Day: April 14, 2016

Incarnate

From Vocabulary.com

Incarnate means “having a bodily form.” If you encounter someone who pulls off butterflies’ wings for fun, you might describe that person as “evil incarnate.”

The meaning of incarnate is precisely what its Latin roots suggest. The prefix in- means “in” and caro means “flesh,” so incarnate means “in the flesh.” The word can be used in positive or negative situations, but it always describes an unusual, possibly miraculous instance in which something that can’t normally be seen or touched assumes a bodily form. For example, the Christian religion was founded on the belief that Jesus was God incarnate.

Definitions of incarnate
1

adj

possessing or existing in bodily form

“an incarnate spirit”
Synonyms:
bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied
corporeal, material

having material or physical form or substance

adj

invested with a bodily form especially of a human body

“a monarch…regarded as a god incarnate”
Synonyms:
bodied

having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination

v

represent in bodily form

Synonyms:
body forth, embody, substantiate
Type of:
be

have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

v

make concrete and real

Antonyms:
disincarnate

make immaterial; remove the real essence of
Type of:
actualise, actualize, realise, realize, substantiate

make real or concrete; give reality or substance to

We must be incarnate

So much depends on mood and time of day

We interpret or mis-shape what we perceive.

The sun may shine to show a better way

Or absent that,a transient cloud deceive.

 

No lowing herds wind down our oil fumed  roads.

Tranquillity at dusk has disappeared.

With artificial light the daytime mode’s

 Prolonged and reverie’s  most feared.

 

To   truly live,we must be incarnate. 

God himself has paid the price alone.

For time misspent we do not get rebate.

As,like the leaves in wind,away we’re blown.

 

To live  aright perception must be clear;

Including in its breadth all that we fear.
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When our spirit dwells in our body we are incarnate.Some of us don't 
feel we are fully incarnate.The negative view of the body in does not help.

 

What is contempt?

Definition of contempt in English:

contempt

 Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛm(p)t/
NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

1The feeling that a person or a thing is worthless or beneath consideration:Pam stared at the girl with total contempthe wouldn’t answer a woman he held in such contempt

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1.1Disregard for something that should be considered:this action displays an arrogant contempt forthe wishes of the majority

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1.2(also contempt of court)The offence of being disobedient to ordisrespectful of a court of law and its officers:[COUNT NOUN]: when he was found to havelied to the House this was a contempt

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Phrases

beneath contempt
Utterly worthless or despicable:tawdry trash that is beneath contempt

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hold someone in contempt

Judge someone to have committed the offence of contempt of court:the advocate was held in contempt forsubpoenaing the judge

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3

hold someone/thing in contempt

Consider someone or something to be unworthyof respect or attention:the speed limit is held in contempt by manydrivers

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Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin contemptus, fromcontemnere (see contemn).

Smoke

 

If I go I won’t tell you.
I’ll just disappear one day.
Like when a cigarette ,which seemed so long,
suddenly has become smaller
and you never noticed it
because you were talking
about the meaning of life
while life was somewhere else
blown away with your smoke
into the sky
and then dispersed
never quite visible again
but still floating on the breeze
hoping to be caught
in a butterfly net
but unable to communicate
except by flying.

If I go it will not be today
but it will be an ordinary day;
no one will realisethat it’s that day
that the bird flies
from her nest
to go to a new place
only seeing the deserted nest
he realises,my bird has flown.

The poet in us all

Moments when the original “poet” in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the
unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory
because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking. (Marion Milner)

The proud man feels a deep disdain

The proud man feels a deep disdain
For those whose life has not seen gain
He feels he’s made his own great pile
From his own talent   and his guile

Yet vulnerable to ills and pains
Are all humans and their gains.
No-one is in full control
Of themself or earth or  soul.

And why despise a humble man
Who works as hard as any can?
In a  coal mine or  the docks
Tending goats and sheep in flocks.

 

Remember Job and how he fell?
None’s immune  though he feel well.
At least  treat  all with  some respect
Even those in tatters decked.

Disdain in English

Definition of disdain in English:

disdain

Pronunciation: /dɪsˈdeɪn/
NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one’s consideration or respect:her upper lip curled in disdainan aristocratic disdain for manual labour

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VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Consider to be unworthy of one’s consideration:he disdained his patients as an inferior rabble

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1.1Refuse to do (something) from feelings of pride or superiority:she remained standing, pointedly disdaining his invitation to sit down[WITH INFINITIVE]: he disdained to discuss the matter further

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Origin

Middle English: from Old French desdeign (noun),desdeignier (verb), based on Latin dedignari, from de-(expressing reversal) + dignari ‘consider worthy’ (from dignus ‘worthy’).

I feel at one with nature green

When wanderings take the restless mind
To places peace can never find,
When imaginations linked to fear
Push tranquillity away.
To my green garden I must go
And let my mind and thoughts go slow.
I look up at maples in the breeze,
See sunlight dappled through their leaves.
I see the apples hanging down
And blackbirds peck them on the ground.
I see the hawthorn berries ripe
Upon the hedge in gold sunlight.
And then my soul is brought to earth
Peacefulness is given birth
I feel at one with nature green,
And all that is just now unseen
So back to everyday routines
Without “what for?” ” what might have been”
All is well and shall be so
Wherever we may chance to go.

My main wish is for more police on Earth

 Make your love permanent.Freeze it!

