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Hello Mneme - thanks! Yes, it's just an iconic image of nature, isn't it?
One I've hardly ever seen in real life. And I've not seen those films either - I'm not very good at watching films. I watch only about two or three a month, if that!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 25, 2007 at 11:14 AM
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tonyzonit
Beautiful...! I love snow. Also, as soon as I read the first line it was reminding me of something, and I had an image in my mind of snow clouding over a forest of trees.. then it came to me. I was thinking of the film,
Snow Falling on Cedars. And Fargo (great film).
posted by
mneme
on May 25, 2007 at 3:53 AM
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Thanks IP!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 24, 2007 at 3:39 PM
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Thanks very much, Chris - good to see you again, posting!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 24, 2007 at 3:39 PM
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Thanks, Alivia - very nice of you. I never get to see any!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 24, 2007 at 3:38 PM
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Brilliant!
posted by
IronicParadox
on May 24, 2007 at 10:38 AM
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Tony-I truly LOVE the snow-(when it's fresh)-your poem is lovely-
and goes infinately deeper-than 'doing it justice'! Well done.Chris
posted by
Scramble
on May 24, 2007 at 7:17 AM
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I'm not a big fan of snow
but your words make me wish I was. How lovely an image you create.
posted by
Alivia
on May 24, 2007 at 6:53 AM
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Tony
No need to resist, Antonio - Giuseppe Enigmatico Ennio Morricone Russo!
posted by
Enigmatic68
on May 24, 2007 at 12:47 AM
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Hi Drohan - good morning to you too. Thanks for your kind words!
You're quite right - this poem came about because of the ideas I'd been thinking about the night before. In fact it was also inspired by the desire to clarify what i meant by uniqueness (and sameness) being a concept. As the poem hopefully shows, both 'exist' but, like other concepts - as opposed to things - they need us, with our eyes, to 'see' them, while the trees don't need us to see them.
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 24, 2007 at 12:35 AM
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Yes, Enigmatic - I dunno why but I always have this urge to call you
Enigmatico! I'll try to resist it, though. Yes, Morricone has written many fine pieces of film music. Hundreds, probably. I've not seen that particular remake of The Thing, but I used to read the comic strip when I was about ten!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 24, 2007 at 12:31 AM
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Hi TAPS - thanks. That is almost a poem in itself.
I have never had the opportunity to experience that. But it's the kind of thing I can imagine - but I wouldn't have thought of the scratches in the snow!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 24, 2007 at 12:28 AM
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Thanks Dylan - I see where you mean - it's corrected now!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 24, 2007 at 12:25 AM
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Hi Kabu - thanks, love - I'll do my best!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 24, 2007 at 12:21 AM
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Hi Afzal - thanks!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 24, 2007 at 12:20 AM
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GOOD MORNING TONYZONIT ..IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU ARE ABLE TO DO ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL POEMS ,MAY BE IT IS MORE EASIER WHEN YOU HAVE A MUSE ,IT IS PROVING THAT THERE IS UNIQUENESS AS YOUR WORDS TODAY ARE UNIQUE AND IT IS VERY CLEARLY THAT IT IS NOT ABOUT THE SNOW AND OF COURSE NOT ALL THE TREE ARE SAME ,THE MEANING OF UNIQUENESS DIFFERS FROM ONE TO ANOTHER.
posted by
drohan254
on May 23, 2007 at 9:54 PM
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good morning
posted by
drohan254
on May 23, 2007 at 9:46 PM
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Tony
If you're referring to Ennio Morricone, thanks so much - I wish I had his talent for making extremely memorable movie soundtracks - like the ones he wrote for the "spaghetti westerns", and John Carpenter's (in my opinion) superior remake of "The Thing!"
posted by
Enigmatic68
on May 23, 2007 at 9:21 PM
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Tonyzonit
I love a forest of fir trees covered in a blanket of snow. I love the silence as I walk beneath them making the first footprints in the virgin snow--especially at night. Your special font reminds me of the prints and scratchings in the snow of little wild creatures.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 23, 2007 at 7:48 PM
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(In line 10)
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on May 23, 2007 at 5:37 PM
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The handwriting-like script adds something to the poem, actually.
Not that it needs it. A good poem. However, at one point you use "to" where you should have used "too."
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on May 23, 2007 at 5:36 PM
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Tony
stay just as beautiful always.
of course you will you talented darling.
posted by
Kabu
on May 23, 2007 at 4:49 PM
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WEll expressed .Nice poem.
posted by
afzal50
on May 23, 2007 at 3:51 PM
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Tony
Ha, ha, ha! Wouldn't that be grand? We could just go outside, open our mouths, look up and chew to our heart's content! hee-hee Honestly Tony, it looked like a very normal font to me, nothing different at all. Maybe I don't have it on my computer?
posted by
FoliageGold
on May 23, 2007 at 2:13 PM
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Hi Mary - could you read that font? Hats off to you, then!
We hardly have any snow in Manchester - one snowfall last winter just one evening, which was gone the next day. Poor old Josephine hardly knows what it's like to play in the snow.
It's more likely to rain peas than snow round here.
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 23, 2007 at 2:07 PM
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Exactly, Troosha! The uniqueness and the sameness at the same time.
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 23, 2007 at 2:04 PM
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Thanks Kat!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 23, 2007 at 2:04 PM
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Tony - Good Evening
Font was normal to me?
This was lovely, Tony. Watching snow fall is like that and I particularly liked how you detailed things often not noticed, like the 'filling' and the light and dark shades. Mystique was the perfect word! So you do have snow in Manchester? Thought it weathered peas there.
posted by
FoliageGold
on May 23, 2007 at 1:53 PM
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Tony
One of your "softer" pieces. As much as it speaks to the uniqueness of each snowflake it could also serve as an analogy for the uniqueness of people.
posted by
Troosha
on May 23, 2007 at 1:50 PM
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TONY
LOVE THE POEM GOOD LUCK MY FRIEND
posted by
Kat02
on May 23, 2007 at 1:49 PM
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Hi Enigmatico Morricone! Yes, I know you have the same trouble.
I'm hoping that when I leave this bloody flat, it'll be a lot quieter at night in the house I'm gonna be living in, and I'll get some zzzzz's. I'm trying nowadays to do some useful thinking while lying awake in bed. It's a great opportunity when you think about it. I'm lying awake at night and it's a chance to solve the problems of the world, or if not, then to hum some Doors tunes to oneself!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 23, 2007 at 1:45 PM
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Tony
I was just messin' with ya - no need to apologize!
By the way, I simply cannot relate to not sleeping (oops, a double negative
) at night - I've had a perfect night's sleep all of my life...NOT!!! LOL!!! Seriously, you have my fellow insomniac sympathy/empathy!
posted by
Enigmatic68
on May 23, 2007 at 1:19 PM
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I know, sorry, Enigmatic - it's the ideas that have inspired it.
I've seen no snow this last 12 months at all apart from one snowfall after dark one evening that was completely gone by morning. It's about uniqueness and sameness. Blimey, I'm tired -almost no sleep last night.
posted by
Antonionioni
on May 23, 2007 at 1:06 PM
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Tony
It's a beautiful sonnet, but damn, I'm just starting to enjoy the beautiful, hot (almost) summer weather, here in the states!
posted by
Enigmatic68
on May 23, 2007 at 12:46 PM
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