More Promptly Poetry PPC 5

Order and Chaos - week 13

In the corner of a well-groomed lawn
one renegade wildflower takes root.
She readies her seeds for the world.
She cannot tuck them safely into beds
to secure their future, but she knows the ants,
foraging deep beneath the green blades
they will carry them to richer soil.
It may be that her progeny will fly with the birds,
or be scattered to the wind by the mower
and elsewhere become,
a field of resplendent color.
The quiet chaos of life goes unseen.


In the immediacy of our lives,
the busy-ness of insignificance
we regard as fateful circumstance
the order of the universe -
blown into existence by chance,
as if a monkey randomly typing
for an infinite time would produce Hamlet.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/science/monkeys-cannot-type-shakespeare-study-int...

https://www.science.org/content/article/don-t-crush-ant-it-could-plant-wildflowe...



Written for "Promptly Poetry Challenge (2024-2025)" 

TOPIC - WEEK 13
"quiet chaos"