Time Lapse Of Hot-Air Balloon Mass Ascension Poem by Glen Kappy
Time Lapse Of Hot-Air Balloon Mass Ascension
Thanks to Anne
Recorded from a distance
silken skins inflated
they look like colorful seeds
born off by the wind.
Except we know
(what is hard to see)
that each
has hanging gondola
with people
with brains and thumbs
and means to lift
and give direction.
Except that seeds
(which we might think inert)
have nuclei in cells
and programs sequenced
in their hearts
that rival brains and thumbs
and people in their gondolas
pulling for more gas.
How cool? You saw a whole lot of hot air balloons taking off? And thought about seeds? With hearts and brains and thumbs, etc. I love it! I kind of like hot air balloons, but I'm a seed champion. What can match a seed? By the way, this is the first poem I've seen that has Time lapse in its title, like my Time lapse safari.
hey, laurie! thanks for reading the poem and commenting. albuquerque has an annual international balloon fiesta, and my friend anne, visiting from lancaster, pa, took video which i saw in time lapse fashion. i thought it was cool, and they looked like colorful seeds to me and... -glen
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I would like to translate this poem
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5/1/2024 5:28:13 AM # 1.0.0.1119
I often think of the universes inside universes inside universes. A cell is its own universe, as is an atom. We forget about the miracle of life in tiny things!
Yes—the infinitely small (as in String Theory) and the infinitely vast (as in our ever-expanding universe) . The wonders! Thank you for reading and commenting, Suzanne. -Glen