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What is yet to be is but a guess...

By Rebecca Kai Dotlich
From the November 2022 Issue

What is yet to be is but a guess . . .

and so the universe asks,

we chant yes, yes, yes


to cracking open riddles,

propping ladders to the sun,

searching for seaglass cities.


As we are swept along by time,

this chime repeats:

wonder.

From ancient ages,

        from everywhere to someday,

there is both dreaming

and waking in the dark


and the world watches

the compass, the map,

the microscope, the telescope,

the sketch.


What mysteries come after today,

existing in a place called faraway,

with charts of galaxies scrawled

and scratched with what-ifs . . . 


what is yet to be is but a guess.

This poem was originally published in the November 2022 issue.

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Step-by-Step Lesson Plan

Close Reading, Critical Thinking, Skill Building

1. READING THE POEM

2. ANALYZING THE POEM

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