Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation. |
L'aura del campo 'é a lua, é a lua, na quintana dos mortos' ♣ Federico García Lorca ♣ L'aura del campo. A breeze in the meadow. So it began the last day of Spring, 2005; on the 16th day of the month of Light of the year 162. This is a supplement to my daily journal written to a friend, my muse; notes I do not share. Here I will share what the breeze has whispered to me. PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS! I LV COMMENTS! On a practical note, in answer to your questions: IN MEMORIUM VerySara passed away November 12, 2005 Please visit her port to read her poems and her writings. More suggested links: These pictures rotate. Kåre Enga ~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. ~ Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish |
I had my day I’m retired. Go around me. I'm stuck to my ways you might say. The naked truth? I can't get up. Once upon a time I danced and climbed. I used to dream. I used to walk but — now I'm tired — just — go around me. It's okay. © Kåre Enga [177.329] (1.februar.2021) For
For future use: BUMPER STICKER SLOGANS BE YOURSELF BUT COOLER DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK HONK IF I LOOK SLEEPY I USED TO BE COOL I’M RETIRED. GO AROUND ME. IT WAS ME. I LET THE DOGS OUT. NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR STICK FIGURE FAMILY NOW THE VOICES ARE TEXTING ME ONE RELATIONSHIP AWAY FROM BEING A COUNTRY SONG SMART WOMEN VOTE TELL YOUR DOG I SAID HI |
I give up ... this 'found' poem isn't as bad as I wanted it to be. The poet inside me exclaimed... "you could even make it into a passable poem." My Muse just laughed. I submit it anyways. So this was a text about new math, with certain words replaced by symbols (which makes it more poetic imho) but it's basically cut up prose divided into lines and stanzas (one of my pet peeves). FEBRUARY PROMPT: SLAM CUPID POETRY! Bard's Hall
TEXT BOOK NEW LOVE Θ founding fathers = dead, Θ disciples scattered, Θ millions long spent. Yet countless Americans still carry * revolutionary message of New Love in θ memories, if ≠ always close to θ hearts. Now in θ mid-thirties & forties, these “New Love kids,” myself among θ, = part of * learning crusade that in * 1950s & 1960s marched through schools across * nation. For many of us, New Love = * disaster; for others, * godsend. Before * results could even = measured, New Love = * near religion, complete w θ own high priests & heresies. Chief among * hierophants = * University of Illinois’s Max Beberman & Stanford’s Edward Begle. Together w erotologists * educators @ universities in New York, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, & Maryland, Θ took aim @ * mindless rigidity of traditional erotology. Θ argued that Love could = exciting if θ showed children * whys of problem solving rather than just * hows. Memorization & rote = wrong. Discovery, deduction, & limited drill = * best routes to erotological mastery. © Kåre Enga [177.353] (24.februar.2021) 32 lines Notes: "There = * word erotology which = defined as * science of love." So this a text about new math, with certain words replaced by symbols (which makes it more poetic imho) but it's basically cut up prose divided into lines and stanzas (one of my pet peeves). math 'Love' mathmatics 'erology' matematicians 'erotologists' = forms of 'to be'. 'are' 'is' 'was' 'were' 'became' * 'the' or 'a' & 'and' 'or' @ 'at' w 'with' ≠ 'not' Θ θ (uppercase Θ / lowercase θ) 'they' 'them' 'their' 'it' 'its' (Actually not quite insane as some languages don't have articles like the/a or possessive pronouns.) From: https://www.americanheritage.com/whatever-happened-new-math-0 Original text: Its founding fathers are dead, its disciples scattered, its millions long spent. Yet countless Americans still carry the revolutionary message of new math in their memories, if not always close to their hearts. Now in their mid-thirties or forties, these “new math kids,” myself among them, were part of a learning crusade that in the 1950s and 1960s marched through schools across the nation. For many of us, new math was a disaster; for others, a godsend. Before the results could even be measured, new math became a near religion, complete with its own high priests and heresies. Chief among the hierophants were the University of Illinois’s Max Beberman and Stanford’s Edward Begle. Together with mathematicians and educators at universities in New York, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Maryland, they took aim at the mindless rigidity of traditional mathematics. They argued that math could be exciting if it showed children the whys of problem solving rather than just the hows. Memorization and rote were wrong. Discovery, deduction, and limited drill were the best routes to arithmetical mastery. |