Subject Poetry Contest.

[PeterL]

Amazing! talking with one not present.
Mobile or fixed the connections can be.
Ethereal crackles or buzzes are not as
Common as they were in times well passed.
Hell yes! Now they drop the call completely
Elegant in concept; poor in execution.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WDyKO7GQ70

[_Joe_]

Amid my scattered thoughts
And cold rationality
A yearning is
Killing me ... filling me.

What does it all mean?
What am I doing?
My loneliness is
Killing me ... filling me.

The inner child in me
Craves security.
This dread is
Killing me ... filling me.

My fears incessantly ring
So I pick up the telephone.
There is nothing but dial tone.

[cacian]

these are nice entries keep them coming

[Pompey Bum]

Cacian, don't wait for me, okay? Mine ended up being too personal for me to feel comfortable about posting. Good luck to everyone else!

[Melanie]

iPhone Learning Curve

You know, it might be easier
to learn the saxophone,
the sousaphone and xylophone
than iClouds and iPhones

Now, francophones and anglophones
i can learn to understand
but it might take a megaphone
to get iPhones 'round my head

[cacian]

and the results are as follow

YesNo

My wife knows everywhere I go
And checks in case. You never know.

a fun piece i especially enjoyed the above two lines haha

PeterL

a very well rhymed piece enjoyable and light
i especially enjoyed the last two lines

Hell yes! Now they drop the call completely
Elegant in concept; poor in execution.

they made me laugh in a nice way


Joe

a clever title
an earnest honest piece anxious in places
but i liked the last stanza

My fears incessantly ring
So I pick up the telephone.
There is nothing but dial tone.

it made for a nice closure to the piece

Melanie

and what a piece full of sound
a real buzz feel to it
humour as well as rhyme throughout
my favourite lines:

but it might take a megaphone
to get iPhones 'round my head

and the winner is
PeterL
congratulations !!!

[PeterL]

and the results are as follow


PeterL

a very well rhymed piece enjoyable and light
i especially enjoyed the last two lines

Hell yes! Now they drop the call completely
Elegant in concept; poor in execution.

they made me laugh in a nice way

and the winner is
PeterL
congratulations !!!

I am honored and flattered beyond expression.

I will need a little while to think of a subject, but I will post that before the Sun sinks into the Pacific Ocean, as seen from Half Moon Bay.

[PeterL]

The next subject will be differentiating subjectivity and objectivity. That’s a good neo-classical subject, and I think it lends itself to plenty of metaphors. You didn’t even have to wait for sunset over Half Moon Bay.

It appears that the normal length of a contest is two weeks, so let that be, and the deadline for the contest will be May 27 at Noon.

[cacian]

hi Peter and you are very welcome i really enjoyed reading your piece it was perfect

i am not clear however on what the subject is
are you able to explain further or demonstrate in a line or two?
that would be very helpful

[PeterL]

To further explain:

subjective
adjective
1. existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective ).


objective
adjective
5. not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased:
an objective opinion.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/objective?s=ts

Facts are objective, while opinions are subjective. There are valid reasons for thinking that there is no difference between objective and subjective. Something is objective, if it is outside the person and personal opinion.

What I think is one thing, but I know other
Things. I think I feel joy, but joy is my own
Unshared, quite unknown by any other.
Emotions are felt, while facts are known.

I could go on about the memory of pleasure, but that's a little more.

[cacian]

PeterL thank you that is more or less clear

[PeterL]

PeterL thank you that is more or less clear

Another possibility is that everything is subjective, because we jusr delude ourselves into thinking that there is an objective reality. And there are other possibilities.

And Dark Muse just pointed out some more.

[Dark Muse]

I hope this fits the subject. I tried

The Intangible Tangible

Truth hovers between us,
some truths they say are absolute,
undeniable, infallible, unarguable,
but where do we draw the line
between your truth and mine?

We can reasonably agree
that the sky is blue
but spend decades
arguing why.

Staring at the picture
on the wall we cannot deny
that it is a sail boat
but what does it mean?

I remember the hours spent
in coffee shops over cigarettes
debating the purpose of art,
I favored subjectivity,
the viewer giving the painting meaning.

But you scoffed and believe
the artist must make his
message clear for all to understand,
not leave it up to personal
interpretation.

In a still life of wine bottles,
I saw a reflection of societal isolation,
but you affirmed that was only my projection,
and it was nothing more than a useless
imitation.

A rock is a hard, solid,
heavy, tangible thing,
none can deny it exists
but you see only this,
a dead weight,
I feel the spirit within
and know it to be a living thing,
nothing can convince me otherwise.

[PeterL]

Bien fait, Dark Muse. "The Intangible Tangible " certainly fits.

[YesNo]

The only thing some say that I can know
Is what’s subjective, and I’m fine with that,
But when I shoot electrons aiming at
A double slit I trust I still can show
I fired something definite although
If I could tell which slit each one went through
I’d change the way they must have done that, too,
Implying dumb reality must go.

Hey! I don’t mind. The world seems better when
The matter that I thought was dead depends
Upon some deeper Consciousness to be.
If that configuration’s better, then
It changes almost everything and sends
Me looking for those Eyes that look at me.