Weekly Wikems. Mind.

Hello, everyone,

hope all's well with you.

It's Thursday. Feel like writing a wikem?

I'll start on a sad note. A very close friend of mine passed away not long ago. Although we kept in touch through email, we haven't seen each other for the past six years: the pond separating us.

Maybe for that reason - the physical distance, maybe just due to her being one of the liveliest people I've met, the news of her passing hasn't really sunk in until now.

I had a dream. Scientists can probably dissect it and attach labels to its parts. I don't know how mind works, or what mind is for that matter.

I know what I felt. I know she came to tell me that she was gone. And that she wasn't. 


Let's explore mind today.

Here's your wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind



Here's my contribution:

"The generalization of mind to include all mental faculties, thought, volition, feeling and memory, gradually develops over the 14th and 15th centuries." 

(Wikipedia)

you came to see me

it had nothing to do with
memory of you

my feeling or thought
it was your own volition
to come to visit

angels did not sing
there was no revelation
you were simply there

you stayed for a while
then without goodbyes you left
just walked out the door 

Looking forward to your wikems.

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer ("Happy")

Weekly Wikems. Zoetrope.

Hi everyone, it's Thursday. Wikems time.

Wikipedia poems - wikems. 

Here's the idea:

• Each Thursday I post a link to a Wikipedia article, a quote from it and my wikem inspired by that quote.
• I invite you to check out the article, searching for a quote that clicks with you.  (You are free to use the quote I provide if it happens to be the one.)  
• Once you've found your quote, use it as an epigraph, write your wikem, and post a link to it in the comments below.  (You are welcome to post your wikem directly in the comments if you prefer.)

 Let's begin:

I've come across several articles lately describing poetry workshops for patients with dementia and Alzheimer's.  I admire people like Molly Meyer.  See what she does:  http://www.mindseyepoetry.com/index.html
   
As I was reading about dementia, I caught myself thinking about a device called "zoetrope" - in a way it helped me understand the "mechanism" of dementia a little better.  Zoetrope.  I love the word.  So, here's your article for today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope

  
Here's my wikem:

ZOETROPE

"The name zoetrope was composed from the Greek root words ζωή zoe, life and τρόπος tropos, turning."

Head spinning,

she peers into her mind

through the slits

of carefully spaced

moments of delusion.

A memory

rushes before her eyes,

jerky bits

arranged to produce

an illusion of motion.

Her life turns

over and over again

till she’s pulled

back into the conscious

from her one reality.

 
Thank you for reading my wikem.
I look forward to reading yours.

Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy")