This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
8 Aug: "Sweet palms swaying..." by Allie Jo Dreadfulwater
I like the tone with sweet, playing, and swaying, but also naked.
I love the use of the word fractal in the poem. It is open to so many interpretations and brings a lot of meaning to a short poem.
The one sentence and the word fractal give a connection between the two clauses. This connection easily extends out. It makes me think of other things that might look like the fractal sounds waves.
AJ, its really fun seeing how others intrepret your writing. How close is my reading from what you wanted the reader to get?
I wrote this poem sitting on one of my favorite beaches here on the island. I kept thinking about how every possible thing I could see is, in itself, a fractal- every cell, nerve, fiber, and natural phenomenon that we can see, touch, taste, feel and here...and how the vibrations in the environment, the flapping of the butterfly's wings, affects each and other fractal of sound within its own environment and in the environment of the whole system. How seeing palm tree was affecting me...how the sunlight on my skin and the sounds and innocence, presence, of sitting on a beach was affecting me at a cellular level. I never thought about fractals and mathematical sound waves, but indeed! They are. Within the idea of "naked" I wanted to express how apparent these feelings and interactions are- they are everywhere, everything and yet so often we don't take the time to feel and to see what is right in front of us. The answers are always there. Everything is Divine and yes, sweet, playful...and in constant motion.
"The general consensus is that theoretical fractals are infinitely self-similar, iterated, and detailed mathematical constructs having fractal dimensions, of which many examples have been formulated and studied in great depth.[3][4][5] Fractals are not limited to geometric patterns, but can also describe processes in time.[2][6][17][18][19][20] Fractal patterns with various degrees of self-similarity have been rendered or studied in images, structures and sounds[21] and found in nature,[22][23][24][25][26] technology,[27][28][29][30] art,[31][32] architecture[33] and law.[34] Fractals are of particular relevance in the field of chaos theory, since the graphs of most chaotic processes are fractals.[35]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
I like the tone with sweet, playing, and swaying, but also naked.
ReplyDeleteI love the use of the word fractal in the poem. It is open to so many interpretations and brings a lot of meaning to a short poem.
The one sentence and the word fractal give a connection between the two clauses. This connection easily extends out. It makes me think of other things that might look like the fractal sounds waves.
AJ, its really fun seeing how others intrepret your writing. How close is my reading from what you wanted the reader to get?
I wrote this poem sitting on one of my favorite beaches here on the island. I kept thinking about how every possible thing I could see is, in itself, a fractal- every cell, nerve, fiber, and natural phenomenon that we can see, touch, taste, feel and here...and how the vibrations in the environment, the flapping of the butterfly's wings, affects each and other fractal of sound within its own environment and in the environment of the whole system. How seeing palm tree was affecting me...how the sunlight on my skin and the sounds and innocence, presence, of sitting on a beach was affecting me at a cellular level. I never thought about fractals and mathematical sound waves, but indeed! They are. Within the idea of "naked" I wanted to express how apparent these feelings and interactions are- they are everywhere, everything and yet so often we don't take the time to feel and to see what is right in front of us. The answers are always there. Everything is Divine and yes, sweet, playful...and in constant motion.
ReplyDelete"The general consensus is that theoretical fractals are infinitely self-similar, iterated, and detailed mathematical constructs having fractal dimensions, of which many examples have been formulated and studied in great depth.[3][4][5] Fractals are not limited to geometric patterns, but can also describe processes in time.[2][6][17][18][19][20] Fractal patterns with various degrees of self-similarity have been rendered or studied in images, structures and sounds[21] and found in nature,[22][23][24][25][26] technology,[27][28][29][30] art,[31][32] architecture[33] and law.[34] Fractals are of particular relevance in the field of chaos theory, since the graphs of most chaotic processes are fractals.[35]"
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal