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by Gyppo
Sun Jun 11, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Quantum Physicists at a Bar discussing the Multiverse.
Replies: 8
Views: 9463

Re: Quantum Physicists at a Bar discussing the Multiverse.

My neighbours must wonder why I'm laughing out loud at 11 pm.

A fine romp through language and concepts.

Multiverse indeed.

Maybe seminal instead of seminol?

Gyppo
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:34 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Rock Climber's Hands
Replies: 3
Views: 5085

Re: Rock Climber's Hands

It's certainly helped. I'm more upright than I was yesterday.  Before the treatment I looked as if I'd been kicked in on my right hand side.  My Grandaughter said I looked like a letter 'C'.  She offered to 'kick me in' from the other side to see if it would straighten me up. ;-) The Chiro Lady warn...
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:39 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Rock Climber's Hands
Replies: 3
Views: 5085

Rock Climber's Hands

I recently visited a chiropractor for the first time.  Twisted my back and it's taking too long to put itself right.  I may revisit my first impressions later, about the  intimidating black and chrome massage bench, etc.  But there is one over-riding image which calls out to be recorded ;-) ===== Th...
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 11, 2023 5:35 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Night Vision
Replies: 7
Views: 8456

Re: Night Vision

Writer's dreams are strange beasts which follow their own dream logic.  But they are often fun and provocative to write about.

Gyppo
by Gyppo
Thu May 25, 2023 3:01 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Emma
Replies: 5
Views: 5574

Re: Emma

They're not predictable to the minute so I don't see the doorstep ritual every day, but when I do it always makes me smile.

Gyppo
by Gyppo
Thu May 25, 2023 10:43 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: The madness approaches ;-)
Replies: 3
Views: 4997

Re: The madness approaches ;-)

Hi, Deb.  Perhaps best read after the insanity has peaked and faded.

Gyppo
by Gyppo
Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:04 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: The madness approaches ;-)
Replies: 3
Views: 4997

The madness approaches ;-)

A time of voluntary madness,  starting with the Festival of Fools. The first of April, when minds expand, and time contracts down to snatched moments. Thirty days seems a long time, the first week limping along as mental circuits re-open, like a Tibetan monk's third eye. Then the middle weeks are go...
by Gyppo
Mon Mar 27, 2023 7:09 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Then and Now
Replies: 2
Views: 3137

Re: Then and Now

Dave.  

Comment appreciated.   This is of course much more concise, and perfectly valid in its own right.  But it misses the point that the possibilities remain, even when youth and the feeling of indestructability have been tempered by age. 

Gyppo
by Gyppo
Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:47 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Then and Now
Replies: 2
Views: 3137

Then and Now

Limbering up for NAPO ;-) ===== Then and Now Then... Eighteen and indestructible. All the time in the world, filled with limitless possibilities. Now... I know I'm not indestructible, but it's a hard belief to shake. I know time has its limits, but the possibilities are still here. Guess I'll never ...
by Gyppo
Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:42 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Emma
Replies: 5
Views: 5574

Emma

One of those daily snippets I see from my window. ===== Emma Every morning she sees her man off, even when it's cold, and dark, with rain hissing into their porch. He, dressed for his outdoor job, resting his tools on the parcel-drop box as he pulls on his boots.  She, barefoot in nightie or dressin...