Random Thoughts
This Time, at Longest, is not Long at All11 total reviews
Comment from dragonpoet
Hi Tom,
These are interesting ruminations that remind us life is short and we must not put off things because we never know when we won't have time to fix them. What is 'the pill' in roulette?
Good luck in the contest.
Keep writing and stay healthy.
Have a wonderful day.
Joan
P S By the way, I have just published a book that is now available on Amazon.com. It is called "The Interloper (and other stories in prose and poetry)" by Joan Pechter.
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2024
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Hi Tom,
These are interesting ruminations that remind us life is short and we must not put off things because we never know when we won't have time to fix them. What is 'the pill' in roulette?
Good luck in the contest.
Keep writing and stay healthy.
Have a wonderful day.
Joan
P S By the way, I have just published a book that is now available on Amazon.com. It is called "The Interloper (and other stories in prose and poetry)" by Joan Pechter.
Comment Written 01-Oct-2024
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2024
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The "pill" is the name for the ball that is spun around in Roulette. I thought it to be apropos to our life's fate ending when - who knows.
Good luck on your release. And thank you for the ead and comment.
Tom
P.S. - Fall will not be the beauty in Western North Carolina for a long time. Hurricane Helene destroyed dozens of towns. Simply wiped them where they stood in a torrent of water. Even I-26 could not survive and took a dive into the Pigeon River.
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The "pill" is the name for the ball that is spun around in Roulette. I thought it to be apropos to our life's fate ending when - who knows.
Good luck on your release. And thank you for the ead and comment.
Tom
P.S. - Fall will not be the beauty in Western North Carolina for a long time. Hurricane Helene destroyed dozens of towns. Simply wiped them where they stood in a torrent of water. Even I-26 could not survive and took a dive into the Pigeon River.
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Thanks for the definition of the pill. I thought it was the aspirin you needed to take to get rid of the pain of losing at roulette. Haha. I am so sorry for those towns and its people who have to deal with loss of people and belongings as well as the beauty of nature.
Joan
Comment from tempeste
Ciao,
growing up I slowly realised that if you want to get things done best to do them ( errands, chores etc) straightaway... this mindset makes life much easier and happier.
Certain problems just weigh and make us miserable until we resolve them and finally our piece of mind returns.
Like when fallouts occur especially with loved ones , or close friends we should try and mend the relationship because we don't know who much time we have.
I learned the hard way as I speak from experience.
I read your notes , nice idea to represent daylight and night with the gold / black hues.
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2024
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Ciao,
growing up I slowly realised that if you want to get things done best to do them ( errands, chores etc) straightaway... this mindset makes life much easier and happier.
Certain problems just weigh and make us miserable until we resolve them and finally our piece of mind returns.
Like when fallouts occur especially with loved ones , or close friends we should try and mend the relationship because we don't know who much time we have.
I learned the hard way as I speak from experience.
I read your notes , nice idea to represent daylight and night with the gold / black hues.
Comment Written 27-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2024
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Welcome to my world, which has survived though nature did a number on us in Western North Carolina. Hurricane Helene wiped off more than a dozen towns. An Interstate highway is impassable as it drop into the Pigeon River. It will be a decade to begin repairing what this storm did to the folks round about here. We survived with nary a nick. An inconvenience of no power or communication for seven days but this morning the sun will rise once more.
Comment from Wendy G
Your notes show thoughtfulness and careful preparation and presentation. I enjoyed your philosophical poem and the reflections about time, our mortality and the uncertainty of our length of days. Best wishes for your entry.
Wendy
reply by the author on 26-Sep-2024
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Your notes show thoughtfulness and careful preparation and presentation. I enjoyed your philosophical poem and the reflections about time, our mortality and the uncertainty of our length of days. Best wishes for your entry.
Wendy
Comment Written 26-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 26-Sep-2024
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Now this is a first-class review full of understanding and insights even I may have overlooked
You are extraordinary
Thank you
Comment from Y. M. Roger
A thoughtful free verse for the contest here -- your words of reflection mixed with random though loosely thread together make for a re-read that discovers something different each time -- thank you so much for sharing and best of luck in the contest!
reply by the author on 26-Sep-2024
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A thoughtful free verse for the contest here -- your words of reflection mixed with random though loosely thread together make for a re-read that discovers something different each time -- thank you so much for sharing and best of luck in the contest!
