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Daguerréotypes*

A poem

By Moon DesertPublished 4 years ago Updated about a year ago 1 min read
Shimazu Nariakira, made by Ichiki Shirō in 1857, the earliest surviving Japanese photograph. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Manoeuvring multiple movies

Under my eyelids

Though thoughts not worth worrying about

They are attacking me

With a statistically speaking prediction

Found in philosophy

Of some species

Of this human society

Which seek to transcend understanding

Of common corelation

Condescending

A paranoid person

In terms of trends

To analyse it

Whatever’s happening

With the greatest detail

They influence each other

With its urgency

To solve

However, this will never be done

Until one side of the story

Will back up leaving their territory

For the masses

Yearning to do what they want

With their grounds

Designed to be doomed right from the start

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14 February 2022

revised on 25 August 2022

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*Daguerreotype (French: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. “Daguerreotype” also refers to an image created through this process.

Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype [accessed 25/08/2022, 00:34]

*”Daguerréotypes” is also a 1976 French documentary by Agnès Varda, one of my favourite film directors. It features vignettes of life in Rue Daguerre – a street in Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

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Moon Desert

UK-based

BA in Cultural Studies

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Crime Fiction: Love

Poetry: Friend

Psychology: Salvation

“I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.” Sylvia Plath

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