tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12005479.post113034455066316429..comments2023-05-28T04:34:00.429-06:00Comments on Hawk Circle: Divisible ConsequencesPatrick M. Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14366666601869757080noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12005479.post-1130816276040755192005-10-31T20:37:00.000-07:002005-10-31T20:37:00.000-07:00Soulless,So glad to have you back from your busy t...Soulless,<BR/><BR/>So glad to have you back from your busy time! I'm glad my poem brought this state of quiet on for you. I'm never sure what I'll write, or where it comes from. As I've said before, it's "The Mother Ship" for most of them. I'm just the translator station. I suppose that gives me an out if they're not so great? <BR/><BR/>Ken,<BR/><BR/>The keen nature of pain fades with time, and that is a reprieve of sorts. I suppose the most important of all these thoughts is that we would be a detriment to ourselves if we could censor our own past. I believe that we learn more from our faliures than our successes, so we'd be a sad enough lot without that experience, eh?Patrick M. Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14366666601869757080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12005479.post-1130698380832189532005-10-30T11:53:00.000-07:002005-10-30T11:53:00.000-07:00Of poems that linger in my mind and for which I am...Of poems that linger in my mind and for which I am thankful to the author, there are those that make me gasp at the end... And there are those -- like this particular piece -- that make me go very still, very silent... while the mind traverses a thin line between contemplation and resignation.<BR/><BR/>This piece reminds me of something I've been told a long time ago: "a second gone is a second gone forever." I cannot literally take back a word I've said, nor undo an act I've done intentionally or not. If it were otherwise, and not only I but everyone else could weave and un-weave time... then what would happen to the system of values? A breakdown, I reckon. And, if every person can regain what he/she has lost -- be it material or not -- then no one can ever be certain of what he/she really has, let alone its value. <BR/><BR/>Hmm, just a thought. Anyway, let me promptly cease rambling. Hee. I have missed reading your poetry, dear. ^_^S.L. Corsuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10299376651709536034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12005479.post-1130466265928668892005-10-27T20:24:00.000-06:002005-10-27T20:24:00.000-06:00Ken,Have we found a streak of optimism in there? ...Ken,<BR/><BR/>Have we found a streak of optimism in there? <BR/><BR/>Well, I thought about my answer to your question for a while, and here's what I came up with: the statement could be taken two ways: 1) If we could go back and edit our personal histories in order to get more favorable results, avoid trials, and keep the things that haunt us at night from ever happening, there would be no objective reality left. There are going to be trials and hard times. Someone has to encounter them...I suppose everyone does. The "system" breaks down if we can have, as we used to call it in kickball games "free walk-backs". The narrator wishes he could unravel time and go backward, changing elements of the past he's hard-put to live down. He recognizes that if he would be allowed that blessing (or curse?), everyone would be entitled to the same, and thought it might work for one, it doesn't work for all. <BR/><BR/>(takes breath)<BR/><BR/>2) Here's the more negative viewpoint of it: the world is not built in such a way that we can all be blessed in equal measures. Everyone cannot win. We can't always get what we want. Sometimes, we can't even get what we need. If we could, it wouldn't really be this world anymore. To make my favorite quote from Rhinobucket: "This ain't heaven/Baby, get used to it."<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks for the thought-provoking question. Many happy returns.<BR/><BR/>Doc,<BR/><BR/>Time only goes in one direction. It's imperative to our sanity that it does. Changing your own past...that way lies madness.Patrick M. Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14366666601869757080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12005479.post-1130356281233303282005-10-26T13:51:00.000-06:002005-10-26T13:51:00.000-06:00It's interesting that you should speak of unravell...It's interesting that you should speak of unravelling time. I've thought about this many times, and concluded that looking forward is more intrigueing that looking back. All of my yesterdays contribute to the value of all of my todays and tomorrows, and are therefore,they may be too valuable to unravel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com