PROMPT/POETRY

When Nothingness Means Something

What hides behind nothingness?

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Free flowing observations pertaining to NOTHINGNESS:

Nature abhors a vacuum

or so Aristotle believed
which means
there is something in the emptiness.

Something lurks in the nothingness,

an inkling of an idea,
an atom of creativity,
a flicker of light,
waiting to be released
from the whirlwind of chaos
and flung into the universe
in its proper time.

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A random poem about nothing at all
will circle back to something
even though nothingness doesn’t mean a thing,

as meaningless as blue faded T-shirts
tossed into the goodwill pile;

as worthless as lumpy sleeping bags
that kept us warm on camping trips.

Nothingness earns its non-place
as it moves out of our lives,
for, whatever “it” was,
it held our hearts
and gave us what was best for then…