Paros Poetry

Just So
by Michael Hockaday

Some day, maybe in February,
June, or March, yet one fine day
finally, surprisingly, you let
the Music have its way completely.

You begin to fashion instruments
from the Earth around you. The slim,
supple green reed cut to length
just so, then drilled with holes
just so, you fill with the letting go
of subtle, secret, ancient longings.
Then such songs of utter sweetness
blow right through you, a green river,
so you yourself become the instrument.
It is the music! Such music is flowing!

Some golden day at dawn,
you carefully select
two harmonious black stones
from the ribcage of Kolympithres,
and so to reach the ears of gods
you clack and click them together
rhythmically, urgently, as if the Old Ones
could not hear you. You carve whistles,
and wander round the mountains whistling.

This poem is from a work-in-progress called the
‘Sacred Seven Pools of Paros’, begun in the fall
of 2007. The poet, a Scotsman from the USA who
fell in love with the sea and land and people
during his brief stay last year, plans to spend the
spring searching for the inspirational founts from
which the musical iambs of Archilochos issued.
Contact Michael at rimercouplet@yahoo.com

How To Find Water With Dowsing Rods
Take two brass rods 3 feet long. The diameter may be as small as a 12 gauge wire or about the same diameter wire as a stiff clothes hanger all the way up to a 1/4 inch diameter rod. Bend the last four inches on one side of each rod at a 90 degree angle so the rod forms an "L." In each hand, hold the short leg of each rod, keeping this part of the rod as vertical as possible with the long part of the rod on the top of the hand. If you are doing this correctly the long end of the rod should be running parallel with the flat ground.

Now, go outside. Using your mind to form a picture of what you are seeking, slowly walk back and forth over the known object and observe the rods crossing and uncrossing. Outside your house there should be several things you can concentrate on - your water line, sewer line, natural gas line or underground electrical line. When you feel comfortable with this, try going out into an open area where you don't know where things are and try finding veins of water. I can only expect you will be as amazed as I was with this most interesting wonder.

The divining rods are charged with static electricity from the dowser's own body. This static electricity can be seen quite adequately with a simple millivolt meter. This voltage is measured between the hands of the dowser, to measure this voltage accurately a diff amp should be used at the input to the voltmeter, "this eliminates stray signals which are common to both hands". The amount of voltage will vary depending on the person. A good dowser will have a high reading, "above 100 mv" while a poor dowser may read as low as,"0 mv.". For males the right hand is usually a negative polarity, and the left hand is positive in polarity. These polarities are usually reversed in females.

The divining rod charged positively will rotate in the dowsers hand to line up parallel to a negatively charged object being dowsed. A divining rod charged negatively will remain perpendicular to a negatively charged object being dowsed. This is because like charges repel, while unlike charges attract. Thus both bent divining rods are not required for dowsing. When two divining rods are used, and they are seen to cross, one of the rods is being moved to line up parallel with the charged object being dowsed. The other rod is moving to line up parallel to the first rod. A second reason for the two rods crossing is that of dowsing over an alternating current source, such as a pipeline or buried cable. these are usually buried shallow and are conducting ground currents as the path of least resistance.

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