THAT THING

 What is that thing that follows you?

From morning to night,

From dusk to light?

That Thing,

Like a foreboding shadow,

A shadow that brings terror and fright,

Threatening to engulf the sunlight,

That Thing,

Like the cloak of darkness,

That comes with the frosty night,

Hiding everything nice from sight.

That Thing,

Like the screen of gold,

That hides the darkness and pity

Of the dying leaves in autumn,

That Thing.

GOLDEN RAIN

 

by Suzanne Zahr

With a rustle,

With a creak,

The wind sweeps through

The shaking shrub.

Swirls playfully,

And worries the tree,

Like a child bouncing on granny’s knee.

A few golden leaves flutter,

And fall to the floor,

Like old grey hairs,

From an old man’s scalp.

The wind tugs off a few more,

And picks them up tenderly,

So that they, the dead,

Can come and dance

Among the folds of Autumn’s lively dresses.

'LoveMaths Stories' book is on Amazon

 My new book 'LoveMaths Stories'  is already on Amazon. 

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Новата ми книга 'LoveMaths Stories' може вече да се намери в Амазон.

  Here is the link:

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/LoveMaths-Stories-Dr-Elena-Lyubenova-ebook/dp/B08LZL1BGQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1603817621&sr=8-1

GOOD PEOPLE

 What makes a good person?                                     

Somebody who goes and tells the police?

That tattle-tale who is ‘never involved’?

Someone who takes up the matter themselves?

Dives in, head first, without a proper plan?

Somebody who kills, and destroys,

Just to save the world from all the bad things in sight?

Not including them, of course.

And after all the deaths and mourners,

After cruelty battles cruelty,

After you wade through the field

Of limp, lifeless bodies,

And lost hope?

Is that first, tiny idea, to do something right,

Still there?

Or are you now that monster,

Who you tried so hard to overcome?

Who will come and sort you out?

Another person in two minds,

About what is right and what is wrong?

And so it begins again,

The battle against evil,

To do something good.

Will it ever end?

STARRY BLANKET

When the  orange sun lies low,

When the city sleeps below,

When no twinkling lights are found,

When not one creature makes a sound,

When finally comes the end of the day,

When the evening glides away,

When the sun leaves not a mark,

When the night pulls in the dark,

When from the corner of the sky,

In drifts a pearly eye,

When the silver moon appears,

When over her starry blanket she peers,

When her bright light shines down,

Spreading over every village and town,

TRAPPED

Once there lived four mortals,

Who tried to find a way,

To escape death and seek life eternal,

Past the ending day.

You should get to know them,

They've been here a while,

North, South, East and West,

Were four very normal people.

South and East were fair of face,

With posies of roses,

And dresses of lace.

Handsome West sought to please all,

Spent his money for strangers,

Spent his nights on the dance floor.

North was cruel and cold and mean,

He looked down his nasty nose on all.

PATTERNS

The idea of patterns accompanies human life since the early years of human civilisation. It is an abstract and very powerful idea which holds human life in order and good structure. Everything we do in life is subject to rules, models and repetitions. Since we were born this is the only way how to discover the world around us, by following certain patterns. In every area in our work or personal life,  we obey some models, examples and rules. This is the only way to learn new things by investigating and identifying the force that caused the patterns. We learn by repeating some knowledge in a certain way, following certain patterns. A pattern is a way in which something is done or organised, or in which something happens. We can talk about weather patterns, behaviour patterns, shape patterns, colour patterns and many other types of patterns depending on the nature of activities we are involved. The idea of patterns is an abstract philosophical one with great applications in every aspect of human life. Whatever we do we instinctively organise ourselves in a way that repeats itself again and again, throughout space in an identical but not random way; especially if the patterns are a good model and show progress and development, we tend to keep this pattern for next time as well.  Lack of everyday patterns that we could follow is a signal for our brain for chaos and can cause mental health problems, we will feel lost and frustrated like something is not right. We naturally like patterns and we recognise them, it is part of our human intelligence. We can not imagine our lives separated from the patterns because the ability to organise ourselves in a specific way and to maintain this way it is what makes us humans as well. Pattern recognition is what allows us to do everything from recognising individuals, people’s emotional states to solving jigsaw puzzles and sensing when a storm is to come.
In our greatest teacher nature, patterns are visible regularities of form found everywhere. They create the structure of the plants for example. Tree branches grow in a certain pattern. When we make patterns, it happens as a result of our plan to put the elements into a certain place. In nature, somehow natural forces agree to create patterns that look beautiful.

THE FUTURE IS NOW

Marc Chagall, The blue bird

What if, the birds in the sky,
The swifts and swallows, that fly so high,
Wondered about when they would die?
What if the tigers in the savanna plains,
Knew when the final day would come?
What if the whole animal kingdom,
Was built on the fear of tomorrow,
The final day?
What if every being in the cosmos,
Trembled in terror about
What will happen in the future?

'LoveMaths Stories' book

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THE DIMENSIONS WE LIVE IN

The concept of ‘dimension’ is something that is interesting to all of us. Thanks to many science fiction texts the first association that comes to our minds is with something that refers to parallel or alternate universes. It is something profound that communicates to us about our deep levels of existence.

The shortest definition of ‘dimension’ according to the dictionary is ‘Dimension is a measurement of something in a particular direction, especially its height, length, or width; part or feature or way of considering 'something'.

As main synonyms of ‘dimension’ often are used ‘direction’ and ‘size’. In Physics it can also mean any physical measurement such as length, time or mass. The concept of ‘dimension’ is so important that famous mathematicians, scientists, philosophers, artists and literary people have shown interest in it. They have been trying to study and to find the properties of three-dimensional shapes by taking into account one or two aspects of theirs. The interest of the scientists is more about the dimensions we experience in our life on the planet Earth than comparing it with what we know of the dimensions of other objects in wider space. There are many questions that stay without answers because the way we can explore the universe is so limited by our experiences here on Earth. With the development of technology, it is interesting to see what answers the scientists will get about it - How many dimensions do we live in? Do we live only in three dimensions, or are there others which we are not capable of seeing? Is the situation in the universe the same or are there many more dimensions? What about time? Is time a different dimension or do we consider only the physical ones that refer to the concept of ‘space’? If we consider time as a dimension, that changes our image of the world, the scientific and the linguistic one. There are many three dimensional objects in nature.