All we have is Now (and Then)

[mnaz]

All we have is now,
the razor edge of it, in the lead.
Nothing of duration fits into now,
that is, no trail of utterance or deed.
"All we have is now!" you shout,
as the sentence turns to history
before it's out.

[mtmynd]

how 'now', brown cow?

not before 'Is' and certainly never after!

[mnaz]

Too much time on my hands today, I guess... Here I am, puzzling over speech, how an utterance can never be fully contained in the now because the first parts of it instantaneously become history before the speaker can finish speaking. Yes, waaay too much time on my hands today...

[the mingo]

yeah but it does not dim in the least the sparkle of your notion...besides the man or woman with time on their hands(especially a poet or any other kind of creator)is the most dangerous & potent innovator known to humanity...

[saw]

perhaps your awareness of the phenomenon will make you better able
to live in the present, a most difficult achievement for our wandering minds that love nostalgia and planning our days....like John Lennon
said..."Life is what happens while your busy making other plans"

[mnaz]

Funny how much the past and future cut into and color the present. Past is gone and future is but a concept. We extrapolate future from past, quite a way out at times, as if we had a right to. Yet we often "get there".. Must be another balance thing-- Now preeminent, informed by past, making plans forward, all held in some kind of proportional balance... Ahh, but I be ramblin' again..

[mtmynd]

"Ahh, but I be ramblin' again.."

Ramblin' is an effortless way of contemplating...