a year it is here in these knowledge notes
i've scribbled bits and bytes of my research
and so this day does mark, and thus connotes
my 'blogiversary' here on this 'perch'.
i started this in part as knowledge quest
and found to my delight, community
the friends i've made have really been the best
endorsement of this opportunity.
from knowledge notes to social software blog
i scribe upon this virtual notepad
what oft is but a minimal prologue
regarding news and insights others had.
so with this verse dear readers i do say
good thanks to you for ever and a day... (-:=
six months ago twas when i first began
to leave my 'knowledge' scrawl upon this page
the flames of 'knowledge work' i often fan
my appetite for 'more news' here assuage.
i've met and conversed often with 'like minds'
and cherish those 'loose ties' which here i've found
and find my path of searching often winds
towards those with whom i share a 'common ground.'
the names of those i honor appear here
within my 'blogroll' to the right they stay
and some have carved impressions oh so clear
of true 'collaboration' on the way.
now to my 'action' cohorts i give cheer
may time and focus bring our visions near.
©2003 judith meskill
i originally started a 'blogger' weblog - mainly poetry - in september of 2001... but this weblog - in its current 'knowledge notes' format - had its debut on july 1, 2003
and so i wish for you this holiday
a heightened sense of all that lights your fire
for passion is the thing that, come what may,
will help to manifest your deep desire.
so thank you for your praise of my tech prose
and in your heart please know that all you share
comes back to you and often overflows
with that for which your heart has steadfast care.
and as we find that 'sense in action' counts
with blogs and wikis in a 'socialtext'
we'll see that interest in our action mounts
as we with knowledge fill our 'social decks.'
twas lilia inspired here this prose
to 'actionable cohorts' - this 'sense' flows...
©2003 judith meskill
Both Robert Paterson and Dave Pollard have created posts regarding
THE MEATRIX - a must see animation on factory farming.
(and so i wrote an ode to meatrix space
and posted it on 'how to save the world'
the errors of that ode i here erase
and in 'fixed' form you'll find it now unfurled. (^:)
an ode to meatrix space...
and if you meet live meat in meatrix space
and see and feel and hear just how they're raised
you might decide to seek a better place
to forage for your food than cement-grazed.
and if it's true that we are what we eat
disease and drugs and damage do descry
that if we eat this badly handled meat
we could fall ill and should not wonder why.
and so for me it's tofu, greens and rice
that's how i gather ration for my day
but others will decide to roll the dice
and hope for health whilst eating meatrix way.
it's garbage in and out from warehouse farms
so far from pastures, fields and country charms.
©2003 judith meskill
and if you find yourself without a clue
of how to lure good readers to your page
just hearken back to that which you find true
and worthy of a writer's modest wage.
your navel gathers dust and at times bores
so switch your gaze to higher honest tales
of how you'd rather swim to distant shores
than find your weblog your good reader fails.
the knowledge that you share will surely shine
a glowing ember in the thoughts of those
who read your prose with hunger line by line
and find your wisdom to them freely flows.
and if you find this sonnet serves you well
i pray that your dear readers think you're swell.
an english sonnet in iambic pentameter
©2003 judith meskill
you are a singularity -
a point of infinite density
- significant in its immensity -
at which time and space and order
are completely without border
at the effect of gravity -
sucking into that cavity -
the final state of matter
as mad as a march hatter
falling from a ladder
into a black hole -
and i am lost in this space and time of you...
and your infinitely singular nature...
©2000 judith meskill
and now what surrounds
a region of no escape?
event horizon
haiku ©2003 judith meskill
physiognomy
putting on a face today
lenin or gandhi?
haiku ©2003 judith meskill
marmite on my mind
will ben and jerry mix it
into their ice cream?
haiku ©2003 judith meskill
vast vats of
vertiginous verisimilitude
void of virtuosity
volley voluptuous varicosities
voluminously
©2003 judith meskill
fearless fly alights
sips sweat from freckled forearm
diptera delights
haiku ©2003 judith meskill
gnats dodge and drift
flitter on vision's edges
silent scavengers
haiku ©2003 judith meskill