NOTHING IS REAL

THERE IS NO REALITY

WITHOUT WORDS

If I jump up and down

what kind of butterfly effect

makes a grain of sand tremble

over there on the opposite side?

Reality

If I jump out of a perfectly good airplane

with the best parachute money can buy

and it experiences an epic failure

All my dreams will be pancakes.

Reality

If I stroll through Strawberry Fields to look

for what we’re talking about and can’t find

the word, vocabulary out the window; No

one else will ever know because no words,

no reality,

nothing.

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Reviews

[Lorry]

Visit the strawberry fields before jumping out an aeroplane and that way you not only get to try strawberry pancakes but you get to be them too!
This has a feel of "if a tree falls in a forest and know one is around to say what the f**k was that, did it really fall?
I don't know the answer to that because I had my noise cancelling headphones on, but there's a big tree shaped hole in my roof!
😃

[Vol]

Lorry,
Sorry, man... It comes a little bit from Plato's shadows on a cave wall... You can only speak to what you know from observation and experience. But what if you did not have language to communicate with? You've got a mental movie to review, but no way to analyze it, much less share it... though monkeys have been seen teaching their young, and some corvids, too... Quantum people say once things are observed, they are changed, but is that enough, do they also have to be analyzed or described, is just seeing them enough?
Vol

[Beren]

Wow it really has a deep message. It reminded me of this saying "When the last person who knows you dies you never really lived." This is a bit like that. If the action you did was never put into words it never happened. My therapist told me that she was concerned because I never talked about my father's death and I still used "is" when I talked about him. It was as if the fact that I never talked about his death invalidated his death. It was as if he wasn't dead to me. If I never put it into words, it didn't happen, right? at least for me. This poem reminded me of many things, many things that I may have never written down but that were discussed in my head. they were pretty real

thank you so much for sharing this sir! your words are so alive in my brain right now

[Vol]

Beren,
If thoughts and feelings keep a person from life, then there should be some kind of counseling, but the more we carry on, the further we leave those older troubles behind... to make room for the new troubles just up ahead.
You know the best stories are the ones where something went wrong, and the worse it is, the better the story, so bring on the pain! bring on the passion!!! Drive fast, Be Reckless! LIVE!
It is the old "If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, dd it make a sound? Think of the totality of your life experiences collected in you... what would have happened it you weren't there Those experienced do not and never have existed...
Vol

[Beren]

Wow, my mind is blowing. I’ll think about this for a while. Thanks

[Michael Sun Bear]

Every attempt to measure existence creates the illusion of reality, and words are yet another measure.

[Vol]

Michael,
Sounds quantum to me. Or Buddhist... There is a case to be made that nothing exists outside my braincase.
Vol

[carl]

made me think of a story I read recently by Eudora Welty - an aged couple deaf dumb from birth headed to Niagara Falls so they could stand at the edge of the falls and lean against the guard rail because they had learned that if you did you could hear the sound of the falls with your body. It would be the first sound they had ever experienced in their life. Not discounting what you have said, but the two thoughts together just made me wonder. Of course without words how could I consider either - Your piece is very thought provoking - glad I came by - carl

[Vol]

I know, right? Our reality would be limited to moving from one set of sensory experiences to the next.

[Kelly Scheppers]

Great contemplation here, Vol. I am pleasantly lost in the reverie.

[Vol]

Kelly,
I think the power of language is not just an important discussion, but a deep one. Like I mentioned to Lorry, the quantum scientists say we change tjhings just by observing them... but is that really enough? Doesn't it require analysis, interpretation, evaluation, understanding? Is there the same result if a person without language observes? Which begs the question, is it our perception that changes, or is the thing itself altered in some way?
I've been left alone for too long, I think. I need a table, and three or four friends with alcohol and tobacco to work some of this out...
Vol

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Writing words forever....that is what we were built to do...thank God, we have words and sometimes create new ones made from old words but fresh thoughts.
j.

[Vol]

Erin,
I know, right... words have been my favorite toys for as long as I can remember...
read moreErin,
I know, right... words have been my favorite toys for as long as I can remember...
Vol

[ETERNITY]

Show me some signs. Sign language replaces words. Even iF I can not relay the correct word to you, I can come close enough. How did the Indians and settlers ever learn to communicate? Sign language.

We have to always try. If at first we don't succeed? Try and try again! And again!

I form my two hands together in the shape of a heart. You do it back to me and hold up 2 fingers.

Sometimes reality is what we make it. Even when you know you'll never meet.

If you don't try, it's a sure sign you don't care.

[Vol]

smiling... Listen to the woman, she's always right...