My intuition —
Got it wrong — but then,
“…I’m sorry…”.
I trust it once again.
Text: Linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar. Bjorn is hosting with the theme of punctuation in particular em-dashes and ellipses. I tried to use both above.
Photos: “Corn and Clouds”, above, and “Storm Clouds Over Cemetery”, below. Taken near Rensselaer, Indiana, prior to a meeting yesterday of the Prairie Writers Guild.
Love the short self reflection. I do trust mine, even if faulty.
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I trust mine as well. Thank you, Grace!
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Intuition… predilection… predisposition… many times I’ve been steered (and stirred) a-wrong. I like the form of your poem, Frank. And, as always, the photos.
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Thank you, Charley!
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You’re welcome, Frank!
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Superb cloud photos Frank, and I’m glad you trust your intuition again!
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Even when it’s wrong it’s better than what I would have come up with. Thank you, Peter!
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Nice working of the prompt–intuition can be a prankster; sweet read.
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Prankster is a good word for it. Thank you, Glenn!
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Nice poem. I like the message of trusting one’s intuition and also being able to apologize yet not distrusting oneself.
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Being sorry at times is a strength. Thank you!
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Excellent insight into intuition!
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Thank you, Jo!
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As long as we forgive ourselves when we intuitively get it wrong….
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We need to forgive ourselves. We will get things wrong every now and then. Thank you, Mary!
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Even intuition can change its mind.
That top photo is spectacular too. (K)
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I am glad you liked that photo and it is good for intuition to change its mind. Thank you, Kerfe!
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Ugh. We always do. Sigh
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Sometimes intuition gets things right. Thank you!
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Sometimes. You’re welcome!
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Lovely! You squeezed in four types in four lines.
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Thank you, Reena!
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I like the way you drop your thought bombs, Frank. A moment of truth captured perfectly, and a rhythm and a rhyme, and a whole lot of punctuation.
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The punctuation technique Bjorn suggested helped. Thank you, Sarah!
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This is wonderful, sometimes a simple apology is all that’s needed.
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It’s the best apology. Thank you, Bjorn!
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I really like this–short, but thoughtful. Wonderful photos. We had storms clouds and a big thunderstorm just a little while ago. 🙂
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It was only a brief shower, but clouds came in dark. Thank you, Merril!
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Such a substantial statement in such a brief phrase. Nicely done.
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I am glad you liked it. Thank you!
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It happens. Lol! Love the photos, Frank. I’m a big cloud watcher.
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Clouds are beautiful. Thank you, Bekkie!
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Intuition does get like that sometimes…
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Sometimes it gets things exactly right. Thank you, Suzanne!
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For a moment, I thought your photo was Iowa! But I may be wrong…
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Iowa is not far away. Thank you, Lynn!
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What other choice do we have? Great use of the hyphen!
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Good point. Thank you, Frank!
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Clever use of the prompt punctuation in this poem, Frank.
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Thank you, Robbie! The prompt gave me ideas about how to use punctuation more. I usually ignore the way the poem is formatted as text.
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It works. The punctuation adds, rather than subtracts.
Sometime ago, my ideas about intuition were corrected by a friend. Of course, I was aware that some of our best ideas come to us intuitively. I knew Einstein had intuited his theories before working out the math to support them. But it took my friend to point out a further piece of the puzzle.
First, we can arrive at ideas by reason alone, but those ideas are usually either trivial, or fantastic. Intuition gets blamed for producing fantastic ideas, and maybe it does now and then, but so does reasoning out things — a fact so often over-looked. But it’s why you get perfectly rational people denying the US put men on the moon.
So I’ve come to believe the best we do is often to rely on intuition for our ideas, and reason combined with evidence to weed out the good from the bad.
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I agree that intuition is very powerful. We may only use our reasoning ability to try to justify our intuition. The intuition comes first and then we start rationalizing. 🙂
I’ve also heard that Einstein intuited his general or special relativity theory overnight, but he was thinking about it for many years. Intuition was needed to get the job done.
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Nice phrase: “JusT A DroP iN A
BuckET EvoLouTioN oF ‘i’” Thank you, Fred!
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Interesting how we can escape some aspects of preconceived
Notions of
Classical
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Evolution
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And
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Comforting
That Humans
Share the Same
DNA Gives
Me hope
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Us
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