Sunday, August 9, 2015

Articulating Plankton


'Tis nothing new that poets should speak with such passion that their syllables ooze with emphasis and project consonants that bounce off the walls, each whole word ending up stretching into its own elongated echo chamber.
And poets that use their hands like composers of the Sea Symphony, filling even the empty silence with so many notes the empty becomes loud. Knowing that to gesticulate is far too forceful, instead they demonstrate that a magic spell is made from thin air, naturally. Not of invisible nature, but so thin you could not see it until this poet who keeps trying to touch it and show it to you, to trace its outlines between the two of you...finds some semblance of rhythm and notices you hear it too.
A particular poet passionately appeals to professionals. The artists collar is colored blue for the speech, among his serious peers he evokes the voice of reason, a scientific observation posing clearly for the rational, logical and bromidic.
In the fields of ever altering change that is both constrained and contained by subjective experience,
Hypothesis are proposed: Problems are solved (ac-cord-ing to the values we plug in)

A poet is describing this brilliant oceanic phenomena as though it were a recently uncovered lyrical language, an opportunistic new found flow of vocabulary like rich nutrients abundant in the cyclical occurrence of upwelling.
Where every change is the constant, from the Galapagos, David Whyte ponders first deeply, the mixing of worlds...
Poets and scientists, the clash of temperatures where laws are asserted as theories and expression explodes into reaction, a fission of fusion striking agitated chaos which elicits sparks from his eyes, a magic trick. The eyes navigate around the work of art like a sailor at night on land, terrestrial in his element, grounded and in awe of bioluminescence of the sea that flickers gaseous royal blue arching splotches of the elusive green flash.
Bioluminescence, light of life in the language of liquid mixology from the shore, the poet writes the score and the scientist keeps notes.
“To my mind, the whole of existence and/or creation is actually trying to find an internal anchorage inside us which reflects its astonishing symmetry outside of us.” -David Whyte @PugetSoundTEDX-David Whyte @ PugetSoundTEDX
An additional note by David Whyte (also read aloud at TEDX Puget Sound):


Image By Shane Anderson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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