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Impulse, Desire, Obsession

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Impulse, desire, obsession,
the need for self-expression,

release for words out of control,
vehicle  for mind on the roll,
open door for swirling thoughts in the mind,
for assembling gems for others to find.

 

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Whim, urgency, necessity
inclination, pressure, propensity,

platform for opinion political,
inspirational or even radical,
open stage to state what is on one's mind,
rousing discussion with readers to find.

 

 

 

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Perfection, pleasure, diversion,
creation, explanation, aspiration.

Whatever the reason, there's call for rhyme
as poets mark their space in time.
Imagine where all those minds go to dream,
to conjure, measure meter, or even to scream.

Perhaps it might be empty space in the sky,
views to the heavens, places to question why,
spaces to bounce the mind around,
no need to be architecturally sound.

 

 

 

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A convention in the sky, searching for peaceful places,
perhaps driven by impulse, desire, obsession.

 

 

 

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The convention, an extension of thoughts expressed

in "Near and Far," the desire for communication...

 

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  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    November 23, 2008
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    Test 1


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    November 23, 2008
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    Test


  • bozoloper
    September 23, 2008

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    well now, i am most honored to have a place here in the architectural pinnacle of your word/art creations... well done!


  • GoodCarMa
    September 22, 2008

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    Oh, my dear, what delightful finds
    Such lovely neighbors in this tower of minds
    I'm honored to find my name
    Betwixt those with much more fame

    Now, dear friend, as to why I write
    I've looked and looked with all my might
    I cannot find a single cause
    But sometimes I have cause to pause
    and put in some verbal form or fashion
    those things which stir my passions

    Thank you again! Look! YOU were and ARare an inspiration!
    *hugs*
    Carma

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 22, 2008
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      Such a wonderful, poetic response!

      As to your reasons, your work reveals
      it is the passions thmeselves
      that bring your words to the page.
      Hmmmm...into your mind that delves!

      Glad to see you back.
      Will be watching for Festival lore.

      Take care, dear Carma.

      M-C


  • angelica silver member
    September 22, 2008
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    I can see Hugh's and my name. Thank you Aesthete


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 22, 2008
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      I aim to please! The story continues...
      You are welcome, Joan.


  • angelica silver member
    September 22, 2008
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    I can see the names OK on the colored one, the first one.
    I thought I saw other colors before.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 22, 2008
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      Check the top white one now., Angelica.

      I hand lettered Angelica and Hugh on a copy of the original,
      and then scanned it again. Now it's back to paste again.

      An hour ago I had to use code. Grrrrrrrr! Frustrating!

      Hope you like the top one for now.

      I have a feeling this may grow and grow. That's usually what happens to my illustrations----a whole lot of variations. So
      much with which to play!!!!

      Nice to have you included in the thought towers!

      M-C


  • RadioPJ
    September 21, 2008
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    Yes, and I loved the colors especially.

    And being in the center, I think the elevator part.
    It's very fun to look at~

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 21, 2008
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      Remember that hoizontal, vertical, sliding
      plexi-glass looking elevator you found????

      That other recent graphic link,
      quite the vision, indeed!

      • RadioPJ
        September 21, 2008

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        Yeah the animations -- they tickle the mind with the ability to move through the graphic. This one would be fun. But how do we get from the elevator to the offices - just leap across the void? And if we fall, where do we fall to? Is there air conditioning?

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 21, 2008
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          Ah, but it's all in the mind,
          as thoughts glide effortlessly
          from level to level. Just can't
          control those thoughts, flying
          off wherever they wish.


  • RadioPJ
    September 21, 2008
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    Simply Fabulous darling ~

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 21, 2008
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      I'll take "fabulous" any day!

      Did you notice the action
      surrounding xoPJ's space?
      Simulated, high frequency,
      brightly colored animation!


  • Peteskid gold member
    September 21, 2008

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    Peteskid, a thorn in lofty repose
    below and above a lovely rose
    but Hope faces the rising sun
    certain the new day has begun
    I gladly extend and bend in toil,
    gleaning votes from fertile soil

    For when i see McCain i am in pain
    same refrain for dim Alaska again
    who claims to know all she should know
    but wouldn't know fool's gold from yellow snow

    so this tower will be a place of power
    prayerful wishes, my country will flower
    like the beauty of this pictured elegance
    once more give peace and freedom a chance....PK

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 21, 2008
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      A symbolism in the lofty towers--
      rising above the fray. If only reality
      could take that cue, block the slings and arrows
      of false advertising, total misrepresentation.

      You describe your space so elegantly.
      What miracles will have to take place
      to restore the lustre to the country's image?
      May 51% start polishing, all the way to the polls.

      Taking delight in your second stanza!

      M-C


  • hugh wyles silver member
    September 20, 2008

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    Dearest of dearest Cleo,

    Ah! Now the king can see his thing
    in Olde Englyshe script
    and so his spirits now take wing
    where erstwhile he was pipped.

    I'm pleased you found, quite near the ground,
    a place for him to settle
    for the king cannot abide the sound
    of rocks or heavy metal.

