When time is stretched
too t-h-i-n
it doesn’t break but waits,
and purrs …
as if to say: you cannot win
unless you travel
with the speed of light
to make Andromeda your
habitat.
But staying put
each place and moment’s
lost before it’s gone.
Unique and lost
our place in space-time
coordinates.
Perseus Frees Andromeda by Theodoor van Thulden
Today we write to my prompt on space-time and special relativity for my prompt at toads.
Come join the fun.
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April 5, 2017
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Oh, that seems a bit sad.
‘Lost before it’s gone.’ That echoes.
I love this, Perseus! 🙂 I actually just read that AnDramaDa has a trillion stars. Sounds like a fun place to hang out … better than being chained to a rock. Love what you did with “too thin” and what I read as “happy tat.” But my fave is the idea of time purring. I find that to be an insightful observation.
Indeed–we are most lost not escaping, but when we arrive where we have run. Love the cadence here, Bjorn, as well as the thoughts.
Great opening lines – purring time indeed, Well, that’s a change from Bowie’s time flexing like whore!
Yep.. time is passing even as we forget to live in the moment.. Oops.. and it’s gone.
I love the idea of time stretching and purring… just waiting… for us to get there… maybe.
Time purring like a satisfied cat, knowing the mice must play by its rules…really nice.
You got my eyes spinning like backwards clock-hands.
I love the idea of time waiting and purring 🙂 Beautifully executed.
I too often wait until immediate shows up on the clock.
Heavens, I am so enamored of this:
“When time is stretched
too t-h-i-n
it doesn’t break but waits,
and purrs …”
We better start loving that uniqueness. Thanks so much, Bjorn! k.
a challenging prompt, Bjorn – very meta ~
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Very inspirational.
I am still working on my poem for this. Let’s say we lost all mass and became like a mass-less photon would we be outside space-time? Thanks for the prompt.
Move it or lose it…. because time moves whether you decide to move with it or not. I like this premise very much!
loved the opening…it sets the scene and it is tightly packed till the end…like a deep dot on space time!
When it is about pace travel, and dreaming destinations, it is somehow, always Andromeda.
I loved the piece very much!
Ah, to be able to stretch time. Love this, Bjorn.