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Counterintuitive Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Suzette Richards
HMS 11/12/2024

those leaf cutter ants lost in the desert ~ they try slice open each grain God shows moses as the red sea closes ~ yet unseen they’ll die in vain I’ve witnessed things so tiny and fast ~ that never occurred in the main unlike people who won’t believe their eyes ~ and claim it’s legerdemain

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Jeanette Swan

Date: 12/10/2024 2:37:00 PM

mysteries all. Not understanding something fully helps increase a sense of wonder. J :)

David Kavanagh
Date: 12/11/2024 3:14:00 AM

Heya Jeanette, this one probably makes more counterintuitive sense in my eyes than anyone else’s, so many mysteries in life, perhaps we need to ponder them from a different perspective to see the bigger picture, cheers David

thriveni c mysore

Date: 12/10/2024 3:37:00 AM

congratulations on your win dear poet. happy writing.

David Kavanagh
Date: 12/11/2024 3:10:00 AM

Thank you Thriveni, this is a strange counterintuitive piece, looking outside the box, cheers David

Di11y Da11y

Date: 12/10/2024 2:07:00 AM

Congratulations on your winning work, I'd forgotten about this one - enjoyed it again :)

David Kavanagh
Date: 12/10/2024 2:52:00 AM

Thanks so much Dilly, I just about made the cut, quite liked this one myself, was an enjoyable one to write, cheers David

Robert Gorelick

Date: 11/13/2024 12:30:00 PM

Always enjoy your quick wit. The world seems oxymoronic at times, like military intelligence lol. Chin up! Keep on Truckn', Robert. I noticed your submissions reads 10/12/24. Just a heads up

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/13/2024 1:26:00 PM

Thanks for the heads up Robert I’ll correct the date now, perhaps legerdemain was counterintuitively at play when I posted this piece, would make perfect sense just like the oxymoronic world you mentioned, cheers David

Michael Tor

Date: 11/13/2024 5:47:00 AM

David another perplexing piece of truth you have shared with us. The theories will be abundant in comments on this one. Love your interest in science and figuring out experiences that sometimes are a challenging topic to grasp. Thanks again for make us think and come up with some kind of explanation on this subject. Thanks again for sharing my friend...

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/13/2024 7:54:00 AM

Thank you Michael, even when speaking counterintuitively reality can make lots of sense, so long as we keep our minds open and are willing to accept that so much of what underpins the cosmos may only happen once it is observed, especially at the quantum level, cheers David

Tom Cunningham

Date: 11/13/2024 4:00:00 AM

Thought provoking for sure David, sometimes the brain doesn't see what's actually there but instead sees what it would expect to see without questioning it. We're so gullible at times. Tom

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/13/2024 4:18:00 AM

Absolutely Tom, but I’m not sure if it’s gullibility, perhaps some are just preprogrammed that way, the brain fills in gaps on a subconscious level so we can function in reality, even if we are not taking the full picture in, but I cannot help wondering (as you can tell from this piece) is someone/something is watching the tiny and fast things which can be barely said to have happened at all, hmmm! Cheers David

Unseeking Seeker

Date: 11/12/2024 8:51:00 PM

Deep! Enjoyed these counterintuitive musings, David

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/13/2024 2:46:00 AM

Thank you Seeker, I’m pretty sure you get the essence of what I’m counterintuitively referring to in this piece, cheers David

I Am Anaya

Date: 11/12/2024 1:38:00 PM

Plenty denial on a large scale, whew profound monoku and certainly counterintuitive in every ku. I couldn't stay away from the red wave yet focused on the red sea. Bol.

I Am Anaya
Date: 11/12/2024 3:31:00 PM

What can be more counterintuitive than red waves anointed one. Hee it's for the same contest. Cheers

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/12/2024 1:59:00 PM

Heya Anaya, the red wave certainly opened up and swallowed the US, it’s done now, so time now to focus on some contests, thanks for pointing out that there is counterintuitiveness in each monoku, and major divisions around the Red Sea that need to be focused on, cheers David

Di11y Da11y

Date: 11/12/2024 9:10:00 AM

There's so much here I'm not sure where to land! I think I'm there feeling it - some existentialism for the desperate ants, then the strive for the big reveal but what would we do with it anyway? Then in-between of do we or don't we know anything or are we still those ants going through the stages akin to the grief process? I'll look forward to seeing more interpretations - the way I said 'grain' out loud when the penny dropped suggests I'm surface level haha - great thought provoker David :)

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/12/2024 10:40:00 AM

A lot of counterintuitive examples and interpretations here Dilly, not to confuse the reader, but merely to get them thinking about reality on a deeper level, perhaps a God was focused on the leaf cutter ants while everyone else was watching the Red Sea event, in truth if something tiny goes unnoticed can it be said it occurred at all, which ultimately can lead to denial and delusion on the large scale, some people fail to see or question what’s right in front of their eyes because like the ants are programmed to carry on regardless whether it is or isn’t there, thanks for intuitively tackling this one lol! cheers David