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Options versus time... inspired by Doreen's poem - options...
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Options versus time... inspired by Doreen's poem - options... |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium 
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Options versus time Sitting there with sitting legs crossed upon my high chair of deep thought -- of timeless, un-clocked circumstances of inertia. I'd got myself to ponder. I'd set myself to wonder. Shrieks all around howling as if jealousy afflicted deeply pained in thought-caused guilt crystallising the vanity of reason. Why? What? Who? Wherefrom? An alarm sounding bell raised my waking up eyelid and with arising eye brows I muttered a wakeup call to a million harsh ones, "give me a few more moments will you? can you?" I'd just started to think! Time for coffee, and a sly stilted look at the forlorn agenda that read like the soup of the day on a menu full perhaps of eating options 'bananas and milk shake?' Misplaced, vagrant options and then I had a stop watch threatening to stop - unless I killed my inertia and jumpstarted in making an atrocious selection -- 'how much sugar? and milk?' were the questions raised. Options, millenium-full WAP enabled, internet savvy exotically ancient, yet modern and infinitely possessed. Time, being zeroed, even lesser than there was ever was - ozone-like depletion - left with as little as nothingness itself! What choices do I make? When do I make them? Where went the time? Who took it away? More shrieks, more cat calls my high chair is now left aloofed, separated from my self in its own belonging corner of thought. --- We have options, but do we have time to make them, and that too correctly?  [This message has been edited by Sudhir Iyer (edited 09-08-2000).] |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
***mind spinning*** So many choices...would love to just roll the dice once in a while Sud...how 'bout you  Great writing..you've given me much to ponder today...I'll add it to the list my friend |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Sudhir, I am leving this comment by way of a internet thingy that is not so good so I can't cut or paste text and am too lazy to retype the piecesof text that I enjoyed the most, also forgive me if my heart is not in the reply i am bit wiped out and homesick but need a distraction and your poetry provided the perfect distraction. Wonderfully written verse of your usual briliant poetic style. take care my friend. "Think I'm - I'm lost among the undergrowth So much so I woke up I love you all the same" Manic street preachers You stole the sun from my heart. |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
butterflies~, Oh, my friend... thank you for coming by... yep, rolling the dice is one solution, and sometimes flipping a coin also helps... only difficulty would be to recognise the choices... brian, I can never thank you enough for coming in in the midst of your vacation, and responding ... My regards, sudhir |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Always thought provoking, Always well written But I do like my coffe before making any rash decisions. I live moment to moment, since what you so cleverly describe here is no longer my lifestyle, but I remember it well. Liz |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Sudhir, Sudhir beloved one, You have way too much time on your hands if you can craft this beautiful poem and make it look so natural, so incidental so thought provoking. Kethry "It is the image in the mind that links us to lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers weaves the garland."- |
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tracie66 Member Elite
since 2000-01-18
Posts 4713Australia |
Ah Sudhir Always the wise thinker much to think about from this which you have written. Wonderful Sud... Tracie~ Love is the life of the soul... It is the harmony of the universe |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Excellent thoughts by you in this one and now of course my mind is reeling. I for one try not to make any decisions until my "2" POTS of coffee in the morning.lol...the only decision I make is WHICH cup to use today. I really like it when you reflect like this and it shows your true talent so well. |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
Sudhir, thank you for posting this as a separate topic... my apologies for not getting here sooner to respond.... just haven't had enough time to do everything i want, these days... hehe... seems to be slipping past.. it's hard to fit everything in. You have some very focused excellent lines in here. Among my favorites-- "Time, being zeroed, even lesser than there was ever was - ozone-like depletion - left with as little as nothingness itself!" this is a well crafted piece and you offer a lot of insight. well done! ~ all you can really ever expect out of life is a good apology and some decent poetry ~ |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Liz, Thank you so much for your kind words... Kethry, Maybe not...  Thanks a lot...Tracie, Thanks a huge bunch... Mark, as always your words of praise move me a lot... Thanks Doreen, no need to apologise at all... thanks so much for the well done... regards to all, sudhir |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
This one almost slipped by me, Sudhir, but I caught it just in time....and I'm glad I did. Terrific writing, good sir! |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
.... and I am so glad Sir Balladeer to see your name here in this thread... and you say it's terrific... MY that's a bonus indeed! thanks so much... regards, sudhir |
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