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Vagabondage
Summer night
klang of stars
inner acoustic
water diamonds
around
the oars
In Water World
The sea repeats itself in dreams, a green-grey world of water
Calm boats frozen in shade
Pale blank clouds, pines, rocks and kelp shrouds
Like woolly fish in mist pink distance floating
The beach stretches as far as the sand bar
Clean detached waves wash over dry stone, tears of rain drift
The water is perfectly still, restructuring everything
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25 comments:
Very nice, BTP. I like the water diamonds around the oars, even if Blogger won't do your original layout on the page:)
And Water World is a beautiful picture.
excellent BtP, love your sense of rhythm and imagery (again!), enjoyed both of these equally in their differences, particularly liked 'inner acoustic' and 'kelp shrouds'
all - capturing/eliciting a feeling/a moment beautifully
Beyond
loved the water diamonds around the oars particularly after i got the wikipedia's explanation of a roar.
sometimes,Ignorance can be a tragedy
BTP is honored and humbled merely to appear in the company of, much less receive kind words from, the brilliant and esteemed poets Zeph and File.
Gui, I think I know what you mean about dwelling in a state of tragic ignorance, though I fear comic ignorance (or perhaps one might call it negative incapability?) would more often apply in the case of BTP.
BTP,
let's not start an ignorance contest between us bc the winner may get depressed :)
Ignorance contest? Pah, I'd beat you both, hands down.
I've had diamond around my oar before, very nice.
ps: s'cold in here. And wet.
Offie--Beyond's better half--much less ignorant she than he--remembers during night swimming long ago in Marlborough Sound (New Zealand, where she comes from) there seeming to be small sparks in the water, due to "little phosphorescent organisms"--possibly the same little beglitterers you've espied?
Exactly. I've swam in them off Vancouver island (three or four lives ago), and I've kayakked through them off the coast of West Cork in Ireland (2 lives ago).
I'm not sure what they're made of, but they store up light during the day and release at night when you stir them.
I've just had a notion that it would be really trendy if you could incorporate them in cocktails (without the iodine taste, obviously). I'll get my research team started on that immediately.
it's always ending with a drink recipe when offie is on line.
Offie--it turns out you're not the only one to have seen water diamonds--and Gui, yes, one or two of these sightings (the Texas Gulf Coast sample in particular) might have been greeted in these clips with a bit of fermented enthusiasm--but still the evidence suggests bioluminescence and glowing waves are the real deal and breaking out across the world's seas and oceans even as we speak:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T3g0CJbuLW4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T3g0CJbuLW4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T3g0CJbuLW4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jkHZuQuTkLE
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EN1Yxq8KMsw
That last clip is pretty trippy.
Pretty, isn't it?
Offie, if you combined the little beasties with alcohol wouldn't that kill them off and put a stop to their gleaming activities?
Zeph, I have the feeling that like it or not the little beasties were being forcibly "combined with alcohol" on that last clip--elsewise how explain the motivation of the giggling Aussies flinging stones at the water to make them light up? (Or is this simply the scientific method Down Under?)
It's too early to tell, but the team at the Pakalolo Institute is working on a gradual exposure to alcohol that allows the micro-organisms to build an immunity and keep on glittering while imbibed. We hope, as with all our endeavours, that the findings will be applicable to humans.
Yours in Science, etc...
Offie--The hope we sustain, in all our endeavours, scientific or other, that our findings will be applicable to humans, would indeed seem to be the only good explanation of what we're all doing here--all five of us, last time I counted? (Or, all things reputedly being relative, could it be we are simply the micro-organisms that light up any time some Higher Power disturbs us by flinging stones at us for its entertainment after a night out on the universe?)
It's an unwritten law of the Web that only five people at any one time can comment on an Other Stuff thread. Our team at the Pakalolo Institute's department of Web Spirituality are still baffled about the deeper meaning of that axiom.
However, as they're busy pondering the "light inside the fridge" conundrum, it's unlikely we'll get results any time soon.
Stay tooned.
Offie--The light inside my fridge (I just checked) appears to be caused by a proliferation of glowing micro-organisms. Perhaps you have a contact at the Institute who might be able to shed a little welcome obscurity on this phenomenon, before it escapes our scholarly scrutiny?
Lovely poems - for some reason "wooly fish" resonated for me.
First came across the concept of phosphoresence in Monica Edwards's book The Nightbird. Fascinating how nature glows in so many ways.
BTP,
about the micro organisms in your fridge, my contact at the Pakalolo Institute says, if you can't smoke 'em, eat 'em.
De rien, always glad to help.
Mimi--Many thanks! And as to nature, yes indeed it does--that is, glow--in so many unexpected ways, no matter what we dull and undeserving folk may otherwise do--isn't that one of the nicest things about being part of it?
Offie--Madame Beyond has just taken pains to point out that the light in our fridge has actually been broken for many years--which is exactly what I had in mind (phosphorescent mold has been proven nourishing at the Institute, I understand).
my dad mended the broken light in the fridge with a bic biro. Don't ask the details, but I mind it had to do with getting rid on the innards of the pen and then using the residual plastic casing to do something cunning.
Mimi--Thanks to you and your old dad for this tip--I've long thought anyway that a biro is more useful than a Swiss Army knife because not only can it enable such Handy Andy tricks as fridge-light mending (though Madame Beyond laments that our fridge light is beyond mending--and it's not the only thing), you can use it to write a poem, and that in turn can make you a friend...at least here on Other Stuff.
Only five people at any one time comment on an OtherStuff thread, but there are about 20 who read every post... it's one of the mysteries of cyberspace, indeed.
But I understand BTP is a former lurker, if that's the quality of our silent audience we're doing fine:)
Beyond the Lurk,
how can you be sure that the light in your fridge is broken, and not simply inverted (i.e., off when it's open, on when it's closed)?
Tink about it.
Thanks Offie, I'm busily tinking--er, tinkering--all the time.
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