minoanmiss | Poem Post: Spirals In Your Eyes

A little while ago,

peteralway wrote a song for me which I've always cherished, about the ubiquity of spirals at many scales.

" Spirals in Your Eyes" by Peter Alway

Chorus:

One one two three five eight thirteen
Twenty-one Thirty-four
Spinning, growing somehow knowing
Drawing me to the shore (last time only) to the shore

Down in the deepest sea creatures of mystery
Growing out spirally in their form
Only their shells were known locked in the ancient stone
Or thrown on the beach by a summer storm

(Chorus)"Spirals In Your Eyes"

Roiling the summer sky, past where the seagulls fly
Rains that can rip, and the winds that roar
Radar and rocketry, look with new eyes that see
Down on a gyre from where spaceships soar

(Chorus)

Turning in distant night, glowing with gentle light
Islands of stars answer Newton's call
Burning with stellar births, building a billion earths
Twisting a spiral from matter's fall

Bridge:

Tiny shells or nature?s wrath, everywhere it?s simple math
Buried in the swirl the secret lies
Spirals in the telescope; spirals in the microscope
Spirals in the world and in your eyes