Tom Quigley Poet Rhyme

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 June 4, 2016 at 3:36 PM Hi Tom, we are all doing a repeating tasks until the end or maybe till eternity Pashang Salehi June 5, 2016 at 1:34 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 June 4, 2016 at 7:44 PM Like "Groundhog Day"? Seems like my life lessons repeat until I get them...Thanks for reading!

Teddy Kimathi May 8, 2016 at 5:56 PM Congrats Tom, for your placement in the contest!! ;-) Tom Quigley June 4, 2016 at 7:44 PM Just saw this--thanks!

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

Julia Ward May 8, 2016 at 6:35 AM A good HM, which might have gone higher in my placement had you called it free verse for it is not a rhyme.

Sandra Haight May 4, 2016 at 7:23 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 Tom Quigley May 4, 2016 at 9:38 PM Thank you, Sandra!

Edlynn Nau May 4, 2016 at 1:38 AM AWWWWWW! I love how the empty gets full in the end! Tom Quigley May 4, 2016 at 8:53 AM Thanks, Edlynn!