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This poem was originally entered into the Subject contest in the Personal Poetry forum.

Inspiration

We have this bag of beads;
They're glass and green and red.
My muse she spills them on her head
Like a giant pouch of Burpee seeds.

My muse is two not three,
And she'll tell you how it is:
"These beads are mine" she'll say, "not his."
And so I'll fain to leave her be.

She'll ...

This is ladies and gentlemen is the "Mandlebrot Set"! Some call it The God's Finger Print but it is more commonly known as "Fractal".

It is one of the most beautiful structure in Mathematics!



Here it is in action:

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Hello everyone. I’ll be brief.
Sorry for being away for so long, I suppose you’re getting used to it by now, but sorry nonetheless. To be honest I lost the desire to blog, as usual, and after a while I started to wonder if I could go a whole year (like with Mcdonald’s, it’s been several years since I ate it, I’m seeing how long I can go without, and besides, it’s not like I’ll die without cheeseburgers, quite the opposite) As usual I digress.
Main reason for this. It’s my birthday ...

I presented in my last writing blog (#3) the idea of maximalism in writing prose, and in writing blog #2 I showed how large expansive sentences created a “back filling” effect. Now I want to show how large expansive sentences create a cumulative effect, where the accumulation of modifying phrases define in detail the idea. I look at such a cumulative sentence as a blossomed flower with each modifying phrase as a petal.

What I’d like to use as the example sentence is the first stanza ...

Linguistic Archaeology anyone?

I've been up town today with my lad who's had a big toenail off, and nothing much happened as we sat in the coffee shop in Coventry City Centre.

So I thought I'd talk about linguistic Archaeology, which I came across a few years ago by reading Melvin Braggs "A History of English", and watching his series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaRSdjfC4IQ

As kids we used to play in the streets around our ...