You Make The Magic

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Stars & Sunny Room Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis on Midjourney AI

You Make The Magic

The magic of shape and color and shades of light
of textures so darkly smooth, and so sharply bright
Roll off my retinas until I almost faint and fall into bloom
I didn’t think I’d find all of this in my glorious sunny room.

What sorcery of love or bewitched ways await?
I’m caught in your bright lights awaiting my fate.
But your colors call me, your stained glass & wire
Your remarkable talent is perfume that sets me afire.

The stars are everywhere, stars & moons, ethereal tunes
The incense, burns, the candles flicker, the singer croons
I am sitting cross-legged on a pile of pillows, rolling tapestries
If I close my eyes, this light show grows and takes away my realities.

When I open them, the leafless tress beckon me to help them leaf
They know more than I, so I dance in their bare arms, feeling their grief
But you wave your hands around us and it is Spring and we all rebirth
It is any time you choose it to be, my Wizard, My Magician my Beloved Earth.

*Footnote for Cindy:)  A good example of my “loopy poetry” after dental surgery yesterday…

Karima Hoisan
October 17, 2023
Costa Rica

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The Wizard Pt. 3 Final Part

Hi everyone,

I’d like to invite you all to the last part of our virtual tour on,
“The Wizard” on Kitely Virtual worlds.

As I say on YouTube:
“The Wizard is on Kitely Virtual Worlds, in Opensim, created by Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis. This is the 3rd and final part. I was trying to capture the whole world in 3 sections. The actual tour takes 30 minutes and it is automatic. This 3rd part rewards you for all your hardships and presents a particle show and original poem by Karima. Kurk Mumfuzz created the various particles you see and Dale Innis & I choreographed an automatic show that begins playing as soon as you enter. The walls, floors and ceiling are textured in parcel media texturing.
You remain under The Wizard’s power until you stand up at the very end. This is not meant to be great machinima, just capturing on film one of our worlds. *footnote my Space Navigator (3D Mouse) skills need polishing…sorry if you feel like a weaving drunk was behind the camera…I hope to get better:):) In the second & third part, I think they are improving a bit:). Enjoy!!

Fullscreen and HD and enjoy the final part of The Wizard Experience!

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The Wizard Part 2

This is the 2nd part of my virtual world on Kitely called “The Wizard”It is unlisted but you are free to share it. I am not making it public as the camera skills are still in process:) This is what I say in the YouTube blurb.:

“The Wizard is a virtual world on Kitely Virtual Worlds, created by Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis. This is the 2nd part of a 3 part video, attempting to capture the whole world in 3 sections. The actual tour takes 30 minutes and it is automatic. This 2nd part trades your horse for a boat, dancing, hanging, hovering.., you are totally under The Wizard’s power until you stand up at the very end. This is not meant to be great machinima, just capturing on film one of our worlds. *footnote my space navigator (3D Mouse) skills need polishing…sorry if you feel like a weaving drunk was behind the camera…I hope to improve:):) In this second part, I think there is a little better stability. Enjoy in Fullscreen and HD! All the sounds you hear are on the world when you travel through.
I hope to have the last part over the weekend:)
*Footnote: I am very disappointed how my world looks on YouTube. It was shot in HD and to see the difference, you can watch how it should look( brighter clearer) by clicking on this link. https://filedn.com/l7Df4R6F1DTBv0B99l7YP6L/The%20Wizard%20Part%202.mp4

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Taking Flight

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                         Image “Taking Flight” by Dale Innis on Bing AI

Taking Flight

I’m flying so much better than I did before
No matter how hard I really flapped my wings
I could not rise above the heads of my guests
And now I soar over rooftops and see too much.

I night-fly with moon high or with a pitch black sky
When the town below is sound asleep; I glide by
The upper windows where the people cry & cry
I linger there, shed some tears and then away I fly.

People make up stories now about the change in me.
They buy their sweets, whispering about me in the bakery
Some say I am a stalking soul, I am evil and I steal gold
Actually I have compassion, but I’m just lonely, truth be told.

I never asked for this gift of flight, it came to me one night,
While I was crying in my upstairs room, I fell asleep into a swoon
All night in dreams, I learned to fly, not too high, not in the sky,
Through the rooms, cruising waist high, but when I awoke, I still could fly.

And the next day and the week after that and now it’s part of me.
I’ve learned to not talk about it much, for envy and fear and such.
I am progressing rapidly in my patterns, altitude and flying skills…
Today, I could just fly away as no one makes me feel that I should stay.

