Life Happens

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ShelleyA
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Where Life Happens

Postby ShelleyA » Sat Sep 03, 2016 6:30 pm

Plop...
a drop captured
in a sea of time and space,
ripples that will touch many lives,
sometimes insignificantly
yet barely noticed—

for others it's life changing,
cause and effect,
a force that moves one
in ways that were never expected,
affects that echo into the future
in which control is lost;

a never ending ripple
causing havoc because
life happens,
the end result of the ripple effect
with hope and faith being the only
things that bring you through it.


Form: Free Verse

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Stella
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Re: Where Life Happens

Postby Stella » Sun Sep 04, 2016 9:09 am

Yes one small drop in the ocean causes ripples that flow outwardly and change everything in their path. We have no control over the effects of one small happening that we might not have even noticed happen....

A lovely thought written in free verse which can often be more expressive than strict form..thank you Shelley :)

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Re: Where Life Happens

Postby Cindy » Sat Sep 10, 2016 1:01 pm

This is a very well written free verse. It really causes one to think. I love how you began it a single word.

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ShelleyA
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Re: Where Life Happens

Postby ShelleyA » Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:02 pm

Thanks Stella and Cindy. I appreciate your comments.

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Re: Where Life Happens

Postby Tom Balch » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:47 pm

Certainly one to ponder, ShelleyA...

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Re: Where Life Happens

Postby ShelleyA » Fri Sep 30, 2016 5:59 pm

Thanks Tom. I appreciate your comment.

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Re: Where Life Happens

Postby Adette » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:32 pm

Food for thought just a little ripple which travels o and on just like our lives, not knowing where the next one will take us - a short distance perhaps, or into an ocean far and wide - let's call it the sea of life. PLOP .................


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