#vastness
I love all your oceans
the shallow ripples
the furious storms
the current drawn depths
the sun painted breaths
I love all your oceans
the dappled ridges
the soft ebbs
the tsunami winds
I love all your oceans
You are beautiful
In your vastness
Nov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM UTC
the wind blew a little harder today—
all for a chance to kiss you.
i guess the coldness of days gone by
do not scare you at all.
now I whisper to find you,
in the smallest of cracks,
in the pauses between breaths,
in the vastness of the evening breeze.
nothing could ever make me
stop searching for you.
nor will i ever want to.
May 26, 2025
May 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM UTC
i am
considering
buying tickets
to a lecture
on the cosmos
though my thoughts
have often
dwelt
amongst the celestials
in one form
or another
i know little
beyond
what was learnt
at school;
cursory details
when the vastness
of the universe
is considered
there is a desire
to understand
from where we came
of what made us
how we came to be
and
our chances
for a future
there is
a radiance
and pageantry
to the stars;
an expanse
that should incite
inspiration
and wonder
instead
this infinity
is a subject
dominated by
doomsdayers
and
doomsayers
without much
pity left
for
the rest of us
if i do
choose
to attend
i know that
i’ll be lost
to the magnificence
of the dwarfs
and nebulas
understanding
at best
half
of all that
is proffered
to be honest
i’m not sure
its worth
the £50
plus postage
when i think
i can predict
how it will end;
warnings
will be given
and advice
imparted
unfortunately
there is
no guarantee
i will still
be listening
May 5, 2022
May 5, 2022 at 6:04 AM UTC
Trade winds blow backwards
My mind reels
Insight in insight
Thirdhand apocrypha
Melting all the time
Icebergs within icebergs
Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021 at 11:37 PM UTC
The earth is like a bubble of life floating in the vastness of space
and all creatures on it are like the organisms that inhabit a place.
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Mar 30, 2020
Mar 30, 2020 at 3:07 AM UTC
View the scenery
The lesser of attractions
Beyond the lights
The stars
And in the vast, the blackness
The backdrop endlessly
Speaking to ears
Not hearing
I feel you out in space
I think of you so clearly
Prayers float from my mouth
Answered, forwarded to voicemail
My ceiling holds spaces
Atoms form me
And my jail
It’s electricity
That makes chemicals in me
The forms the lonely
Forms the empty
Filled with the scenery
I wish for a dreadful thing
Every night
Wonderful though it may be
My pillow by my side
Emulating you laying next to me
Spaces between compose words
Flicked outside by
Movements of my tongue
I dwell in loneliness
And I pray I’m not the only one
Do you feel lonely?
Beyond your street
These scenic stars?
I pray you long for me
In crowded room, still alone you are
I feel this
Aching too
A rowboat in an endless sea
I look in the black
And pray you’re as lonely as me
You should feel as lonely as me...
... tell me she’s as lonely as me
Selfishness fill the darkness
Lines between concrete seas
Help me believe she’s as lonely as me...
I know these thoughts
They arise
Like moons
Eclipsing light of day
I whisper wicked things
Coated in prayers that float away
These eyes
Dare not close
In case miracles start
In front of me
Maybe my wounded heart injures
But I pray you search till you find me
Eternity is brief, love
We have not a moment
To waste
Two hearts scattered in blackness
Leaking words that float to space
I beg forgiveness
I know my folly
I’ve took too long
No map in darkness
Hope dwindles, but I search on
These words divisive
Selfish as they float
Never to be
Retrieved
I pray you’re lonely
And that you search impatiently
I pray you’re lonely
And ever alone, you ache for me...
Feb 28, 2020
Feb 28, 2020 at 2:19 PM UTC
As far as the eye sees
To the horizon and all around
Nothing but endless emptiness
I cannot go back for futility it’s not
The voice whispering within
This is the way walk in it
Not a sound, not a soul, not a wind
But all light, bright, silent and peace
The strangeness in my heart
I bear to the land beyond
Strange tongues surrounded me
Too long, too long, away from home
Renewed in every step
Refreshed by the stars
Strengthened in every breathe
And my food is my heart
As the blind sees not the stars
The prophet knows not the future
But only the assurance of the truth
Thus I walk the endless vastness
Feb 13, 2020
Feb 13, 2020 at 7:14 AM UTC
I held wishes on your stories
Etched between the void and the sky
And hoped that even a glimpse
Of all your vastness and beauty
Can be reflected in me
Oct 8, 2019
Oct 8, 2019 at 9:12 PM UTC
Things I cannot believe
My idiocy
Things I shall never achieve
O, my idiocy
Things I shall never know
O, my idiocy…
Hatred and anger
Burning flames
Things I wish not to remember
Yet never
Never will I forget…
Who am I?
