The trees are waving, frantically stirred
By breezes rare in August in this land
The trees imply they’ve got news re the Word

The rain swirls  on the window till it’s blurred
Makes all the flowers outside look very bland
The trees are waving, frantically stirred

I feel sorry for my garden birds
Sunshine’s unavailable on demand
The trees imply they’ve got news re the Word

Should I attract the high trees  with regard?
But I am  not a god  nor demon banned
The trees are waving, frantically stirred

How can these trees  say what they have heard?
Their ancestors were used to make boats sound
The trees imply they’ve got news re the Word

Should we have sea breezes on demand?
Should we control the Universal Hand?
The trees are waving, frantically stirred
The trees gloat now; they’ve  got news re the Word

May the blessed plan win
May the best plan win
May the best man begin?
Say the blessed word again.
May Emile marry Stan?
May Anne find a man?
As for Mary, she’s scary,
My stories are furry tails
The NHS gives cake to revolutionaries.
May that bod help you.
There are often a few words spoken before the rest
Why is language linear?
Will someone one day invent  a nonlinear language?
Oh,I say.
Not today.
Theresa May
Can topology make doughnuts free?
Who are we anyway?

I

My cooking is now Cordon Blue
I really have very few clues
I make cheese sauce tasty
Putting in  this puff pastry
Oh, my cooking is  very bad for Hugh

Cordon Blue is a British Invention
For Cordon Bleu creates such terrible tension
We leave out the garlic
The food tastes like plastic
Cordon Brexit, Cordon  Eclectic Cordon  Wrecked it

He wants me to write him a sonnet
But I put my foot down upon it
So now it is flat
What limerick liked that?
So then he flew off like a comet

My mother hates the villanelle I wrote
I ought to think more about coats
For she wants me to catch
A  rich man for a match
So I am building a very deep moat

I was  talking to this former colleague an’ she said t o me,
Of course I don’t come from a  well off middle-class background like you do
So I said, since when has lived as a  family of 7 in a miner’s cottage with a bath in the kitchen been middle class?
So she said, I just thought you went to a  very good shool.
I said, I went to the local Catholic school where nobody had ever done A level Maths and Further Maths before and of the  8 of us only 2 passed.
Then I realised for many years she saw me quite differently from  how I am
That made me think how much we invent other people in our Phantasy.Like an envious woman who saw me as skinny when I weighed 12 stone because I was almost emaciated when I first met her. I suppose we could even attack someone or indeed kill them all based on unreal notions in our head.Like Othello
That’s why I hate arguing until I know what basis we are starting from

http://www.creativebloq.com/design/designers-guide-golden-ratio-12121546

Leonardo da Vinci, like many other artists throughout the ages, made extensive use of the Golden Ratio to create pleasing compositions.

In The Last Supper, the figures are arranged in the lower two thirds (the larger of the two parts of the Golden Ratio), and the position of Jesus is perfectly plotted by arranging golden rectangles across the canvas.”

“Golden Ratio in use

It’s believed that the Golden Ratio has been in use for at least 4,000 years in human art and design. However, it may be even longer than that – some people argue that the Ancient Egyptians used the principle to build the pyramids.

In more contemporary times, the Golden Ratio can be observed in music, art, and design all around you. By applying a similar working methodology you can bring the same design sensibilities to your own work. Let’s take a look at a couple of examples to inspire you.

Greek architecture

Ancient Greek architecture used the Golden Ratio to determine pleasing dimensional relationships between the width of a building and its height, the size of the portico and even the position of the columns supporting the structure.

The final result is a building that feels entirely in proportion. The neo-classical architecture movement reused these principles too.”

http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat2.html

“2.1 Why is the Golden section the “best” number?

“The links in this section are to Quicktime animations. They are worth viewing as they show the dynamics of what might happen if seeds were not placed with a phi-angle between them.

Why not 0·6 of a turn per seed or 0·5 or 0·48 or 1·6 or some other number?

First we can agree that turning 0·6 of a turn is exactly the same as turning 1·6 turns or 2·6 turns or even 12·6 turns because the position of the point looks the same. So we can ignore the whole number part of a turn and only examine the fractional part.

Also, since a 0·6 of a turn in one direction is the same as 0·4 of a turn in the other, we could limit our investigation to turns which are less than 0·5 too. However sometimes it will be easier to talk of fractions of a turn which are bigger than 0·5 or even that are bigger than 1, but the only important part of the number is the fractional part.

So, in terms of seeds – which develop into fruit – what is a fruit-ful numbers? Which has the best properties as a turning angle for our meristem? It turns out that numbers which are simple fractions are not good choices, as we…..”

http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html

• Thank you, Malcom Myles-Hook (Letters, 4 August). You’ve given me another anti-insomnia tactic (besides counting backwards in sevens and listing fruit and veg alphabetically). I can calculate the Fibonacci sequence and the miles/kilometres conversion. Works a treat

When in doubt.say nowt

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/09/five-reasons-we-should-all-learn-to-do-nothing

4. The brain depends on downtime

Ever since the industrial revolution, we’ve treated humans like machines, assuming that the way to get more done is to push ourselves, or others, to keep going for longer. But neuroscientists are increasingly finding that our brains depend on downtime – not just for recharging batteries, but to process that data we’re deluged with, to consolidate memory and reinforce learning, by strengthening the neural pathways that make such feats possible. In one 2009 study, brain imaging suggested that people faced with a strange task – controlling a computer joystick that didn’t obey the usual rules – were actively coming to grips with learning this new skill during seemingly passive rest periods.

