Sensing Spirits | Ears, Nose and Eyes

https://onemomentoflove7.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/sensing-spirits-ears-nose-and-eyes/

#Quotes #Animals #Senses #HenryBeston

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. -Henry Beston, naturalist and author (1 Jun 1888-1968)

Sweet Lady Violet is blooming again in France and I will never forget how this plant once helped me to get back one of my lost senses: https://www.cronenburg.net/sweet-lady-violet/ Yes, you can talk to plants and become friends.

#bloomscrolling #florespondence #HesperisMatronalis #wildFlowers #gardening #reciprocity #reconnectWithNature #scent #scentTherapy #hope #senses #NaturePhotography #FlowerPhotography #friends #lazygardening #summervibes #magicInTheMundane #treasure

W3 Prompt #211: Wea’ve Written Weekly

Intro

Dear friends,

Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish.

You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version:

Part I

The main ingredient of W3 is a weekly poem written by a Poet of the Week (PoW), which participants read before participating in the prompt.

Part II

The second ingredient is a writing guideline (or two) provided by the PoW. Guidelines may include, but are not limited to: word counts, poetic forms, inclusion of specific words, and use of particular poetic devices.

Part III

After five days, when the prompt closes, the PoW shall select one participant’s poem as the W3 prompt for the following week, and its author becomes the next PoW.

Simple enough, right?

Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing!

I. The prompt poem:

‘Flood Tide’ by Srijita (Hope)

II. Hope’s prompt: Be the thing

Write a Dinggedicht: a poem that enters so deeply into a thing that the thing seems to speak for itself through image, texture, movement, and sensation alone.

Choose anything: an object, animal, plant, machine, weather pattern, body part, or natural phenomenon. Describe it from the inside out. Let its physical reality guide the poem: its weight, surface, rhythm, sounds, habits, decay, memory.

You may lean into the surreal. Let the thing dream, contradict itself, remember what it should not remember, or behave in ways that defy logic. But keep the poem grounded in the thing’s material presence. The strangeness should emerge naturally from the object itself, not feel imposed upon it.

Do not explain what the thing symbolizes. Let the thing be the meaning.

Guidelines

• Stay rooted in concrete imagery and sensory detail
• Avoid abstract explanation whenever possible
• Surreal elements are welcome if they grow organically from the thing itself
• Free verse or rhyme are both welcome
• 10–20 lines

Tips

• Try not to name the thing’s symbolic meaning directly; let the reader discover it through the experience of the poem
• For an example of the form, see Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Panther”

III. Submit: Click on ‘Mister Linky’ below

In order to participate and share a poem, open up this blog post, outside of the WordPress reader. At the bottom, just below these words, you will see a small rectangular graphic with the words ‘Mr Linky’. Click on that to submit.

Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, May 18, 10:00 AM (GMT+2)

Last week’s W3 poem

This week’s W3 prompt poem (above), composed by Hope, was written in response to last week’s W3 prompt poem, which Dawn wrote:

‘Breath of Life’ by Dawn Minott

Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives

#music #importance #emotions #memories #senses #GrowingOld

About a lost project,… reborn

My recent works explore anthropomorphism in vegetalia. These days, I have been busy working on ‘Dendruh’; a world in making where the genes of humans and plants combine to form surreal, botanical, anthropomorphic and ethereal beings, some of which have roots that float above the ground, gliding over and carrying a piece of earth along with them wherever they thrive. This project is slowly blooming at my tiny space in Vasai. Read more on it [here.]

Today’s post is a remembrance of those preliminary and some near-perfect paper-relief pieces that I lost while commuting to my college in the early months of 2020. An incomplete series that experiments with nuances while perceiving facial assets (eyes, lips, nose, etc.) and plays with the structure/anatomy of a FACE in general. It explores the possibilities of facial perception in a textured, mundane and malleable material as paper pulp.

I was utterly devastated when I realised that I had forgotten them on the luggage rack of the train’s coach. I was supposed to present them to my class teacher as part of my work.

And after a few years of working across a few fields and my own little ventures, I quietly set out to bring them back and tread through more new versions that delve into this sentiment.

The Main Form and its origin…

The form from left was the preliminary piece that represent a concept of multifacetedness of our perception and as a result our existence. I happened to use the same form in my later works as well and even in my photographic explorations in Self-Face Experiements.

About Multifacetedness in general

In these works, I delve more deeply into the experience of being multifaceted. I believe every individual owns infinitely possible behaviours/attitudes that they use towards each circumstance in life. We all are born multifaceted, but throughout the tides of life and the societal influences, we tend to stick to a behaviour pattern that ‘suits’ our ‘personality’ or our ‘imaginery ideal selves’. I have observed that people instinctively ‘choose’ to react to a situation only in a certain way that feels comfortable and bond with that attitude, calling it ‘their own’, without giving it another thought of how fragile our personalities usually are. That could sort of hinder the brain’s neuroplasticity.

I believe Multifacetedness is a blessing in disguise. It helps us adapt through tight situations and tough decisions in life. And that’s what I try to emphasize through this form. I attempt to paint a mythical being that is lucid, fluid and ambiguous. And through ambiguity, I touch upon the Pareidolic phenonmenon.

‘The Sensory Juxtapose‘ revamp

Anyway, after almost three years or so, I finally commenced working on the incomplete series. The pieces uphold the theme of perceiving facial assets and attempt to play with the same. Have a look into one of my ongoing series – Sensory Juxtapose