Karima Hoisan
October 17, 2023
Costa Rica

*Just writing some poetry tonight:)

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The Wizard Part 1 on YouTube

Hi everyone,

I know I have been a little scarce here lately, but I am going to show you today why:)
I finally bought a new laptop after more than 8 years and now projects are
possible to realize.
Over the past 12 years, I have created 21 worlds on a platform called, Kitely in Opensim.
Many of these, I think 13,  were done in conjunction with Dale Innis on scripts.
Only Dale can change a horse into a boat as you will see:):)
This is similar to Second Life but allows more freedom and economic

possibilities to even maintain 21 worlds (I keep them going for about $40 a month)

If something ever happened and this grid was no longer in existence, I would lose all
of them and my son was saying that I should film each one, to have at least the YouTube proof of their existence.  Plus most of my readers on WordPress will never visit a virtual world…so now you can see what you’re missing hehe. Natascha and I  made a short teaser for this world in 2021 (It was Nat’s last project) but we never showed what it’s really like to go inside and Ride!!
This is a big job, but I have begun with Part 1 of The Wizard.

As I say on YouTube:

“The Wizard is a virtual world on Kitely Virtual Worlds, created by Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis. This is the 1st part of a 3 part video trying to capture the whole world in 3 sections. The actual tour takes 30 minutes and it is automatic. This 1st part show’s how after you sit on the horse, you are totally under The Wizard’s power until you stand up at the very end. This is not meant to be great machinima, just capturing on film one of our worlds. *footnote my space navigator (3D Mouse) skills need polishing…sorry if you feel like a weaving drunk was behind the camera…I hope to improve:):)

So Please watch it Fullscreen and in HD! All the sounds you hear, you will actually hear,  if you jump on a horse and fall under the Wizard’s spell. All particle effects were created by Kurk Mumfuzz from Second Life and scripted by Dale Innis. I conceived and built the world you will see.
This is what it looked like when I started:
This is what it looks like now:)

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My poem “Rain Forest Balcony” Performed on Spillwords. com

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I am sooo excited!! My poem “Rain Forest Balcony” is up today on Spillwords and they included a little icon you can push and hear it recited to my own music!!!
WOOOOOOOO!

This is a first for me and I am so thankful to Dagmara K. for trying this out!!!
All the sounds you hear were recorded by me at my house at the beach, over the years, which sits on the very edge of a protected National Park.
I am not going to put the recording here…just please go to Spillwords to read and listen….and leave a little heart or if I could capture yours with my poem:):) Comment are welcome everywhere:)

Rain Forest Balcony

The booming bark of nearby howler monkeys,
announce the day.
Soprano giggling parakeets, against an ocean backdrop,
fly away.

Please go here to read and hear the rest and Thank You!!!
https://spillwords.com/rain-forest-balcony/

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Beach Day With Dale

My son Julian, who as you remember is into making random drone movies of our real lives,  Click Here , captured Dale and myself and some surfers out on our beach day in Costa Rica.  He made it as a short surprise for Dale, who really enjoyed it, and we all agreed would be fun to share it on my blog:) So here it is…Julian put it together, I added only the title and the music. It’s about a minute long:) Full-screen and Enjoy!!

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Twinkle Heart

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                    “Twinkle Heart” by Dale Innis on Midjourney AI
Please Click on Play to hear me recite the poem, “Twinkle Heart” to my own audio track written on my new Garage Band.

Twinkle Heart

My twinkle heart sees through the flesh & bone;
It knows just where it really has to go,
if it’s to see the essence pure, the glowing soul,
inside the loved one, it’s desired now to know.

It moves beyond the trappings and the sheen,
the subtle masks we wear to keep others away.
It bores and penetrates until it finds that gem
“Hello my friend, I knew you were exactly this way!

You may as well not try, for to resist is a losing game.
Keep your wits about you and before time runs out,
feel my sincere wish to roam through all your inner sanctums,
to really and finally know what you are all about.

I love you, my twinkle heart knew it from the start
so just surrender once to this heart’s desire.
Allow it to light a glowing candle in your darkest rooms
and melt the years of solitude, with just a twinkle set your own afire.

Karima Hoisan
October 3, 2023
Costa Rica

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Breaking The Fourth Wall

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Breaking the Fourth Wall

I am so filled with gratitude that we threw that brick
into the screen, that held us trapped
inside virtuality.
Although that world has its charms and we both
move so smoothly through it.
We work on and conjure up anything we can dream,
but there is much to be said for touch,
something we have learned to imagine over the years
but not in a million could we feel our fingers entwine
feel the salty breeze on our faces and hear every wave
simultaneously together as we sit admiring
the roaring sea and smell the ocean brine.

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This great gift has not gone unnoticed or unappreciated
by either of us…
Driving through the mountains, swimming and floating,
clapping giggling overwhelmed by the mariachi band,
singing Happy Birthday to you..watching you become
10 again, so full of childlike glee.
The quiet moments surrounded by Nature..
My friends already feeling like they know you
hugs and smiles and tears of awe
So glad we did this….so very grateful
that we threw that brick
into the screen, that held us trapped
inside virtuality.

Karima Hoisan
Sept. 27th, 2023
Costa Rica

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So…..We Did It!

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September 22, 2023 (Dale’s Birthday)

“After 12 years of working together, we finally meet
And one afternoon, InshAllah we’ll sit on the sand
While the sun sets into the water, and finally hold hands.”
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Dale Innis & Karima Hoisan
Taken in Dominical Costa Rica September 22, 2023

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