Skip's Poem: "In uno, plures"

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My friend Skip Mendler is a talented writer. Today he posted this on the Cybermind email list, and graciously gave me permission to reprint it.


In uno, plures


One sun
For many trees
Many rivers
Feed one sea
One Light
But many eyes
One Truth
With many sides

One planet
Many lands
Many fingers
For each hand
One wind
But many sighs
Out of many
One can rise

In that one
Still many stand
Many hearts
Many hands
Many faces
Face one sun
In one are many
From many, one


(c) 2008 Skip Mendler


("In uno, plures" - "Many within one" - is of course the flip side of the USA motto "E Pluribus Unum," "One out of many")