Moebius strip
I don’t say anything out loud because
I haven’t found a way out
of folding
inwards keeping quiet since the eighth
birthday is how I contribute
to survival
of the family I don’t add my questions
or my needs to the confusion
some of it
emerges in poetry – answered – some
of it in anger – unexpressed –
and then
there’s the tentative sleeplessness
all of it is not-living but then
all of it is
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
divorce & eighth birthday wormholes: eighth birthday // now
family wormhole: currency of generations
living wormhole: I will
poetry wormhole: poetry
sleep wormhole: Birmingham / 030413
mlewisredford 
Beautifully done, my friend – the feelings are so well expressed, so well given.
For me, it was my eleventh year…
Lovely piece, be well~
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you are very kind – thanks for sharing your year
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Always a pleasure – it seems we have been “Pressed” on the same day. So happy that so many others will see your work. Be well, my friend~
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we meet in serendipitous places, their illusion to behold
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Nice. What can you do with a klein bottle—poemwise, I mean.
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… OK; just googled it: so if you fill the bottle with liquid it collects around the outside of the funnel you poured it into within the bottle?
I’m working on it, although I seem to be drinking a lot!
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Yes, humans have a difficult time thinking in four dimensions since we have no experience in that realm. Just like the strip, the bottle’s inside is its outside. Here’s an interesting link if you didn’t find this on Google: http://www.kleinbottle.com/whats_a_klein_bottle.htm
That’s why I’m thinking poetry could help bridge the divide between concept and reality. I think you can do it.
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*gulp* – I just swallowed my own throat at the thought!
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And now that I’m thinking about it, drinking might help the process along. :o)
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gurgle – can’t (splutter) speak …!
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No rush. I’ll wait. :o)
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The moebius strip was founded by two people. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858. I think Benedict got the short end of it as it is named after Moebius. What do you think?
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Listing got the ‘strip’?
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What? http://www.segmation.com
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Powerful – thanks for sharing!
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sharing – thanks for power?
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round and round she goes
a new day and new challenge
rise up to meet it
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… and find that you are staring at the back of her head
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Wonderful. I never connected introversion with a Moebius strip but of course it makes beautiful sense.
(And congrats on the the “Freshly Pressed” feature, I expect it will bring you additional exposure, whether you like it or not!)
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thank you, Paul
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They say that the key to a creative mind is to have suffered trauma in childhood. If you look at all the great Irish writers, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Frank McCourt, Samuel Beckett…they all had traumatic or dysfunctional childhoods. Perhaps there is some truth to that, because I read your poem, and I see greatness emerging. Please keep writing. It’s the key to keeping sane.
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you do me great honour – I will let what I can happen; thank you for your consideration
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I can’t deny the emotion I felt upon reading and contemplating with your post. Thank you.
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thank you for the response
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poetry that goes directly to heart!
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… and out again; thank you
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gorgeous. so well expressed. loved it a lot. beautiful work – congratulations on being freshly pressed and thanks for sharing
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thank you very much
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WOw!! your poen is great. Mine not that good…
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thank you
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Reblogged this on Playground.
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Wonderful writing here!
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you are most kind; thank you
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This is very expressive. I can interpret it to my pleasing but still am given guidelines for my mind to wander. Thank you
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and thank you for commenting
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This was me throughout my childhood and up to about age 40. Thank you for a beautiful, simple expression of such complicated feelings and emotions.
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you are very kind, and more and more I am glad to have shared – there are so many people out there with quiet lives
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You’ve inspired me to get back to my poetry… Something I’ve neglected for far too long. I started climbing trees and hiding from the world when I was nine to write poems and escape. At the time I thought that made me weird. Now I know that I was just doing what I needed to do to survive and be true to myself. Thank you for your part in bringing me back.
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ah, my sister from the life of quietness: welcome back
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So happy to be here.
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there’s the tentative sleeplessness
all of it is not-living but then
all of it is
my favorite well done
regards
zara
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thank you for the discernment
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It was a pleasure
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Reblogged this on tlnokia.
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Thanks for posting this. keep posting.
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That’s a gorgeous poem, with really stellar use of line breaks.
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thank you
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how do you do this? not saying anything and everything getting said? …a w e
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you make me blush; I’m used to being regarded with non-plus rather than a w e
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you got pressed
i missed it
need 48 hours in the day…
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man; this café better work …
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