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bubbles
"...What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." (James 4:14 NIV)
I
transitory blooms
clambering for tangence
sphere squaring sphere
bulb climbing bulb
short, sweet sojourn
to climax
in spent ecstasy
II
esurient orbs
clambering for eloquence
square pairing square
swelling to exclusion
by ultimate explosion
in ethospheric suspension
III
cornucopian dreams
clambering for continence
peer sphering peer
atmospheric phantasm
catastrophic hedonism
ecospheric orgy
IV
festal fizz
clambering for firmanence
sphere sphering sphere
etruscan evidence
full of emptiness
implosive equilibrium
hexagonal revelry
V
pride
trapped beneath thin skin
that goeth before destruction
will one day
gag your gurgle
VI
arrogance
savage upon the languorous mind
that puffs up the spirit
will one day
burst your bubble…
© Copyright 2019 February 16
by Clyve A. Bowen
I
transitory blooms
clambering for tangence
sphere squaring sphere
bulb climbing bulb
short, sweet sojourn
to climax
in spent ecstasy
II
esurient orbs
clambering for eloquence
square pairing square
swelling to exclusion
by ultimate explosion
in ethospheric suspension
III
cornucopian dreams
clambering for continence
peer sphering peer
atmospheric phantasm
catastrophic hedonism
ecospheric orgy
IV
festal fizz
clambering for firmanence
sphere sphering sphere
etruscan evidence
full of emptiness
implosive equilibrium
hexagonal revelry
V
pride
trapped beneath thin skin
that goeth before destruction
will one day
gag your gurgle
VI
arrogance
savage upon the languorous mind
that puffs up the spirit
will one day
burst your bubble…
© Copyright 2019 February 16
by Clyve A. Bowen
Published 18th Feb 2019
Author's Note
View visual poem in full size and colour here:
http://mydo.cx/NDlkNmI0
Facts About Bubbles
A bubble is just air wrapped in soap film. The bubble forms a hollow sphere with an iridescent surface. Bubbles last only a few seconds. When two bubbles meet, they merge walls to minimize their surface area. If bubbles of the same size meet, the wall that separates them will be flat. When bubbles of different sizes meet, the smaller bubble bulges into the larger bubble. Bubbles meet to form walls at an angle of 120 degrees. If enough bubbles meet, the cells will form hexagons.
http://mydo.cx/NDlkNmI0
Facts About Bubbles
A bubble is just air wrapped in soap film. The bubble forms a hollow sphere with an iridescent surface. Bubbles last only a few seconds. When two bubbles meet, they merge walls to minimize their surface area. If bubbles of the same size meet, the wall that separates them will be flat. When bubbles of different sizes meet, the smaller bubble bulges into the larger bubble. Bubbles meet to form walls at an angle of 120 degrees. If enough bubbles meet, the cells will form hexagons.
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18th Feb 2019 4:43am
I've spilled many lines based on verses (or themes) from the Bible
but not as eloquently as Your spill, here.
well done (and Yeah, I looked up the verse - my OCD gig)
but not as eloquently as Your spill, here.
well done (and Yeah, I looked up the verse - my OCD gig)
Your compliment, Tallen, means more than a puff of air to me. If I gag my own gurgle and burst my own bubble before someone else has to do so, I believe praise will have greater "firmanance."
Your OCD benefits us both: not everyone takes the time to read my poems to graphic advantage.
Thanks, as always, for your support.
Your OCD benefits us both: not everyone takes the time to read my poems to graphic advantage.
Thanks, as always, for your support.
18th Feb 2019 11:12am
Well done!
Pride cometh before a fall. . .
I enjoyed the visual format as well.
Pride cometh before a fall. . .
I enjoyed the visual format as well.
18th Feb 2019 3:27pm
Thanks, Ahavati.
I think I have made a complex fuss over a simple phenomenon. But then, bubbles are far more complex, mathematically and scientifically, than many realise.
Still, the slightest disturbance, and the mist vanishes.
I think I have made a complex fuss over a simple phenomenon. But then, bubbles are far more complex, mathematically and scientifically, than many realise.
Still, the slightest disturbance, and the mist vanishes.
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18th Feb 2019 5:03pm
Thank you for the kudos, RexDurkin.
I launched an in-depth study of bubbles to ensure that my words would be more than wind.
I'd wear a hat like yours, with one straw for Adam's Ale and the other for a blend of the best fruit nectar.
I launched an in-depth study of bubbles to ensure that my words would be more than wind.
I'd wear a hat like yours, with one straw for Adam's Ale and the other for a blend of the best fruit nectar.
18th Feb 2019 4:38pm
Ah, Brenda, thank you!
Careful, though, how you blow my bubble, lest it ecstasies to extinction like festal fizz.
Careful, though, how you blow my bubble, lest it ecstasies to extinction like festal fizz.
