Bit By Bit

simply magnificent, great observations and reflections

" the slippery wall of life"..love it Max
thank you

I imagined the agile chameleons who live quietly among the potted plants and hidden crevices.

Nice metaphor.

Hi Cheryl, Marinela and ever-faithful Carol, thanks a lot.
I based this short poem on a cellphone message from a very intuitive friend who had watched ants crawling on a wall, each one touching nose to nose despite their industrious ways....
Cheerz!

...to let our flickering auras intermingle..
beautifully said Max,

Nice to read first thing in the morning

thank you - OK YOU GIVE ME A SUBJECT AND I WILL WRITE A POEM ABOUT IT...THEN ITS MY TURN
ROCHELLE

Okay Rochelle ! Write a poem on solid oxygen fuel for rocketry...
cheerz!

wonderful..

Very perceptive,
My mother frequently reminded us,
"Sliding downhill was easier than
Scrambling up
But the climb is always worth the effort."

I like the way you have said this.

Very nice, particularly the "slippery wall of life."

As usual, your poetry makes us pause and think....

THis poem evokes the images of rabbits at sunrise. DOes that work for you?

Max,
I would have preferred not to know the inspiration for the poem. I find, as a writer, I often learn what my stuff is about from the reader, rather than what it is supposed to be. Anyway, you capture our helter-skelter existence, although I'm not sure we're analogous to an ant colony in that we have decided that we are so different from each other rather than working together for some common goal.

Thanks for pointing out the piece. I'll look forward to more of your work.

Wow, Max! What can I say other than that.

Excellent, Max! Ups and downs of life… but we continue to do our bit, bit by bit.

Allen, you can't please them all. Looks like I would not have disclosed the origin of the poem, and enjoyed the variety of interpretations, but some of the earlier messages here seemed to be from writers wondering about the source.

I think I shall not do that again.
More work will follow soon.

Cheerz!

We maybe try to do our own thing...

Like the little red ants that travel in a straight line, and do nothing but come and go all day long. The only time they pause is when they touch antennae for a second.

Max, what more can I say than WOW?!?

Very nice. I love the words that you used - scintillate and slither. It really does describe life.

Like the contrast between the tediousness of daily routines: "run up and slither down the slippery wall of life" & "charged up to tackle brick by brick" with the sensual & rousing use of scintillate at the end. Nice imagery...

Maximillenium Maximus, Thanks for drawing us to-get-herIn the second line i was already considering slime mold and its carbon life form "slugs" and how nice to load it on a railgun to watery poles up there with our favorite uncle and Jenny, or Venus so we can engineer closer to the stars and do not forget the cicadia inside the wood and the ants are following a scent which if interrupted gives chaos to antheaven and if 99 monkeys can put a stick in their hole and lick them off then why go hungry, right? AminoNitrate plight NH2 freed of lightenning ignited ass to flight creed beginning Mercury capsulates our head arse pinning US dates 230 just beginning 2 delight and hold the toulene we cannot be any thinner. Love your engineering! Check out the new images on one of my earliest articles. Much Love.

Dan, very refreshing interpretation. You give the slippery wall of life a boost with your imagination running riot.
Much love.

Max

What! Rioteers? A simple blow to the hed has ben known to quell many an uprising, that is why we have to get out of here Maximilenium, cause one universe aint big enuff fer duh stuff stirred up wit da likes of yourself and those other superegos. What is your secrit too getting away wit et?

Dan, da secrit is 'wit' ha ha...takes a superego to spot anudder.
keep on at it.

we'll scamper on
touching nose to nose...i love that phrase...wonderful and insightful!

inspiring and tantalizing

I love the fellowship aspect of this poem ... the reminder that we are all in this together.

I just love "brick by brick", "nose to nose", "intermingle...scintillate" -- great job!

when I am in trouble with "the slippery wall of life"
I walk to the big blue sea to hear an advise.

gr8 poem