in a water-drop
swirls the universe we know
life-spans, birth to death
what has passed and what’s to be
if so, what is then the sea?
Today I felt to write a really short poem for dVerse Open Link hosted by Grace utilizing the mini-prompt.
August 28, 2025
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I like this Bjorn, particularly the water drop image, some times the short ones are the best!
JIM
Great short take on the theme (typo in the title). There’s a great episode in the Anglo-Norman version of Navigatio Sancti Brendani (Voyage of St Brendan) where the roamin’ monks come upon a man on a small island measuring the ocean with a spoon. Our life measures thus in eternity …
I like short sometimes… I really like the parallel you have with the man measuring the ocean with a spoon, I think I might have heard it but in another setting before.
Spelling errors corrected 🙂
Thanks for reminding me of the man measuring the ocean with a spoon.
Nice, tight verse, Bjorn. I really like the ending question.
Short but powerful verse, specially the ending line question Bjorn.
Your poem is for all of eternity … brevity works beautifully.
so many question, and many mote
Nice on, Björn
much♡love
A very moving poem
I think the sea is filled with all our tears, hopes and dreams.
The sea is north and death all at once.🌊
that’s supposed to safe “life and death”
Nice write Björn. Brief and simple and Brendan’s monk measurer reminds me of a storyline in the Sandman where a man is condemned to count every grain of sand on a beach.
I enjoyed your short, sweet eternity in a water drop, Björn, and the way it ‘swirls the universe we know’. Yes, the sea is eternal – at least until the planet is destroyed.
Washing off Shakespeare’s grain of sand, Björn and giving us a further question to ponder…
I love the ending in a question. Each drop of water is so much, and yet only part of a whole.
I read a novel recently, There Are Rivers in the Sky, and in it, the author imagines a drop of water that goes through different incarnations through time.
What is then the tsunami?
Add salt and stir…
A great take on the poem, Bjorn. An interesting question!
Maybe the sea is all our thoughts and opinions. Just a drop in the ocean
Wow!
Excellent use of imagery here. 🙂
Short but deep!
I really like this poem. It’s thought provoking.
small but mighty! and i also closed my poem with a ?
These short verse poems are quite gripping and very moving. Super thought-provoking, my friend. 🙂