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lovechild asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 5 years ago

Do you like poems with strings?

Cat Revision of String Theory

(It’s a bit of a yarn. A tall tail. Outside the box. Skinner’s and Shroedinger’s)

They say that dreams are self-contrived:

Mine are the eight lives I have survived.

I still chase my tail, and I don’t care how it seems-

I’ve faced trial by fire, in those dreams!

Consciousness, so far from thoughts

Controlled so carefully, these plots

Are rows of six foot holes, then mounds,

Unsettled, quaking, shaky grounds.

Conception smiths our coded bits,

The feeble fetus forms, forgets,

And learns to follow lesser desires,

Repress the surging inner fires.

They say it’s silly that I feel feline;

That there is madness burning in my mind.

Curiosity kills, they advise…

I’m just biding my time- counterclockwise.

Human is just a shape I chanced to wear

When the feral kitten left its astral lair.

I still want to follow those creatures with wings,

Who aren’t held to ground by theories with strings.

Tick-tock, talk about time, future, past,

Divining our answers on devices, forecast

To swindle us out of living with purpose,

By promising us happiness can be purchased.

I don’t buy in, I’d rather fall to bones,

Trampled by masses as they rush to cast stones,

Judging, demanding we slave, struggle, pay.

Life is a big ball of yarn. I must play…

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    In defense of strings

    Ah but strings my dears

    Are the music of the spheres

    They do not restrain

    But like a violin's complain

    They offer up more

    Of a musical floor

    A place to takes stances

    Of feline romances.

    Your words are heartfelt and glorious and true,

    But I just had to give my strings theory it's due.

    I am a puppet of a hanging man standing in place

    And my strings aren't limits

    But delimiters of space.

    My determined grin isn't choice or sin

    It's the eternal message that was always within.

    I do not need freedom to be free

    For cause strung to effect is what makes me me.

  • doe
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    I love the connection with intuition of a past life and the struggle now in the rat race. Too many favorite lines to pick just one.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    any poem you write I like.

    Theses lines are scary...Oh my..

    6 feet under no good..

    Are rows of six foot holes, then mounds,

    Unsettled, quaking, shaky grounds.

  • 5 years ago

    loved this poem, you are a very talented individual x

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    You are referring to a cat. So, this is a yarn, tall tail. Yeah, Tall tail.

  • 5 years ago

    I totally enjoyed this and its many interwoven references.

  • 5 years ago

    I loved your poem "lovechild!!!" I will copy it down.

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