Day: August 19, 2014

Yiddish phrases and words

I asked him to explain how light waves..
And why Plato lived in a cave
Fertummelt,he cried
I’m perplexed,besides.
You’ll soon have me digging your grave

My husband is feeling ferdrayt.
He has been angered by his overlong wait.
The doctor’s fercockt
The lavatory got blocked
No wonder we’re both in this state.

My friend said,why was I farpitzs,
As if I took tea at the Ritz.
I cried,What’s it to you
If I do what I do…
You are driving me out of my wits

FERCOCKT: All fucked up.

FERDRAYT: Dizzy, confused.

FARPITZS: All dressed up.

FERMISHT: All shook up, as in an acute disturbance.

FERSHLUGINA: Beaten up, messed up, no good.

FERSHTAY?: Do you understand.

FERSHTINKINER: A stinker, a louse.

FERTUMMELT: Befuddled, confused.

Snakes and poetry

 

 
Friedrich Nietzsche

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

 

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Snake              by D.H. Lawrence

Knitting my day together

 

I knit the rhythmic pattern of my day,
the complex stitches make me sure to err
and yet I have no fear for on this way
I knit or unknit with my calm and care.

With warp and weft both in their rightful place
with right and wrong accepted and allowed
I knit quite slowly,saying no to haste.
I worship with my truth and am not cowed.

As I go back to fix a stitch which is not right
No longer do I castigate myself..
For in a flash I saw as if in light
That to and fro are both a part of health.

For now I know we all at times must fail
Such is the truth of our life’s measured tale