Time

tanka

Please visit the audio reading to hear this poem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gaEafYvXhY

Published In Tattoo, Calling All Soldiers Home

Tattoo is a collection of one hundred syllable conscious poems, mostly brief with an eye to expanding peace and self-awareness. Included are Descartes Was Not a Mosquito, Just How Many Butterflies, and How to Heal the World.

Author's Note

captcha … usedness

Reviews

[BL]

You have made me think about this elusive commodity that has become an obsession and almost a thing. You have said a lot with very few words, allowing the reader freedom to expand thoughts.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, B.

[Alfred Kukitz]

The best way to speak about an endless length is in your short sweet way! Less is a huge more here!

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Alfred:)

[emmajoy]

Time eludes us all.. keeps its promises, whispers its meanings.. but then moves on, leaving thoughts like yours, with endless supposition

Your work's extraordinary, whatever its form. Your reading's smooth as silk. .

[Pryde Foltz]

Very kind. Thank you, Emma:)

[Benita-Staebell M - Kin..]

Short and yet much to ponder I agree with aacpuente.



Brilliantly penned loved it.



Thank you for sharing and thank you
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Blessings. Benita

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Benita.

[Benita-Staebell M - KindredPoet]

you're welcome. :)

[aacpuente]

It is a wonderful poem! Short yet so many thoughts to ponder...

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, aacpuente.

[Rita L. Sev]

No, the hands do not contain eternity, yet we hold eternity in our hands with each new life... Great tanka, Pryde.

[Pryde Foltz]

That we do. Thank you, Rita:)

[Rene Salinas]

Well there would be so many ways to approach this but the one that I like the most goes on a theory by the name of Eternalism. Which alludes to the fact that past, present and future all happen at the same time greatly depicted in the movie by Stanley Kubric 2001. As it gets highly complicated and already I am bordering dangerously on nerdiness I brought this up because you used the comparision to eternity.

Thankyou

[Pryde Foltz]

LOl … nerdism is always welcome on this poetry page. Here is my response to another poet on this poem ….Poets and philosophers have been wrestling with what time is for a very long ... time. I see time but a system of measurement that allows points in existence (us) to coincide in the space of this reality ... actually just on this planet's reality. We measure time relative to our perceived reality. In dreams time becomes very flexible and as you approach speed of light ... if Einstein was correct ... time slows down to the point of non-existence. It may be circular but you would have to live a very long time to truly prove it. But then I suppose some physicist may find just the right mathematical equation to back the circular theory up…. see I speak fluent nerd:)

[Rene Salinas]

Jesus Pryde and Iwas treading carefully .... Nest time I will just jump in with both feet , too late not give me that time back?

[Pryde Foltz]

Two feet always in ... is what I say … unless it's jello over a crevasse

[realmwriter]

It is very poignant. It truly is relative. We perceive it as linear when it is more circular than anything really. It isn't just one point along the way, it is all points simultaneously. Wonderfully captured and expressed.

[Pryde Foltz]

Wonderfully reviewed. Thank you:)

[realmwriter]

You are very welcome.

[Avinash]

Time, one of the biggest mystery to mankind appears like one solved puzzle in your words. Always a pleasure listening to your spoken words.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Avinash:)

[willweb]

Pryde, I listened on G+ and your words captivated me. So much truth ticking away there,no two hands, beautiful.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, WW:)