Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Discussion of choice of words

Its almost over, Summer in South Jersey.. and this poster finds the poem planned on presenting for discussion Twinkling of an Eye, was composed in WORDPERFECT.  So when seen below, we mayhap need to find the way to convert it to WORD.. so here goes, In the meantime, a hint is in the title.
11/08/08

Twinkling of an EyeHo Ho Ho ! Wa’ad d’ye Syie!
The next hint occurs in the Twinkling of an eye
Should you be upset.
Waa’d ‘tis this?
Nothing much, but all there is and ever was.
The year by man’s own volition described
Is number Twenty-one Twenty,
And here am I.
You can be interested to know , that I will describe myself
verily and slow.
Today your naked eye cannot see me a, micro-cell, per se
So I will use an object the size you comprehend
I liken to the size of a pea or a hen’s egg.
How complex does this show
For its life within an embryo.

Life today as now tis known
Is the force that brings us all together
Under a Supreme being , and needs to be said
Universe number three has been no more ahead.
We gather this instant in time.
With Earth, Fire, and Water, the fourth time in mirth put forth
The City definitely under Willy’s staid mien and girth!
Whoa! Another hint as to whom am I
  too wear britches, have feathery white feet
and stand 18 hands or over Eight feet with white teeth.
Now the next hint becomes
I am here to celebrate the new time defined
By events of over a century behind.
Now exactly what is a Philly
a unit of time, why 28 years of course.
Well here I am again, the seventh generation
with my father’s , err my stallion, who bred
the forefather who held my stead.
In this century plus a score and more
Its Philly day and it’s a pilgrimage parade.

How many times has the data showed
This City of Brotherly Love and Hope
Has produced a multitude of delight
and the Force that holds us together from that bight.
A mere man child a Philly ago.
Found the connection and made us know
We are one and together Whatever our skin
We are each other’s kin.
Throughout the now known Third universe expanse at a glance
Life is the force binding us all together in a substance dance.
And all of its weather.
There is a hidden beat throughout this tether
Some recognize the leather.
The colors that show me off
Grace two known cans of wether whatever.

You see , aha another hint, the view from here
is more than delight
You see I am the eye of the draft steed, bred to be the right wheeler.
As my forefathers have been.
We now come together to gather not in sin.
We are one , when left our tow
and loved one another even in show.
Sport once again repeated the end and thus the beginnings
Of this life in a life a vista of
A Millennium , slowed.
A part and one, my support screen shows
As the 1960's songs bestowed - I am a complete life
2525 will come again. See I am a microcosm in a macrocosm
We are all part of the nano building block
One pill at a time, one and all for sure, God’s blessing this day.
Amen
©John Witkowski

4 comments:

  1. Saw this today. The poem has the ususal JW stamp!

    I need more explanation for some lines.

    "With Earth, Fire, and Water, the fourth time in mirth put forth ..."
    What happened to Air from the old formula?

    The title "Discussion of choice of words" is intriguing and very interesting. Maybe another acre of common ground?


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  2. Air purposely left out. Its "signified" by 'the fourth time'. The time period of referenced to is some time say 112 years in the future..
    Background on the poem.. Its was written while I watched, on TV, the Philadelphia Philies victory parade after they won the baseball World Series in 2008.. Their player Pat Burrell was on the Busch wagon pulled by Clydsdale horses , in the lead of the parade... Watching the tv pan the paraded route, the statue of William Penn visible in the background highligthed the 'audience',, Appears people of all ages and races were there..
    Now the eye is the right eye of the right wheeler horse ..the wheeler horse is to the right of the driver right in front of the wagon... the wagon in Busch beer colors are similiar to a soup label colors and on and on...

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    1. The sentence "Air purposefully ... in the future" is very interesting to me for 2 reasons. (1) My interest in different English expressions for air. For instance, I once read that "air" when used in relation to a person once had a meaning similar to the modern "personality". (2) The "fourth time" was part of a sentence in an importnat dream I once had. I have been wondering about its meaning. Your use of it as referring to the future may be an explanation.

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  3. And in the context of the poem, and "air" of brotherhood is noted. and of course an "air" of celebration of the Phillies baseball win of the World Series after not winning one for 28 years.. Which defines the word unit of a "Philly" = to 28 years. and the fourth time refers to the fourth dimension of the universe or future time.. I agree.. My plan is to post a review of the poem giving further explanations and meanings.. there are at least three central themes...ie brotherhood, meanings of words, celebration... are there others?

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