Can Images Rhyme?

As part of my #edu106 class I decided to focus on Poetry as my "Teach Something." I made an ignite talk covering my four universal truths for life and poetry.

This lead Sarah to ask how can you rhyme an image?

How would you rhyme images?

Asking for a "friend"

🤣#clmooc

— Sarah Honeychurch (@NomadWarMachine) May 11, 2020

I of course had to take the literal route at first and just rhyme "image"

hemorrhages of
hues in unseen
scrimmages
that
pillage
shades
of messages
mask in
envisages
of answers
gleaning
in crosstitches
of time. A
vintage shine
in slippage
of pastel
blends
slipping up
spines

Kevin then chimed in and took us the figurative route:

With finger-paints (that’s how you rhyme an image) and colored smudges on glass, with chalk dust shadows, with nothing there, nothing at all, just the possibility of rhyme of the image, or maybe you meant literal? As in, image scrimmage, pilgrimage … I prefer the visual choices

To which I replied

Can it be both? or must it be all of the above? Maybe answer just C, or 42. Anywhoo I say both. Bicameral rhymes of forced responses in confidence of color keeping time

   words unheard
in touches of
smudges as
fingers dance
both singer
and thinker
bisexual
particles
   pouncing on partners
  of opportunity
in typical
  but invisible
lunacy of love
bouncing on hymnal
voices of hues
   moisten alloys
and joyces
in flexible lines pf
   visual
     verse

pinnacle
of trivial
chalk dust
trails
  which
unveil
 miserable
masterpieces
in
crust
  wrought
with distrust
as sounds
  stalk
colors that
squawk in
   voices
who trigger
finger painting
in the
   sky

Sarah then noted this inquiry had a deep import. Which would require further study verse, and gifs

Oh. Well. You know it goes out here ... we spin paintings out of dots ... pic.twitter.com/ZGyTyKbWid

— KevinHodgson (@dogtrax) May 12, 2020

Sarah also shared the reasoning of her line of inquiry

thinking about all of what you've been saying though, and watching your video. Thinking about the root of poetry as making again as I watched you ... sometimes a semi-serious question gets a very serious (helpful) answer

The root of poetry really pulled on me, away from my explorations into the rhyming images. Had to get a groove on for a bit

So I posted a broken palindrom poem (fixed now)

Root of
poetry
like all
Truth
lies
in the sound
The One
a beat
eternal

beat
eternal

A one
the sound

the lies,

Truth!

All like
poetry of Root

This brought Dan Blicksenderfer into the conversation

I love this; it made me think of Bootsy Collins and "playing on the One"

The One
a beat
eternal

— Dan Blickensderfer (@Dan_Blick) May 12, 2020

To which I replied

Looking back my
palindrome poem
off a bit.

That's okay
my knowledge
of "the one"
comes from
"The Other One"
dem boys always
off beat

mean it
synergy
in energy
from academic
articles down
to quirks in quarks
of our particles
gravitational waves
gyrating in mazes
of synchronized gazes
everything moves
but
no matter the beat
Always returns to the
One

I did listen to a lot of Bootsy Collins yesterday. Like a lot. From "Bootzilla" to "Bootsy's Back". This may have influenced my verse as our exploration into rhyming images drew in Steel Wagstaff

Basil Bunting described poetry emerging from the rhythmic grunts/breaths that ancient humans made while dancing. In a 1970 lecture he said "the arts are closely related. They have all a common ancestry. In particular music and poetry are twin sisters born of the primitive dance.

To which I replied

dance goes
deeper than
grunts & bending
knees
What of bees?
or stars who gyrate
at frequencies
we can't see?
We all chasing the same
One
An intergalactic stereophonic
boogey oogey of poetry
in bent
sounds

Told you I spent sometime listen to Boosty. Slapping interextuality all over this work, but I needed to answer Sarah's semi serious question, so I got back to work (after cranking up the bass).

of course now I have to
jam on Bootzilla
me and Bootsy run deep
in the rhinestone flow
of my arteries
"Oh yeah I am programmable,
one hit of the dial"

I first turned to color theory, and wantes to include a call back to Kevin's dots. After all, maybe color, or lack there of, is how you make an image rhyme?

2 Contrast
  these perspectives
let's compare
backgrounds in sound
dancing in color
theories
could a rhyme
be side by
side?
Analogous splashes
on sandy shores
or does a couplet
require
complementary colors
   opposite
dots in
harmony toasting
to tones
of purples
   purged from
snails
Not sure
Issue ain't black
and white
Guess I am neutral.

Then I thought what if it is the meaning and not the color of images that rhyme. Like what rhymes with Frog? Pig or rainbow?

So I turned to theories on reading images. Specifially Frank Serafini's Tripartite theory

To address
how images
rhyme
be a mess to
exclude
Kress
Always enjoyed
Frank's
take

maybe rhymes
hold court
in tripartite
   castles of
color and
  sound
rhymes found
in visual swirls
    designing
semiotic seals
   beaten to perform

light on retinas
refactored into
   rhyme
filtered,
   discarded
charred and
   scarred

poems of
  perceptiona
literal linkages
    of

        or

rhymes foregrounded
     in sounds
of structure.
Semiotic turns
in metafunctions
at visual
    conjunctions
naming
interpretive moves by
long toothed
jesters who
sway and swoon
Kings and Queens

in grooves that
swim in
ideology of
social convention
constructed
   in perceptions
of context
    lways knocking
a buoy in
     unsettled
patterns
storms of images
in rhyme

The poems were not necessarily written in this order, in fact they weren't but it helped the linear shape of this post to group tagents together.

Can you rhyme images? I think so. The moose out front told me the issue was closed and the owl said the answer was three.