Ethereal, evasive
An ever bending view
Of life that is reflective -
A partial, pensive clue.
Impossible to capture -
One’s moment undefined
Step up to life and live it.
Let dreams float unconfined.
Internal scenes of silver
Gleam brightly down below
While hope remains eternal
Refractive afterglow.
Author notes
Warhol's initial showing of Silver Clouds invited viewers to move amidst floating helium filled mylar pillow shaped balloons in a room of painted clouds. The adjoining room featured walls of pink cows reflected in the balloons.
Beyond the sense of the experiential, I can't help but see the timing of this piece as a reflection of the events of it's day:
Brave, emergent, mobile,
To moo-ve the minds of men
To tumble through a universe
With orbiting John Glenn.
To see more recent exhibits (which have tried, but failed to accurately portray the initial showing) visit these webcams - (How else to capture kinetic art?)
warhol.earthcam.com/main2.html
www.warhol.org/whatson/warholcam1_java.html
Written April 3rd, 2004
In a list
A contest entry
- A Picture is Worth How Many Words? by Asmearis.
435 points, ended April 30, 2004, 10 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What did you think
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Kind of a strange flow... But I liked it. And I loved the words you used. It's a very nice piece. I'm still not entirely sure of what it's saying... I'll have to go back and reread it-- but that is usualy the sign of a great poem. Good luck!
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Omg. This is great! The picture and the poem go together perfectly.
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Yay! A happy poem! It was great, and flowed beautifully! Keep it up, and good luck in the contest!
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Yea, what slydog said
This is an awesome poem. Much to be proud of here
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I think this is a wonderful peice... very though provoking... i love the way your wrote it, no complaints..... Check out my stuff sometimes.... i hope you think my poetry is as good as i think yours is...
Nice job
good write
Let your voice be heard through the magic of your words
Keep penning...Keep typing...Keep on writing...
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Thoghtful
Yeah, good deal. Everything about this seems to be exacting enough to fill the skeletal form of thought; the layout and words specifically. Aptly expressed contrast and very thought provoking. -
Wow, this was very spirited and very well written! I loved this piece and the way you wrote it. great job, please check out my stuff sometime!
Trot
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good write. you are one lucky girl.
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This is a stunning write. Such a wonderful rhythm to it. Very descriptive and a delightful read. The flow is perfectly smooth adding to the beautiful words. You really did a great job with this.....very well done. Good luck
Sam
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i liked how you worded this, nice job
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This was an amazing poem. I enjoyed reading it. Very nice and descriptive words. Thanks for sharing an good luck in the contest.
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short and yet, filling at the same time. im not quite sure how to describe it. still, this was a wonderful read. your choice of words was phenominal and the rhyming pattern suites this poem perfectly. simple and sophisticated. i especially enjoyed:Impossible to capture -
One’s moment undefined
Step up to life and live it.
Let dreams float unconfined.
keep up the great work and i hope to read your future works.
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this is a wonderful poem and you wrote about a hard subject to cover, anything outstanding is hard to sum up` but you did it very well here. nice flowing words and a pleasure to read.
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great
So, so very true!! So true! Great wording...I like the use of your vocabulary in this one! Keep up the great work!
Impossible to capture -
One’s moment undefined
Step up to life and live it.
Let dreams float unconfined.
Internal scenes of silver
Gleam brightly down below
While hope remains eternal
Refractive afterglow.
Wonderful!
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Sorry, but I forgot to add the ""ubiquitous shoe" in my author's comments. Does putting it here count?
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