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Contemplating Nothingness

To contemplate nothing with something, a Sisyphean task
The mind’s paths, like Escher’s roads, simply double back
To land again in somethingness, explanations lack
Yet our deeper selves know profoundly the nothingness
It’s the void that fills up magically with a loved one’s kiss

5/3/16

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Pashang Salehi Date: 6/4/2016 3:36:00 PM Hi Tom, we are all doing a repeating tasks until the end or maybe till eternity Login to Reply Pashang Salehi Date: 6/5/2016 1:34:00 AM So, you will learn from your lessons.......... This is good! I thought the only thing that we learn from "history" is that " we never learn from history"........ Hmmmmmm. Cheers Tom Quigley Date: 6/4/2016 7:44:00 PM Like "Groundhog Day"? Seems like my life lessons repeat until I get them...Thanks for reading!

Teddy Kimathi Date: 5/8/2016 5:56:00 PM Congrats Tom, for your placement in the contest!! ;-) Login to Reply Tom Quigley Date: 6/4/2016 7:44:00 PM Just saw this--thanks!

Tom Quigley Date: 5/8/2016 6:59:00 AM Thanks. Not clear if there a certain # of rhyming lines required to constitute a "Rhyme" poem--slant rhymes are also rhymes. Login to Reply Julia Ward Date: 5/8/2016 8:30:00 AM Two rhymes in a five line poem doesn't qualify for rhyme, Tom.

Julia Ward Date: 5/8/2016 6:35:00 AM A good HM, which might have gone higher in my placement had you called it free verse for it is not a rhyme. Login to Reply

Sandra Haight Date: 5/4/2016 7:23:00 PM I like your take on the theme, Tom. Your last line really is an unexpected sweet and gentle twist after the scientific, serious first four lines! Best wishes for the contest. Sandra Login to Reply Tom Quigley Date: 5/4/2016 9:38:00 PM Thank you, Sandra!

Edlynn Nau Date: 5/4/2016 1:38:00 AM AWWWWWW! I love how the empty gets full in the end! Login to Reply Tom Quigley Date: 5/4/2016 8:53:00 AM Thanks, Edlynn!