Thursday, September 30, 2010

a truss they do tie


somewhere...


a once song wail
   meets another
       in sky
then    

as one coil into
    the most tender of sigh

      as deep as an ocean
      and horizon is wide
    if but for a moment
    a truss they do tie


~csr

Monday, September 27, 2010

this longing

  
an arctic brogue
   delivers the thrash
      to a fixed heart
subjective hope
    reaches elsewhere
         out of it’s seat
            to hold empty near
 time fiddles
     while irksome thoughts flounce
         in offbeat diversion
           deep and hefty
no dispatching
   the remembrance of your lips
    the gentle timbre of your voice
   your electric fingertips
         leisurely fondling my skin
is there no end
  to this longing?


~csr

another duration



another duration…
   gray and withering.
where once passion’s insolence sprang!
    so late in season! ...
         if only to crave.
another turning…
    over again inside.
where now dense roots
  mingled throughout sinew and bone
      inflict me once more.
unaccompanied…
   conjuring fragrant fanatical flowers!
      irrational bouquets!
        in rumination.
see..
   how they sway in ardent breezes...
   how they dance to rhythms of raindrops... ... ...
    another duration.

~csr




this longing



an arctic brogue
   delivers the thrash
      to a fixed heart
subjective hope
    reaches elsewhere
         out of it’s seat
            to hold empty near
 time fiddles
     while irksome thoughts flounce
         in offbeat diversion
           deep and hefty
no dispatching
   the remembrance of your lips
    the gentle timbre of your voice
   your electric fingertips
         leisurely fondling my skin
is there no end
  to this longing?

~csr

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

limelight

better a has been
than to never have tasted
the sweet bright limelight

~csr

Limelight

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Limelight (also known as calcium light)[1] is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. An intense illumination is created when an oxyhydrogen flame is directed at a cylinder of quicklime (calcium oxide),[2] which can be heated to 2572 °C before melting. The light is produced by a combination of incandescence and candoluminescence. Although it has long since been replaced by electric lighting, the term has nonetheless survived, as someone in the public eye is still said to be "in the limelight." The actual lights are called limes, a term which has been transferred to electrical equivalents.

[edit] History

The limelight effect was discovered in the 1820s by Goldsworthy Gurney,[3] based on his work with the "oxy-hydrogen blowpipe," credit for which is normally given to Robert Hare. In 1825, a Scottish engineer, Thomas Drummond (1797–1840), saw a demonstration of the effect by Michael Faraday and realized that the light would be useful for surveying. Drummond built a working version in 1826, and the device is sometimes called the Drummond Light after him.
Limelight was first used in public in the Covent Garden Theatre in London in 1837 and enjoyed widespread use in theatres around the world in the 1860s and 1870s. Limelights were employed to highlight solo performers in the same manner as modern followspots.[4] Limelight was replaced by electric arc lighting in the late 19th century.