with all your science
tell me
how much
of the ocean
is tears
tell me
the fish aren't crying
all the time
~ ralph murre
6 comments:
This is beautiful, Ralph! I love your pairing of poetry and photography here, in all of its simple elegance and the question it poses. Cristina Norcross
It hurt my heart a little bit. I never thought of the idea that those salty seas were fish tears. I really like the poem in it's tender simplicity.
thanks Ralph.
jeanne
A winner, Ralph. Spare, but loaded. Nerudaesque.
Ed W
beautiful ralph, steve and i going to walk beside those tears today...love from san francisco j&s
I must come clean. While not intending to rip off Basho, my thought owes an unmistakable debt to his, where in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he says:
The passing spring,
Birds mourn,
Fishes weep
With tearful eyes
Ralph, you got me with the first line on this one, science, all of our technology can't answer some of the most important questions. Another "wonder" full poem!
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