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 After reading Ysabetwordsmith's amazing poem 'Sorrow Like the Taste of Rain' recently, I wrote some music based upon the emotions I felt while reading it. It is written for flute, harp, violin and cello (though all the music is synthesised). I'd love some comments or criticism.

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I managed to write a poem this week. I've been thinking about persimmons recently - I had some amazing roast persimmon and goats cheese bruschetta, and the persimmon tree in our yard fruited only a few months ago (much to the dog's delight - he loves eating them!) but I'm still not sure where this poem came from.

Persimmons

Roast your persimmons. A silver
spoon lying ready beside you,
light scatters on the ceiling.
Watch as the orange-red innards spill out
into the baking pan. Wait.

Persimmons, like umbrellas,
tandem bicycles, rain, the sunset, are made
to be shared.
Simple to cut, easy to slice.
They divide evenly, and so
you should gobble them up.
Be wary of intrusion.

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I'm currently involved in an interesting project to create a browser-based game The Gourdian Knot. (For those of you who played glitch, it is being made by former glitch-players as a response to the shut down.) It's a lot of fun working on it, though I'm only a minor contributor (I'm panome in the forums), and don't have any experience in this sort of thing! I'm mainly helping with ideas and some writing of myths and backstory.

I have also done some composition in the past, though none related to games, so I thought I'd have a shot at writing some music or the game. It went pretty well (though I would love some c&c), and only took a few hours so I'll have to write some more soon!

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 Two days ago the Transit of Venus happened. Although it was raining on and off all day, I managed to see bits and pieces of it in between classes. I and a friend watched it with binoculars projecting on to a piece of paper - hardly the most stable set up, but it worked fairly well. And we have pictures! 



Venus can be seen in this one, as the dot on the sun. The images are inverted, so at this point Venus was actually on the bottom right of the sun.



In this one you can just see a few sunspots.







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