SEF
@sef-lopod.bsky.social
Polymath: music, art, dance, maths, science, computing.
https://www.pedag.org
https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/sef
https://www.pedag.org
https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/sef
I'm not proficient (or prolific) at keeping up with social media. But I'm going to try to add some xmas carols - arranged to be in standard ballroom & latin dance styles - to my website:
www.pedag.org/dance/music/...
www.pedag.org/dance/music/...
pedag.org - dance music : xmas
www.pedag.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm not proficient (or prolific) at keeping up with social media. But I'm going to try to add some xmas carols - arranged to be in standard ballroom & latin dance styles - to my website:
www.pedag.org/dance/music/...
www.pedag.org/dance/music/...
My entry for the latest contest at Spoonflower is a fantasy adventure story in graphic toile (rather than novel) form. It's a re-arrangement of something I originally drew for a convention magazine (to fit around the text on successive pages):
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/19...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/19...
19433942 (c) the expedition Fabric | Spoonflower
Shop 19433942 (c) the expedition custom Fabric by sef for sale on Spoonflower
www.spoonflower.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My entry for the latest contest at Spoonflower is a fantasy adventure story in graphic toile (rather than novel) form. It's a re-arrangement of something I originally drew for a convention magazine (to fit around the text on successive pages):
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/19...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/19...
There's a Mad Science project waiting for @thephilfoglio.bsky.social or someone else to have a crack at after Trump posted an AI image of him cosplaying with a red lightsaber (ie marking him as an evil Sith type, destroying democracies to enforce an authoritarian empire).
May 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
There's a Mad Science project waiting for @thephilfoglio.bsky.social or someone else to have a crack at after Trump posted an AI image of him cosplaying with a red lightsaber (ie marking him as an evil Sith type, destroying democracies to enforce an authoritarian empire).
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
{ There were a lot of points to fit into this one. So it's long and, while it scans, the rhyming scheme is rather variable. }
{ There were a lot of points to fit into this one. So it's long and, while it scans, the rhyming scheme is rather variable. }
April 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
{ There were a lot of points to fit into this one. So it's long and, while it scans, the rhyming scheme is rather variable. }
{ There were a lot of points to fit into this one. So it's long and, while it scans, the rhyming scheme is rather variable. }
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
#LGBTQ
Help the misfits in the world
who must keep their colours furled
when they should be standing proud,
free to name themselves out loud.
#LGBTQ
Help the misfits in the world
who must keep their colours furled
when they should be standing proud,
free to name themselves out loud.
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
#LGBTQ
Help the misfits in the world
who must keep their colours furled
when they should be standing proud,
free to name themselves out loud.
#LGBTQ
Help the misfits in the world
who must keep their colours furled
when they should be standing proud,
free to name themselves out loud.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Coffee or tea?
What will it be?
Maybe the answer is neither.
Water or milk,
things of that ilk
Can be much better than either.
Coffee or tea?
What will it be?
Maybe the answer is neither.
Water or milk,
things of that ilk
Can be much better than either.
April 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Coffee or tea?
What will it be?
Maybe the answer is neither.
Water or milk,
things of that ilk
Can be much better than either.
Coffee or tea?
What will it be?
Maybe the answer is neither.
Water or milk,
things of that ilk
Can be much better than either.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Today's challenge was to write an epitaph; but they didn't state that it had to be for a person:
Born of hope, died of spite;
Now it is an X site.
Today's challenge was to write an epitaph; but they didn't state that it had to be for a person:
Born of hope, died of spite;
Now it is an X site.
April 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Today's challenge was to write an epitaph; but they didn't state that it had to be for a person:
Born of hope, died of spite;
Now it is an X site.
Today's challenge was to write an epitaph; but they didn't state that it had to be for a person:
Born of hope, died of spite;
Now it is an X site.
It looks like there's some sort of #Invertefest going on. Sometimes I feel the need to tessellate (crustaceans, bugs, whatever), eg:
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/11...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/42...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/82...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/11...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/42...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/82...
16876218 © lobster : spoonflower0727 Fabric | Spoonflower
16876218 © lobster : spoonflower0727 custom fabric by sef for sale on Spoonflower
www.spoonflower.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It looks like there's some sort of #Invertefest going on. Sometimes I feel the need to tessellate (crustaceans, bugs, whatever), eg:
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/11...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/42...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/82...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/11...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/42...
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/82...
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Spring:
An old folk measure of the spring
was in the daisies it would bring
and just how many could be found
within one footprint on the ground.
Spring:
An old folk measure of the spring
was in the daisies it would bring
and just how many could be found
within one footprint on the ground.
