VJs Weekly Challenge – I’m Bored
“Boredom is rage spread thin.” Paul Tillich
Awaiting When the monitor screen runs flat and everything is flavoured chalk, I bore holes in the universe to see what leaks down the strands of my mind, resisting the blind rut of ordinary days, those vanilla plays fritted to dust and, when the portal opens the river flows, like milk and honey as caramel as smiling stars and the gaze of a tangerine sun, the air electric with held breath awaiting the creative new. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Love the quote and your description of boredom and not boredom.
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Boredom be damned I say, so many ways of defeating the mind. Thank you very much Pat.
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Breathtaking imagery and photo! Very meaningful poem! Love it ❤ Have a great day, Paul!
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Amazing and beautiful poetry. Really well penned. Love the imagery of natural sight juxtaposed with “vision”. 🙏
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Wow, thank you so much for that. 🙂
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My pleasure!😊
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What a delicious poem. Guessing boredom is seldom a problem.
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I love your reaction, and yes, I am happy to admit that boredom is seldom a problem. I can see how it works, but I find ways around it 🙂 However, I feel for those in its thrall.
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My mind ensures I seldom experience it too, Paul. Just so many darn ideas to work through,lol.
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Lol indeed, and on that basis, we are peas in a pod, but I’d rather be like this than bored, ever. 🙂
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enjoyed the image of a door opening… a breeze blowing through an open window… yeah, something like that…
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How delightful to gain that image, thank you for sharing how it affected you 🙂
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Super selection of words!
Fantastic imagination!
Full of natural stimuli!
*****
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Loving your response 🙂 thank you.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Many thanks for that Chuck, hope your day is going well.
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Yes, so far so good! Happy to share your post!
😁✨👍
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🙂
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These are wonderful metaphors you use to paraphrase it. Michael
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Many thanks Michael.
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My middle school English teacher said, “Only boring people get bored.” I have never forgotten thought and I am never bored. Your poem is equally memorable and more creative.
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Quite imaginative.
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Thank you very much Rupali 🙂
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