I'm Nobody! Who are you?

[GeneHarrogate]

The notion of selfhood is as illusionary as all other terror management lies. Our consciousness (parent of all horrors) yokes us to all manner of manic ‘anchoring mechanisms’ e. g. god country and family.

[Israe5l]

I been thinking. It used to be that we had plump flesh. But now we only have brain and bones. We are what we do. But I thought there was something more. But I can't remember. We can't afford to be more than what we do. We have become like those starving african children.

[2bsirius]

@Israe5l

I read all your comment and think about your observations.

Thanks

[beantex]

that poem was converted into a song

[Fuleadeare]

Emily Dickinson wrote that poem??? No WONDER it's so good!

[tomken8dy]

Three thousand years from now every one of us will be nobody.

Since we will leave nothing carved in stone all our names, our lives

and our deeds will erode along with our flimsy recording media.

The remains of our buildings and bridges will be all that survives

to tell the future that - someone - was here before them.

[canaan1967]

Oh I'm going to so share this on Facebook. Oops, wait, I don't have an account on Facebook

~ Anonymous

[LimpLoser]

I am the Multi-Verse

the cant and jargon

of multiple verses

each one unspeakable

[Kway32]

I like it.

[Cimbolic]

"an admiring bog"

I like this.

[axisapex]

Good stuff ,no such thing as nothing tho.

[HaleyMary]

I get the sense that frog is not very happy. Humorous write. :)

[Monolith1618]

I am the bog that frogs and then croaks - The forest which leaves sometime after it oaks - And when you do name me my finitude's true - But that in the first place is how I know you.

[2bsirius]

@Monolith1618

To name is to diminish.

This poem is at a finish.

[Your rhyme is obviously better than mine :¬]

[Monolith1618]

@2bsirius Haha! Well, yours made me laugh and I got no enjoyment from mine seeing how it's as familiar as an encounter with a mirror and all... Relativism wins again, and to make the sound of one hand clapping; high five.

[kcjenner1]

@2bsirius This which your wrote 5 months ago:

'To name is to dimihish',

seems similar to what I have been thinking lately;

'When you define it, you confine it'



[Professoranton]

Good stuff.  Sorry to admire. Does that mean I'm in the bog?

[Monolith1618]

@Professoranton Haha! You are in the bog, of the bog and for the bog, making you simultaneously part and whole bog. It's as if you're caught in this Janus position of perpetual complexification and grateful indifference while admiring yourself as another.

Wait, that makes you a narcissist. Wait... that makes me a narcissist too. Well... We am the greatest I guess. : D

[2bsirius]

@Professoranton

Thanks...

"Does that mean I'm in the bog?"

No, but it might mean that you're in the bogsphere...

Sorry, sometimes my bad jokes just write themselves :)

[TWITfromURANUS]

I could listen to you saying stuff like that all day.

[MensRifleAssociation]

hehehe

[Maxdwolf]

What've you got against frogs? ;-)

[ICharmaine]

Ha! Great!! Quote from another wise frog: "It's not easy being green" :D

[2bsirius]

@ICharmaine

Don't I know it!

[Elenkhos]

cute.

[rozeboosje]

Nice!

[2bsirius]

@rozeboosje Glad :)