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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2011-03-24 05:04 PM

JUST WONDERING
24 March 2011

I was just wondering,
when I get to Heaven,
if God will let me,
into the fascinating secret
of how minds work -
in general –
you know, a sort of prototype -
and in groups –
of the great thinkers,
of those who don’t think at all,
of those with hidden agendas,
of criminals,
of composers,
of the scary ones whom music doesn’t touch,
of corrupt politicians,
of altruistic politicians,
don’t laugh, I really believe there are some,
well, at least three,
and also in very specific minds –
mine for example –
why my very own solution to world politics
came to me in my very rushed bath, this morning,
and then there was the Spathodia campanulata issue
yesterday, driving home from the computer shop,
I saw the tall East African tree, in its large orange-bell splendour,
and I could only remember “campanulata” –
I hate it when I can only remember the specific name
and not the generic name
rather than the other way round
because that way it is almost impossible to look it up,
and then minutes after giving up
the search through my mind
the generic name sprang into my head
and I said “Spathodia” loudly to Gretta, the Jetta and me –
and then today when I left work at lunch time
to check on Benji and Cleo
a song I had taught my French pupils
along with many others –
“Sous les ponts de Paris”,
came into my head,
but one line just wasn’t there
I could sing the tune of it
(well, “sing” is pushing it far too much)
and then I remembered the general meaning of it,
then the key word
and then the line,
but with two words that were wrong, but fitted,
then two others instead,
also wrong
and then when I got home
without the song in mind at all,
while playing ball with Benji
“mon marquis” bounced into my mind
and I had the whole song.

Well, I suppose how my mind works
wouldn’t interest anybody else,
but it certainly interests me!

I wonder if the mind prototype is like a database
and based on logical instructions
or mechanical
like the internal workings of Big Ben
or whimsical
and based on flower moments in the breeze.

I wonder . . .
I wonder . . .
I love wondering . . .

Owl

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2011-03-24 05:15 PM

Wonderlust? I wonder too. This is wonderful watching your mind work. I think you wonder your way to the collective consciousness and dive right in. You are a very special individual.
Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-03-24 05:19 PM

Since I only have this one mind to deal with, and since I have also come up with the solution to the worlds problems taken from the Civil War Hero (to the north) General Grant, and since I sing like a nightingale to his mate, and since I am the wittiest guy I know and just cannot understand why people don't laugh at my witticisms, plus the fact that I have to carry around a HUGE tree limb to beat back the girls, women, AND grandmothers I am actually afraid to ask God much of anything at all concerning my brain and how, what, and why I think as I do, but if you have a good chat with Him let me know I might change my mind.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2011-03-24 05:22 PM

Thank you, Lori for the lovely things you said. Most people (outside of poetry forums) find my mind (and me!) weird or boring. I loved the word you coined, "Wonderlust" from "wanderlust"!

I have a poem called, "Thinking" and I think of thinking as an actual and exhilerating pastime!

I am glad you enjoy wondering too.

Owl

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2011-03-24 05:25 PM

Giggles, Jerry. I know you are laughing at me, but then so am I - and I am also laughing at your witticisms!

Owl

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

5 posted 2011-03-24 07:47 PM

Sounds like you are a deep thinker, enjoyed !
Kat >^..^<

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2011-03-24 10:29 PM

and don't we all wonder just
how wonderful it would be to be
but for a moment in the mind
of an OWL...

YOU...are wonderful!

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

7 posted 2011-03-25 04:47 AM

Read this already once yesterday, was fascinated as I am now at the second round.

How our mind works is something to lose our mind over, haha! And I love how you wonder and ponder, dear Diana.

Just wonder-ful!

Love,
Margherita

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

8 posted 2011-03-25 07:03 AM

fine and interesting 'wonderings' indeed!

Likely the greatest mystery of 'science' to date is the origin/evolution and nature of human
'consciousness' ... and whether there is perhaps a universal field of 'consciousness' connecting
all things across all scales of observation in and around us?!

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

9 posted 2011-03-25 09:20 AM

I loved reading your wonderings. You raised several interesting questions, which to my own wondering mind, will be answered when we return Home. God is a pretty smart Guy! They say He is omnicient!

Love you!
Linda Lou xo

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

10 posted 2011-03-25 11:02 AM

I love wondering too, Diana. My mind is always racing from one thought to another so that it keeps me awake at night.
Ida

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

11 posted 2011-03-26 02:41 AM

Thanks, Kat.  I am not sure how deeply I think, but however deep or not, I find it fun.

Thanks, Karilea, for your kind words.  I think you may find my mind a lot more boring than you imagine.

Thanks, Margherita.  Giggles at losing our mind over how the mind works and the “wonder-full”!

Thanks, Bruce.  There is so much in the world to wonder about.

Thanks, Linda.  Yep, God is omniscient and omni a whole lot of other things too.  However, although this wasn’t what you were talking about, nor what the poem is about, but related to the “omni a whole lot of other things”, He has given us free choice and is not a master puppeteer.  He allows us to do what we want, and if we mess things up, and/or don’t learn from our mistakes and those of others, and if we insist on doing irresponsible things, He is not to blame.  We need to take responsibility for our actions.  He is not a Dictator.  He doesn’t force us to accept Him.  If we don’t want to, we don’t have to.  It is as simple as that.

Thanks, Ida.  Yes thinking/wondering/pondering is fun and enriching.  I am lucky, though, that it doesn’t keep me awake at night.  I fall asleep like turning off a light switch, and sleep through thunderstorms and burglar alarms, but not my human babies’ cry (many, many years ago), nor my kitty's meeow, nor my doggy's bark or low growl warning of a prowler.

Owl

[This message has been edited by OwlSA (03-26-2011 03:57 AM).]

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