Poem: Map the Gap (Part 2)

Man sleeping (one night's sleep)
Unmanifest (Sleep) to Manifest (Waking)

Mind in Meditation
(find the gap between thoughts)

Age of Universe
(14 billion years old)

Map the Gap (Part 2)

Gap between Words
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

Man Walking by
Giacometti's Walking Man

Lungs for Breathing

12-Inch Ruler

Mind the Gap
Track Sign in Toronto

Olympic Gold, Silver, Bronze
Peggy Fleming wins Gold
Figure Skating 1968

Vitruvian Man (1490)
by Leonardo Da Vinci

White Daisy Flower
with 24 petals

Gap between words helps us to read—
gap in prayers along rosary beads,
63,924 different words in Finnegans Wake
how many words in works of William Blake?

Gaps in steps we take when we walk,
gaps in our speech when we talk.
Gap in bowl and spoon to eat & drink,
gaps in synaptic neurons when we think.

Gap in lungs when we take a breath,
gap in life from birth to death.
Rooms where we live, ceiling to floor,
openings in homes, windows and door.

From pitcher's mound to hitter is 60 feet,
difference between temperature & heat?
Gap in inches measured on a ruler,
26 miles for maranthon runners.

"Mind the Gap"— tracks caution in Europe,
Tap the sap in trees for maple syrup,
Gap in medals: bronze, silver, & gold,
Mesozoic era millions years old.

Height and width in the Vitruvius Man,
60 degrees gap in snowflakes to span,
4 feet 8 inches gap between railway tracks,
Empire State Building's floors have no cracks.

14 lines in a Shakespearean sonnet,
Judy Garland singing "Easter bonnet".
Gap in chess between bishops & rooks,
gap between banks in rivers and brooks.

Gap in school from K-12,
Snow White found the 7 elves.
Gap in yellow pad of 36 lines,
time for grapes to ripe in wines.

60 feet in bowling lanes for a strike,
Tour of France needs a mountain bike.
Gap in Zodiac between Cancer & Leo,
distance in the hole of a Cheerio?

Gap in U.S. coins: penny to half-dollar,
gap in kisses— lipstick on your collar.
Twenty-four petals on a daisy flower,
gap in time: seconds, minutes, & hour.

Manifest to Unmanifest: waking to sleep,
much like cosmic cycle dark and deep.
Our starry universe burn and churn—
such is Nature's gift for us to learn.

— Peter Y. Chou
Mountain View, 2-8-2023