Moonglasses

  moonglasses

mistic mystic brooding in the mystic mist
lost his thoughts in the fog
no police would find'im with their orange searching flash lights
only a philosophical dog

from the vanishing fog the moral has appeared at noon
pronounced by the zen respecting dog
but since no one cares about philosophy or moon
the moral has vanished in the fog.

wh ©
1990-02-11

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I made up the neologism "Moonglasses" as a metaphor for poetry, and posted the above text on rec.arts.poems. I was coming back to this theme repeatedly:





  moonglasses

transparent pigeons struggle
against a hurricane of vacuum
the waves of silence strike the shores--a blue hammer
in a hand of a judge--an illiterate stranger

blind and deaf i wear
my moonglasses

wh ©
1995-08-25

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moon in the tear in your eye :-)
does it smile or did you cry ?

an eyedrop not a tear
protects my eye from too much light

wh ©
1995-08-24

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Around 1997-8, there used to be an unusual server, RedFrog, owned by Iwo Gajda. Among the main activities of RedFrog were a children art website and a poetry website. The RedFrog poetry collection was by far the largest on the Internet ever, perhaps simply the largest. There were poems written by Internauts as well as classical poems, in many languages (English, Spanish, Polish, Portugese...). The websites were run by Iwo himself, who had also provided the entire software, for which he had an outstanding, artistic ability. In particular, he was also able to provide software tools to the users, without messing up the operation. Furthermore, he had involved some trusted users into certain tasks. In particular I had the honor to start the first two RedFrog antologies: "Moonglasses" and "Ksieżycowe Okulary", in which I was collecting my favorite poems by different authors, respectively in English and in Polish. It's sad that one day RedFrog simply vanished. Nobody knows what happened. While I left RedFrog somewhat earlier (half a year earlier? a year and half?), I still kept lurking a bit. Thus I may try to guess why Iwo could have been frustrated with the happenings. His idealistic view of the copyright was objected to by some publishers. The other problem was the progressing degeneration of the interactive Internet. Iwo was most likely the very first to introduce some constructions (at least in their easy to use form and superb functionality), which today we take for granted. Among other options you had on RedFrog the combination of personal archives (typically one per poet rather than one per user--also the long gone poets of the past had the archives devoted to their poetry) and of the discussion boards. Unfortunately, the level of the exchanges on the discussion boards ultimately went down the drain.

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I experience, only too often, the "vasovagal syncop" (vasovagal reaction or effect), which means that sometimes the blood rushes away from my brain, and then I fall. As a rule it's not a big deal but last Friday it was not so simple. Oh, well.