April 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Spring:
An old folk measure of the spring
was in the daisies it would bring
and just how many could be found
within one footprint on the ground.
Spring:
An old folk measure of the spring
was in the daisies it would bring
and just how many could be found
within one footprint on the ground.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Once upon a time a word
was only something someone said.
Stories told were always heard
or drawn in picture form instead.
Then those pictograms in time
became a form of written sound.
Oral history in rhyme
replaced by records passed around.
Once upon a time a word
was only something someone said.
Stories told were always heard
or drawn in picture form instead.
Then those pictograms in time
became a form of written sound.
Oral history in rhyme
replaced by records passed around.
April 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Once upon a time a word
was only something someone said.
Stories told were always heard
or drawn in picture form instead.
Then those pictograms in time
became a form of written sound.
Oral history in rhyme
replaced by records passed around.
Once upon a time a word
was only something someone said.
Stories told were always heard
or drawn in picture form instead.
Then those pictograms in time
became a form of written sound.
Oral history in rhyme
replaced by records passed around.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
The topic for today from the shared list was Earth. I don't know why they didn't put that for Earth Day (22nd April)! But that's where we are now.
The topic for today from the shared list was Earth. I don't know why they didn't put that for Earth Day (22nd April)! But that's where we are now.
April 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
The topic for today from the shared list was Earth. I don't know why they didn't put that for Earth Day (22nd April)! But that's where we are now.
The topic for today from the shared list was Earth. I don't know why they didn't put that for Earth Day (22nd April)! But that's where we are now.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Singing
Can you hold a tune at all?
Pitch control, its rise and fall?
Next the timbre of your voice
Could be an important choice.
Can you keep on time throughout?
Breath control, project don't shout?
Then enunciate each word
So that you'll be clearly heard.
Singing
Can you hold a tune at all?
Pitch control, its rise and fall?
Next the timbre of your voice
Could be an important choice.
Can you keep on time throughout?
Breath control, project don't shout?
Then enunciate each word
So that you'll be clearly heard.
April 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Singing
Can you hold a tune at all?
Pitch control, its rise and fall?
Next the timbre of your voice
Could be an important choice.
Can you keep on time throughout?
Breath control, project don't shout?
Then enunciate each word
So that you'll be clearly heard.
Singing
Can you hold a tune at all?
Pitch control, its rise and fall?
Next the timbre of your voice
Could be an important choice.
Can you keep on time throughout?
Breath control, project don't shout?
Then enunciate each word
So that you'll be clearly heard.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Honest
"Honest as the day is long"
Doesn't mean they do no wrong.
What about the hours of night
When most things are out of sight?
As the year turns do they change?
Is there then a matching range:
Very good in summer sun;
Bad once winter has begun?
Honest
"Honest as the day is long"
Doesn't mean they do no wrong.
What about the hours of night
When most things are out of sight?
As the year turns do they change?
Is there then a matching range:
Very good in summer sun;
Bad once winter has begun?
April 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Honest
"Honest as the day is long"
Doesn't mean they do no wrong.
What about the hours of night
When most things are out of sight?
As the year turns do they change?
Is there then a matching range:
Very good in summer sun;
Bad once winter has begun?
Honest
"Honest as the day is long"
Doesn't mean they do no wrong.
What about the hours of night
When most things are out of sight?
As the year turns do they change?
Is there then a matching range:
Very good in summer sun;
Bad once winter has begun?
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Language:
When you know the words to say
it still matters in which way
they get ordered, emphasized,
accented and improvised.
Language:
When you know the words to say
it still matters in which way
they get ordered, emphasized,
accented and improvised.
April 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Language:
When you know the words to say
it still matters in which way
they get ordered, emphasized,
accented and improvised.
Language:
When you know the words to say
it still matters in which way
they get ordered, emphasized,
accented and improvised.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Circus:
Live performance, ancient show;
Acts that generations know.
Feats of daring, feats of skill,
Strength, dexterity and will.
Circus:
Live performance, ancient show;
Acts that generations know.
Feats of daring, feats of skill,
Strength, dexterity and will.
April 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Circus:
Live performance, ancient show;
Acts that generations know.
Feats of daring, feats of skill,
Strength, dexterity and will.
Circus:
Live performance, ancient show;
Acts that generations know.
Feats of daring, feats of skill,
Strength, dexterity and will.
April 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Today's topic was kite. Is it a bird, a plane or a children's toy? I'm ruling out superman.
* * *
Rising, soaring, flying high;
Twisting, turning in the sky;
With winds roaring all around;
Blithely spurning solid ground.
Today's topic was kite. Is it a bird, a plane or a children's toy? I'm ruling out superman.
