{"id":21180,"date":"2015-05-22T22:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T22:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21180"},"modified":"2015-05-22T22:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T22:35:28","slug":"sound-waves-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/sound-waves-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound waves and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our world of ocean magic<br \/>\nWhere our orchestra must play<br \/>\nA great force of stimulation<br \/>\nStrengthens us each day<br \/>\nThe tone the pitch the cadence<br \/>\nThe stillness of the deep<br \/>\nThe resonant vibrations<br \/>\nululating in our sleep<\/p>\n<p>We fail the oceans sentinels<br \/>\nFor underneath the ice<br \/>\nIn thousands of miles<br \/>\nOf darkness<br \/>\nIn fact their paradise<br \/>\nThey communicate precisely<br \/>\nHarmoniously they swing<br \/>\nIn rhythms so melodic<br \/>\nSo tunefully they bring<br \/>\nA passion to each other<br \/>\nA cacophonous display<br \/>\nIf not to our human sense<br \/>\nTo An underling lets say<\/p>\n<p>Whales ply through the oceans<br \/>\nGreat depths demand great power<br \/>\nThey may not see their own sweet tail<br \/>\nBut through great kelp jungles,  plough<br \/>\nThey send their eerie haunting voices<br \/>\nMany many miles<br \/>\nTheir mind resolves the soundness<br \/>\nOf perhaps a million dials<\/p>\n<p>The human sound is wanting<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s instability<br \/>\nIt alienates cetaceans<br \/>\nTo mental deficiency<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s seemingly hysteria<br \/>\nShell shock of a kind<br \/>\nThat blinds them with emotion<br \/>\nWhich  so rattles their mind<\/p>\n<p>Within the auditorium<br \/>\nThe acoustic heart we feel<br \/>\nAs regards true reception<br \/>\nCan it still be real<br \/>\nThe vast amount of stridulous smog<br \/>\nEmanating from<br \/>\nThe great sea of the city<br \/>\nExploding like a bomb<\/p>\n<p>Each melody of conscience<br \/>\nIs a tuneless off pitch sound<br \/>\nPerhaps an intoxication<br \/>\nIn the excitement that&#8217;s around<br \/>\nWithin each navigation<br \/>\nWe intensify each note<br \/>\nInvigorate and penetrate<br \/>\nThrough every human throat<\/p>\n<p>The joyfulness and pleasure<br \/>\nThe trauma of it all<br \/>\nThose blessed days of silence<br \/>\nThe adversity on call<br \/>\nSuch wretchedness and misery<br \/>\nSuch unease and such remorse<br \/>\nThe lethargy of gliding<br \/>\nIn what is the upward force<\/p>\n<p>Listen to their voices<br \/>\nListen to their joy<br \/>\nWe now reduce their acoustic space<br \/>\nAnd,  therefore annoy<br \/>\nThe heart out of these creatures<br \/>\nIn an ever deeper place<br \/>\nWe create the pollution<br \/>\nIt is something they must face<\/p>\n<p>Our ignorant rejection<br \/>\nOf our terrible affliction<br \/>\nThat takes their truest world apart<br \/>\nAltering their diction<br \/>\nLeaving them crestfallen<br \/>\nSolemn and sedate<br \/>\nUninvited and depressing<br \/>\nWhich is open to debate<\/p>\n<p>A serious lamentation<br \/>\nA vast Great Wall of woe<br \/>\nA dawning in their mourning<br \/>\nWherever they may go<br \/>\nThe indifference of thereafter<br \/>\nEach treadmill of each day<br \/>\nThe dreariness and the drabness<br \/>\nThat will not go away<\/p>\n<p>We destroy now by our anger<br \/>\nBy our ignorance<br \/>\nThat we do<br \/>\nCreating a smog of ugliness<br \/>\nAnd a fear that cuts right through<br \/>\nA matrix of uncertainty<br \/>\nA desperation to<br \/>\na sonic power of seeing<br \/>\nBecomes unseeing<br \/>\nTo the few<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our world of ocean magic Where our orchestra must play A great force of stimulation Strengthens us each day The tone the pitch the cadence The stillness of the deep The resonant vibrations ululating in our sleep We fail &hellip; 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