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# The Pond
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-pond/
- Published: 2021-11-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: the pond reflects the world above a brightly colored mirror the city landscapes that I love are shinier and clearer in the inverted images than in my real life those marred by endless scrimmages absorbed by endless st...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

the pond reflects the world above  
a brightly colored mirror  
the city landscapes that I love  
are shinier and clearer  
in the inverted images  
than in my real life  
those marred by endless scrimmages  
absorbed by endless strife  
the water filters, keeping just  
the beauty of our plans  
when all we've built had turned to dust  
untouched by human hands  
the ponds will still reflect the world  
unaltered and pristine  
and campfire stories will be told  
about what might have been

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**Author notes:** wc 81 Photo from RichPointofview