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"Salvage" Salvage the fixating salvation unfurling from the wreckage of a numb world twisted inside treasure climbs swimming the ladder from the deep of all things reaching upwards travelling in a new time of melting morpheme moments overlapping dissolved differences, tight discrepancies peppering the salt stings something honest and clean scours more pure the bleeding jetsam some kind of expensive unknown sprinkling the ever what's internal like cut open shucked broken jewels hundreds and thousands more precious than diamonds, rubies, emeralds, opals and pearls colours communicating strange reflections passing windows that dance and cry like curlews in a harbinger’s mist to heal the pain pluming in the hardness of the inevitable softening of the infernal ache between the minutiae momentum of thighs it is pulling like the brackish tide an exotic existence is borne from fresh upwards what was breech now turns in directions spiralling like a Fibonacci paradox marking time turning neither head nor feet first but like a ghost shadow through walls the transparent thing floats it breathes in the strange beatitudes watching Phoenix feathers napalmed, skin snared and entwined around soft silky satin pillows the place where dreams lie held captive enthralled by bones buried beneath a chest kissing the rapturously denuded Selkie Eurydice observes IT is penning new unchartered chapters mapping new territories unconquered jade horizons spark St Elmo's fires temptation smiles pulling the heart strings of a wounded Ichthyocentaur the poetic dilettante brushes his poesies with her quill ignites the pataphysics, tempestuous conceits, self-immolating bonfires of complacent myths, mariners and their land-banished omens prodigal Calibans are sent to haunt the dreams of other shipwrecked puppets strange paramours praying for solitude and orderly peace wrapped up like disordered ornaments, unique in their cool crystalline, they become the warmest becoming lit hot like speeding silver veins bolts of lightening shimmering chords threaded through the all seeing dimensionless eyes sharp as needles sowing new seeds like bright shiny buttons in its cobalt blanket the blue skies are different here, like sparkling aquamarine, turquoise and sapphires marshmallow clouds soft as ermine and mink rose quartz, blushing pink tourmaline, golden apricots o'er moonstone like magnets call the solitary seekers home yet they take their time, their time is torturously divine they are re-familiarising themselves drowning within the suffocating love tomes caught up in the net of each other the hypnotised committed godwits all now blend into wounded words grail-questing in their Sees of sand, looking, listening for clues, reaching out for new novitiate prayers they are turning in the hands of something offering themselves like Levitical tithes as small sacrifices in for a penny in for a pound grief pearls their wet hair baptismal now again playing innocence happily fishing for tadpoles and minnows waiting and watching for a wounded king walking a sky like one walks an ocean to whisper us all in and deliver us from ... devotion some new better story some kind of promise intuitively calls all sleepwalkers in like morphing zombies we are raised up from the undertow now we are silently whirling Mevlevi hushed in this new reverence (LadyLabyrinth/2022) “The Ladder”/Royskopp https://youtu.be/s_f1Msn608c "In his 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, Andre Breton defined Surrealism as "Psychic Automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express... the actual functioning of thought...in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern." "Dali, the surrealist painter, had a fascination with DNA and included it in several of his works. He was, like many who followed him, in the thrall of the double helix, calling it “a Jacob’s ladder of genetic angels, the only structure linking man to God”. “I appreciate that the majority of people who are not only regarded as intelligent but are indeed intelligent, capable of understanding the most difficult scientific, mathematical and philosophical reasonings, are very rarely capable of understanding a most simple and obvious truth, if it is such a truth as requires that they admit that a judgement they have formed about something, sometimes with great effort, a judgement they are proud of, which they have taught to others, on the basis of which they have arranged their life - that this judgement may be wrong.” (Tolstoy’s ‘What is Art’) Dali “Galacidalacidesoxiribunucleicacid”, Salvador Dali,1963 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid “Salvador Dali and Science, Beyond mere Curiosity” https://www.salvador-dali.org/media/upload/pdf/salvador-dali-and-science_1409308040.pdf Dr Christian Bok, Poet https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2011/04/the-xenotext-works Greg Braden "The God Code"/DNA https://youtu.be/jMtt8Wvm1NM Mark E. Curtis, DNA https://curtisdna.com/authority.html Curlews Why do curlews cry at night? Nicknamed the 'screaming woman bird', their high-pitched, drawn-out shrieks can be heard across the night as they try to contact each other. This eerie behaviour could explain why the species is thought to have close associations with death and suicide in some indigenous Australian cultures. Godwits Godwits are Waders (family Scolopacidae), called shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons). Godwit originates in Old English, god meaning good, and wit coming from wihte, meaning creature. "WE are stardust CHNOPS 6 essential building blocks Carbon Hydrogen Nitrogen Oxygen Phosphorus Sulphur somewhere Cobalt and Gold" (excerpt, "HUMAN", Lovejoy-Burton)

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Date: 2/11/2022 5:20:00 PM
I want to study this Mlady Labyrinth. What I felt right away was a sense of doom, for myself--a lament so harsh, no open doors. For I am exposed to an apocalyptical fate with no quarter offered--For there is no one to answer the door. He's been raptured...all is left is a vacant, hollow echo. I've become a craven searcher on this Tierra Firma-- A goal of mine: To make vanish my Ego be tiny like Gods most modest creatures.
