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man of aran by alan's avatar

Hmm. Time, space and energy. A trinity. Something fishy about that, symbolically speaking. :-)

David Donoghue's avatar

Yes! Perhaps. 😃 Or perhaps it was more of a triumvirate? Each one keeping the other two in balance but ultimately destined to explode... Hard to know for sure.

Jim Halley's avatar

Excellent poem and a big prompt for big thinking

Paul Wittenberger's avatar

Makes sense to me, David!

David Donoghue's avatar

Good! That makes one of us 😉

Elaine Donohue's avatar

Wonderful writing.

David Donoghue's avatar

Thank you, Elaine!

Fotini Masika's avatar

"...probably a quiet peaceful affair / all things considered"

You had me there!

Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

It's the vibes, the history of our universe compressed into a poem that will explode billions of years in the future to create?

On second thought maybe our universe was part of a conglomerate and was kicked out for being uppity.

David Donoghue's avatar

Everyone eventually gets kicked out of something!

Jeff RE's avatar

This is wonderful, David.

How I love this topic... and love thinking about how a poem burst forth from you when you sat in a convergence of time, space, and energy. And your poem, it's participating in the song of our people, in our most fundamental ancestral pass-time, in the most primary action of the cosmos... your poem is an act of creation! Proof it all goes on...

David Donoghue's avatar

Jeff, as ever I massively appreciate your enthusiasm and support. We all have to keep it up, if even just to prove it happened at all like you say 😊

Jeff RE's avatar

To infinity... and beyond!

Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Incredible! So much rich text in one poem

David Donoghue's avatar

Thank you so much Anagha, so sorry for the late acknowledgement as I've been out of touch the last few weeks. Your comment means a lot, thank you!

The Sea in Me's avatar

'And its vibrations,

And the ripples it left behind,

And the dull gas clouds

And the darkness beyond them,

Where time and space and energy

All danced in the dark.

Time enough for a life to understand

The likelihood of everything'

Love these lines, trying to grasp and describe the universe inside our souls, how it's all connected, how it began, time, the everythingness of it all. Pow!

David Donoghue's avatar

Thanks so much for the comment. Meant to reply sooner but i really do appreciate it.

The head on me to go writing about the whole universe but sure that's what came out the other end of the keyboard so that's what it is 😅

The Sea in Me's avatar

What an endlessly interesting topic.

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Feb 10, 2024
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David Donoghue's avatar

Thank you for the comment! It is certainly a bit of a wild topic and I had this writen in long form as a note for years but never really did anything with it. Decided I would edit and form it into something... And perhaps that was destined to happen since the beginning of time too. 🤷‍♂️ We'll never know.