So it’s God shooting marbles again
with one blue and green
cat’s eye
sighting in the ring,
that glassy stare
playing us
for keeps.
Gotta knuckle down,
a steely spoiler
coming in like a comet,
and hope God doesn’t play dice
with the Universe.
For dVerse Quadrille
qbit 
Smiling I am. LOVE it! Oh God….let’s not get into a crap shoot! 🙂
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Ahahaha!!! Great!
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My fear would be poker… aces and eights… in Deadwood. But then, I’d think God wouldn’t need to shave the deck. Great quadrille, Mr. q! Food for thought. Food for thought.
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Nice lines: “playing us
for keeps.”
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I agree, that line is brilliant, the heart on which this quadrille turns.
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Thank you!!
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Great quadrille! That use of ‘again’ in the first line is key and applause for the color symbolism. (Doesn’t hurt that this takes me back to my favorite cat’s eye – orange as a tabby. Best one in the box.)
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A great quad. But then Einstein neither believed in a God or quantum physics which is what he was referring to in this often misinterpreted quote.
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Thanks. Yes, I was playing fast and loose. Hoping people recognized the echo of that phrase, but not enough to try and work it out. Especially since this poem seems to be at a solar level of macro scale, lol!
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I haven’t played marbles since school so this use of ‘spoiler’ made me smile. The final lines reminded me of a book I read years ago, The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (George Cockcroft).
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Yes! The Dice Man! Nobody else I know has ever read that!
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I actually think God plays craps… it would explain a lot.
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I like God playing a game of skill, focusing in on… us. For keeps, for watchcare. A nice antithetical to what Einstein really meant in his famous quote. We just don’t always recognize his hand until it claims us. I really like this quadrille parable
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Were you thinking of Cat’s Eye Nebula? How clever is that. Love the cosmic scope of thispoem and how it brought those greas NASA pictures beautifully to mind.
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Thank you so much!
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hope God doesn’t play dice
with the Universe.
and i think of storms brewing – really good quadrille
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Love this, q! Who knows if dice are involved or not.
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I don’t believe in God playing dice with us–but the memory of marbles from childhood was a sweet one
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LOLOL! Thanks.
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it wasn’t a joke
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Understood. Glad it evoked a good memory. I had a pretty decent marble collection, but wasn’t so good at the game itself. Mostly I just liked looking at all my marbles.
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