Time

I know the mechanics of Time --
easy enough to add and subtract.  
Division a realm we can calculate; 
but, when it comes to continuity, it is 
an age old question -- Our human heart, 
an imperfect perfect example: beats can 
be quantified; but feelings have a strange math
all their own...often outside of
measurable reason.  Having no
consensus on 
                  which 
                       one 
                          can count....

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Valsa George

Date: 4/11/2025 9:24:00 PM

Heartbeats can be counted, but the feelings and emotions, the heart contains, cannot be quantified. Enjoyed your powerful capsule of a poem, dear Joe.

Joe Dimino
Date: 4/12/2025 6:27:00 AM

Thank you, Valsa; have a wonderful weekend.

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 4/11/2025 2:06:00 AM

- Heart beats can be quantified...but not how many emotions we have in our stomachs ... true and great written, Joe :) - hugs

Joe Dimino
Date: 4/11/2025 5:28:00 AM

Yep, the stomach is a giveaway. Often rumbling our truth. Thank you, Anne.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 4/11/2025 1:19:00 AM

So true and eloquently expressed

Joe Dimino
Date: 4/11/2025 5:34:00 AM

Thank you, Andrea. Just how I feel about things. Appreciate that Soup has no guillotines that I have yet seen in action.

Joe Maverick

Date: 4/10/2025 10:36:00 PM

Beats me Joe Dimino..' yes we understand so Little in the scope of things..Help us Lord in this World we inhabit, while we inhabit it.'

Joe Dimino
Date: 4/11/2025 5:36:00 AM

I don't know, Joe; I try to listen -- when I do, good things seem to happen. For myself and others. All I can affirm.

Joe Dimino

Date: 4/10/2025 8:58:00 PM

There is no back in Time as Einstein suggests -- Time is a part of us, in every cell and mental process recalled – Already, we are all we were, and all we will become – if anything, I seek knowledge of the eternal moment. Conscious oneness with God in His timeless infinite Universe…. The secret is, learning how to listen – “God speaks to us daily” –

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 4/10/2025 5:03:00 PM

but feelings have a strange math all their own...often outside of measurable reason...so true!

Joe Dimino
Date: 4/10/2025 8:56:00 PM

Hi Kim; thank you. The heart has a mind all its own. Have a great day my friend.

Lin Lane

Date: 4/10/2025 11:46:00 AM

Emotions are immeasurable just as you so wisely wrote, Joe. There's no equation to equalize them, and usually we have no control over them. Now that's a serious comment. ;-)

Joe Dimino
Date: 4/10/2025 2:34:00 PM

A possible dilemma as you suggest; maybe what also makes us, divinely interesting for human? I don't know. Often I write just what I feel, no rhyme or logic. Thank you, Lin. Blessings my friend.