Is someone out there looking back when we
Look out observing all those mindless things?
Those fantasies we know we truly see
Are changing through Newtonian alchemy,
But then we hear as deeper magic sings.
Text: Linked to dVerse Poetics. Paul is hosting with the theme “magic”.
Photo: “Pond Inside the Lincoln Park Conservatory” by the author and linked to Frank Jansen’s Tuesday Photo Challenge with the theme “water”.
The poem is deeper than the pond I think. Pure magic Frank.
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That pond is very shallow although the reflection of the roof makes it look deeper. Thanks, Paul!
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Beautifully put Frank – and listening was even more magical
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Thank you, Laura! I am glad you enjoyed the audio.
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How did you do the recording as a matter of interest Frank – it is so clear
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Most of the clarity, I think, comes from the software, Audacity, which is free from http://www.audacityteam.org/. I often use the “Noise Reduction” and always the “Normalize” effects in this software. Also I have a USB microphone that I bought over a year ago on Amazon because the microphone on my computer picked up too much noise. I bought the ATR2100-USB and a “pop filter” that I attach to it from Amazon, but you may have something already that works well enough. The clarity comes perhaps from both of those sources. Were I making an audio book, I would try for even more clarity.
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Thank you for all that tech info – I have considered sounclouding poems if only to hear it for myself
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I like to think so. Dream on… Frank
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Yes, me, too! Thank you!
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Blessed is that deeper magic… maybe a bit of a mystery even as that Newtonian Alchemy
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Hopefully it would be blessed. Thank you, Björn!
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Yes, I think so…we just have to listen!
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I agree! Thanks, Annell!
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I love the idea that deeper magic sings ;o)
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Whatever can sing can relate to us in some way. Thank you, Xenia!
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Wonderful Frank. Yes, I’m sure they are!
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Yes! Thank you, Peter!
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Wonderful final line, Frank.
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Thank you, Jane!
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🙂
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Oh my. I truly love this poem of yours. So deep and still yet roiling with life beneath the surface (I am assuming there are koi in the pond). The last line totally blew the top of my head off.
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There might be. There are koi or some other kind of fish in the other ponds in the conservatory, but I don’t recall seeing any. I am glad you liked this, Toni!
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oh, I do like this. One of my favourites of yours. I’m not sure that sentence is strictly grammatical, but you know what I mean.
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I am glad you liked this, Sarah!
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“…deeper magic…”. I love that concept. It must be there if we’re open to it.
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The shallow magic would be tricks or technological gimmicks to impress us. This would be more of a relationship with reality. Thank you, Sarah!
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Great work Frank. I wasn’t sure how you’d get through the Newtonian alchemy line, so listened. It came out very well indeed.
Before listening, I thought you could have had a full-stop after alchemy, and then the ‘But’ would be the start of something that you would go on to describe. It still could, but then it wouldn’t be your poem.
Excellent craftsmanship.
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I’m glad you liked this, Ronnie! Your comment made me realize that I should probably record these poems since I have a microphone. I have also recorded some of Shakespeare’s sonnets after reading one of your posts about reading them to get a feel for iambic pentameter.
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That sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m happy to help.
I’m interested in recording a few things for my blog too. Do you pay money to do this?
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What I do is use SoundCloud and then generate and embed a SoundCloud text in the blog. That is what you see on the page. So far the number of recordings I have made is within their free limit. Once it goes beyond that I will probably purchase the upgrade and then put all those Shakespeare recordings there as well. That should be in another year. I expect that to cost about $7 per month. The other cost I had was to buy a microphone since my computer’s microphone picked up too much noise. I found an ATR2100-USB and a pop filter on Amazon for about $100 USD. There may be better choices for microphones. The software, Audacity, was free. I save files in the ogg format to avoid any potential licensing issues with mp3.
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“deeper magic sings” — YES.
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I am glad you liked the ending, De!
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I believe there is a far deeper magic to life and all that surrounds us than
people generally realize.
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So do I and I think it is personal. Thank you!
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Listening to that deeper magic.
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Thank you, Trudessa!
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19 seconds of bliss, of plumbing depths, the magic of believing. the love of the hunt–and beyond & below, even more depth, more magic.
