The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

stevenaia Michinaga: Hi oO
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Stevenaia
oO0Oo Resident: Nice to be here
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, I was jsut napping, am very relaxed tonight
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Arch
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Arch
oO0Oo Resident: We were just relaxing
stevenaia Michinaga: :) nice wings
stevenaia Michinaga: very colorful
oO0Oo Resident: I've seen you wear them before. Powerful
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Paradise
Archmage Atlantis: Hope I hit the balance spot.....I tried....Hi, Sam(O), Hi Sevenaia
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Paradise
stevenaia Michinaga: gtsy
Archmage Atlantis: Hi, Pdise
Paradise Tennant: hiya stevenaia .. arch .. o000o smiles and waves all round :)
Paradise Tennant: nice wings arch :)
Archmage Atlantis: I'm starting to wear my various av and alt pieces out in public........not sure if that is a good idea, but nothing ventured nothing gained
stevenaia Michinaga: I get those urges now and then
Archmage Atlantis: Picked these up off a phoenix
stevenaia Michinaga: that must have hurt
oO0Oo Resident: lol
stevenaia Michinaga: (the pheonix)
oO0Oo Resident: perhaps it rose abbove the pain
Archmage Atlantis: Not so much, as I think that bird is still with me......that's the tricky part, who's the av
stevenaia Michinaga: nice perspective
Archmage Atlantis: ty Steve, that was a sweet thing to say
stevenaia Michinaga: I often as which part of me is showing, the one you see or the one you hear (read)
stevenaia Michinaga: *ask
stevenaia Michinaga: that one is always up to the observer
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Aphrodite
oO0Oo Resident: I was inspired to pick up a couple of shoulder pets, mainly from seeing avis here with them
Archmage Atlantis: To me, Steve...I think I see both......being with another who was one yet separate taught me a lot
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello Steve. Hello everyone
Paradise Tennant: hiya aph gtsy :)
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Aphrodite
stevenaia Michinaga: I am a quiet emptyness tonight.... if anyone feels a topic or poem
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello
oO0Oo Resident: quiet emptiness... how lovely
Aphrodite Macbain: Shoulder pets, interesting concept.
Aphrodite Macbain: What are they when they are shoulderless?
Archmage Atlantis: I fell a poem, yet the emptiness does not provide it's words
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, you can skip over me when it;s my turn
Aphrodite Macbain: are you going round the circle?
Paradise Tennant: I am a quiet emptyness tonight ..would be a great first line to a go round the circle poem :)
Archmage Atlantis: Agree, wonderful idea P
stevenaia Michinaga: I think that happened last time too.
Aphrodite Macbain: yes it would paradise
stevenaia Michinaga: your turn Paradise
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Archmage Atlantis: clockswise?
Aphrodite Macbain: first let's be quiet
Aphrodite Macbain: Nice wings Arch
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Dash!
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi dash
Paradise Tennant: a clear ... clean ... stillness cloaks me ... softly ... lightly
Dash Earthboy: hey y'all
Paradise Tennant: smiles hiya das we are doing a go round poem
Dash Earthboy: cool
Aphrodite Macbain: space fillus up with pregnant pauses
Archmage Atlantis: Yeppers, Dash......Para was 3nd
Archmage Atlantis: 2nd
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: and you are next, Arch
stevenaia Michinaga: let me re-assemble it so far
stevenaia Michinaga: I am a quiet emptyness tonight....
Archmage Atlantis: Oops.....and how does one turn.....life into a poem--------one is both-the poet and the poem
Archmage Atlantis: pass to O
stevenaia Michinaga: :0
stevenaia Michinaga: a clear ... clean ... stillness cloaks me ... softly ... lightly
stevenaia Michinaga: space fillus up with pregnant pauses
stevenaia Michinaga: .....and how does one turn.....life into a poem--------one is both-the poet and the poem
Aphrodite Macbain: oo0oo
oO0Oo Resident: what is reflecting my experience in these waters?
Dash Earthboy: the mist of experience becomes poem fodders
stevenaia Michinaga: the words from from the mist and the emptiness...
stevenaia Michinaga: where creation begins
Aphrodite Macbain: mark time with the soft sibilant spray of the fountain'
Paradise Tennant: smiles .. to ... lead us to a place of oneness within and without
Aphrodite Macbain: (sorry!))
Paradise Tennant: smiles no worries
Aphrodite Macbain: Arch..
oO0Oo Resident smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: laughs
Archmage Atlantis: Aphrodite and Paradise confuse me.......the koi swim in a pool where they were not before......this is reflection of an inner self
Aphrodite Macbain: nice responses!
Aphrodite Macbain: oo)oo?
oO0Oo Resident: rumptious relendery, rolls et rollicks in the down of my just awoken spirit
Paradise Tennant: smiles at o
Archmage Atlantis: Saucy wench
Aphrodite Macbain smiles
Archmage Atlantis: ooops
Archmage Atlantis: channeling the wrong century
stevenaia Michinaga: hehe
Aphrodite Macbain grins
oO0Oo Resident laughs
Aphrodite Macbain: Samuo?
Paradise Tennant: err what is relendery ?
stevenaia Michinaga: he went, dash's trun
stevenaia Michinaga: turn
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: oh
Dash Earthboy: are we still making a poem?
Archmage Atlantis: pronouns, such a difficulty......good thought for silence
Aphrodite Macbain: we're beig silent right now
Archmage Atlantis: yes, Dash, we are
stevenaia Michinaga: only if yu ahve something to add, Dash
Aphrodite Macbain: being
Dash Earthboy: everybody's got something to hide 'cept for me and my monkey...
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Dash Earthboy: (that's from a song :))
stevenaia Michinaga: you are showing your age
Archmage Atlantis: [out of turn] - (not so sure about the monkey)
Paradise Tennant: smiles at arch
oO0Oo Resident: would people be open to continuing in popcorn style?
Paradise Tennant: what is popcorn style
Aphrodite Macbain: popcord? as in unpreditable?
stevenaia Michinaga: I was going to suggest that as Aphrodite did
Archmage Atlantis: Open to anyting, but what is popcorn style?
stevenaia Michinaga: Shall we begin a new
Paradise Tennant: love popcorn
Paradise Tennant: smiles ok
oO0Oo Resident: just writing the poetic urges whenever they come, in any order
Dash Earthboy: popping at random?
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
oO0Oo Resident: yes dash
stevenaia Michinaga: place a dot before you type so someone doesn;t ebging a line by tyoing quickler
stevenaia Michinaga: .
Aphrodite Macbain: What a mondkey has to hide is nobody's business
Archmage Atlantis: Steve's call
Aphrodite Macbain: .
Archmage Atlantis: will follow
stevenaia Michinaga: I began last one
Aphrodite Macbain: popcorn style?
Aphrodite Macbain: has no order
stevenaia Michinaga: ie.. not ready, go ahead Aph...pop
oO0Oo Resident: let's just trust we can let go of form
Aphrodite Macbain: I did: What a monkey has to ide is nobody's business but his own
Aphrodite Macbain: hide
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: (sorry)
stevenaia Michinaga: the poetry monkey klings tightly to Dash....
Dash Earthboy: . like a wall street banker's loan
Archmage Atlantis: , monkey hides.....not good for fur coats
oO0Oo Resident: smoats or moats or botas
oO0Oo Resident: boats*
oO0Oo Resident: or botox
Dash Earthboy: . friars' frocks
Aphrodite Macbain: warding off monkeys an elegant move
oO0Oo Resident: hip hops
Archmage Atlantis: . botas is almost ....dang Sam, you took botas
Aphrodite Macbain: an iota of bota is not hard to bear
oO0Oo Resident: i swear you care
Aphrodite Macbain: just give me my share
Archmage Atlantis: .an iota of the reason for the bota, is denial I swear
Paradise Tennant: lol
Aphrodite Macbain giggles
oO0Oo Resident: effervese in bota tonight my loves
Aphrodite Macbain: what is our quota of botas I pray?
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Everyone
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Eliza- we're doing silly poetry
Archmage Atlantis: >ask Eliza, the botas to say
Paradise Tennant: effervese in love .. prayer .. monkey dreams monkey mind :)
oO0Oo Resident: Eliza, I bid you bota, and all manner of well
Dash Earthboy: .methinks there's no quotas on botas today
Paradise Tennant: hello eliza nice to see you :)
oO0Oo Resident: let mind swell
Aphrodite Macbain: What think theee of Botas, liza , do tell
oO0Oo Resident: in popcorn poetry
Eliza Madrigal: :) Thanks... will listen in and try to catch the rhythm
Archmage Atlantis: This the bard, we are all affected
Paradise Tennant: candy wrapper prose
Eliza Madrigal: crackling and popping and crinkling oh my
Archmage Atlantis: and I suppose, a bit complected
Aphrodite Macbain: with salt and butter to make it quite bad
Eliza Madrigal smiles... and are we blaming the monkey then?
stevenaia Michinaga: but tastier than the rest
Paradise Tennant: monkey see monkey do
oO0Oo Resident: ZEST!
Aphrodite Macbain: blaming the monkey is a hazardous game
oO0Oo Resident: neither fame nor blame
Dash Earthboy: . blaming the monkey brings nothing but shame
Aphrodite Macbain: we'll have to give it a more likely name
oO0Oo Resident: less aim
oO0Oo Resident: aim is on the wain
Paradise Tennant: smiles lol popcorned ..a kernal more and we are not the same ...
Archmage Atlantis: In 400 years, others may read, this odd amalgam of language and steed
oO0Oo Resident: oh horned pop, you bota me with feather mop
Archmage Atlantis: And ask themselves
Aphrodite Macbain: we're a meal in itself that helps a good flick
--BELL--
Archmage Atlantis: what was the truth
Archmage Atlantis: and know that that, is a question of youth.
Dash Earthboy: been real & been fun & be time for me to go...'nite all
Aphrodite Macbain whispers goodby
Paradise Tennant: good nite dash thank you
stevenaia Michinaga: night Dash (and his monkey)
Archmage Atlantis: Dash away Dancer, and Donner and Blitzen
Archmage Atlantis: Comet and cupid
stevenaia Michinaga: cupid?
oO0Oo Resident: niether rash, nor slapdash, that dash were kind to pass
Archmage Atlantis: and the rest without screen credit
Paradise Tennant: yearns for rudolf and his nose so bright
oO0Oo Resident: on donner and blixen and botox
Archmage Atlantis: Who gave birth to Botox?..........dang reindeer is everywhere.
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphro dismisses all reference to Chrissmiss
Aphrodite Macbain: es
Eliza Madrigal: :) Thanks guys, sorry to poof so quickly but hope to sleep... night
Eliza Madrigal: fun session :)
Archmage Atlantis: True, that holiday is past....Chinese New Year even amoung is was fast
Paradise Tennant: smiles good night eliza think I will pouf too :)
Paradise Tennant: thank you all .. always fun :)
Aphrodite Macbain: looks forward to hearts and chocolates
Archmage Atlantis: Next holiday, see you all here
oO0Oo Resident: adeu, adeu, to you, and you, and you
Aphrodite Macbain: Poof to all of you, and to you a good night!
Archmage Atlantis: Some calendar has one, this time of the year
Paradise Tennant: lol as she dissolves into the mist !
stevenaia Michinaga: and then there were three
Archmage Atlantis: Oh mist, then bris, then brisket and
Archmage Atlantis: Oh never mind
stevenaia Michinaga: lol
oO0Oo Resident: sea....foam....swathes the ever arch shore
stevenaia Michinaga: I suppose a popcorn poem can only be energetic
Archmage Atlantis: I am glad you return O
oO0Oo Resident: ty
stevenaia Michinaga: where did you go?
Archmage Atlantis: It is time, adeiu.....if that is how it is spelled
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
oO0Oo Resident: where did I go Arch?
stevenaia Michinaga: he poofs
oO0Oo Resident breathes out and considers the parabola of shiva cycle
oO0Oo Resident: they come they go, the build, they receed
stevenaia Michinaga: and always relaxed
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Druth
druth Vlodovic: hi steve, sam
oO0Oo Resident: hi druth
stevenaia Michinaga: you missed popcorn poetry
druth Vlodovic: oh? sounds like fun
stevenaia Michinaga: rather energetic
druth Vlodovic: what's involved in it?
stevenaia Michinaga: random poetic lines thrown into the path of the moment
--BELL--
oO0Oo Resident: I'm not sure if others are wanting to continue with poetry. If so, I happy to do so, but also I wanted to share that I recently looked into auto-translators in SL
druth Vlodovic: you get some interesting results :)
oO0Oo Resident: and have been using a free one, that I can offer to you if you wish
stevenaia Michinaga: I am poetried out for the evening
oO0Oo Resident: OK
oO0Oo Resident: are you familiar with these translators?
druth Vlodovic: I use the google translator
oO0Oo Resident: you wear them, and they auto translate for everyone around you?
oO0Oo Resident: very handy in a group
druth Vlodovic: er, unless thre are a lot of people
stevenaia Michinaga: there's a google translator builtt-in to Pheonx Viewer
druth Vlodovic: it adds extra lines to the chat
druth Vlodovic: mine just shows the results to me
oO0Oo Resident: yes, I think most of the translators use the google api
druth Vlodovic: what language were you using it for?
oO0Oo Resident: the nice thing about this one, is it works for others who do not have the functionality
oO0Oo Resident: and also
oO0Oo Resident: when more people use them, it distributes the tasks
oO0Oo Resident: others like it cost alot
oO0Oo Resident: the fellow who made it is very generous. It is open source
oO0Oo Resident: and super easy to use
stevenaia Michinaga: nw we can speak in tongues and everyone will understand?
oO0Oo Resident raises an eyebrow
oO0Oo Resident: hehe
druth Vlodovic: we have our bablefish :)
--BELL--
oO0Oo Resident: there are enough obstacles to connection already. This helps a little bit
stevenaia Michinaga: I must head out, thank for the evening
stevenaia Michinaga: see you soon
oO0Oo Resident: ty Stevenaia
druth Vlodovic: have fun steve
oO0Oo Resident: bota forth!