our lives unfold moment by moment by moment though we try to clump them together into years and weeks and minute-by-minute or compartmentalize them into home and work and hobby and now and then and now-and-then and maybe it helps to think there is some underlying structure to it all since otherwise we are like untethered balloons caught up in an errant breeze that pulls us right past the delineations of time and titles and self-imposed strictures and how would we ever manage to define ourselves if we just let life unfold moment by moment by moment
Great circularity in your poem, Maggie, beginning and ending with ‘moment by moment by moment’, the natural punctuation of life. These lines stood out:
‘and maybe it helps to think there is some underlying structure to it all since otherwise we are like untethered balloons caught up in an errant breeze…’
I like the idea that ‘it helps to THINK there is some underlying structure’. We have to deceive ourselves sometimes otherwise we may succumb to the meaninglessness! Great write Maggie 👏
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Great circularity in your poem, Maggie, beginning and ending with ‘moment by moment by moment’, the natural punctuation of life. These lines stood out:
‘and maybe it helps to think there is
some underlying structure to it all since
otherwise we are like untethered balloons
caught up in an errant breeze…’
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Thank you, Kim.
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My pleasure, Maggie.
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I really liked this one. Sometimes I really feel like a balloon in the wind, as hard as I may try to anchor to something.
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Probably a common feeling in these times.
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Love the idea of untethered ballons.
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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I like the idea that ‘it helps to THINK there is some underlying structure’. We have to deceive ourselves sometimes otherwise we may succumb to the meaninglessness!
Great write Maggie 👏
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Thank you, Shaun. I think the challenge is to recognize meaning without self-imposed structure.
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