Poem #11 of 2024 is due today. The prompt is "taste." I began to write reflecting on a quote by Leonardo DaVinci.
“An average human looks without seeing, listens without
hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical
awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without
thinking.”
Ode to the Human Spirit – A Sonnet
As life moves on from day to day to day
We mortal beings sometimes lose our way.
We look around yet somehow fail to see
The beauty and the grace in you and me.
We listen to divergent surface sounds
And do not hear the need in those around.
We touch and know the outer shapes of life
Not feeling others’ needs, and aches, and strife.
We sample this or that but do not taste -
The present moment’s flavor gone to waste.
We sniff the air but do not smell the rose
We miss the poem and only breathe the prose.
Let’s not forget that many a wrong is wrought
When words are spent before engaging THOUGHT.