Image via http://www.sxc.hu
It’s what we are:
shocked to life
at maximum voltage,
rewired by experience
in negative anxiety
and positive joy,
a slow-leaking energy,
static in defeat
In short,
we complete the circuit
and are gone –
subatomic particles
in an ancient storm
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Cool poem and pic, Bluebee! Electrifying . . .
Zap! 😀 Thanks, Nancy
Perfect poem for the illustration.
Thanks, Charles – sxc have some great photos and images
I love this BB.
Having spent my life studying this as a Physics, I have always thought in practical terms about electricity. It’s great to be given a poetic slant!
John
Thanks, John – I’m pleased this one appealed to you 😀
It fascinates me that our hearts, brain, muscles etc are operated, basically, by electrical impulses
And motivated by emotional impulses BB !!
John
Haha, yes. That provides the spark 🙂 Thx, John
Love that brightly lit flower. 😉
It’s from sxc, Elizabeth – when I don’t have my own shot for something, I can always find one there 🙂
‘complete the circuit’ what a brilliant way with words 🙂
Thanks, Gilly 🙂
those last five lines are outstanding
Thank you, Jo!
Great Blue Bee 🙂
Thanks, Jake – for some odd reason your comment was in the spam folder
Wonderful word play. I love it!
Thanks, Tilly – hope you have an absolutely fabulous time in Spain 🙂
BB, you remind me of waves: they are essentially just energy carrying water along. Wonderful thoughts in your poetry today.
Energy moving from one state to another. Thanks, Kate
I hope the circuit takes a litlle more time to complete!
Yes! 😀 Thanks, Benedicte
Very interesting and unique take on things bb – never quite thought of life like that before 🙂
A stopped heart can be restarted with electricity – my mind still boggles at that, Gabe. Where does the initial charge for each life come from? 🙂
It does seem like that at time. Like a candle burning down to an ember.
Yes! Thanks, Renee 🙂
When you put it like that, it’s mildly depressing
I guess it can be, Nursemyra, but I don’t see the fact of death as an altogether negative aspect of life
That image is just so striking. The reds and the purples….WOWEEEEE. ZING. I love this bit so much – ‘subatomic particles
in an ancient storm.’ FAB!!!
sxc have some great images, Selma. Glad you got a buzz out of this one, haha. Thanks
My hair is standing on end! Woweee is right! I love the yin and yang, the electric shock, of negative anxiety and positive joy.
haha – a shock to start the day, Monica 🙂 Thanks
Wow, brilliant, Bb. Amazingly accurate too…
Thanks, Adee – we are supercharged beings 🙂
this.was.good. !!!
what a circuit
Thanks, Eva – yes, we never know what detours it’s going to take 🙂
Wow!
Very nicely done…
I came here because I was impressed with your comment on Jake’s Blog, Time After TIme,
One from December 2011, where you state, and I will not straight quote in case I am off so consider it a paraphrase 😉
A Degree in World Peace – now that’s an idea Jake.
I wanted to see the work of an individual that could come up with a suggestion like that!
And I am not disappointed!
Thank you. From The Pews, and welcome to my blog 🙂
Really interesting, Bluebee– let’s just forget ashes and dust, and skip right to and from the sub-atomic particles. 😉
Curious to know how those got into your thinking and/or experience. I read a mention about them in a macrobiotic book lately, and have been thinking about them a bit, in addition to some prior reading and thinking about them, though it’s not a central part of my education and experience (but is is of my husband’s).
Haha – yes, Elaine – oblivion.
As to how it gets into my thinking – I am no scientist but am very interested in many aspects of science and think a lot about the constantly changing state of living things, entropy, how we start to break down physically as we get older in spite of our best efforts, what’s happening at CERN etc. It’s also not a part of my central education, just an interest.
IT is *NOT* is is.
Yes 😀
This is stunning BB. A combination of words and image that creates sparks!
Thanks, Graham 🙂