I am the sky the sea the sun and the surf
I am the weeds the seeds the trees and the turf
I am everywhere yet nowhere
I am oblivious but I do care
I am your thoughts and my consciousness
I am the green fields and the sprawling metropolis
I am all you can see yet cannot be seen
I am an elderly gent and the gangly teen
I permeate all but am never sedate
know me before it’s too late …
inspired by Paul Dunbar’s The Paradox, “I am the bud and the blossom, I am the late-falling leaf”
aroused 
I think we can find it all in just those opposites…
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This is great – this character sounds like a person worth knowing, full of paradoxes as are we all!
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and we all all worth knowing Ingrid, we each have so much to give!
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That’s a very good point!
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Well done. I can see it as nature but I can also see it as a person.
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Bravo! the feeling of this poem is liberty – a person beyond defining and one who fully understands the paradoxical nature of that:
“I am all you can see yet cannot be seen”
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Stunning. Well written and profound. Really sung to me.
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I love the rhyming of this poem, gives a very expansive feeling yet that of stillness and oneness.
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Beautiful, Kate. We are all made of paradoxes and that is what makes us human. ❤ You said it very well.
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This is incredibly deep and profound! I resonate with; “I am all you can see yet cannot be seen.”💝💝
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Wonderful!
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love this one Kate………the flow, the meaning……….beautiful.
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Love the rhythm of these rhymes! My favorite line: I am oblivious but I do care. This describes some people I know! 😂 Hope you are doing well!
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Hello! I’ve been MIA with business issues. I’m so glad to hear life is back to normal – the USA is taking some first steps but it’s slow going. Hoping to catch up on your posts! ❤️
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no panic, take your time! We’ve had nominal infections and deaths here compared to the rest of the world … we are so blessed 🙂
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This wonderful, SweetKate…the rhyme, the wisdom, the messages, the relatability! 🙂
Paul Dunbar wrote some amazing poems. He certainly had paradoxes in his life/personality…good and bad, happy and sad. But then, don’t we all.
(((HUGS))) 🙂
PS… “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.” – Carl Rogers.
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Oh wow, Kate this is an amazing poem. Love it.
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Good one! I’m still looking at it and trying to shoehorn my ideas into the poem… very thought provoking!
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I love the underlying message the comes through so well at the end. Learn to know me before it is too late!
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The back and forgh is compelling Kate — and the urgency of the ending is captivating.
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I love the way you took the Dunbar quote and ran with it, Kate! A superbly paradoxical list poem with lilting rhymes.
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Kate, this so resonated. The surface lightness of rhymes and the underlying depth so beautifully highlighted the paradoxes. Bravo!
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I like the depth of thought and wonder in this one, Kate. Well done.
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More need to stop, look and listen to themselves so they can more clearly move forward, see and make music 😉
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Kate, this poem could have been written by Dunbar himself. Wow.
Just wow.
-David
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Beautiful poem very significant, Kate . Are not we all of us paradoxs? 🙂
Love ❤
Michel
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Superb and excellent poem, Kate. I AM THAT I AM.
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Woah, sounds like a riddle to me. 🙂
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yes most philosophy is like a riddle, dualistic yet flows … wise comment Angela 🙂
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Well, that only means job well done to you. 🙂
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Excellent! Slam dunk on that prompt.
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Superbly described Kate… there is paradox in all of us… of who we are, and of who we are not … of who we could be, and of who we are not…
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To me this is the paradox of life itself, “know me before it’s too late.” How many, after all, let “life” pass them by!
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I know I can’t be everything
But what I can be is known to me
So, I’m sticking to that
Have a nice day 😀
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Love this take on the prompt. It shows me, every person is a paradox in and unto her/himself!
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The great oneness that we all share. Beautiful. (K)
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