The Colored Dream Series – Chapter Two- “The Ship of White Dreams” by Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis

Posted on December 30, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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                         Image by Dale Innis (tweaked by Menubar) on Midjourney AI Art

This video, “The Ship of White Dreams” is the 2nd installment of The Colored Dreams Series,  a narrated storybook format of an illustrated story I wrote back in 2011 and published on my blog. The inspiration for this story came from my impressions and fascination with DB Bailey’s (now gone) sim Locus in SL,  an amazing surreal entire world of color, surprises and beauty. This breathtaking sim is now lost to us forever, but a few images you will see in this story were taken there, by me and by DB himself.

I am eternally grateful to him for the encouragement and influence to write this story. The Colored Dreams Series will be 6 separate YouTubes.  The Ship of White Dreams is the second video. The Red Room was the first and  can be watched here:

https://youtu.be/PL61PUbSr74?si=VXdHj-Y9vc3ZAkty

I am also very grateful to Dale Innis, for making it possible to re -write this story in a different way. His AI Art images, so beautiful and intriguing, go so well with the originals.  Thank you Dale for your eye for beauty and symmetry and your gift of collaboration.

Special thank yous, to Menubar Memorial, for his fine finishing of some selected slides.

The music is by Clint Mansell, who, although has the copyright,, allows it to be used here on YouTube. “Xibalba”” is from his score of the movie, The Fountain. You will hear a lot of his music, in the coming chapters:) Big thanks to Clint Mansell for his generosity for small content creators.
In some areas (like mine in Latin America,. the video will not play on WordPress. Please watch it 
directly on YouTube and in 4K.. and let me know what you thought. Are you interested in Chapter 3? I’m all ears:)
Dale & I now present The Ship of White Dreams….. Let it transport you:)

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The Colored Dreams Series – The Red Room, A Collaboration by Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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The Colored Dreams Series is a narrated storybook format of an illustrated story I wrote back in 2011 and published on my blog. The inspiration for this story came from my impressions and fascination with DB Bailey’s (now gone) sim Locus in SL, an amazing surreal entire world of color, surprises and beauty. This breathtaking sim is now lost to us forever, but a few images you will see in this story were taken there, by me and by DB himself.

I am eternally grateful to him for the encouragement and influence to write this story. The Colored Dreams Series will be 6 separate YouTubes. The Red Room, is the first.

I am also very grateful to Dale Innis, for making it possible to re -write this story in a different way. His AI Art images, so beautiful and intriguing, go so well with the originals. Thank you Dale for your eye for beauty and symmetry and your gift of collaboration.

Special thank yous, to Menubar Memorial, for his fine finishing of some selected slides.

The music is by Clint Mansell, who, although copywritten, allows it to be used here on YouTube. “The Last Man” is from his score of the movie, The Fountain. You will hear a lot of his music, in the coming chapters:) Big thanks to Clint Mansell for his generosity for small content creators, even though in Latin America, Latin Author-UMPG has blocked it on WordPress>

Please watch on YouTube in 4K in fullscreen with good sound. This isn’t exactly Holiday Faire, but we hope you will be intrigued and continue on with us for the next 5 chapters.

Happy Holidays to All!! Much love and appreciation for your support over all these years:) 

 

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Chance Encounter

Posted on December 19, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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“Waiting For You”  by Dale Innis on Midjourney AI Art

Chance Encounter

So the first thought in my mind

when I walked through the door was…

“Wow what are you doing here?”

“What are you doing without your scarf on?”

“What are you doing without yours? she said

and we laughed as if cued by the director.

We laughed and she handed me her fortune cookie

“Let’s see how our luck is today, she said

teasingly, impishly,

her eyes giggling with laughter,

tears in the corners.

“You know I’m dead.” she said matter-of-factly.

“Of course I do,” I sighed remembering,

“I held your hand when you took

your last breath.”

“So what are you doing here then?

I asked again, wondering now if I were dreaming.

Your friend prompted me to take shape

The funny thing was, he didn’t really want a face

like mine; he was trying for something else.

“Prompted you?” I asked curious to know what she meant.

“Yes, AI Art, it’s the latest thing for us who passed over.”

“It’s a door to be seen once more”

“Wow, I had no idea!! How fascinating!”