    If you should choose to doff your shoes
    and come in off the street
    the king, with most expensive booze
    will wash your dainty feet.


    You really are a sweety! Ten thousand thanks.......
    BTW: "Durst" is the archaic past tense of the verb "to dare", therefore meaning "dared". It is in no way a denial or refusal per se.

    Huge dobs of love, hugs and kisses all over XOXOXO
    Hugh.




    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008

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      Ah, the trip across the sea
      awashes the words in mists
      of meaning! Your wish to keep
      feet upon the ground, I saw
      as durst not in the total meaning!!

      But words returned clarify
      and restore order in the realm.
      Would we dare propose that
      to governments of the world?


  • Sir Ima Cucumber
    September 20, 2008

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    I just realized, that entire right side is mine

    Vanity overwhelms me!

    Now if I could create about another 10 accounts I figure I could push all those others right off the graphic!

    As you can see from that comment it's my bedtime. And so I go. Will let the tv sing me to sleep.

    What drives me to create (your author note)...oh my I have written about 500 poems and stories and I think they've all tried to explain that in some way or another.

    The list is so long as to bore even me. But when I'm writing fiction, which I take more serious than poetry, I really enjoy seeing the world I created come to life...well, sort of come to life...I could go on, for pages, but as it already is, no one is reading this now...as proof...I Love George Bush!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      Ima, what if your humor is misinterpreted? Aaaaaaggghhh.
      The last line!

      The bringing to life...that's why your stories are so fascinating. You get right inside them, breath life into
      the characters.

      To make something that didn't exist moments, or hours,
      or days before...that's a driving force. Then to see the
      comcept come alive...big rush! Worth the effort!

      I appreciate yours!


      • Yemassee gold member
        September 21, 2008
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        If they misinterpret Sir Ima's words they are proof positive of the lines that necessitated it. How sad that they should not know irony when they read it.

        I too love George Bush...just like I love spending billions of dollars a month fighting terrorists in a country that did not harbor terrorists, the escalating deficit, the disappearing middle class and the Money funds Crash. I cannot wait to vote for John McCain and that Tina Fey looking woman so that I can have four more years of whittling away at the Bill of Rights.

        I like the real Tina Fey by the way, but I need no imitators.

        Getting colder here, I'll break up my soap box and use it for kindling.

  • Yemassee gold member
    September 20, 2008
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    To continue, the white one with the greenish border that is good too.

    And I see poor Nom hiding away in his basement...everywhere I look I see me.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      Adding the border decreases the size.
      Bucket has changed, not for the better,
      hard to keep it full size. I think it
      would be huge at betty...will have to try.

      • Yemassee gold member
        September 21, 2008
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        If it helps with the size, you could "kill off" the excess characters. Just have "Yem & Ima" as one box, the other five are more like satellites

  • Yemassee gold member
    September 20, 2008
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    I'm sorry. I knew you and Moonneam2you were discussing them, I didn't know you'd actually posted them. I'm rather absentminded sometimes, if you don't just say, "Hey idiot, go look at my graphics" I'm too slow to really know, lol.

    The purple is nice! But I can't choose any but the one with the orange in it! Is it me or is that orange perch the best one of them all! Moonovermiami2u will be so jealous!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      Yes, we checked out the tests I had placed in the
      previous "future of the mind" piece. The color was not scanning well, so I had almost given up on it.

      My other idea, to crop your tower and make a tall guest book entry someday. Need time to try bucket effects on it---hard to do with the whole, so much detail to get lost.

      And of course, a moony tower special, too.

      As you mentioned, an idea for a story...well, I think
      the concept grows---more will magically appear. Magic, hah,
      took longer than I had anticipated!!! And nom needs more space.
      You said, crawl out of, so he's lower level, surrounded by books!

      • Yemassee gold member
        September 20, 2008

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        You know, you didn't have to add all the Sibyl's of mine. I was just being silly. You could have just said, "Yem, Inc."

        And by the way, not once did I say thanks, so I am remedying that now, Thank you! I like my many spots there.

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 20, 2008
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          Well, I thought it would make for quite an event,
          having them all together!! A convention of sorts!!

          You are welcome...fun to create them when the observer
          enjoys the fun!

          There would have been more concessions, more seats,
          in the theater, but I didn't want to obscure
          the plexi view with too much "stuff."


  • arafura gold member
    September 20, 2008

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    Impulse and sweet desire
    sets my heart on purple fire.

    I saw myself in cubic flight
    a moment then of pure delight

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      I attempted to float water in the space
      indicating the Arafura Sea.

      Loving the purple fire,
      cubic flight!!!

      M-C

  • hugh wyles silver member
    September 20, 2008
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    Dear Ms. Patra,

    I've searched your towers from top to base
    trying to find my name some place.
    Perhaps it's on the hidden face
    or, maybe, you ran out of space?

    I can't believe that, from your list,
    King Hugh's intentionally missed.
    From such neglect you should desist
    or you could get him awfly pissed.

