THE BURGESS SHALE
Indestructible
where the misty mountains rise
over Burgess Shale.
Complex life captured
structures recorded in stone
within the strata.
Natural process
Captured for posterity
Deep in Burgess Shale.
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Written in Haiku format. The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. It is renowned for its exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years (Middle Cambrian) old, it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.
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Good write Michael.
Love the abstract.
Thanks Andy - just had the abstract framed - looks really good although my wife suggested it is a bit sombre.
A fine write and pic M. I shale commend this poem (corny joke there). Ahh, some of us saw it being formed originally, 508 million years ago. We were there. See, carved like a fossil 'I Woz Ere'.
Are you a fossilised armour- dillo Orchi
Exciting abstract Michael and the three liners taught me yet another wonder I never knew. Great read.
Thanks Fay - I was near there a few years back although it is fairly inaccessible and at the time didn't even know t existed.
Thanks MICHAEL ~ good use of poetic structure ! Multiple HAIKU is an excellent way of presenting a serious poem in a digestible form. With most fossils the "soft parts" are often missing ! Please check my RICE PEAS 'N CHICK befor it all gets consumed ! BRIAN We are both on mega serious topics today !
It's the fact that the soft parts are recorded that makes it so important - thanks Brian.
Good poem and good painting, a good way to start my morning
Thanks Bill
Thanks Michael to start my day with info learning. I like the picture.
Pleased you do - thanks for commenting Malu
Love the abstract.
The imprint on the burgess shale tells where we are from. A beautiful poem about the ancient exist.
Cheers m&m
Excellent haikus strung together to form a larger piece. Very old fossils and modern art, opposite ends of the time spectrum. The painting looks oceanic to me, something blue-watery about it. I even thought I saw a dolphin. - Phil A.
The dolphin swam away just before I finished painting him 🙂 Thanks Phil
Great Haikus Michael! And thanks for the history lesson. One never stops learning. Like the painting too!
My pleasure - pleased you like them Fred.
It shounds like hI've had too many sherries if I shay 'Shale'. I could attempt 'She shells she shells on the shee shore' (She sells sea shells on the sea shore). Good acting by me, innit?! lol.
I'm told you're always acting up - can't be that easy in all that armour.
Wonderful abstract! I learned some things from your authors notes and your Haiku were a great read!
It's now hanging in the studio waiting for a buyer - thanks so much for taking time out to comment - so much appreciated.
Reminded me of the man who ran up expenses of $2 million digging up old relics and finally found something rare. He made the Fossil bill possible.
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