Comments on: Open thread 4/9/21 https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Jeanne https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549908 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:45:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549908 dnaxy – PlantSnap

I refused to pay for it, too, but missing it so may splurge on it.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549887 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 07:06:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549887 Something to go with the Crocus pix, which are lovely.
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2021/04/06/more-pictures-of-natures-springtime-extravagance/

]]> By: jack https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549847 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 22:54:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549847 Baby wood ducks jumping from nest in our back yard.

https://www.facebook.com/100004053116875/videos/2366274323517648/

Every year we get some and it never gets old.

]]> By: Philip Sells https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549825 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 20:39:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549825 Owen, that’s neat! It reminds me very strongly of many of my own verses from aforetime. In fact, I think I wrote a poem once with almost the same 4×4 pattern as you used (on a different subject). Do you often write… what do we call this, blank verse?

Also, have you felt as if you were living in a sort of ghost-world recently, so that that became the informing perspective of this meditation?

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549805 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:37:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549805 Owen:

Good poem, in my opinion.

]]> By: Owen https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549804 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:07:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549804 Beautiful pic. Yes, crocuses. Or, as I am always tempted to say (with my strong training in pig Latin), “croci.” (Rhymes with croak eye).

Neo: love your stuff for its eclecticism, its attention to stuff about which I know far too little (dance, music), etc.

Since you mention poetry, here is a poem I wrote recently on Covid stuff.

Vaccination

After the shots
Not a fever
No side effect
Except this pause

Or call it fear
Of going back
To the old life
The world of flesh

I am thinking
This is how ghosts
Floating edgewise
Near visible

And when given
Another chance
To be with us
Would turn it down

Would turn away
From stink and filth
And all the mess
Of being real

Would choose to stay
Thin and empty
Among the dreams
To which they’re bound

]]> By: J.J. https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549801 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:44:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549801 Aboutthe Crocuses; “The Crocus symbolizes rebirth and a never ending cycle of life. It signifies the arrival of spring, the promise of new beginnings and exciting new events. Crocuses are one of the first flowers to emerge after winter and have been known to bloom surrounded by snow.”

Spring is here! Rejoice.

]]> By: Neo https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549797 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:18:11 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549797 Crocuses.

In this neck of the woods, the first flowers, harbingers of spring.

]]> By: dnaxy https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549795 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:14:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549795 There was this free app that diagnosed the name of the flower or other plant when you pointed your iPhone camera at it.

I tried it and it gave mostly correct answers, but a few screwups.

Then they began charging for it, and I felt it was not quite worth it.

Someone please tell us the name!

]]> By: SCOTTtheBADGER https://thenewneo.com/2021/04/09/open-thread-4-9-21/#comment-2549794 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:10:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=106113#comment-2549794 Beautiful flowers, for Prince Phillip!

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