if everything we ever felt,
for everyone we ever met,
was poured into a big old drum;
would love’s elixir float inside,
would a new emotion spring to life,
or would it be a zero-sum?
if everything we ever felt,
for everyone we ever met,
was poured into a big old drum;
would love’s elixir float inside,
would a new emotion spring to life,
or would it be a zero-sum?
THOUGHT PURGE 
Oh, I love a good philosophical poem. I hope if all my feelings get melted in a drum, they all add up to whatever number equals love. But, I’m really bad at math, so for all I know, that number could be zero.
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Thank you Myrna..I rather like philosophical poems too, triggers new thought.
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Good question! But I think it may make a very powerful love potion! Smiles 🙂
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Thanks Loredana…hopefully it will 🙂
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Very good and thought provoking question. Not sure what my response would be, it could go off in so many directions. Lots of spice in that mixture.
Elizabeth
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/
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Thanks Elizabeth..
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I guess it would depend on whether or not human emotional range is infinite … or if it only has so many responses it can go through.
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That’s an interesting thought Wendy, thank you!
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What an interesting concept! Does love float or sink? Hope is supposed to float, maybe love is the next layer
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Maybe! Thank you for stopping by.
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hmm…I think the cream of the pot (love) would float to the top and perhaps, the sediments to the bottom..I think emotions are hard to contain and perhaps, they would just run over the top of the drum finding a way to be released.
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Like your idea of emotions simply running over the top… thank you!
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I would even love the zero-sum…if it happens that way… 🙂 Nicely done…
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Thanks Maniparna.
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I’d like to think love’s elixir would be fully mixed and incorporated with all the different parts in that interesting stew inside my pot – that somehow the bad would float to the top and I could skim them off to put to the side and then discard. Interesting thoughts and question.
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Thanks Toni 🙂
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I’m thinking we’re that big old drum! Smiles. Cool idea.
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That’s true..in a sense..the whole of humanity with its churning emotions..which one floats on top? 🙂
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What an interesting idea….indeed it would be a zero sum…
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Hopefully right… Thanks humbird.
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Oh I would think it could be a division by zero as well… just a matter how big our heart is…
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That’s clever…perhaps it could be that!! 🙂
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I once wrote a poem about the closeness of infinity and zero.. their closeness in the Rieman space… yet infinitely apart.
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Would love to read it…sounds intriguing.
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https://brudberg.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/opposites-attract-jargon-poetry/
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One of those unanswerable questions!
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Ha ha..true Rosemary. Thanks 🙂
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intriguing thought and the terseness of the verse fit the style of a question – lets us hope there would be a thick layer of love on the top and just a fine sludge at the opposite end
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That would be perfect for sure! Thanks Laura.
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I would choose the best possible outcome and would prefer to think love elixir’s would float inside. Smiles!
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Maybe it will! Thanks Mary 🙂
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Powerfully written 🙂
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Thanks Sanaa
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Now there’s a philosophical start to the day – if we mix up old emotions do we get something new or just a mix of the past…hmm..great poem..and i am scratching my head..
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Me too Jae Rose…thank you 🙂
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tough. i guess it depends on what is more that is tossed inside. happiness. sorrow. anger. apathy. and a lot more only us knows. 🙂
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Yes indeed..thank you 🙂
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I suppose it depends who was in the pot with us but I am pretty sure there would be a plus in my pot!
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Good going! Thanks for stopping by!
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I wonder. Again, it’s about that need/desire to find out the meaning of life; all the relations we make, all that we feel, what it stands for after all.
Nicely penned. 🙂
-HA
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Oh absolutely.. a puzzle with fuzzy pieces. Thanks Anmol.
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Food for thought. Or elixir.
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Maybe both 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
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and what of the cook, her attitude, and such ingredients as gratitude? So it is with words. It’s not what we say but how we say it. Life is fate, and life is fate. We are all cooks mixing our cauldrons of memories while adding the spices of our attitudes.
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Zeroes can get big and fat with time, so even if you ended up with a zero-sum, there is hope 🙂
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Zero would be a victory for the human race I suppose …on the other hand, Hoping for Zero sounds like a good book title… 🙂
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