Monday, 09 November 2009

  • alright

    i'm thinking of
    someone to
    make it alright
    in the deepest darkest night
    even though i know
    not everything i think i know
    is all right

    strange attractions
    distractions
    things that go
    bump in the night

    oh you are ghostly
    a sound of singing sand
    your echo forever
    only fog and mist
    in bright moon light

    i'm old enough to know
    better no one ever
    makes it
    alright

    let me live beyond the pale
    of your respect society
    let me live
    as a moody lake or wind
    all smooth and shiny
    safe and easy
    tempest-tossed and crazy
    let me laugh and cry
    scream and whisper a tale
    that never ends
    let me be
    alright


     

  • sun day yes it was


    view from the road atop a high wooded dune. 
    gold in the middle is the sun and shine path on The lake
    almost  purplish blue water on either side   kinda surreal

    beach grass n snake grass

    had to, just had to get in probably the last wade of the year
    and then i deliquesce


    sometimes it's hard to get the horizon line straight - no point of reference
    haha, i'm taken by the effect tho

    trying to get the red line in the water, and the feel of the entire day
    *sigh*

     

Sunday, 08 November 2009

  • gauntlet

    ideas of interest and attention
    drawing the conundrum into a spiral
    of fuzzy logic-ed intention
    the lyrical rhythmical graceful
    flow of life
    ofttimes may be captured in
    elegiac and cosmical perception
    i challenge the muses:  provide inspiration

    k your glove's bigger'n mine, thx cya again soon?

    i'm sitting in the woods just off the road
    a half-mile stretch so woodsy there are no electric/phone poles
    half way to The Lake - what a rare gift kinda day for mid-Michigan
    sunny, near 70, even a warm wind, but still no inspiration
    crack of the sound barrier, boom crack of the sound barrier, boom 
    i'm on the no hunting side, but do bullets know that
    i stand up, three deer are running toward me from across the road
    i look up to the sky, are these the last things to see before i die
    deer get spooked back, no more shots, although i've heard
    you don't hear the one that gets you
    i look around
    i think
    i'm alive

     

Saturday, 07 November 2009

  • circle


    the start was easy it just came
    every moment new again
    and the world knew its place

    when the warlock offered an apple
    even sunlight went dim
    Midgard surrounded by impassable water
    encircled by a sea serpent
    is a frightful whim

    middle earth went on and on
    every moment was the same
    and i couldn't even touch the pain


     

  • Happy Carl Sagan Day!  "We are star stuff."

    The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has picked up a shocking vibe from Earth.  During its first 14 months of operation, the flying observatory has detected 17 gamma-ray flashes associated with terrestrial storms — and some of those flashes have contained a surprising signature of antimatter. 

    During two recent lightning storms, Fermi recorded gamma-ray emissions of a particular energy that could have been produced only by the decay of energetic positrons, the antimatter equivalent of electrons.

    During lightning storms previously observed by other spacecraft, energetic electrons moving toward the craft slowed down and produced gamma rays. The unusual positron signature seen by Fermi suggests that the normal orientation for an electric field associated with a lightning storm somehow reversed. 

    How?  The answer is up in the air, say those quarky scientists.  Quirky!


    in related news, "particle this" says god as he tosses manna into the LHC
    http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/06/bread-dropped-by-bird-causes-problems-for-lhc/

Thursday, 05 November 2009

  • caught in a blues dream

    i'd like to light your fire
    with my kiss of dragon flame
    but water quenches fire
    hear me cryin in the rain

    i'd like to breathe a breath of air
    to dance upon the wind
    with peaceful thoughts in mind
    that vanquish all the pain

    i'd like to touch your hollows
    trace your hills and valleys 
    quiescent in your hard and soft
    and give you everything i forgot

     

Wednesday, 04 November 2009

  • barking up the right tree

     

    entranced
    alone
    together
    energy of we
    sum of its parts
    more or less await
    nevertheless
    you see
    a perfect circle
    pied by the piper
    and all mixed up
    neverwhere lives
    in a gypsy wagon
    made of a kite
    and a twitch
    in gods eye
    borne aloft
    by aether winds
    everwhen
    ever so it be


    one can be so esoteric and complex that no one has a clue what it is one means
    either that or the exact opposite

    skipping stones in wet boots i watch phantom deer leave real tracks behind me
    and speak in windwaveese while two crows watch and wait in the trees

     

Monday, 02 November 2009



  • very bright this night
    like shards of broken glass
    grass sparkles 
    trees jump out of shadows
    my heart breaks into a billion diamonds
    blown into the skies
    summer triangle sets west
    echoing a swan song
    Cassiopeia combs her hair
    major bear lies low
    and the charioteer sings
    a capella

     

    hunter on the rise
    Betelgeuse
    the last part of the name "-elgeuse" comes from Arabic al-Jauza (long a) the indigenous Arabic name for the constellation Orion, a feminine name in old Arabian legend, and of uncertain meaning.  j-w-z, the root of jauza (long a) means "middle"; al-Jauza (long a) roughly means "the Central One".  The current Arabic name for Orion is al-Jabbar(long a) ("the Giant"). 
    [re long a, k who put a jinx on my ctrl c/v?  stoopid codes, n no alt code]

    Betelgeux is a red supergiant, one of the largest and 9th most luminous star known.  If Betelgeux were at the center of our solar system its surface might extend out to between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, engulfing Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
    [al-jabar-jeez!]

    It is possible that Betelgeuse will become a supernova, which will be the brightest ever recorded, outshining the Moon in the night sky.  Considering its size and age of 8.5 million years, old for its size class, it may explode within the next thousand years.  Since its rotational axis is not toward the Earth and also because of its 640 light year distance, Betelgeuse's supernova will not cause a gamma ray burst in the direction of Earth large enough to damage its ecosystems.  The mass of Betelgeuse puts it in range to become a neutron star or possibly a black hole.
    [hmmm, wonder if Wiki ever heard of the Mayan calender, Dec. 21, 2012?]

     

    howdaya pronounce it?

    Bé-tell-gawz (due to it's origins from an Arabic phrase)

    beet-l-jooz

    bet-l-jœz

    BET-l-jooz

    BET-l-jz

    BET-l-jeuz

    "Beetlejuice"
    just don't say it thrice

     

Sunday, 01 November 2009

  • suppose


    is one supposed to feel guilty

    pick any number in the universe
    knowing the barometric pressure that day
    she randomly picked 2947
    some feller would choose 17
    she sighed while sipping brandy
    as vapors of alcohol, water
    and aromatic components rise upward
    leaving a condensed liquid
    more than the original sin
    she thought not
    more than likely
    magnetism gravity and electricity
    why yes i have seen a unicorn

    it did not happen quite that way
    usually it doesn't it
    no reason to be sad
    no reason at all


    sent it into the aether
    but it came back
    so it must be mine

    now that my clocks and sundial match
    maybe i won't be so confused anymore

    shot within a few minutes of each other

    sun behind tree

    visible circle x2

    nature likes circles


     

Saturday, 31 October 2009