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Date: 2/12/2022 8:52:00 AM
Smile, thanks. “The organism--I want to be that. I am the sleepwalker, who wants to awake. Until then I am God's soldier, I can transform into His Anayalator, and fight for peace. I will study your poem. Lady Labyrinth.
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Date: 2/11/2022 8:09:00 PM
lol, good luck with that one, poets feed off ego and id. My poem was inspired by below comments and all notes. The poem I wrote, is my 'conceit', complex and colourful interpretation, which is a sheer fantasy. Leaning more towards the 'metaphysical' conceit. The video reminds me, for some reason, of a Dali'esque, or Dada visual intepretation of DNA (Jacob's Ladder). Conceit - refer - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/conceit
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Date: 2/11/2022 7:58:00 PM
Quite the opposite of Apocalyptic. Yet interpretation remains with the reader. I had come across the Poet, Christian Bok and his project Xenotext to encipher poetry into a bacterium’s genome (links and comments, under Christian Bok). The project consists of a sonnet (called Orpheus), which, when translated into a gene and then integrated into a cell, causes the cell to “read” the poem, interpreting it as an instruction for building a protein whose sequence of amino acids encodes yet another sonnet (called Eurydice). “The organism not only becomes an archive for storing the poem, but also becomes a machine for writing a poem in response". Bok has had success validating his project.
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Date: 2/11/2022 7:58:00 PM
If that is achievable, then what Greg Braden relays in his GOD Code message (see video link in notes), is very possible. Who or what has written that message (coded, imprinted, has in effect ‘delivered’ the message to humanity), in our DNA - who the sender is ... is yet to be fully confirmed. Could it be then, that John 1:1 is quite valid. I believe we do have a message encoded in our DNA and it lies with us now to how we interpret and respond. There are those who will see nothing but Apocalypse, then there are those with an open enquiring mind who will accept it is very possible, and then there will certainly be those who will believe their prayers have been answered. I leave it to the reader to interpret what the message is exactly, what it means, where or whom it's from; once the scientific method is applied over that of empirical, and solid proof validated, it will be interesting to see how humanity responds.
Date: 2/9/2022 10:03:00 PM
" Thou, sun, art half as happy as we, In that the world's contracted thus. Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere."
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Date: 2/9/2022 9:57:00 PM
CONCEIT. "From the Latin term for “concept,” a poetic conceit is an often unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are more intellectual than sensual."
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/9/2022 9:57:00 PM
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/conceit
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/9/2022 9:57:00 PM
"The Sun Rising". https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44129/the-sun-rising#guide
Date: 2/7/2022 3:42:00 PM
HUMAN.
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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 2/7/2022 3:42:00 PM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/human_986668
Date: 2/7/2022 3:35:00 PM
"Salvage" /A response to - "The Nocturne of Orpheus", poet, Christian Bok / a love-poem, written as an alexandrine sonnet in blank verse, with 33 letters to a line, all of which create a double acrostic of the dedication, while constituting a perfect anagram of the poem "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats).
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/7/2022 3:36:00 PM
https://twitter.com/christianbok/status/1228440082312384513?lang=en
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/7/2022 3:35:00 PM
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44488/when-i-have-fears-that-i-may-cease-to-be
Date: 2/7/2022 3:30:00 PM
Eurydice.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/7/2022 3:31:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurydice
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/7/2022 3:30:00 PM
"Several meanings for the name Eurydice have been proposed such as 'true judgement' or 'profound judgement' from ancient Greek. Adriana Cavarero, in the book Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood, wrote that "the etymology of Eurydice seems rather to indicate, in the term eurus, 'a vastness of space or power,' [and dice from deiknumi], designates her as 'the one who judges with breadth' or, perhaps, 'she who shows herself amply'". In some accounts, she was instead called Agriope which means "savage face".
Date: 2/6/2022 3:03:00 PM
Messages/DNA. Considering Dr Christian Bok's project, Greg Braden's take on it, Prof Jordon Peterson's unusual turn around; and genetic scientific revelations, perhaps then, it is possible that humans do in fact contain a message within their DNA...there is a sender, and we are the responder. Codes and chapters in everything, including poems, books. Romans 1:20 (KJV). Science/Religion/Literature.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/6/2022 3:05:00 PM
"The Big Think"/DNA. https://youtu.be/SlSkFMOEYBs
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/6/2022 3:03:00 PM
Dr Christian Bok, poet. https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/the-xenotext-a-living-poem
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/6/2022 3:03:00 PM
Greg Braden/The God Code, DNA. https://youtu.be/jMtt8Wvm1NM
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/6/2022 3:03:00 PM
Prof Jordan Peterson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbmzO8IaI9I
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/6/2022 3:03:00 PM
DNA's hidden codes/ Dr Georgia Purdom (Molecular Geneticist) - https://answersingenesis.org/bios/georgia-purdom/
Date: 2/6/2022 2:48:00 PM
a bird sings because it needs to sing, its song is known only to itself, and yet ears that hear find in it their own measure of beauty, in the end, all that is or has been will dissolve away into a new beginning or nothing at all, either way, all that was will be gone, in the meantime, there is nothing wrong when a bird sings and someone hears in their own measure its beauty
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/6/2022 3:04:00 PM
beautifully written, with musical undertones. You may like to read Dr Christian Bok's sonnets, dear Bard. Fascinating sonnets indeed. The mind is a beautiful organ to be played with reverence as if in a great hall, yet the body is a work of art and contains mysteries in itself, that some may regard as jetsam, but others declare treasure. Some may suggest these mysteries remain hidden, but they, eventually like truth, rise to the surface, for within us all a story begging to be read. Regards, the curious Curlew.
