Contentions
Literature
: consciousness
playing its
pattern seeking
game; a session
of hide and seek
among the syllables.
Complexity and the Ordinary
My simplest movement
through the aisles
of an ordinary supermarket,
analyzed and mapped
for its elemental physics,
would break the largest supercomputer.
In this small sense, I am amazing
and our technologies are not.
Sentimentality
Don't show us bloody bleedings
of the heart.
We know it all too well.
Show us instead
the cautious pumping of a heart
reclaimed from the onslaught.
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I like these, Gary. My favorite...Nr. 3.
I enjoyed them all. I particularly liked the hide and seek game "among the syllables" and the tone of the voice in the last poem.
Thank you, Matt.
Thank you Erika.
Good words, especially on Sentimentality. *
Thank you, Beate.
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7Thank you, Bill.
Good set, Gary.
"We know it all too well."
Thank you, Sam.
Excellent originality of thought and expression. Great set.
Thank you, Dianne.
*. Gary. Good work. My favorite contention? Literature".
Thank you,David.
An inspirational set.
Literature absorbs our contributions while seeming capable of editing them after their initial assembly.
Sentimentality ever merits distinction from "sentiment", I continue to learn.
--and supermarkets do elicit marvel: while my eyes alone do not denude shelves, I'm usually vexed to see that the barcode tags do not restock shelves themselves. (Barcodes speak only when scanned?)
Good stuff. Continue contending!
Thank you, Edward.
Yes, though I like the sentiment of the 2nd, the 3rd stands out best.
Thank you, Verkaro.