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Thank you, Glenn! There is a saying that believing is seeing.
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Very thought provoking, Frank. Great poem.
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Thank you, Robbie!
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Deeper magic sings…love that!
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Thank you, Lynn!
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Reading your poem is like looking into a magic mirror, Frank!
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I am glad the poem is like a magic mirror. The pond had a nice mirror effect of the conservatory glass ceiling. Thank you, Kim!
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Great work…
I like that “magic sings ”
Thank you
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Thank you, Ben! I want to make the magic personal enough to sing to us rather than just impress us with what the magician can make it do.
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Perhaps the shadows are returning our gaze. Wonderful photo. (K)
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I think it does metaphorically gaze back at us although usually I act as if it does not. I am glad you liked the photo. Thank you!
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I feel as if one is in deep space or in some deep meditation and enjoying the magic showered by it.
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Deep magic and deep meditation may be similar. Magic for me seems very impersonal, but reality less so. Maybe deep magic can bring the personal back. Thank you, Vandana!
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I’d like to be there, by the pond, listening to magic. 🙂
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I suspect the magic is everywhere, but some places suggest its presence more than others. Thank you, Imelda!
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like places with lay lines! (if there is such a thing) 😀
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I had to look up lay (or ley) lines. I am not sure what they are, but who knows?
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Oh, it is ley, not lay as I had written. Anyway, I only learned about them in fantasy books. I understood them to be magical lines traversing the grounds that a magical person could tap into. Not being a magic girl myself, I never tried to find out for myself. 😉
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I think I remember hearing the term used in the recent Ghostbusters movie, but I am not sure. I try not to reject any of this because there may be at least metaphorical significance to such things.
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So many possibilities in that little pond… I’ll be listening!
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Me, too, where ever the song might be heard. Thank you, JoAnna!
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I think there’s all sorts of deep magic in that pond.
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Perhaps in every pond. Thank you, Merril!
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🙂
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Lovely wondering, Frank. 🙂
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Thank you!
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“Deeper magic sings” is stand-alone spectacular, Frank! (yes, the whole piece is good 🙂 )
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The last line was the point of the poem. I am glad you liked it. Thank you!
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Welcome 🙂
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Absolutely fabulous lines.
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Thank you!
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ooooh. this is tender and magical and also deep. thought-provoking, Frank!
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Thank you, Rosema!
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you’re welcome, Frank!
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Absolute magic….so deep…so close to thoughts….nice to listen it!!
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Thank you, Sreeja! I am glad you enjoyed the audio as well.
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MaGiC lost
when elixir
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becoMes the
forms we make
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MaGiC oF Essence within
LiGHT that makes us now
all we can be and more..
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no
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abstract
constructs@all
words and other human made
symbols provide many potential
paths as avenues to find A gold within..
only seeking from form before is book covers end..:)
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I agree that light makes us all we can be and more. Thank you, Fred!
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Lamp
Up..:)
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Beautiful. I always try and try to focus on the now. It’s a personal attempt to be able to see the magic in normal life. I love how this poem reflects upon it. Nice work!
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Thank you, Jade! Although we get lost in thoughts and our awareness goes where we don’t want it to go, we can’t escape the present. I want to see the magic in normal life as well and I sense I fail at that often.
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Plain magic, Frank. Your work gets deeper and deeper.
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Thank you, Jane! I am glad you enjoyed this!
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Love your last line ….. and gorgeous photo 🙂
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Thank you, Judith! I am glad you enjoyed these.
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Beautiful. Those lotus stems go really far down. I like the reflection of the skylight in the water.
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The conservatory’s ceiling makes a nice reflection in that pond. It is even sharper in the photo than seeing it when I was there. The photo doesn’t let me miss it. Thank you!
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Beautiful poem – and love your audio to go along with it, Frank. And the photo is a gorgeous contribution to Frank (of Dutch Goes the Photo 🙂 )’s challenge. Fantastic! I really enjoyed this. Blessings, Debbie
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Thank you, Debbie! I am glad you liked the audio. I plan on making an audio for anything four lines or longer just to make when I hear it it sounds the way I want it to.
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Magical words, indeed!
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Thank you, Eugenia!
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