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S(OU)LAR
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Understanding

Post by S(OU)LAR » January 17th, 2017, 12:19 am

Time flies
There's no time to waste
To be somebody else



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Re: Understanding

Post by cafeboy » January 17th, 2017, 1:55 am

Very true. Then the inevitable question, but who are you?


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Re: Understanding

Post by S(OU)LAR » January 17th, 2017, 2:06 am

Thanks much, cafeboy. I'll again leave it unknown. I wonder if there's any other way.



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Re: Understanding

Post by entwife » January 22nd, 2017, 9:18 pm

I'm not sure you can be someone else only another iteration of yourself.


"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance" e.e. cummings

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Re: Understanding

Post by S(OU)LAR » January 22nd, 2017, 10:13 pm

Thanks much for your comment, entwife.
Iteration, maybe, also similar, familiar
but never the same like everything.



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Re: Understanding

Post by ramfire » January 23rd, 2017, 4:03 pm

Education will help one to be someone else. It'll help to move you from one economic position to a better one. Your poem sure got me thinking about the value of education and all that it can lead to. Your poem has "spin offs" meaning it can led to a series of progressive thoughts - each thought leading to a new one. A very good poem.



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Re: Understanding

Post by ramfire » January 23rd, 2017, 4:03 pm

Education will help one to be someone else. It'll help to move you from one economic position to a better one. Your poem sure got me thinking about the value of education and all that it can lead to. Your poem has "spin offs" meaning it can led to a series of progressive thoughts - each thought leading to a new one. A very good poem.



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Re: Understanding

Post by S(OU)LAR » January 23rd, 2017, 6:39 pm

I think one can only learn by one's own will. Grading, it seems to me, only boosts competition leading to everyday war. How can anyone possibly limit one's potentiality? The world may remain as it is but at least I'd like to be aware. There may be afterlife or reincarnation but we can't go on with our eyes shut. Thanks much for your comment, ramfire.



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