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Contemplating Nothingness

To contemplate nothing with something, a Sisyphean task The mind’s paths, like Escher’s roads, simply double back To land again in somethingness, explanations lack Yet our deeper selves know profoundly the nothingness It’s the void that fills up magically with a loved one’s kiss 5/3/16

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 6/4/2016 3:36:00 PM
Hi Tom, we are all doing a repeating tasks until the end or maybe till eternity
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 6/5/2016 1:34:00 AM
So, you will learn from your lessons.......... This is good! I thought the only thing that we learn from "history" is that " we never learn from history"........ Hmmmmmm. Cheers
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Tom Quigley
Date: 6/4/2016 7:44:00 PM
Like "Groundhog Day"? Seems like my life lessons repeat until I get them...Thanks for reading!
Date: 5/8/2016 5:56:00 PM
Congrats Tom, for your placement in the contest!! ;-)
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Tom Quigley
Date: 6/4/2016 7:44:00 PM
Just saw this--thanks!
Date: 5/8/2016 6:59:00 AM
Thanks. Not clear if there a certain # of rhyming lines required to constitute a "Rhyme" poem--slant rhymes are also rhymes.
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Julia Ward
Date: 5/8/2016 8:30:00 AM
Two rhymes in a five line poem doesn't qualify for rhyme, Tom.
Date: 5/8/2016 6:35:00 AM
A good HM, which might have gone higher in my placement had you called it free verse for it is not a rhyme.
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Date: 5/4/2016 7:23:00 PM
I like your take on the theme, Tom. Your last line really is an unexpected sweet and gentle twist after the scientific, serious first four lines! Best wishes for the contest. Sandra
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Tom Quigley
Date: 5/4/2016 9:38:00 PM
Thank you, Sandra!
Date: 5/4/2016 1:38:00 AM
AWWWWWW! I love how the empty gets full in the end!
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Tom Quigley
Date: 5/4/2016 8:53:00 AM
Thanks, Edlynn!

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