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imagining the minimum that could constitute one verse challenges the mind still, that's nothing compared to imagining the maximum
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The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱 
Now that’s a thought that would have to linger on and on and on…
Well written! 🙂
❤ Terveen ❤
-David
The never ending Renga vs the Brevette!! When will you visit them??
when will I visit the brevette, you mean? I hadn’t known about it until just now!
Another dilemma of time and space. (K)
🌀 indeed 🌀
Very true! I am challenged by brevity, but a poem with lengthy longevity, now that could take a lifetime of imagining! 🤪 I like her hat, dress, and gloves. Do you wear that when you are writing poetry? 😆
yes! that’s the outfit that I keep in my closet! – but don’t tell anyone 🤫
Nice! I will not mention a thing. 🤐
That’s the spirit, David! Imagine the possibilities. 🙂 Love this poem! Take care!
💗 Cheryl 💗
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💖 Khirda 💖
Lol this me took some time to understand…but worth it 😉
I’m sure it only took you the minimum amount of time to understand, Khirda!
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David
And you did it! Provided us with the maximum meaning in the minimum 🙂
maximum meaning
Rahul’s interpretation
of the minimum
Haha 😛
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Imagining a verse so long there are not enough quarks in the universe to store it, if one quark could store just one bit.
Would that be possible, or would the laws of poetic verse dictate an end to the verse long before?
Does poetic verse have any mathematical law?
Are our poems just like physics contained by intricate math coded in the universe or perhaps our collective subconscious?
How socially constructed are the laws of poetry, does our nature restrict them at all?
Just some of the questions of pondering a maximum verse.
We may never know, or perhaps in the future, we will.
These are terrifically formulated questions, Selon! Thank you 😁
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David
I have some mathematical training and quite like me some philosophy, poems are no stranger to me. The universe prepared me to ask these questions 😉
(actually I’m less competent than this comment implies, but it is not a complete fiction)
😊 Selon 😊
Thanks 🙂 David ❤
Thank you!
Funny, I didn’t notice my () bracket comment made the comment self referential, I think, in a way that’d makes it logically invalid.
I think you would have really gotten along well with my Papa – he liked that sort of thinking 🙂
Sad some people die before you (really) get to know them. I had an uncle who read a lot of philosophy in his spare time, but unfortunately, he passed away before I got into philosophy as much as I am now.
It’s nice how you keep your Papa alive in a way through this blog and its title. Would love if someone would have done that for my uncle. Present some of his ideas and write about him online.
It’s really very self-centered, Selon… it’s like a form of self-therapy for me – an outlet for me to express my grief when I feel that I need to. I mean, I do think that my father would have appreciated it and been proud of me for it, but in honesty, I couldn’t say that I’m doing it for him, per se.
In that context, I think every mourner ultimately has to figure out what his/her grief outlet shall be…
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David
Perhaps it’ll be, or is, appreciated by people in your family too. The line between self-centered and not self-centered expressions of grief might also be a bit blurry. At least it’s a good thing what you’re doing
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Selon
🤍 Selon 🤍
Love this!
💘 Lucy 💘
Huh! 🤯. 😂. I like this. It makes you stop and think. And it’s so true. It has something of Ogden Nash about it.
Wow; Ogden Nash ~ that’s quite the compliment, Worms ❤
Thank you!
David
Absolutely! 🙂