< your one sweet face >

[rayheinrich]

                        < your one sweet face >
                   
                    your one sweet face
                    your falling white falls after you
                    in this year and the next and next
                    your one sweet face oh how it flowed
                    oh how it flowed before you turned it off
                    your one sweet face
                    your falling white
                    in this year and the next and next
                    your one sweet face

                                - - -





Image: 'BlueBlack' - Photo by me

Free-Ranging Allowed, Creative Responses Encouraged

[tectak]

                        < your one sweet face >
                   
                    your one sweet face
                    your falling white falls after you
                    in this year and the next and next
                    your one sweet face oh how it flowed
                    oh how it flowed before you turned it off
                    your one sweet face
                    your falling white
                    in this year and the next and next
                    your one sweet face

                                - - -





Image: 'BlueBlack' - Photo by me

Free-Ranging Allowed, Creative Responses Encouraged

I would like to oblige with a creative response but it seems that not I, nor the 3000 members of this fine site, are up to it. Creative question? What IS it all about?
Best,
Tectak

[Erthona]

My response is more prosaic than creative.

It's the light of a pond I'll wager with a little photoshop to flip the image and make the top a mirror image of the bottom. It is the face of the pond, or slow moving stream, and I suspect it dries up at a certain time each year < oh how it flowed before you turned it off>, but it will come back


Dale

[rayheinrich]

I would like to oblige with a creative response but it seems that not I, nor the 3000 members of this fine site, are up to it. Creative question? What IS it all about?
Best, Tectak

You're over-thinking the damn thing. See below.

My response is more prosaic than creative.

It's the light of a pond I'll wager with a little photoshop to flip the image and make the top a mirror image of the bottom. It is the face of the pond, or slow moving stream, and I suspect it dries up at a certain time each year < oh how it flowed before you turned it off>, but it will come back
Dale

Oops, I meant to post the original (pre-flipped) one, but got the file
names mixed up, but I just fixed it. (It's some gas station lights
reflected off the water of a drainage ditch.)

Well, Dale got it, so it's only 2999 now.

What's left to explicate is the 'you' in
'oh how it flowed before you turned it off'

The 'you' could be God, or a dam the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
constructed; but it's probably something much more mundane. If I
were to venture a guess, I'd say the whole damn thing was your typical:
"You stopped loving me and I'm so sad I gotta metamorphosize something
and hey, look, there's a pipe with some water flowing out of it and splashing
into a drainage ditch whose reflections, against all reason, remind me of
your face and you've dumped me and the pipe's dumping something frothy
and white and it's seeping into my shoes and smells like shit which is what
you must think of when you think of me but I still love you."

[tectak]

I would like to oblige with a creative response but it seems that not I, nor the 3000 members of this fine site, are up to it. Creative question? What IS it all about?
Best, Tectak

You're over-thinking the damn thing. See below.

My response is more prosaic than creative.

It's the light of a pond I'll wager with a little photoshop to flip the image and make the top a mirror image of the bottom. It is the face of the pond, or slow moving stream, and I suspect it dries up at a certain time each year < oh how it flowed before you turned it off>, but it will come back
Dale

Oops, I meant to post the original (pre-flipped) one, but got the file
names mixed up, but I just fixed it. (It's some gas station lights
reflected off the water of a drainage ditch.)

Well, Dale got it, so it's only 2999 now.

What's left to explicate is the 'you' in
'oh how it flowed before you turned it off'

The 'you' could be God, or a dam the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
constructed; but it's probably something much more mundane. If I
were to venture a guess, I'd say the whole damn thing was your typical:
"You stopped loving me and I'm so sad I gotta metamorphosize something
and hey, look, there's a pipe with some water flowing out of it and splashing
into a drainage ditch whose reflections, against all reason, remind me of
your face and you've dumped me and the pipe's dumping something frothy
and white and it's seeping into my shoes and smells like shit which is what
you must think of when you think of me but I still love you."

Oh, I see, of course, silly me. Er...US Army Corps of Engineers. Right. Well, it is no longer languishing so that's alright. Punctuation might help.
Best,
tectak

[rayheinrich]

Oh, I see, of course, silly me. Er...US Army Corps of Engineers. Right. Well, it is no longer languishing so that's alright. Punctuation might help.
Best,
tectak

Addenda:

She dumped him so he ditched her.

Simplified explication:
A loves B
B loves A
B stops loving A
A still loves B
A writes poem
'face' is B
'water' is love
'year/next' is eternal love
A and B are too young to kill

The poem is punctuated using line breaks, white space, and syntax.

'Red' isn't red, it's a word that symbolizes red.
Punctuation marks aren't punctuation, they're an attempt to
symbolize punctuation.

Written language started as an attempt to preserve a record of
spoken language. Punctuation marks were an attempt to record the
effects of pauses and intonation.

Writing has never been very good at recording speech, but it has
evolved to the extent that speech isn't very good at expressing
writing.

Love poems have never been very good at either.
Love poems don't symbolize love, they symbolize love poems.
Love, on the other hand, does symbolize love poems.

The US Army Corps of Engineers has never been very good at earth-moving.
Earth-moving, on the other hand, does symbolize the US Army Corps of Engineers.

[Leanne]

All right, so we know what her one sweet face looks like -- now, what about all the other, not-so-sweet ones?

[ChristopherSea]

I see an Easter Island Moai head (on the left within the bottom right set of ripples). She looks a bit too mitochondrial Eve for me.

[rayheinrich]

All right, so we know what her one sweet face looks like -- now, what about all the other, not-so-sweet ones?

I've made a list of them, see below.

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I see an Easter Island Moai head (on the left within the bottom right set of ripples). She looks a bit too mitochondrial Eve for me.

I took out the reflection's reflection as I didn't intend to put
it up in the first place. But in the remaining top part, here's
a list of faces from left to right:

1. sheep (ears are straight out in their "huh?" expression)
2. skull (or Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' guy looking down)
3. mask (Lone Ranger's)
4. profile face (Mephistopheles)
5. meditative horned deamon
6. staring man with white mustache (best gray-scale gradiation)



And the obligatory evolutionary limerick:

Mitochondrial Eve (not chimerical),
Enables our tracking (historical).
While God's first female jest
was her circular best;
It's the Y of the male that's hysterical.


Chris, I hope you noticed that I worked the circular DNA of mitochondria in.