Monday 11 April 2011

physics of it all

residual burnt ochre-
I can't taste it now
veiled in that glass is my PostSecret
if you look long enough
you might get to the bottom
a broken, battered bottom
I fixed temporarily with cello tape
yet you can see spills on the table-
blotched yet has personality

"and yes, I see pillars come out of the glass-
laws of Physics can be defied, you know"

26 comments:

  1. and I did. Pity about the marks on the table, though.

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  2. You have a wonderful imagination!!

    <3

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  3. Thankfully some things can be fixed at least temporarily with cello tape. Nicely expressed!

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  4. Wow!!!Battered bottom to spills in table...says a lot

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  5. Beautifully imaginative, Gautami.

    Pamela

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  6. Nice write! "...you can see spills on the table - bloched yet has personality." This resonates with me, and probably anyone who's getting older, and aged like fine wine!

    Rick

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  7. WOW!!!! LOved it--and thanks so much for your visit!


    John

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  8. Now you mention it, I too can see the sellotape and the pillars! Who said the camera never lies? LOL

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  9. very well explained with good imagery and thought.

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  10. I like that you chose the table to write about. It caught my interest, too. The stories it could tell.

    Terrific, Gautami.

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  11. if the glass is life then my cello tape came loose a very long time ago but I am rather proud of the marks it left!=) I really enjoy this piece you did great with the prompt

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  12. Interesting how you interpreted the glass stems as pillars---of course they are. I wonder if you extended that metaphor to a vision of broken pillars as in society/culture ?
    Thanks for visiting at my place.

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  13. Your interpretation of this photo is so cool. Love "residual burnt ochre". I could smell and and taste it then, as well as see the drink in the glass. Cool!

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  14. Well done. It's fresh, it flows, and it utilizes all of the elements in the picture.

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  15. A lot of feeling here, Gautami! ... trying to veil the hurt and pain with tape. Beautiful poetry, figurative language. And I also see slim little pillars coming out of the center of each golden pool... xxox

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  16. Wonderful play on imagery on this one.

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  17. Tape is essential - a nicely wrapped poem!

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  18. Now THAT is one clever and telling tale...!

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  19. Began as poetry, with a stroll
    into the languid landscape of
    quantum mathematics, the soul
    of art, or music, lost for a sad
    moment in an abstract painting,
    and alien fantasy field full of
    glass pillars, with a wine-colored
    creek coursing through the center,
    and then back to the puncheon
    wood, the table, the stains;
    a fine journey and juxtaposition.

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  20. broken, battered bottom ?

    Sounds painful! LOL

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