December 2011
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It’s as if a painter started with eyes →
chaikoan:
It’s as if a painter started with eyes, the lines along a rim and irises aglow, to determine how the rest of the face fell onto the canvas or scrap that follow from brush to palette mixing the shades and hues in a fine gloss on flat surface. Then like life, by some jump, fingertips scratched into focus, fondling or feelings, then an ear comes round in sympathy for the difficulties...
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Czesław Miłosz, On Prayer →
bellswithin:
You ask me how to pray to someone who is not. All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge And walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard, Above landscapes the color of ripe gold Transformed by a magic stopping of the sun. That Bridge leads to the shore of Reversal Where everything is just the opposite and the word ‘is’ Unveils a meaning we hardly envisioned. Notice: I...
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Amidst Worlds - by Innokenty Annensky →
chaikoan:
Amidst worlds, and radiant star A lustrous light, I murmur Her name and sigh… Not because She was mine to love afar, But merely because I suffer those drawn nigh. And if my anguished doubts remain, I wish to divine Her answer on this night, Not because the light She sheds will sustain, Only because with Her I need no light.
translation by LynnChakoian and S. Albertoff
January 2011 -...
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Mayakovski
driftwork:
Omnipotent one You thought up a pair of hands Fixed it So that everyone has a head. Why couldn’t you fix it So that without torment We could just kiss and kiss and kiss ?
Mayakovski … quoted from Roman Jakobson Verbal Art….
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“Be not overeager to go to the house of God. (Ecclesiastes 4:17)
This verse...”
– Opening page of Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla’s Sha’are Orah
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Cold War by Fred Eaglesmith
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“Happy Birthday
JOE: In our country, you’re free and so you’re born and so they...”
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Our Era is Political →
bikerbar:
We are children of our era; our era is political. All affairs, day and night, yours, ours, theirs, are political affairs. Like it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political cast, your eyes a political aspect. What you say has a resonance; what you are silent about is telling. Either way, it’s political. Even when you head for the hills you’re taking political...
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More Government, Please!
It is September 2011, and Speaker of the House John Boehner is making an important statement on the subject of our flagging economy. He is dressed in a dark suit and one of those luminous ties for which he is renowned; the monotone of his voice says solidity, predictability, the sort of consummate, reassuring dullness it must take a lifetime of Rotary meetings to perfect. It is actually...
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