Perhaps they don’t throw stones <br />Simply skipping them instead <br />Picking and choosing only the best <br />Sleek, slim, rounded at the edges <br />Such as will easily skim along the surface <br />Lacking desire to plum the depths <br /> <br />We, poets, observe them <br />Driven to distraction at times <br />Amused at other junctures <br />Maddened as well in turn <br />Or merely apathetic <br />But always perplexed <br />At these ‘Skimmers’ <br />Whose fundamental immediate lives <br />Leave them skimming across the surface <br />Never dipping hands into cold deep waters <br />Or noticing the stream reflecting <br />The wonders of the skies<br /><br />Mary Havran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/skipping-stones-3/