    I'm sure that, smitten with contrition,
    you'll rectify this sad omission
    by making suitable addition
    appropriate to his position.

    Please do not fail to seize this chance
    before the coming Castle Dance
    to rectify what seems askance
    fraught with appalling circumstance.

    Notwithstanding this shocking example of lese majeste, your artistic skill and quintuple invention as well as the poetic interludes are acknowledged and applauded.

    With love and hugs, XXX Hugh (R.)




    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      Oh, kind sir, I did indeed misinterpret
      your words as listed below. The "durst"
      and "feet upon the ground" appeared
      to me that you declined. I shall
      place you in the castle that
      had remained empty! It's
      the "Castle speak"
      I misunderstood!


      Quoting from "Reservations"...
      "With Yem, Sir Ima, dear Mariza,
      and Cleo too, if it should please her,
      the king would surely honoured be
      to join such august company.

      And yet he fears to fly too high….
      Those who self-elevation try
      perchance do not rise far at all
      but finish with a fatuous fall.

      He oft’ comes last who would be first
      and rues that recklessly he durst
      to claim a place beyond his station
      through unsuccessful elevation.

      And so, this king just hangs around
      and keeps both feet upon the ground.

      With love and hugs, XXX Hugh (R.)"

      • Yemassee gold member
        September 20, 2008
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        The King was kindly saying,
        in his Kingly, double way of 'splaining,
        that though his feet are on the ground
        above poor Yem he 'spects to be found!

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 20, 2008
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          Well, I thought he was politely declining,
          and I wanted to be respectful of his wishes.

          Can add it now, but to remove....aaaggghh, that would be
          al that scanning again!!!!

          I await his reply.


  • Summer52
    September 20, 2008
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    What can I say? NO WORDS... Just PERFECT!!!!

    And I saw my "name" too!!! WOW!!!

    To learn more and have friends here motivates me to create and write...though a novice one...it doesn't hurt me in the least if friends "help" a little to make me "improve."

    Thanks, Mumsy!!!!


    Summer51

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      See, it was just a little,
      peaceful oasis in the sky,
      complete with its own
      fluffy clouds!

      And your sweet spirit shines
      thru your words, dear summer.
      For a "novice" you take on
      such variety, from romance,
      to descriptive nature pieces,
      to "Cheeky Lee!"

      Yes, it is nice to have others
      around us, to continue the motivation,
      to appreciate.

      Take care, Summer.

      Mumsy

      • Summer52
        September 20, 2008
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        If I could paint your face
        A thousand time across the sky,
        If I could write so many verses
        About You and only YOU, I'd try,
        Though I know, it would hurt
        my finger, scribbling down each line,
        it doesn't matter to me
        for friendship is thicker
        than the pain in my hand.


        Just saying "THANK YOU" dear Mumsy!


        Summer51


        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 20, 2008
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          Now those are the words
          of a sweet "Soul-daughter!"

          So happy to be dubbed Mumsy by you!


          • Summer52
            September 20, 2008

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            Mumsy, what's a "soul-daughter?"

            A ghost?

            WC, Mumsy!


            Summer51

            • Aesthete2000 gold member
              September 20, 2008
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              No, just an expression,
              as when Moony would say
              "Sister of the Heart."
              And as related to the !Mumsy" name
              you gave me, "Daughtery" does not
              exactly flow, so "daughter of the heart,'
              or "soul-daughter" intended to mean
              and "adopted" kind of relationship!


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    September 20, 2008
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  • moon2u
    September 20, 2008
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    APPLAUSE

    It is wonderful Aesthete
    already 4 different versions
    amazing
    you have worked so hard on this creation
    thankyou so much
    sister of my heart
    mwah

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      Ah, thank you dear moon.
      And thank you for lending your creative eye!

      Remember that I told you I had to paste to the front page,
      code wouldn't post, well, whadya know---now it's happening
      on this page, too! Whoever is tinkering should take up video games, before it all falls apart here!!!

      Re the photobucket increasing percentage guage---it goes right back when it's saved, to the original and has to be increased again.

      Many hugs coming your way!!!


      • moon2u
        September 20, 2008

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        well even MY comment boxes
        are swinging high these days
        so you are not imagining things
        lol

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 20, 2008
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          Well then, it isn't internet explorer!
          Think I'll wait to download firefox...
          for it isn't saving you from jumping boxes
          and pages!!

          I'm off to read your page now...


  • Mari Goes gold member
    September 20, 2008

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    This is so great! Ah, you are really something!
    Loved the Poetic Space Tower!
    I think I write to see if I can understand my thoughts better when I see them in words. Inspiration comes from feelings and how I see and am touched by friends.
    Loved this work of yours, and your poem.
    You are fresh as the green in your garden

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      You are a so very much a "visual"---
      one who excells at understanding
      by visualizing, writing the words.

      And your work shines from the feelings
      expressed, from reflecting the love of friends!

      Aha, a name for it, "Poetic Space Tower."

      Thank you, Mari.

      M-C

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