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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.-
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Denise Levertov
When words penetrate deep into us they change the chemistry of the soul, of the imagination. We have no right to do that to people if we don’t share the consequences.-
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is an intellectual, artistic, philosophical, and/or cultural mindset that questions institutionalism, hierarchy, power, and simple, knowable truth. Alternatively it embraces complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, fractured metaphysics, multiplicity, deconstruction, and diversity. In poetry it offers semiotic liberty.Robert Anton Wilson
Semantic noise also seems to haunt every communication system. A man may sincerely say, ‘I love fish,’ and two listeners may both hear him correctly, yet the two will neurosemantically file this in their brains under opposite categories. One will think the man loves to dine on fish, and the other will think he loves to keep fish (in an aquarium).Witold Gombrowicz
Here is the writer who with all his heart and soul, with his art, in anguish and travail offers nourishment – there is the reader who’ll have none of it, and if he wants, it’s only in passing, offhandedly, until the phone rings. Life’s trivia are your undoing. You are like a man who has challenged a dragon to a fight but will be yapped into a corner by a little dog. from Ferdydurke
I’m an Executive Director with a doctorate in education, a consultant, painter, photographer, composer, poet, and vocalist.
Gustav Flaubert
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.Dušan “Charles” Simić
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Monique Wittig
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it… Language as a whole gives everyone the same power of becoming an absolute subject through its exercise. But gender, an element of language, works upon this ontological fact to annul it as far as women are concerned and corresponds to a constant attempt to strip them of the most precious thing for a human being – subjectivity. Gender is an ontological impossibility because it tries to accomplish the division of Being. But Being is not divided. God or Man as being are One and whole. So what is this divided Being introduced into language through gender? It is an impossible Being, it is a Being that does not exist, an ontological joke, a conceptual maneuver to wrest from women what belongs to them by right: conceiving of oneself as a total subject through the exercise of language. The result of the imposition of gender, acting as a denial at the very moment when one speaks, is to deprive women of the authority of speech, and to force them to make their entrance in a crablike way, particularizing themselves and apologizing profusely. The result is to deny them any claim to the abstract, philosophical, political discourses that give shape to the social body. Gender then must be destroyed. The possibility of its destruction is given through the very exercise of language. For each time I say ‘I’ I reorganize the world from my point of view and through abstraction I lay claim to universality. This fact holds true for every locutor.
W.S. Merwin
All the things that really matter to us are impossible…Writing poetry is impossible. I don’t know how to write a poem. A poem – there has to be a part of it that is not my own will; it comes from somewhere that I don’t know. There is so much that comes out of what we don’t know and what we don’t have any control over. I think that one of the only things we can learn as we get older is a certain humility. – from Doing the Impossible
Thomas Aquinas
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
I’m an Executive Director with a doctorate in education, a consultant, painter, photographer, composer, poet, and vocalist.
Chromapoetica 
yes. lovely.
suspended reflections, refractions,
thresholds, individual, momentary
and systemic
soft focus in music, text and image.
a portrait of almost.
‘a portrait of almost’ always such poetry in your responses, thank you, truly.
will have to come back in a bit…computer too darn slow to run the vid…check back later
Thanks Brian, you won’t need a dictionary for this one I promise :). It’s sort of the opposite of yesterday’s scientific/philosophical lingo extravaganza.
very cool. Like the interconnectedness here. And the photos are great with the blur effect I just love. Thanks.
Yes, there’s nothing for me like the blur of macro photography outside its focal range to induce a sense of liminality. Thank you for your continuing feedback.
I think people enjoy being a photographer because it helps them appreciate the things around them, the lens creates a sort of threshold, they tend to see more through it, forced to focus in ways they wouldn’t when they just look or glance by eye, or notice here what play of colors when focus is pulled away.
Enjoyed with this multimedia treat. 🙂
Thank you, I’ve often felt that forced focus behind the camera, a great way to put it :).
Love, love, LOVE!!! I’m reading this on my lunch break and I was stressed out at the start and am now completely relaxed
The entire concept is so interesting and I love that you’ve included many of your talents here. The words made me think, but the music and images relaxed me. The whole piece had a ‘centering’ about it that has provided clarity.
Thank you for posting such a wonderful piece!
-Eva
The healing power of art; it’s wonderful you are feeling better! It’s funny as I almost didn’t write, let alone post, this piece. I’m not always my own best editor :). Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to engage it; it means a lot to me. I’m working on a joyful explosion of color, flowers, poetry, and music for today’s NaPoWriMo and your encouragement will spur me on.
Yay for us!! I look forward to your new piece ; )
I will endeavor to make it worthwhile :).
Teasing ambiguity! Love it!
Thank you David, not sure how you arrived at this piece today but your visits and feedback are much appreciated.