Creative Experiments and More

We live in a dimensionless age
where creation can spread itself
across the eye, oranges can impose,
particulates can sway, a dream
upheld in an unseen splotch.
But no mind comes of it.
Something stands there, fixed
to itself, as hues battle and chew
themselves, holes blossom,
spewing some violet innards
until darkness shapes.
A small circle, growing, reaching
with its impetuous hand,
fingering for a new glow
but the darkness whimpers
and closes out this dimension,
receiving and receding.

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Written in response to Reena’s Exploration Challenge #141. Basically the challenge was to watch this cool video and then write whatever came to mind afterwards.

microfication
magnification
the lens twists
eyes shift
flame passion igniting
combustion
consumption
heart shifts to calm
water smoke
dark eclipses light
light dissipates
into the milk
of creation

Reena Saxena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge.  Reena says:
Spend 6 minutes on watching this video

https://aeon.co/videos/as-above-so-below-an-artist-finds-the-cosmos-in-a-microscopic-chemical-reaction

After that, just write whatever comes to mind in free flow. Let some time elapse in between, if you so desire.

We use more of strategic and lateral thinking when the thought process is fettered by a theme. True creativity emerges when it is not confined.

Psychedelic lights on the dance floor of the mind, makes moods swing from ‘angry’ to ‘dissatisfied’ to ‘joyful’ to ‘ grateful calm’ as realization dawns.

via Reena’s Exploration Challenge #141 — Reena Saxena

heavens meet on earth

frolicsome play-date partners

planting magic

barefeet splashing silver sprays

on paper boats we let sail

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Mindfills for

JibberJabber plant

Reena’s exploration challenge – Free flow

Sue Vincent’s #writephoto

Penable’s Thursday writing contest childhood and memories

birds in canopy
natural colors flitting
highlights in my life

for Reena’s Exploration Challenge

As Above

so below, within the pulse that emerges
star fields forming just beyond

flames engulfing, just as quickly receding
depth in layers revealing what was always there

currents that conceal nothing and everything
eclipsing perception even as stars dance

their light washing away all you perceive
offering instead an amorphous birth

life in starlight

This ekphrastic poem is my response to the prompt for Reena’s Exploration Challenge #141 – Free Flow, which is to express a free flow of thoughts inspired by As Above, a video by artist Roman Hill showing the surface of a fluid chemical reaction accompanied by a pensive score.

Also shared with Open Link Night #269 at dVerse Poets Pub.

Image: screenshot from the video “As Above”

AS ABOVE from Roman Hill on Vimeo.

so much beauty in agitation
in volatility and calm
of death and rebirth

all is seemingly fluid
with rigidity in the resolve
of living and expression

how we capture meaning
dependent on what
intermingles with us