Like pendulums, sunflowers and birds

Multiple Contests!

 

 

1. Duality

 

We change to our own unique dimensions

Living in the time’s cushion

Straggling against all murmurs and sights echoing

In our minds’ dark corners 

flying the plume of dreams into reality

Shape shifting our creative imagination 

 

2. Flowers and the sun

 

Sunflowers need to turn toward the sun

or want the sun shine

effortless and joyful warm and lightening kiss

the talent of just being

Like sunflowers looking towards what gives pleasure

Laughing at life’s ridiculous plays

 

3. As pendulums

 

Phenomena allowing measure electrification of a body

Electric static attracting a sphere

Tusk, rail, rod, shank, stem stalk, spindle

A base with a ball

Not made to be a neutral body

Attracting electrification creation of love

 

4. Alternating birds and seeds

 

Birds eat seeds or seeds eat birds?

Dead bodies feed the seeds

Grateful for the pleasures of flying life

Whishes driven by the subconscious

Truth is in them and in nature

Alternating our weakness and strength

 

5. Like eggs or hens

 

Which one came first: hen or egg?

Passage of different oppose stages

Calcium and feathers melting into each other

Joys and luck playing tastes

Just like air sweetened by desert honeysuckle

Equilibrating an act of will

 

 

Author's Note

1. Keeping the Dream Alive ~ with Helena ~ Phrase: "like air sweetened by desert honeysuckle"
2. NATURAL WORLD POETRY CONTEST http://www.writerscafe.org/contests/7350/ - about the natural world and/or our relationship with it
3. Albert's Poetry Cafe ~ Poet Craft Form: 'AUDEN TANKA' with Salvatore Buttaci - The arrangement is not according to the number of syllables, but according to the number of words.
7-5-7-5-7-5
One stanza of six lines only
no strings
no rhyme or set measure

Reviews

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Congrats on your winning poem

[Helena]

Oh bravo poetess! What a wonderful multi-write. Amazing!
Plenty of questions posed in this imaginative, unique poem.
Thank you for helping to keep the "Dream" alive!

Helena

[Gandré]

this was sweet - perhaps it is sun that needs sunflowers? I enjoyed this multi session a lot... thank you for entering the contest.

[Bethany Woody]

1. The act of just being. Who and what we are constantly evolving into what we wish to be or how we wish to be. It's all the same thing. We change to meet the needs of those around us as well as the needs of ourselves. There is also the dictates of society that can promote change within us, but your piece speaks to me more of only changing for oneself. Kind of like marching to the beat of your own drummer or hearing your own music inside.

2. Flowers offer beauty to us if we spend the time to see it. I like this piece for it's simplicity. You just say exactly how sunflowers are and why they do it. Then you offer up a small hint that maybe we as humans are like sun flowers as well. Always turning to what gives us pleasure.

3. I've seen pendulum clocks before, but never thought much about their actual mechanics. What the parts are called and how they really work in tandem to tell the time acurately. It's an interesting piece, that shows a unique understanding of the inner workings. Yet even as you write with technicality a reader is not bored by the subject.

4. The circle of life. There isn't more that I can say except that you write of the subject in an interesting way.

5. The age old question, which came first, the hen or the egg. I sometimes wonder if it really matters. Can in not simply be said that without one there can not be the other. But somehow your piece is about more then just that age old question. I think it is more about where we are a spcies came from and how we are so different from almost all other species. A chance luck thing or some devine mystery that can not be explained?

All of the pieces are wonderful. They are unique and thought provoking. I wish you luck with the pieces that have been entered into contests. I'm in one of them also, so I now have some worthy competition.

[C. Harter Amos]

I enjoyed the feeling of openness in the poem: freedom of thought and flow. Several of your phrases shone with originality. I particularly liked "shape shifting our creative imagination" and "equilibrating an act of will". The electrical element to life is fascinating. I liked that it reminded me of Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric" without being exactly like his ideas. "(Birds') Whishes driven by the subconscious" rather than wishes was clever, too. Kudos.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

This was complex but not pedantic and I like that about it. I like the beginning very much; how we struggle to make our dreams into reality but perhaps reality is only a dream in the mind of a sleeping cosmos. A friend once asked me which came first the chicken or the egg. I replied, the egg without question. He said, "How can you be so sure?" I said, because I had the egg for breakfast and the chicken for lunch. lol

[Sharon Miller Bolander]

We are all part of nature's cycle. Lovely, Angi. :-) Sharon

[Phibby Venable]

wonderful work & I love this: Just like air sweetened by desert honeysuckle
Equilibrating an act of will