I am no one
An idiot of course
A fool, so naive
A child indeed
Unorganized, I am doomed
This curse, I assumed
Would leave me, but never…
Shall I ever be released?
O never, o never,
Shall I ever be set free?
O no, o never,
Shall I see the light of day…
Do you see me?
Do you hear me?
The sorrow and woe
The sorrow and woe…
If they ever saw me
For me
Would they leave me?
Or would they feel me?
Would they lift me up,
Above the clouds,
Where they flux so freely
As a bird in flight
Across the vastness
That is my mind
Do you hear me?
Do you see me?
No, o never,
Never it goes…
O, if you could see it
O, if you could hear it
The broken melody,
The bleeding heart,
The depths it reaches to…
O never, o never,
Shall I forgive myself
O never, o never
Shall I forgive myself…
- Jay M
October 8th, 2019
Oct 8, 2019
Oct 8, 2019 at 1:39 PM UTC
Looking out at the vastness
I see so much
This world is more transparent than the last
I saw so little
How can anything create thisness
I'm not sure where this vastness came from
Remembering thoughts surrounded
Surrounded by chatter and emotion
Surrounded by color and words
Is this remembering?
”The Vastness”
Brian Hill - 2019#80
Inspired by intelligence in general...
Mar 30, 2019
Mar 30, 2019 at 9:56 AM UTC
I’ve watched you move dust from the earth
With every speck turned into gold;
I’ve watched you sweep the ashes from the hearth
And thus, grief is laden in the mold.
I’ve seen you maneuver a ship on sail
Like a deity between the land and sea;
I’ve seen you move past through the hail
And the trees swayed with their leaves at plea.
I’ve noticed your stillness through the dark
In which it seemed so delightfully right;
I’ve noticed the bareness you left as a mark
When the ambience had turned sour at night.
I’ve recalled your defiance amid the rudiments
In which I found such beauty in nothingness;
I’ve recalled your anticlinal sentiments
Thus, how could one like the breadth less?
Jun 14, 2018
Jun 14, 2018 at 1:08 AM UTC
take a train
seek a station
sense the location
nevermind the destination
thus the landscape is just a mindscape;
a vastness of space, a great unknown
we built for each other,
a wall of falling - a distance of stasis.
May 6, 2018
May 6, 2018 at 5:47 AM UTC
once a
delight to
splurge an
assortment of
chocolate while
enhance its
purveyor like
copious spoons
on layers
there that'd
make confection
sweet as
pie but
connoisseurs haven't
hastened the
dictate conclusively
every time
Jan 28, 2018
Jan 28, 2018 at 9:52 AM UTC
I have gotten so used to the vastness of dark spaces,
I began to believe they are my friends.
Sep 1, 2017
Sep 1, 2017 at 10:32 AM UTC
Space and time ripped,
awe inspired eyes watch on as they accept their impending doom with graceful hearts.
for a moment time stops...
those left in their last moments turn to share love in its purest form
life and death are left as constructs compared to cosmic love.
Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 5:48 PM UTC
How can mortals completely envision heaven?
Exploring the fullness of what we’ll see,
will surely take many human lifetimes,
in order to take in… all things of eternity.
Whatever God has prepared for us -
conceived from infinite possibilities,
the sight of its beauty lies beyond our mental grasp,
whose description, exceeds one’s vocabulary.
What is the secret name reserved for me?
Can one take a swim in the glassy sea?
How large is the throne room of God?
How many angels and cherubs will we see?
Can we exist beyond the third dimension?
Will we be able fly through the universe?
How long will it take me to memorize all Scripture
and the subtle meanings… of each and every verse?
How many new colors, will we experience
that shine within Jehovah’s heavenly dome?
How much gold will stick to my feet,
from walking around my eternal, new home?
What are the capabilities of our immortal bodies?
How much knowledge, from our lives, will we retain?
What will my first feelings and thoughts be,
when standing before… the Lamb who was slain?
Great are the rewards of Kingdom living.
Among the redeemed, no one is viewed the fool;
His great family will be overcome with joy,
knowing that everyone submitted… to His Sovereign rule.
Author Notes:
Loosely based on:
1 Cor 2:9; Rom 14:17-18
Learn more about me and my poetry at:
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By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2011, All rights reserved.
Mar 21, 2013
Mar 21, 2013 at 6:54 AM UTC
*I remember that day
You told me to find YOU.
I searched and kept searching.
It felt like you were just a drop of water lost amidst the golden sands of Arabia.
I searched and kept searching,
Until I came to know you were not that drop but the sand itself which takes it's flight past time.
Capturing me in its vastness and always getting lost from my desperate grip,
I'm still not sure whether I'm just another victim or a witness to your everlasting beauty.
But just remember,
I've found YOU, as promised.*
Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 2:08 PM UTC