Within a Boundless Universe

The most existential thought provoking question has always been our reason and purpose in this small little blue orb which spins in a galaxy of multitudes. This senryu hopes to answer it.

Within a Boundless Universe 

By

Carlos Lorenzo Estrada 

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -Carl Sagan

A vast universe

We live within time and space

Love has no limits.

Author's Note

Thank you for stopping by and reading this senryu. Feel free to comment and share your thoughts. And most importantly keep writing and imagining a universe of endless possibilities and even more love within it as well as throughout.

Reviews

[Fran Marie]

With matters of the heart
where love resides there
are no boundaries in
this vast universe it's
a wide spread emotion
that is endless in its
essence..nie work here Carlos
..

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

Thank you Fran for the kind words on this poem. It is a small piece with a grand message. One that I wholeheartedly believe.

[Fran Marie]

you re s o very welcome

[andrew mitchell]

It has no boundaries but also has its limitations. Good work.

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

Thank you, Andrew, for reading and commenting on this work. Even in my mid 50s I myself, and personally, can not claim to know the full unfettered mysteries of this ideology of Love. As a writer I comprehend the aspirations and greater aspects of the emotion, but alas how it is reflected in every creatures heart I do not know. Some do indeed love with limits and sparsely, while others I contend may love without limit. It is dependent on the heart itself and its enlightened nature I suppose. But in the end I am simply the writer and confess an idealist who sees the world through optimistic eyes and heart. No one should ever take love advice from me because I am biased in thought over this concept of love and its incredibly profound nature. Thank you, Andrew for this wonderful conversation on this subject. I truly appreciate it my friend.

[andrew mitchell]

Yes it is an unknown quantity.

[Chris Shaw]

Love knows no boundaries, it travels far and wide. Love is everything. Without it we are nothing, we might as well not exist. Fabulous little senryu Carlos. Greetings from across the pond.

Chris

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

Thank you Chris wishing you a wonderful day. Yes you are so correct. The universe may hold a vastness of mysteries yet to be discovered but they pale in comparison to the higher ideas of love. Without love nothing else matters. Thank you again for your wonderful thoughts.

[Chris Shaw]

Have a lovely day Carlos.

[Poetic Beauty]

Throughout time and space love swirls weaving in and out is all directions

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

Exactly correct, PB, love is endless. Thank you for your thoughts.

[Poetic Beauty]

Love is everywhere we simply have to look for it. It comes in many forms and adds warmth to life

[jacob erin-cilberto]

great sentiment...love has no boundaries, we just need to let it cross borders.
j.

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

Exactly, my friend, and we will be better human beings in doing so. Thank you, Jacob.

[mattavelli]

Hello, Carlos! :)
This is a lovely senryu. You've connected existence, logic, and emotion. It feels big.
Thanks for sharing.

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

Hey Matt, hope all is going well. This senryu was inspired by a video I was watching about a theory of a multiple dimensional universe and in it was an interview with Carl Sagan. His interviews are fascinating because even if you are a layman or have mild interests on the cosmos he captures your attention with his knowledge on the subject. And plus you know me I always have to throw spirituality, humanity, or love in the mix of most of my writing some how hahaha. But thank you for the nice comment, because I really consider you incredibly well knowledgeable on the art of senryu and one of the tops here in the community in writing them. Your last one still sticks in my head "wait...those are vultures." That ending gets me every time with its irony. Thank you again.

[mattavelli]

What does multiple dimensional mean?

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

The theory of multiple dimensions is a belief there are more then three dimensions. Some say 5, others 6, 10, or more. We human beings are incapable of seeing the higher dimensions because by nature we can only visually understand our 3d world. We are limited by technology and our own sensory perception beyond our own dimension. There is an interesting video called understanding a ten dimensional universe. Though I'm by no means a physicist in quantum science it is pretty mind blowing what they hypothesize may be the secrets the universe has yet to reveal. Are we in a nexus dimension or are there greater higher dimensions or greater lower dimensions then our own. How does dark matter fit into this or the Higgs boson particle. Are they a type of nebulous layer between these dimensions or something more. Myriad dimensions is probably a better phrasing of this ideology. One video described a possible dimension so thin it could probably only be seen sideways and still be vastly unrecognizable to our sensory perception. Maybe dropping LSD would help us see it better haha. I say that in jest of course. I know how some in Florida take things way too literal haha. I kid, I kid, peeps over there wouldn't really ingest bleach as a Corona virus healing method. That's mostly done here in Cali.

[mattavelli]

Haha, we stick to the bath salts induced cannibalism.
I'll look for the video.

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

Haha now you have made me curious about bath salts and cannibalism. Sounds like I can start the zombie apocalypse and take a nice soothing bath at the same time. It's a win win for me haha. I do need to clarify one thing though. Most of the crazy here in Calif is located in the San Fernando Valley. Once you move outside that area you become more safer. Thank you for the laugh my friend I could always count on you to make me shake my head and laugh at some of the things you teach me.

[mattavelli]

I watched a video on string theory. Brian Greene was explaining it, and he looked like he didn't believe what he was selling. Haha
We've had a couple Floridians go cannibal. Face eaters... They called it bath salts because thats what the drug was disguised as. My guess is that show Breaking Bad inspired some minds. But, I haven't heard any stories about it lately, so maybe those folks moved to the San Fernando Valley. Haha

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

A new senryu
Inspired by you

Bath salts make me high

Turn me into a zombie

I'm hungry for flesh

You see this is proof simple conversations can Inspire the strangest art.

[mattavelli]

You’re a senryu machine. Haha
It’s like muscle memory; the more you play with lines of a certain length, the more your brain pops them out. Mine likes 8 syllables, a glancing iambic tetrameter. You should write sonnets.