Rainbow

[MystyrMystyry]

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[Delta40]

I'm too old to appreciate this kind of poetry but I'm still a great fan of yours

[Jack of Hearts]

No input on this piece.



J

[MystyrMystyry]

Just felt like having a little light-hearted fun Deltapops :)

Others get away with it - why shouldn't we???

[MystyrMystyry]

Jack of Hearts - maybe - but I do agree on the merits of thought and work over just a random nonsense

Thanks :)

[Delta40]

Just felt like having a little light-hearted fun Deltapops :)

Others get away with it - why shouldn't we???


I agree. Is this you showing us just how low you can go?

[MystyrMystyry]

Ho! Ho!

No - but here's a bit of background to human light sensitivity (because I feel like raving after the sheer amount of thought and hard work that went into this opus):

You've heard of the Visible Light Spectrum? Well it basically consists of three bands - red, green and blue - to which out eyes can detect, thus 'visible'

But there are more bands on either side of it and within

Now I came across this tremendous little creature called a Mantis shrimp who is neither mantis nor shrimp but is his own ancient person - there are 400 different varieties in his extended family and not all possess his miraculous eyes which grow upon stalks and have independent movement and behavior

Each of this clever little gentleman's eyes can see 12 bands of light going beyond the ultraviolet and surpassing the infrared and including linear and circular polarised light

At the identical time! We need to build machines to detect these frequencies and then reduce them down to our limited vision, so we can merely interpret them

The other wonder is that where we have binocular vision enabling us to see in 3 dimensions - it has trinocular vsion affording 3 1/2 dimensions - that's right - it can reliably predict what's about to happen next just by looking at something

Cool Dude, eh?

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[Delta40]

uhm yes. Please go to The How Low Can You Go Poetry Thread and post your worst for us will you?

[tailor STATELY]

LOL. On my monitor the experience was diminished; a, i, n, & o were rendered in black.

I became acquainted with the Mantis Shrimp many years ago by reading Saberhagen's SCI-FI classics about the Berserker Wars. They are incredible little critters with lightning fast karate-kicks that are deadly to their prey.

Me, I'm happy with good ol' Roy G Biv [ as opposed to OBAFGKM ( O, be a fine girl; kiss me") which was a mnemonic used in a Saberhagen plot. ]

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[MystyrMystyry]

Thankyou very much tailor - I've been meaning to get around to Saberhagen but time constraints and a backlog of books still unfinished ya' know...

Anyway, I shall one day (soon hopefully)

Mantis shrimps rock!

[Jack of Hearts]

It doesn't seem like bad form, to your mind, to change a piece completely beyond previous recognition after response was offered? That seems deifinitive in certain ways and disruptive of dialogue- but absolutely within your rights, at any rate.







J

[MystyrMystyry]

Thanks for you concern Jack, but well, actually, because there's only one posting allowed per day in the poetry thread, and because the original was merely a bored reaction to another thread, and because I spend most of my time trying to save that which is beyond saving anyway, and the comments were pretty indicative of disgust and 'How Dare You!'

I considered just addending it, but I agree it was miserable, I was in a miserable mood for personal reasons, and I believe it's always better to try regardless of what the outcome is than brood, over what may have been - so I tried

Anyway here it is - might make a good cover for a collection of poems one day

p.s. Curiously I now find myself in a VERY GOOD MOOD, A PARTICULARLY GOOD MOOD, for having done it

[everyadventure]

Hey, Mr. (tugging on sleeve) Your rainbow makes me happy.

[hillwalker]

I'm going to go out on a limb and admit I actually enjoyed this, on so many levels
- it's a poem
- it's clever
- and it's pretty to look at.

...yeh, I can be shallow when I want to be. So send me the t-shirt and mug when you get around to making them.

H

[MystyrMystyry]

Glad you had that reaction every :)

You too Hill


Odd that it owes its origin to all the wrong reasons - another case of causality being unimportant in the scheme of things I guess