Date: 2/5/2022 6:42:00 PM
"Pataphysics was a concept expressed by French Writer, Alfred Jarry in a mock-scientific manner, with undertones of spoofing and quackery, as expounded in his novel Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician. Jarry toyed with conventional concepts and interpretations of reality."
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Date: 2/5/2022 6:42:00 PM
"Another attempt at a definition interprets 'pataphysics as an idea that "the virtual or imaginary nature of things as glimpsed by the heightened vision of poetry or science or love can be seized and lived as real"... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Pataphysics)
Date: 2/5/2022 5:43:00 PM
Andre Breton, Poet. Surrealism.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/5/2022 5:43:00 PM
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/surrealism/
Date: 2/5/2022 4:45:00 PM
Dr Christian Bok, Poet...and the Xenotext.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/6/2022 7:40:00 AM
https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/the-xenotext-a-living-poem
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/6/2022 7:16:00 AM
(May 2020, Dialogue with Christian Bök and Anthony Etherin (Transcript) - including his sonnet "Orpheus" translated it into a DNA sequence and the DNA organism's response sonnet "Eurydice") https://bioeconometrician.github.io/bok_interview/
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/6/2022 6:58:00 AM
https://penteractpress.com/blog/2019/7/12/out-of-print-the-nocturne-of-orpheus-christian-bk
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/5/2022 4:46:00 PM
Prize-winning international author Dr Christian Bok gave a report on his 15-year Xenotext Experiment, in which he is attempting to encipher poetry into a bacterium’s genome. Dr Bok discussed the experiment in his book The Xenotext: Book 1, where he explained that the project consists of a sonnet (called Orpheus), which, when translated into a gene and then integrated into a cell, causes the cell to “read” the poem, interpreting it as an instruction for building a protein whose sequence of amino acids encodes yet another sonnet (called Eurydice). “The organism not only becomes an archive for storing my poem, but also becomes a machine for writing a poem in response,” Dr Bok said.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/5/2022 4:46:00 PM
He already had reported a significant breakthrough that suggests “The Xenotext works”. “I’ve received confirmation from the laboratory that my poetic cipher, gene X-P13, has in fact caused E. coli to fluoresce red in our test run …,” he said. “I must [now] figure out how to implant X-P13 into the genome of the Deinococcus radiodurans,” a far more robust microbe. “I am, in effect, engineering a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem; one that can persist on the planet until the sun itself explodes.” (https://www.cdu.edu.au/enews/stories/bok)
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/5/2022 4:46:00 PM
“The Prose at the End of the Universe – Programming Indestructible Bacteria to write Poetry” (https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-30-christian-bok-the-xenotext-bacteria-poetry.html)
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/5/2022 4:46:00 PM
POETRY FOUNDATION /" The Xenotext Works" by Christian Bok. (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2011/04/the-xenotext-works)
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/5/2022 4:45:00 PM
Crystallography is a book of poetry and prose published in 1994 and revised in 2003 by Canadian author Christian Bök. Based around a pataphysical conceit, that language is a crystallization process, the book includes several forms of poetry including concrete poetry, as well as pseudohistorical texts, diagrams, charts, and English gematria.Major poems in the book include Geodes and Diamonds.Bök explains the title in an introduction. Crystallography refers to both the science of crystallography and a reanalysis of the word's roots: crystal meaning "clear", and "graph" meaning "writing".
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 2/5/2022 4:45:00 PM
Inspired by the etymology of the word "crystallography," such a work represents an act of lucid writing, which uses the language of geological science to misread the poetics of rhetorical language. Such lucid writing does not concern itself with the transparent transmission of a message (so that, ironically, the poetry often seems "opaque"); instead, lucid writing concerns itself with the exploratory examination of its own pattern (in a manner reminiscent of lucid dreaming). (Bök, 2003)
Date: 2/5/2022 1:14:00 PM
WOW!! Another very creative write. Love your "marshmallow clouds soft as ermine mink." Sometimes the clouds look like big marshmallows ready to eat. They also can look like one could wear them. Have a blessed day/weekend writing away.............
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Date: 2/5/2022 4:43:00 PM
Thank you Paula. The future is fascinating, the things that inspire a poet in the small hours of the morning. DNA, Dreams, artists, poets, music, messages, science, Life, Death. How they all interconnect and lead to the one point of origin. The most mysterious poem of all.

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