Flowers
Flowers are a class of trick based on compound circles, where the hands are moved in large, slow circles, and the poi rotate several times for each arm rotation, creating further circles around the perimeter. These moves create beautiful, symmetrical traces when performed cleanly.
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Famous quotes containing the word flowers:
“Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merelyflowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the sunshine of ours.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.”
—Robert Bresson (b. 1907)
“And like a prophetess of May
Strewd flowers upon the barren way,
Making the wintry world appear
Like one on whom thou smilest, dear.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)