But, if we don’t get framed, we will fade back quickly.

“Could I just hug you?

Why don’t you just frame me

and take me home and have me forever?

And I did.

Karima Hoisan
December 19, 2023
Costa Rica

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Peace On Earth

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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                                         “Compassion” by Dale Innis on Midjourney AI Art

Please Click Play To Hear My Spoken Word To The Music of Vangelis, “Psalmus Ode”

Peace On Earth

While We Walk Through Life
With Each Step We Take
Peace on Earth Peace on Earth

While We Walk Through Life
With Each Step We Take
Peace In Our Hearts
Peace In  Our Thoughts
Peace in our Families
Peace in Our Days

While We Live on Earth

Don’t Kill The Flowers
Don’t Kill The Birds
Don’t Kill The Bees
Don’t Kill The Animals
Don’t Kill The Children
Don’t Kill The Innocent
Don’t Kill Each Other
Don’t Kill
Don’t Kill

While We Walk Through Life
With Each Step We Take
Peace on Earth Peace on Earth

While We Walk Through Life
With Each Step We Take
Peace In Our Hearts
Peace In  Our Thoughts
Peace in our Families
Peace in Our Days

While We Live on Earth

Don’t Kill The Flowers
Don’t Kill The Birds
Don’t Kill The Bees
Don’t Kill The Animals
Don’t Kill The Children
Don’t Kill The Innocent
Don’t Kill Each Other
Don’t Kill
Don’t Kill

Peace on Earth Peace on Earth

Karima Hoisan
December 18, 2023
(Inspired By The Music of Vangelis)

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The Tides

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

                         “High Tide” by Dale Innis on Midjourney AI Art

Please Press Play to hear me recite my poem to the music by Elie Karam (Syrian Singer)
entitled: “Baadima”

The Tides

The tide is coming in and I smell that sweet hope upon the wind.
When it raked the shores, so violently, while going out to sea,
I felt such loss; the tide swept us up and carried away a part of me.
I was stranded, hopeless, floating, in the darkness holding my breath
All I could see were the drowning around me and waited for certain death.

But today I felt the tug of the ocean pulling us back from where we had come.
The sky glowed red, tides changed direction, just as the sun was going to set.
When the clouds parted, those with eyes saw something they would never forget.
The tides, grabbed on to those who had lost hope and pulled us back once more,
I thanked those benevolent tides of reason and compassion that we were returned to shore.

And there were celebrations all day and night when all of us stood safely on land.
We kissed the ground, so happy to be saved, to have found our way back home again.
We all knew if the tides had not shifted, there would be no rejoicing anywhere today,
Instead we would be burying our dead, wailing and mourning and digging our graves.

Karima Hoisan
December 16, 2023
Costa Rica

 

 

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I, Poet

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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               “At The Source” by Dale Innis on Midjourney AI Art

I, Poet

I can not think of anything new to say
so I sit down to read, over the years what I used to say
Sometimes I surprise myself with my perceptions…
Many times I laugh at myself for my delusions…
Most times I cradle myself for my innocence.

Poets can be so wise, so wrong and so naive.

If I had the chance to write it over again, would I?
Or would I leave what is written, as written remains?
Would I tweak, or alter or cosmetically color it prettier?
Or blow it to dust, erase it existed, so as not to feel ashamed?

The poet does have a responsibility for what is signed with their name.

Sometimes I feel I have said everything I wanted to say.
Many times I feel I withhold things I really would like to say.
Most times I feel only a few really understand what I try to say.
There’re times I choose the coward’s trick of parable and metaphor,
and hope those who read me, hold the key to open innuendo’s door.

Today, I bathe in the river source, and try to catch the flow once more.

Karima Hoisan
December 15, 2023
Costa Rica

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Photo Finish

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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.                                               …a lovestruck sprint…a headline race

Re-posting from 2014.
Photo Finish
For Hoyt….The Marathon Runner

This poem is a shoot pushing through the ground
It’s Spring; it’s April, a bud curled up
so fresh it has no idea What it wants to be.
It just knows Why it wants to be…
It wants to be for you.

Something new is being fashioned;
a feeling before the words emerge,
a heady zephyr, a lion to tame
a trending look, that has your name.
So put it on, and wear it well; it’s yours.

