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Hmm. Time, space and energy. A trinity. Something fishy about that, symbolically speaking. :-)

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Yes! Perhaps. 😃 Or perhaps it was more of a triumvirate? Each one keeping the other two in balance but ultimately destined to explode... Hard to know for sure.

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Excellent poem and a big prompt for big thinking

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Thank you, Jim!

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Incredible. Beautiful writing and one of my favorite topics. I often ponder whether all the amazing things you describe, including ourselves, were somehow baked into those “initial” conditions (if indeed, there was a start) in some informatic way. Whether they were or not, the cosmos is absolutely awe inducing. Well done!!

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Thank you for the comment! It is certainly a bit of a wild topic and I had this writen in long form as a note for years but never really did anything with it. Decided I would edit and form it into something... And perhaps that was destined to happen since the beginning of time too. 🤷‍♂️ We'll never know.

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Makes sense to me, David!

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Good! That makes one of us 😉

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Wonderful writing.

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Thank you, Elaine!

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"...probably a quiet peaceful affair / all things considered"

You had me there!

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It's the vibes, the history of our universe compressed into a poem that will explode billions of years in the future to create?

On second thought maybe our universe was part of a conglomerate and was kicked out for being uppity.

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Everyone eventually gets kicked out of something!

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This is wonderful, David.

How I love this topic... and love thinking about how a poem burst forth from you when you sat in a convergence of time, space, and energy. And your poem, it's participating in the song of our people, in our most fundamental ancestral pass-time, in the most primary action of the cosmos... your poem is an act of creation! Proof it all goes on...

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Jeff, as ever I massively appreciate your enthusiasm and support. We all have to keep it up, if even just to prove it happened at all like you say 😊

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To infinity... and beyond!

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Incredible! So much rich text in one poem

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Thank you so much Anagha, so sorry for the late acknowledgement as I've been out of touch the last few weeks. Your comment means a lot, thank you!

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'And its vibrations,

And the ripples it left behind,

And the dull gas clouds

And the darkness beyond them,

Where time and space and energy

All danced in the dark.

Time enough for a life to understand

The likelihood of everything'

Love these lines, trying to grasp and describe the universe inside our souls, how it's all connected, how it began, time, the everythingness of it all. Pow!

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Thanks so much for the comment. Meant to reply sooner but i really do appreciate it.

The head on me to go writing about the whole universe but sure that's what came out the other end of the keyboard so that's what it is 😅

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What an endlessly interesting topic.

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