A Poet's Tool of Perception
AKA: Colleen overheard while looking through her new kaleidoscope.
Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies…Somebody calls you...You answer quite slowly…A girl with kaleidoscope eyes. ~ Lucy in the Sky by Lennon and McCartney
I feel like a bee buzzing in a honeycomb.
This would be great to bring for waiting in a doctor’s office.
You can focus on the larger patterns or the smaller ones, and there are larger patterns in the smaller ones.
It appeals to my sense of wanting to see the world new every day and every minute.
One image is as beautiful as the next, and the new image builds on the last one.
But you can’t get attached to it.
I don’t think I’ve seen the same pattern twice, but the pieces are the same.
Are the possibilities really endless?
My eyes are going to get tired of looking, but my mind will never get tired.
You can’t look and not feel better.
It’s like going on vacation.
I feel like I’m in church.
It’s better than psychedelics
It’s like seeing the secrets of the universe.
Cells are splitting.
What’s that word? Fractals.
There’s nothing boring about it.
I wish everyone had one of these.
Comments
Sounds like you got just what you wanted for Christmas! I had the 45 (remember those?) to Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds. I remember my mom telling me to stop playing it. It began to get on her nerves I played it so many times! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! We're still reeling here!!!!:) I'm loving it!
Posted by: TammyB. | December 27, 2005 10:10 AM
Hi there! Thanks for leaving such a kind compliment in my blog :) I truly enjoyed my visit to your website...I've been reading through some of your posts and poems, as well as the excerpt - and you have such a talent with writing! I think the book about your brothers was such a wonderful and touching tribute. Keep up the great work!!!
Hugs,
Stephanie Davies
P.S. You have a spelling error on http://silverandgold.swva.net/jimdanstories.htm at the bottom - you spelled brother as bother :) LOL Please don't think I'm a nitpicky lady for that, I'm really not - just thought you would want to know :D
Posted by: Stephanie Davies | December 27, 2005 10:20 AM
I used to love my kaleidoscope when I was a kid, haven't seen one for years. Michelle sent me and as her willing minion I must wish you a happy new years (bit late for the xmas thingumajig now...)
Posted by: Vics | December 27, 2005 10:24 AM
COOL! fractels are awesome!
Posted by: Nancy | December 27, 2005 10:41 AM
Thanks, Stephanie. I never saw that typo. Funny, how we often can't see our own mistakes because we know what we meant to say.
I'm enjoying picturing you Tammy playing Lucy in the Sky over and over and remembering your aunt Susie doing the same with the Sargent's Pepper album.
Posted by: colleen | December 27, 2005 12:17 PM
My kids have one of those. They sit there and scream at me to look momma look! by the time i've gotten over to look they've moved it and its totally different.. :)
Posted by: Ivy | December 27, 2005 1:07 PM
Fractals! Oh my, how I used to spend hours looking at those...and kaleidoscopes too.
Posted by: Kathy AKA Ben | December 27, 2005 3:05 PM
I can get lost in a kaleidoscope for hours on end. Too bad we can't "freeze-frame" the ones we like the best.
Posted by: kenju | December 27, 2005 5:01 PM
Hi, Colleen. My granddaughter Lucy was named after the Beatle's song. Snowflakes, kaleidoscope shapes, and possibilities are all ultimately (heartbreakingly?) finite, but luckily for us your imagination has no apparent limits.
Posted by: Bill Slone | December 27, 2005 5:48 PM
hello sent via michele
Posted by: zachary | December 28, 2005 12:40 AM
I love Kaliedoscopes...Have quite a few, actually..ALL different from each other...I feel as you do...It's like getting away somewhere for the day..when you look through one of these...Have you seen the ones that focus on anything and everything in a room, including people...UTTERLY Fascinating...! I think I'll get one of mine and zone out....mmmmmm.
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | December 28, 2005 2:46 AM
Now I wish *I* had one of those.....
[sigh]
Here via Michele :-)
cq
Posted by: craziequeen | December 28, 2005 3:29 AM
Hi there! Missed your posts and your visits while I was away. Hope you had a nice holiday. Love the lyrics, btw!
Posted by: Harmonia | December 28, 2005 9:07 AM
oh, fantastic, you got what was on your wish list! :-)
Posted by: Pearl | December 28, 2005 10:23 AM
Hi. Here from the Thursday Thirteen blogroll.
We love those kaleidoscopes! I've never thought of taking them to the Dr.'s office while waiting-Doh.
Posted by: Veronika | December 28, 2005 12:02 PM
I love how there are so many different varieties of kaleidoscopes. They are almost as numerous as the patterns we see through them. Yours looks small enough to tuck in a pocket and take anywhere. I wonder what the patterns would look like in church using the light that streams through the colored stained glass windows?
Posted by: srp | December 28, 2005 11:49 PM
I'm so glad you got one! Wonderful description. Enjoy!
Posted by: Elissa | January 1, 2006 12:02 PM