A Grain Of Sand Comments

We all try to reason in our own ways, How, When & Why, the Almighty created such tiny things, what purpose does it serves but our limitation to understand the Creation of World Returns emptyhanded.

A grain of sand could hold the history of many millenia. If only we had the machines to read the data. Nice poem. My favorite

I hold a little grain of sand and wonder what it means... it's really hard to define significance of a little substance created by God. A can take deep dive into the philosophocal pool of this wonderful poem!

Ah! If I had the eyes to see, And brain to understand, I think Life's mystery might be Solved in this grain of sand... Life is a mystery.. tony

Very nice. With over all to boss the show A Deity supreme.

Most beautiful poem sir...I enjoyed it....

'Ah! If I had the eyes to see, And brain to understand, I think Life's mystery might be Solved in this grain of sand'...........Profound!

starry space. sand, immeasurable.. thank u..

This reminds me of William Blake's celebrated verse: To see a world in a grain of sand/ and a heaven in a wild flower! Thought-provoking poem!

Love you

From a single grain of sand the world sees the poet.

Could anyone tell me if this is in the public domain and if there is a resource for checking? Thanks.

Oh Service! ! ! You made it, A thought in my mind to be born, With such a beautiful prose poem

........truly would love to know the answers to the mystery's of life....

A grand philosophy. I don't usually promote my own poetry in this area, but this poem is remarkably like something I wrote long before I became aware of A Grain of Sand, Posted as The Predjudicial Planet. Check it out. I don't know whether it stands up to Service though. His poems have had more time to mature.

You are truly blessed among men To find such mystery in a grain of sand And to unravels secrets of the universe Today we are planning space ships grand When all that is to be known or worth knowing Is down here a grain of sand in the palm of our hand

My new favorite poem! !

I think some of those who have criticised this poem on here are taking it a bit too literally. People should also bear in mind when it was written, a time when the popular consciousness was not really as au fait with the idea of many inhabited worlds as it is now. Obviously he used 'careen' to get a rhyme. In any case, I don't see why the Earth can't be considered to be 'rushing headlong'. It's certainly going fast enough.

thats really good i like it alot!

while round the earth careens alludes to Earth circling the sun, rotating on its axis-didn't we learn that in grade school science? Service is humbled as he ponders the enormity of the universe; and the notion that it may have all started with the tiniest of particles.