Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Impermanence (posted by Merrill)
“About a week ago, on a windy day, the sky seemed to change every few minutes. Rain to clearing to grey clouds to sunshine. It struck me not just how changeable the weather is, but how impermanent everything is. Buildings topple, land erodes into the sea, and even stars eventually die. Of course, this is not an original or profound idea.”
“So, today for Poetics, I’d like you to think about impermanence, things that are transient, or things that have passed their time. If you want to stick to the seasons, nature, or the weather, that’s fine, but I’d like to challenge you to try to come up with something different or unusual.”
From albums to tapes to CDs
keeping up is never a breeze.
From manual to electric to iPads
I have neck cramps, and it’s not a fad.
Things that are now antiques
include me and my skills–obsolete.
I often ponder that the cars I once used to go out on dates in are now antiques. Smiles. I am one, myself, in fact.
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Yeah, but we are worth more!
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this left me smiling. love the hint of humor in this!
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Thanks, reading!
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This made me chuckle, too. Thank you. 🙂 All sorts of skills and equipment become obsolete, don’t they? And even faster these days.
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Each time you turn around! Thanks, Merrill.
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This made me smile. As the parent of a teen I’m regularly reminded how out of touch I am with the ever changing landscape of technology.
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Too hard to keep up with all of it.
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I read this with a smile. Thank heaven I mastered the computer before I retired. It is my life now!
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I am happy about that as well.
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My skills too are all obsolete. Same with the CDs that I still have.
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Me too.
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Nowadays, keeping up really means falling behind!
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Exactly!
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The only thing we know is that we have live and learn.
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That is it.
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I love this Sara, so many things I enjoyed became obsolete. I used to love playing music on a reel to reel, which people now want to bring back again 🙂
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Well vinyl is back, so you never know.
Thanks so much, Tranature.
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