journal5

Today I got a poem of mine read out loud in creative writing. Dr. Throne said it was the best one in the class. I was so happy that i was shaking. The assignment was to do an artistic reciprocation. I chose a Kandinsky painting (i'll try to scan it when i get access to a scanner and then i'll put it on this site.) This is my poem:

Every morning the sun painted the hills and the houses warm and glowing gold
And coaxed the rich dirt to release its earthy fragrance
And awakened the birds.
Around a table in a grey weathered house
Sisters sat, old and worn but still with many years of use left in them,
Just like the cups and sauces that they drank their morning tea from.
"This was our hill long before the trains came."
"It used to be peaceful here,"
And a sigh, echoed by two others.
"But now the trains cut across our fields like a sharp saw
Whose sounds silence the songs of birds."
"And whose smoke chokes us witht he bitter stinking clouds."
"And whose unearthly rumblings wake us and shake us"
The house began to quake and the teacups rattled in their saucers.
The three peered out of the window
To see a large, jagged toothed reptile creep out of the woods
"See, it looks to be devouring the land"
And a sigh, echoed by two others.
They waited for the stinking reptile to pass.
And talk turned to other things.
"This was our hill before the electrical lines criss crossed the country."
They nodded at each other in agreement and drank their tea.
"And it was ours before the houses sprang up like mushrooms around us."
And a sigh, echoed by two others.

The funny thing about this poem is that I had written it a few days earlier, then i rewrote it monday. I went to sleep without finishing it and then on Tuesday, I got up early and I wrote this one. It's pretty much all new except for a few images and it was definitely the best version... the version I spent the least time on. But I guess I spent the most time on it considering that all the work I did on the other poems all contributed to this... whatev. =)

That's all for now.

Okay it's later on that same day and I am done with my responsibilities for the day. Kyle asked me if I would go to a physics lecture with him because he was going for extra credit. I went because I miss science and math type thinking and I wanted to stimulate those parts of my head again, and because he went to poetry readings and other such things with me before and I thought I would return the favor. Besides, it's a very cool experience to learn new things with someone you love. It's just like making food together- it brings you closer.

The lecture was really cool. It was about how the dude giving the lecture and his team of scientists were trying to get to absolute zero as well as how they were trying to slow down atoms in order to create a better atomic clock. The lecturer was a great speaker as well, although his name escapes me at the moment. But the lecture also made me think about other things. I was wondering why there is such an emphasis on creating a perfect atomic clock. *just so you know, the atomic clock would keep perfect time for somewhere around 3 million years* Now I got to thinking why it matters so much to keep perfect time so long.... and why we want to keep time in the first place... and why we let time rule our lives so much... and enjoy it. And suddenly the lecture began to sound almost funny to me. Time... heh... what a silly invention.