Comment Written 26-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 26-Sep-2024
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Wow
As a
Blind squirrel I seemingly found an acorn
Thank you
Comment from Jim Wile
I enjoyed this rambling piece, which, in typical fashion, began with a profound piece of advice then showed how you completely disregard it.
In the middle portion, you speak of time being continuous with no timeouts, and then liken it to a game of chance in which you have no control over the outcome.
It then devolves into self-congratulation on how right your often are by comparing your reasoning to an obvious fact, while accurately noting the exceptions to this.
Truly random thoughts that always make me smile at how your mind works.
reply by the author on 26-Sep-2024
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I enjoyed this rambling piece, which, in typical fashion, began with a profound piece of advice then showed how you completely disregard it.
In the middle portion, you speak of time being continuous with no timeouts, and then liken it to a game of chance in which you have no control over the outcome.
It then devolves into self-congratulation on how right your often are by comparing your reasoning to an obvious fact, while accurately noting the exceptions to this.
Truly random thoughts that always make me smile at how your mind works.
Comment Written 26-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 26-Sep-2024
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What can my mind be called? What is a puzzle that cannot be solved? An insoluable problem? An intractable conundrum? I thought of a rubic's cube but wo that has been solved in many ways though I solved mine by taking off the colors on the six sides and regluing them. Thanks.
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Or perhaps Enigma, which was also the name of a German encryption machine during WW2 that produced highly coded, virtually indecipherable messages?
The terrific movie The Imitation Game was the story of how Alan Turing led a British group to crack the Enigma codes and intercept the messages. He invented what amounted to the first real computer to do it.
I'm not sure even a supercomputer could crack your codes, though!
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Comment from Robert Zimmerman
I like your approach to procrastination. I like to find nuggets of lines and phrases in poetry. I found a good one in your poem.
"There are no time-outs
once our time is set in motion."
Nicely written, and that statement is true every day.
robert
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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I like your approach to procrastination. I like to find nuggets of lines and phrases in poetry. I found a good one in your poem.
"There are no time-outs
once our time is set in motion."
Nicely written, and that statement is true every day.
robert
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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Comment from Bill Schott
This poem, Random Thoughts, makes time the important factor in our lives, as it has always been. Midnight means both the end of one chance and the beginning of another.
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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This poem, Random Thoughts, makes time the important factor in our lives, as it has always been. Midnight means both the end of one chance and the beginning of another.
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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Yes, it does yet unless you are at a pole is is dark. Thanks for the read and review.
Comment from evilynne
Ooh, my, there is a lot of truth here. I am well known for procrastinating on almost anything. Your work speaks the truth and offers hope to those who linger in a world of indecision. It is well written and enjoyable reading. Best of luck in the contest. Evi
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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Ooh, my, there is a lot of truth here. I am well known for procrastinating on almost anything. Your work speaks the truth and offers hope to those who linger in a world of indecision. It is well written and enjoyable reading. Best of luck in the contest. Evi
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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Much appreciated. Every ow and then, I find a friend who will say something nice about my writing.
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Welcome! Evi
Comment from davisr (Rhonda)
We are definitely not promised tomorrow, mystery poet. We just watch time tick by, not knowing when the last grain of sand is going to fall. I love the appearance and message of your poem. We don't have control of how many grains will fall, but the time in-between and what we do with it, that's what we have.
Best of luck in the contest.
Rhonda
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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We are definitely not promised tomorrow, mystery poet. We just watch time tick by, not knowing when the last grain of sand is going to fall. I love the appearance and message of your poem. We don't have control of how many grains will fall, but the time in-between and what we do with it, that's what we have.
Best of luck in the contest.
Rhonda
Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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I have commented on your commented twice before. I cannot understand why, if it hasn't been seen by you, it remains as if I never made note.
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I've been having that trouble a lot lately and I've heard the same from others.
Comment from royowen
I love this poem, it points out the propensity and the weakness of men in day to day activities, and the great possibilities of the same, and then points out the things we can't, such as the things of natural law, beautifully written My friend, blessings Roy
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reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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I love this poem, it points out the propensity and the weakness of men in day to day activities, and the great possibilities of the same, and then points out the things we can't, such as the things of natural law, beautifully written My friend, blessings Roy
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Comment Written 25-Sep-2024
reply by the author on 25-Sep-2024
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Happy is the person who gets a nice review. Thank you, Roy.
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Bless you