Origami Heaven

Cloud 9 - Cartoons and poetry

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

 

 
Miscellaneous short poems
 
Mitchell's paradox
 
Everything is

uncertain.

Even this.

 
On Happiness
 
Any day now happiness

will come free with sliced bread.

But will happiness be worth having

when everyone has it?

 
On Humility
 
Search out the sea

and recall you are only a man.

 
Manhattan
 
An alien from far beyond Saturn

said. 'What's all this fuss about pattern?

From up at this height

there's no finer sight

than a close up of downtown Manhattan.'

 
A Pyramid of Leaves
 
Among the trees

the wind has built

a pyramid of leaves.

 
Three lefts
 
Two wrongs don't make a right

but, oddly, three lefts do.