Life Is

life is opening up our eyes ~ to see it’s our mind that makes no sense Life Is Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Nayda Ivette Negron Flores Monoku Howmanysyllables.com (17) 06/30/22

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Kim Rodrigues

Date: 7/11/2022 3:03:00 PM

It oft’ doesn’t

David Kavanagh
Date: 7/11/2022 3:39:00 PM

Now that’s the part I can never get my head around Kim, cheers David

Christopher Flaherty

Date: 7/5/2022 2:40:00 PM

Bingo

David Kavanagh
Date: 7/5/2022 3:13:00 PM

I hear you Christopher!

Jennifer Proxenos

Date: 7/5/2022 9:54:00 AM

I don't know if I want look into my mind your message though, comes through strongly, well penned David. Hugs and blessings, Jennifer

David Kavanagh
Date: 7/5/2022 10:52:00 AM

Heya Jennifer, hope your keeping well, I explore the rabbit holes in my mind and they do go pretty deep, actually unfathomably deep, and like the idiot I am I keep going back for more, ah to be human, cheers David

Fj Thomas

Date: 6/30/2022 6:26:00 PM

So perfectly true David.

David Kavanagh
Date: 7/1/2022 12:33:00 AM

Thank you FJ I honestly believe it has valid meaning, as to how much we understand life and reality, cheers David

Sotto Poet

Date: 6/30/2022 10:02:00 AM

When one eye is closed the double vision immediately goes away, because the brain receives information from just one eye. It might be helpful to recall things or simply ignore them.

David Kavanagh
Date: 6/30/2022 10:47:00 AM

Indeed Lasaad we could possibly lose the parallax view to try help us, but understanding and explaining, how conscious life or reality is intrinsically connected to eternity is still way beyond what our human condition allows for, cheers David

Tom Cunningham

Date: 6/30/2022 6:58:00 AM

It's easy to partially close our eyes to things we don't really want to see. Greetings from Turkey David, hope you are keeping well. Tom

David Kavanagh
Date: 6/30/2022 8:41:00 AM

Yeah all good Tom, I’d love a bit of Turkey right now, the rainy season has set in over here since last Summer, and is going nowhere fast, My Monoku is more about the contest theme (life is) and I approached it without religion or faith, merely using logic to determine no matter how hard we try, we never see the complete bigger picture, enjoy the sunshine, cheers David

Jeff Connelly

Date: 6/30/2022 6:17:00 AM

Begs me to ask David, "Are our minds half full OR half empty?"...

David Kavanagh
Date: 7/3/2022 9:07:00 AM

Careful now, we’d be getting into nihilistic territory there, which would mean the majority of the universe would have to be made of dark matter, and dark energy, Wait a minute it is! Your holding back on me Jeff!

Jeff Connelly
Date: 7/2/2022 3:35:00 PM

David, maybe everything IS nothing, and it's just our perception that makes IT exist as something? WOW. After that, I'm more than half empty jajaja...

David Kavanagh
Date: 7/1/2022 12:46:00 PM

Makes sense Jeff, moods do fluctuate and dictate our outlook, so you sound pretty normal to me, I took your question as more about the grand scale of existence, and the very fact it exists, leads me towards a half full mind, I do often ponder why is there anything at all, why not just nothing, ah the things that keep me awake at night!

Jeff Connelly
Date: 7/1/2022 7:37:00 AM

Everyday is different. Even within a day's time I'm different. Sometimes overflowing. Sometimes empty...

David Kavanagh
Date: 6/30/2022 6:42:00 AM

That would be a perspective question Jeff, but in all honesty other than those with unflinching faith in a god, or apostates, the truth lies in my monoku, for those with an open mind we cannot ever be certain, Ok I won’t cop out, I’ll go for half full in my case, how about yourself!