To hate is linked to overwhelming fear
We fear intrusion and the sharing too.
Fear of closeness creates a black  veneer

Those we love ,we might  too well admire
That throws us into envy and the blues
To hate is linked to overwhelming fear

We wish to be the  better and aspire
To win the  prize, to wield no more the plough
Fear of closeness creates a false  veneer

Yet were we more at ease and more secure
We’d have kind interest in how our rivals do
To hate is linked to overwhelming fear

The end of envy, malice so desired
Brings all down, destroys the world anew
Fear of closeness creates a false  veneer

Hate is sad unless we’ve love  in view
A rhythm of  real connection  should be glue
To hate is linked to fear we can’t endure
Our poor heart hides beneath a thick  veneer

http://www.bostoneveningtherapy.com/2016/06/rising-above-personality-disorder-the-creativity-of-sylvia-plath/

Too many ions in the fire
Too many hooks in the  broth
Too many photons at the Opera.
Too many raves on the shore.
Too many lies in the pyre.
Are you positron, doctor?
The nuclei try my eye

Paralysed by dread, my hand was still
Afraid to make a mark on a blank page.
I thought to make it move by force of will

I measured with my finger joints, [new skill]
Then with my charcoal,l I became engaged
Tormented  by  sheer dread, my hand moved still

With charcoal, pencil, fountain pen or quill
Human  down the ages  have portrayed
I tried to make it move by my own will

My body sweated  like  a waterfall well full
My eyes gazed and my  mind became engaged
Touched by dread, my hand moved like a bull.

I’d measured, so I let it rush about unlulled
My eyes were  pleased with this dramatic page
I’m glad I made it move by choosing will

And so I am at one with every age
Promiscuous is  my love  but well arranged
Paralysed by dread, my hand was still
Until desire was stronger than my  will

Genesis

Against the burly air I strode,
Where the tight ocean heaves its load,
Crying the miracles of God.

And first I brought the sea to bear
Upon the dead weight of the land;
And the waves flourished at my prayer,
The rivers spawned their sand.

And where the streams were salt and full,
The tough pig-headed salmon strove,
Curbing the ebb and the tide’s pull
To reach the steady hills above.

II

The second day I stood and saw
The osprey plunge with triggered claw,
Feathering blood along the shore,
To lay the living sinew bare.

III

And I renounced, on the fourth day,
This fierce and unregenerate clay,

Building as a huge myth for man
The watery Leviathan,

And made the glove-winged albatross
Scour the ashes of the sea
Where Capricorn and Zero cross,
A brooding immortality—
Such as the charméd phoenix has
In the unwithering tree.

IV

The phoenix burns as cold as frost;
And, like a legendary ghost
The phantom-bird goes wild and lost,
Upon pointless ocean tossed.

So, the fifth day, I turned again
To flesh and blood and the blood’s pain.

V

On the sixth day, as I rode
In haste about the works of God,
With spurs I plucked the horse’s blood.

By blood we live, the hot, the cold
To ravage and redeem the world:
There is no bloodless myth will hold.

And by Christ’s blood are men made free
Though in close shrouds their bodies lie
Under the rough pelt of the sea;

Though Earth has rolled beneath her weight
The bones that cannot bear the light.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/12217.shtml

https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/trust-participation-attitudes-and-happiness

Personality and Attitudes

Income inequality affects people’s personalities and how they perceive themselves and others.

Key findings from the research include:

• People in less equal countries are less likely to believe that most people can be trusted, have less interest in politics, less confidence in their parliament, are more likely to believe that there needs to be more respect for authority, more likely to think that children should be obedient and less likely to believe that children should be independent⁹.

• People in countries with high levels of inequality are more likely to believe that those at the top of their society are competent and those at the bottom are not but have warmer attitudes to those at the bottom than the top. More unequal societies are also more likely to believe that competition between groups leads to competent outcomes¹⁰.

• Research has suggested that people in less equal societies have different personalities. A study found that people in less equal US states were on average less agreeable and less likely to be empathetic, trust people, cooperate or be altruistic¹¹.

The poor live in  tall heaps called tower blocks
Wrapped in tin foil, roasted into dust
See the wild, the wolf, the crow the fox

And for their language or their colour they are mocked.
The government will house them if they must
The poor live in  tall heaps called tower blocks

,Man  is crueller  as he kills for kicks
Slays the gentle hind, her young nonplussed
Colder than the wolf, the crow the fox

An incandescent candle, Grenfell rocked
Gave free light and  heat in its great lust
The poor live in  tall heaps called tower blocks

Into a cruel cycle, they are locked
For hell itself gives them a roaring test
Crueller than the tiger,  crow  or fox

Excitement like the Roman  Games at last
The Greatness of Great Britain has been  lost
The poor live in  tall heaps called tower blocks
Then they leave their dust,  their teeth ;Mass Black