Creativity

The mind is a quagmire of weeds: a crowd of what we think we know leaving little room left for new crops of creativity.... How far out did Einstein go? At first thought speculative nonsense his time altering relativity....

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Sara Kendrick

Date: 11/11/2022 1:16:00 PM

Creative one that you have penned. Such genius about a genius. Thanks for sharing and for dropping by my page. Sara

Joe Dimino
Date: 11/11/2022 3:36:00 PM

Thank you, Sara; so pleased you enjoyed this one. Have a great day my friend!

Gail Debole

Date: 11/11/2022 7:43:00 AM

Hi Joe, Love the metaphor in the first line. Very true. Even for the most creative - so many other responsibilities and activities can get in the way of the creative juices. The most creative must be constantly hacking away at the weeds to make room for the all-important creative thinking and results.

Joe Dimino
Date: 11/11/2022 9:03:00 AM

Thank you, Gail; have a great day my friend!

Gershon Wolf

Date: 11/5/2022 7:55:00 PM

'a quagmire of weeds.' Now I figured out why I'm not going bald: Nothing in my mind; all the weeds grow on top of my head. Keep smiling, Joe.

Joe Dimino
Date: 11/6/2022 7:34:00 AM

I'm bald as a bean. But if hasn't done me much good:) Those roots go deep. Thank you, Gershon. Blessings my friend.

Speaks Volumes

Date: 11/3/2022 10:14:00 PM

Certainly got me thinking Joe. I read a T-Shirt that said " I don't like folk that think they know everything, getting in the way of people like me that do know everything" Loved your poem. I think as we get older we cant remember, cause our brains as so full of stuff we cant fit any more in.

Joe Dimino
Date: 11/4/2022 8:06:00 AM

:)) Love it. Nothing more I care to anyway...I am back to my files of Looney Tunes, a bottle of Ballantine and my old Ludwig drum-set. Cigarettes are still a no. Blessings my friend.

Vijay Pandit

Date: 11/3/2022 2:46:00 PM

What we think we know-- rules us--as you so well say my friend. Einstein did go far with his theory of relativity. Potent write, Joe.

Joe Dimino
Date: 11/3/2022 4:41:00 PM

Thank you, Vijay. People need to be more fearless, in my opinion. We see nothing as it really is. We see according to our own programing and the programing of others. The real of anything is yet to be discovered. The closest we can come is by way of sensing spiritual substance, essence of deeper reality hidden behind our many curtains of lesser consciousness.