* * *
Rising, soaring, flying high;
Twisting, turning in the sky;
With winds roaring all around;
Blithely spurning solid ground.
April 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Today's topic was kite. Is it a bird, a plane or a children's toy? I'm ruling out superman.
* * *
Rising, soaring, flying high;
Twisting, turning in the sky;
With winds roaring all around;
Blithely spurning solid ground.
Today's topic was kite. Is it a bird, a plane or a children's toy? I'm ruling out superman.
* * *
Rising, soaring, flying high;
Twisting, turning in the sky;
With winds roaring all around;
Blithely spurning solid ground.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
The topic is organize - and I'm going with all of: provision (personal & professional), union and rebellion.
The topic is organize - and I'm going with all of: provision (personal & professional), union and rebellion.
April 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
The topic is organize - and I'm going with all of: provision (personal & professional), union and rebellion.
The topic is organize - and I'm going with all of: provision (personal & professional), union and rebellion.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Giggle, chuckle or guffaw.
Roll around upon the floor.
Laugh out loud or hold it in.
Snigger, chortle, smirk or grin.
Giggle, chuckle or guffaw.
Roll around upon the floor.
Laugh out loud or hold it in.
Snigger, chortle, smirk or grin.
April 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Giggle, chuckle or guffaw.
Roll around upon the floor.
Laugh out loud or hold it in.
Snigger, chortle, smirk or grin.
Giggle, chuckle or guffaw.
Roll around upon the floor.
Laugh out loud or hold it in.
Snigger, chortle, smirk or grin.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
The topic is frogs; so I'm reusing poem I wrote quite a long time ago but only published in a different obscure corner of the internet.
The topic is frogs; so I'm reusing poem I wrote quite a long time ago but only published in a different obscure corner of the internet.
April 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
The topic is frogs; so I'm reusing poem I wrote quite a long time ago but only published in a different obscure corner of the internet.
The topic is frogs; so I'm reusing poem I wrote quite a long time ago but only published in a different obscure corner of the internet.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Garden
Kitchen garden - enclosed space
planted as a growing place.
Keeping nature as a pet -
groomed but not quite tamed as yet.
Hydroponics is the way
when you don't want plants to stray.
More extreme than even that:
growing foodstuffs in a vat.
Garden
Kitchen garden - enclosed space
planted as a growing place.
Keeping nature as a pet -
groomed but not quite tamed as yet.
Hydroponics is the way
when you don't want plants to stray.
More extreme than even that:
growing foodstuffs in a vat.
April 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
Garden
Kitchen garden - enclosed space
planted as a growing place.
Keeping nature as a pet -
groomed but not quite tamed as yet.
Hydroponics is the way
when you don't want plants to stray.
More extreme than even that:
growing foodstuffs in a vat.
Garden
Kitchen garden - enclosed space
planted as a growing place.
Keeping nature as a pet -
groomed but not quite tamed as yet.
Hydroponics is the way
when you don't want plants to stray.
More extreme than even that:
growing foodstuffs in a vat.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
= rainbow
Life is not just black and white;
nor is it in shades of grey.
There's a spectrum of pure light
and effects from interplay.
Much of it is out of sight
from the human point of view;
but, if you observe them right,
rainbows teach a lot to you.
= rainbow
Life is not just black and white;
nor is it in shades of grey.
There's a spectrum of pure light
and effects from interplay.
Much of it is out of sight
from the human point of view;
but, if you observe them right,
rainbows teach a lot to you.
April 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
= rainbow
Life is not just black and white;
nor is it in shades of grey.
There's a spectrum of pure light
and effects from interplay.
Much of it is out of sight
from the human point of view;
but, if you observe them right,
rainbows teach a lot to you.
= rainbow
Life is not just black and white;
nor is it in shades of grey.
There's a spectrum of pure light
and effects from interplay.
Much of it is out of sight
from the human point of view;
but, if you observe them right,
rainbows teach a lot to you.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
On the topic of guitar / music:
Strum a chord or pluck a tune,
learn a riff or improvise.
Twinkle Twinkle, Clair De Lune
or a symphony surprise.
On the topic of guitar / music:
Strum a chord or pluck a tune,
learn a riff or improvise.
Twinkle Twinkle, Clair De Lune
or a symphony surprise.
April 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poem
On the topic of guitar / music:
Strum a chord or pluck a tune,
learn a riff or improvise.
Twinkle Twinkle, Clair De Lune
or a symphony surprise.
On the topic of guitar / music:
Strum a chord or pluck a tune,
learn a riff or improvise.
Twinkle Twinkle, Clair De Lune
or a symphony surprise.
April 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
April 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM