Poetry

can you tell I don't understand poetry

I was gonna make a meme about this but decided to go with a poem of sorts instead.

ROCKS ARE IMMUTABLE

Rocks are immutable and hold No scope for self-aggrandizement, Each well-worn pebble churned and rolled Suffers a like predicament.

Gripped in what mesh of causal schemes Endures each casual atom what When one perchanced electron screams A stuttering signal, and is not?

Grant then a gamete, grant a score By crabbed environment beset, And man the instrument, no more, And where’s the credit? Where the debt?

Or grant pure chaos, flickering chance, And life’s defection near and soon, Then mark the shock of circumstance, The day from solid darkness hewn — Rock is a shivering miracle, Betrayed in sunlight, gleaming wet, And love cries out in chlorophyll To welcome truth in petals yet!

— From These Our Matins (1930) by Michael Roberts.

From "The Green Helmet and Other Poems" (1912)

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Something from Nothing

How is it a wide broom

One end fixed, the other free

Could sweep a circle

And another of the same

One end fixed, the other free

Could sweep another

Could clean less together

by working alone

or by squarish fix

No more straw

Nor force besides

Together, working side-by-side

Greater than the sum of their parts

I'm not much a poet or a writer. I struggle with Depression and just looked for a Way to get my feelings about the Up and Downs out. Feel free to criticise or whatever. (This is my alt Account so there is not much activity)