This poem’s on the fast track
It’s a starter and a winner
in a photo-finish ending.
It’s a valiant heart about to burst,
a lovestruck sprint, a headline race,
running in the lead, and you’re there cheering.

Now it opens; now it flowers,
showing off its colors.
Parading, high steps, freshly perfumed,
wearing ribbons,
takes a bow in center ring,
stands tall in winner’s circle,
a trophy of a flower,
while applause bursts from the stands and….
You’re there and wear the biggest smile….
You knew it was for you.

Karima Hoisan
April 10th, 2014
Costa Rica

 

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The Big Fish

Posted on December 11, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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                                            “Fish Truck” by Dale Innis on Midjourney

Click Play to Listen to My Spoken Word Version, To the Music Of Clint Mansell

The Big Fish

In my dream last week,
the scene opened upon me
frantically hosing down
a pick-up truck bed full of fish
flapping, still with life, but barely.

I was trying to get more pressure
and there was none.
Then I yelled to someone
“Help me take these fish
to their home in the lake,
You drive, I will keep hosing.”

They were skeptical,
but they were my friend
and they got in and drove
slowly towards the lake.
I ran behind, my infinite hose
in my hands, spraying just
enough water to keep them alive.
I was hopeful, I could save them all
My investment was profound,
being a Pisces, I was a fish too.

Then around a bend,
we hit a bump
The fish flew into the air
falling to one side,
into a big mud puddle,
They disappeared into
the brown murky water.
I yelled out,
“We need to save them!”
“They’re ok, they can stay there”
My friend stoically remarked.

Now I could not even see them
I dipped my hands in
but they slipped through my fingers
They must have felt ‘saved now’
but I knew it was a temporary reprieve.
In a few days this puddle would dry- up
and no longer sustain their lives.
This was not their home.
My friend yelled again,
“Leave them be. There’s a Big Fish
in the lake and it is eating them all”
They’re so much better off here.”

I sat down on the edge of the
muddy puddle, their temporary shelter
and I cried.
It’s true what my friend said,
In the lake they will most likely
be eaten by the Big Fish and die.
I woke up crying and realized
It was not just for the doomed fish.
I had lost something else so precious today….

I had lost hope.

Karima Hoisan
December 11, 2023
Costa Rica

 

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AI Dreams In Art Part 2 by Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis

Posted on December 9, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

Hi all.
I have been feeling very poetically and morally mute lately, so have been working on these videos of our virtual worlds, to have a record of their existence…just in case they poof into the ethers some day.
I know there is not a big interest in these, but here is part 2, the last part, for those who watched part 1 and I hope you will enjoy it. It is pretty amazing what can be built and displayed virtually!
Please watch on YouTube in HD

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AI Dreams in Art Part 1 by Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis

Posted on December 7, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

Hi everyone,
I am thrilled to share another of our virtual worlds with you all!
This is Part1 of a two-part view of one of our largest and most ambitious worlds, on Kitely Virtual Words, entitled “AI Dreams in Art.”
It is one of our most popular worlds; we have visitors daily.
There are 14 genres of AI Art all in their own appropriate settings.
All art, including frames, you see is free to copy and is export to take home with you.
For those who can not see it in-world, I have filmed this two-part video capture so you can feel you have visited, and what’s it like to be there.
Please watch it on YouTube in fullscreen in HD 1080…and ENJOY!
Let us know if you did, here or on YouTube. Likes on YouTube are very cherished:)


All images by Dale Innis using Midjourney AI Art.
Curation by Karima Hoisan
Builders: Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis Special
Thanks to Kim Starr for her Animesh Autumn Goddess
The poems recited, were inspired by their images
“Pirate” and “I Was The Child of a Flower-Child” Written and recited by Karima
Filming and Editing by Karima.
Thanks to YouTube and all the artists for making their music available.
Ensemble – gbry.svg _ Free Background Music _ Audio Library Release
Snowy Peaks Part I & II By Chris Haugen
Fresh Fallen Snow., YouTube Audio Library – Chris Hagan
‘Sardana’ by Kevin MacLeod _ 🇪🇸 Spanish Guitar (No Copyright

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