"Circle" by JSA (2003)

The world is a carousel:
With its ring of gallant steeds
Laden with rotund children -
Some carry balloons,
Others blow bubbles,
But all are happily coiled
At their opal-headed steeds.
And as the wheel turns,
These plump children see
Different parts of the world -
Some parts are lit by the sun,
Others by the moon,
Still others by stars.
And as the carousel twirls,
So does the world swirl with it.

The clock stops...
...another coin is dropped.

And the cycle
of whimsy,
of the sun, the moon, and the stars,
of plump children with balloons and bubbles,
Goes over and over again.




So this is the first installment of my poem-log promise. I wrote this back in 2003 for Celadon's first-ever CD Yearbook, when JLo was VP Comm back then. (Hehe had to recycle this one because it's obviously hard to make a decent new poem in such short time).
The poem is basically a play on imagery, since you can pretty much nuance one particular shape in almost all lines of the poem, hence the title "Circle". The poem was also inspired by my personal belief that life is very much like a "wheel of fortune," where luck and adversity take turns in determining what happens in a person's life. Hope you enjoyed the poem! Hehe more to come soon, should a hefty amount of inspiration strike me.