the process

by Anthony Emmerson

Thursday 9th February 2012 7:21 pm

the process

this is

a message

from me

to you.

it is conveyed

via

these

small black

symbols

formed by the dark

pixels

on the screen

the patterns

they make

are the

shapes of my

thoughts

light waves

from them

are being

collected by

receptor cells

behind your eyes

these are

sending signals

through your

neural network

this cypher

of tiny

electrical discharges

and

chemical exchanges

is being

re-assembled

by your

conscious

brain function

you can

understand

my thoughts

this is a message

from me

to you.

Comments

Francine

Fri 7th Dec 2012 23:24

I missed this one! Guess your message to me wasn't personal enough! LOL
OBVIOUSLY I like it, or I wouldn't have bothered to comment... ;-)

Cynthia Buell Thomas

Mon 13th Feb 2012 15:10

I'm all for 'scientific' context used in a poetical way. Science is pure poetry anyway, and many poets of former ages well understood this. I like both writing and reading such works. I greatly enjoyed this poem, its diction and format. I finally reconciled that 'telling us' about the process IS the transference of your 'thoughts'.

Harry O'Neill

Fri 10th Feb 2012 22:29

Anthony,
I think you must be reading my mind.
I was just regretting that I had not suggested science on the `what to write` blog when I came accross this.

This kind of poem (looking at scientific gadgets in a fresh `mystified` way wakes us up to what these things are really doing - and what we are doing with them)

Your bare, spare, way of saying it (including both conveyor and receptor -mehanical and human-apparatus) makes us look at what is really taking place afresh.

A small point - I would switch around stanzas three and four.

This fills me with hope!

winston plowes

Fri 10th Feb 2012 11:31

Liked the experimental nature of this. If only the site's text editor was more sophisticated, we could do much more with text, format and images. Good job. Win

Laura Taylor

Fri 10th Feb 2012 09:19

Ha - like it! Clever clogs ;) Love how you've used bold as well, and the structure's great

Isobel

Fri 10th Feb 2012 00:04

Crumbs Anthony - this is a poem with me and you in it - all you needed was an I to score a hat trick!

I like it. I like the shape of it. I like the way the reading of it feels like a personal experience - like I and I alone am being spoken to.

You are telling me about the process of thought transfer though - you are not telling me your thoughts :)

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