665 : Group Think

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #143) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

illuminates, impact, remote, scenes, storm, one,

haunt, litter, need, pool, lifeless, price

Group Think.

In the remote past,

Scenes of turmoil;

A lifeless

But turbulent place

Feels the impact,

Reels to the impact

Of Nature.

Storms

Sweep the planet;

Lightning

Fractures the sky;

Illuminates the land.

Thunder,

A deferred timpani,

Grumbles behind.

Volcanoes 

Litter the scene—

Sulphurous sores,

The weeping pores,

Of a fevered planet.

No ghosts dare

Haunt this place.

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In the midst 

Of this cassoulet 

Of what has been

Lives the promise 

Of what will be.

On one afternoon

In one magical moment

In one small pool

Of warm and enriched water

Nothing happened.

But in the larger seas,

In a broader sense,

Over countless seasons,

Imperceptively,

And yet relentlessly,

Associations are made.

Different skills

Meet different needs.

Collaboration

And adaption,

The group

Outperforms

The individual.

And pays the price 

Of survival.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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