What's real?

Okay, so I get philosophical now and then.  The problem is that I don't have the logical kind of mind to really do it right, but it's fun to play anyway.  I actually hunted down and read Rene Descartes at one time.  I tried to read Kant, but the guy writes like a German.  Forget Hume.  Anyway, I get in these moods and I like to think about why we are who and what we are.  I know, that's pretty dangerous, and I should learn to just shut up and live, but I got hung up on the saying "The unexplored life isn't worth living."  That's basically nonsense but again, I'm not all that logical at times.  When I get too illogical, I start making weird associations, and when I do that, sometimes poetry results.  I should be talking more about what constitutes poetry, but for this first bit, I just want to get some of it out there.  Debate among yourselves whether it's really poetry or not.

It was Real

Are there earthquakes on the moon?

Does the ground shake and move

or is it solid, not made of pieces

like our earth, in little squares

The ground here fits like a puzzle

one piece jammed into another

nothing solid about it

although we like to think it is

Does Mars have earthquakes?

I think it probably does

named after the God of war

it would be appropriate there

Or Venus, after the goddess of love

earthquakes would make sense there too

Only they would start from the center

not the surface like they do here

Here just the surface shakes

as the pieces move around

like the moves the silly humans make

dropping bombs all over the ground

or bouncing from one love to another

nothing is ever always

we feel the shake and convince ourselves

it was real, but it was then

The moon would probably shake it's head

if it had one, watching what was going on

seeing the pieces move around

with silly humans thinking they don't

Copyright 2010 Carl Thames

I'm not totally happy with the rhyming in the fifth stanza, but I don't want to change anything as it describes what I wanted to say.  Damn words anyway. I did another repeat in this one, with "silly humans" and I didn't even realize I'd done it until I posted, then read the post to see how it looked.  Hmmm, I'm usually a better editor than that.  Oh well, I think it fits, so it's staying.