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He flashed his white teeth at me as I cycled by; is he a wolf
Flashing is an odd way to try to impress women unless you have a torch fitted to your organ.Don’t nail it on though
Her eyes flashed angrily when she saw his  old and shapeless pyjamas
The cat’s eyes flashed as we drove down the hill.Stop that , he said.And stop mioawing as well.
Cats eyes are fittings in the road here which help  blind-drunk drivers to see on  their way to a car crash
If you go blind, ask for the cat’s eyes to be put into your sockets.Well, try.I am a genius.

http://www.physics.org/featuredetail.asp?id=16

 

Short extract:

Sand dunes can be heard ‘singing’ in more than 30 locations worldwide, and in each place the sounds have their own characteristic frequency, or note. In reality the sounds produced are less like singing and more like a low-frequency drone (low frequency corresponds to low notes; bass as opposed to treble). The sounds are emitted when sand cascades down the face of a dune in an avalanche, the cause of which can be the wind, people walking on the top of the dune or even sliding down it.

In 2001 a team of French physicists, including Stéphane Douady and Bruno Andreotti, went to Morocco to study the shape and motion of sand dunes. They became fascinated by the singing of the dunes and began to investigate it in addition to their other research. They found that avalanches they triggered manually produced the same sound as those that occurred naturally, which suggests that the wind doesn’t play a part. They also concluded that the sound is not produced by the dune resonating, as happens in the case of a musical instrument for example, because the frequency of the sound produced is the same for different sizes of dune. Thus the team focused their investigation on the motion of the sand grains, rather than on the properties of the entire dune.

Douady and Andreotti both came up with the idea that the sounds must be produced by sand grains becoming synchronised – moving in definite patterns as they move down the surface of the dune. Their hypotheses differed in that Douady believed the sounds, which after all are just vibrations of air molecules, were produced by air being squeezed out from between the synchronised grains. Andreotti proposed that the sound was due to the surface of the avalanche vibrating the air around it like a large hi-fi speaker. The pair began to follow very different lines of inquiry and ended up in complete disagreement. This, combined with a subsequent quarrel over how best to publish their findings, led to the two researchers falling out. So much so, in fact, that they now avoid each other, despite working in the same small field of physics. Their scientific adventures and disagreements were the subject of an award-winning article in the November 2006 edition of Physics World, the Institute of Physics members’ magazine.”

Like a desert in some foreign place
The vast Sahara, Sinai, speculate
Britain burns to brown with stark embrace

People in hot tempers wince, grimace
Nasty feelings  swiftly emanate
From their  desert in a foreign place

The weather’s no affront to human taste
We are passive as we cogitate
Britain burns to brown in deep embrace

Let’s relax a  little and not waste
The mind’s own symbols, fires that burn to make
A  symbol  of our wisdom, not disgrace.

The images in  mind make love’s own lace
Soft and simple,bends but never breaks
Britain as it browns with sun’s embrace

Fighting over Brexit, love’s at stake
With an unkind madness  we’re disgraced.
Like a desert in a hellish place
Britain burns to brown with fire’s embrace.

https://www.redonline.co.uk/health-self/self/a529337/reading-poetry-is-good-for-you/

 

“Life moves fast, and so do we: answering emails on the train, ordering shopping from the bath or arranging the next social engagement while our companion’s at the bar. Take time out to read a poem, though, and the verse will slow you down naturally. You need to chew the words of a poem over to really make sense of it – skim reading just won’t do. Read the words aloud if you’re alone (or even if you’re not!) and enjoy the feeling of absorbing something that takes a little time to nourish you.”