Three Word Wednesday challenges us to write a piece using three given words.
This week the words were ‘cause’, ‘implicate’ and ‘stretch’.
The Equations of Emotion.
Cause and effect.
Action and reaction.
Clichéd. We all know it.
Newton wrote equations for it.
Einstein extrapolated them.
Cause and effect.
Action and reaction.
Cause and affect.
They are also action and reaction.
And our emotions react in strange ways and
Implicate others when they, and we, least expect it.
It is no stretch of the imagination to say that
Cause and affect may be a more potent
Than cause and effect.
But it is not reducible to equations.
Just to parabolic flights of fancy.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2012
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affect vs. effect- a common confusion for many, but not you... love this
ReplyDeleteThis poem and diagram of yours makes me want to go straight to bed (not in a nice way:)
ReplyDeleteNot a word will pass my cherry-pink lips...
DeleteVery depressing
ReplyDeletebut well done
ReplyDeletecause..effect..affect..i think it's an equation that can be balanced in so many curious ways..which are always worth exploring..clever write..made me read and ponder at least X3 ..jae
ReplyDeleteA parabolic flight of fancy - that's most interesting...
ReplyDeleteIs this not being a meal that is being made of the stomach of a cow and a sauce that is being predominantly notable for the extent of its blandness?
ReplyDeleteYou prefer more spice?
DeleteThat is a most unseemly comment Princess!
DeleteSerf's serf! Knave's knave! You are being nothing that is more than a sidekick's sidekick! What right have you to question the divine opinion of a Princess? I am being able to be recognising pap when it is bing presented to me on a plate that is being designed for that purpose! May Phart, the malodorous god of social discomfort make your day a misery!
DeleteTesty!
DeleteI'll probably implicate myself by saying this...but it takes no stretch of one's imagination so see that's very good!
ReplyDeleteNot without cause!
DeleteSancho! Sancho! You are such a rebel!
DeleteWho? me? I am told I am a knave's knave. Is rebelliousness possible for such a person?
ReplyDeleteWhen it's a brave knave I crave
ReplyDeleteLet he be rebellious and anonymous
But he must be dashingly courteous
Although he need not always behave
Would you two like a private room?
ReplyDeleteIf you joined us, Cosmo...would it really make a threesome? I think you are a man of many personalities! ;)
DeleteIf I was to join a threesome, Sancho wouldn't be one of the three.
Deletelol....I'm sure he is offended!!
DeleteHe'll do as he's told.
DeleteYes Master.
DeleteTruly brilliant. Sadly.
ReplyDeleteIt all adds up, JC. Including the arc of the parabolic flights of fancy.
ReplyDeleteCause and effect ... great lines !!!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing the effect even little things can have, a few words maybe, leading to sleepless nights, and "parabolic flights of fancy".
ReplyDeleteIt all makes life interesting!
So true. Some people's minds should not be left out to play after dark.
ReplyDeleteSplutter :)
DeleteHey! Be nice!
DeleteThat was philosophically interesting!
ReplyDeleteSo true and philosophical.
ReplyDeleteInsightful and well written!
ReplyDeleteDeep and true Cosmo, you are really good at this!
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