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Where the Koi Collect
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Voltaire

motionless water darkened the corners,
but mid‐pond the clouds polished their reflections,
and suddenly, I saw the slow liquid silk of a koi,
its sinuous grace waltzing between stalks
Soulo,, The Pond

Near the entrance, a patch of tall grass.
Near the tall grass, long-stemmed plants;

each bending an ear‐shaped cone
to the pond's surface. If you looked closely,

you could make out silvery koi
swishing toward the clouded pond's edge

where a boy tugs at his mother's shirt for a quarter.
To buy fish feed. And watching that boy,

as he knelt down to let the koi kiss his palms
Nathan McClain, Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi

Ships with Sails, The Doors

We May Never Pass This Way (Again), Seals and Crofts

I Feel Free, Cream

Come Together, The Beatles

The artwork was created in Mandelbulb and PhotoShop

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::tigger3
03/04/21 9:16 PM GMT
Very interesting collective design work, and color, and Love the music links. tigs=^..^=
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::koca
03/05/21 6:48 AM GMT
Beautiful and artistic collection, John, love it, the quote, too, of course.
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::corngrowth
03/05/21 10:39 AM GMT
John, splendid render again. If I had to choose appropriate quotes for this theme, I probably wouldn't have succeeded. But in this area I must acknowledge your mastery in this. This also applies to the chosen music links. Again a 'performance' with a high artistic value.

By the way: Koi, aka Nishikigoi (official name is Cyprinus carpio carpio) is Japan's national fish. Nishiki is the Japanese word for colorful cloth, while goi or koi means carp.
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.LynEve
03/05/21 11:11 AM GMT
A frenzy of fabulous fishes !

Thanks also for quotes and music (especially Beatles of course)
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