There are so many ways now to record life's pleasures

Sometimes it becomes difficult to fully take measure

Whether to shoot still pictures or record with video

Or to use moving film and then soup it for a show



And then there's audio, which provides the sounds

Of some things which perhaps there's no need around

But the very best recorder of life's totality is the eyes 

Which then converts images to the brain without surprise



There to jell and merge with some interesting thoughts

And thence to turn it all around into something sought

Which a writer does with relish and complete abandon

For then beautiful images will be revealed in tandem



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

8:55am Sat. Jan. 17, '98