 


I was sadder than a wet fen which is how I often feel when ill or I split infinities suddenly
it was my utter nadir.The skin of my teeth peeled off and the nerves screamed like music written by a post modern composer.Still,it was free.
I make money by selling souls to wolves who listen at the door
Please nail my hat on if we get a blizzard.I can’t bare to lose heat
My main wish is for more police on Earth
I make a brake for my brain but my mind runs ahead of me
Can you make a long story tauter?
Take a mountain out of a mole hill and you will be in a hole!
Make an ass out of felt… it will feel good
Can one make ends meet or is it not logical?
Fake like you are a tree with leaves then shiver your timbers
I place no overtones in my verses.I like plainsong
It’s Mack or Jake for the Party
Why make out you found bliss in my tarts?
Do I make the grade as a wordsmiter?
I make tracks for wild animals, which adore me… the Beasts!
Can we make up and kiss our own throats?
Why make waves when it’s already windy on the lake?
Make your love permanent.Freeze it!
 

No donkey or Joseph

The woman walks in a bleak landscape of monotone colors.
With child,she crosses this rough terrain
without a Joseph to protect or a donkey to carry her.
No inn nor stable is here.No cattle nor sheep
Nothing alive.
Now she feels her labor pains coming;
Lies down amongst the rocks to wait
Here is an anonymous,faceless figure.
Pronounces himself a doctor.
She labors; he picks up her son.No Messiah nor Oedipus;
Without speaking,he conveys to her,this child  is dead.
Not ever held in the arms of hie mother
Nor father either.
He’s tossed, light as a few feathers,
light almost as a bird
onto a pile of bodies nearby.
Whose unwanted children are these:?
Still lying flat she observes her child
one of many there.
Days pass and strength returns.
Stands now and walks over to say,Farewell.
The child opens his eyes
Mother,they say,mother.
She holds him and presses him into herself for warmth…
Which way to go and when?
No signs, no maps…
Is there a right way?
Is there a guide?
Why was she journeying this way?
She remembers nothing
She has lost almost everything ….
She steps forward and walks on.
What other choice  has she got?

Fear of anxiety

Zenophobia = fear of meditation.
Manophobia=fear of single men.
Ironpansophobia-fear of metal pans.
Stanophobia-fear of my stories.
Lensophobia= fear of digital cameras.
Femophobia-fear of females.
Criticismophobia= fear of nasty remarks.
Tanophobia=fear of the sun
.Tenophobia= fear of decimals.
Bigbenophobia= fear of the government
Fenophobia=fear of East Anglia.
Henophobia=fear of being chased by hens.
Sinophobia= fear of Chinese sins.
Tinophobia= fear of tinned Fray Bentos pies.
Chartphobia=fear of diagrams.

I’ve had two

I once had a doctor called Sparke
Famous for making us talk.
He said,how do you do?
I replied,I’ve had two.
But I feel as if still in the dark.

Two of just what have you had?
You certainly look much less sad.
Men,I reminded him
Sometimes want  me to sin.
So I thought I’d  learn to be bad.

Oh,no said Dr Sparke
Do not sin in the dark
So now I light candles
When Nicholas mandles
Life,ain’t it often a lark?

So why are you here Sparky said.
I knew my face was very red.
I want a stuffed doll
To hold as I loll.
I miss my dear husband in bed.

 
Can I get one on prescription
After I give a description?
I’ll ask our MP
If he can see
If there is any restriction.

So I said,ask God to send my man back
Without him I do feel a lack.
A speech partner, I need.
And a man for to feed.
Otherwise my mind turns black

 

Get hotter in jail

After being caught dead-heading enjambented fuchsias
George had  indeed judged kaffee-kllatsch love
Merely neurotic,often paid quantitatively recently.
So tamarind were xeromorphic

Yelling ” zaftig” after being close, destroyed Eve’s feelings.
Generally hearing insults, Kafka lamented matters not original perforce.

Queuing rose to whatever  xerox you zeroed and baited.
Can dead fish go happily in jerseys knitted lengthily madly?
Not often perplexed,
quality riddled some.
To underfund
where x-rated Zurichers ate,
being choosy did even faze go-getters.
Heavily inking just  Kraft
left many not over prepared.
Quite recently sorrow,
there under veils,
was X rayed  yet zapped.

And Barbara caught David eating French Fries galore.
Hearing it jokily kept Lara  midway.
Next
Open  pies quite rarely sell to underweight vagabonds where xylophones yearn Z-functions are between cases defined effectively from game-nabbers.
Here in jail,knots leave me not open per [quite] se.
To under-clothe Vera was x-rated .
You’re Zed,after all?
Be careful
Do exceed Frank
Get hotter in jail.
Kendal left me nuked.
Opinions, perhaps  quaint, radiated serenely.
Trainers under valued were X-large.
Yellow
Zen-phobic?

And be clean ,decent .even-handed,fair,godly,homely,jokey
Leary,manly,neurotically. only. pleasing,quarrelsome,rabid,sane
Tame,ugly,virtuous,wanting,X-evading, young,zafting and beautiful.

Xenophobia sounds like an ill

Xenophobia  sounds like an ill;
A disease  independent of will.
In animals  a defence
In humans some sense
As a stranger’s unpredictable still

Yet “phobia” sounds excessively strong
A defence over-done till it’s wrong.
Caution’s sufficient
When sense is deficient.
They’ll be sisters and brothers ere long.

As animals we don’t wish to share
The food and the money that’s here.
Better  ponder with care,
To see what is fair.
Or the ill-will  unleashed will  be bare.

Our natural instincts are tamed
Over-doing that makes us maimed
As Freud indicated
A theory vindicated
Sex labelled sin  has defamed.

Can  we  each find a good middle way
Which permits some fun and some play?
And enough intellect
To surely detect
Who is our real enemy?

 

 

 

 

Xenophobia

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From Merriam Webster dictionary

xenophobia

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noun xe·no·pho·bia \ˌze-nə-ˈfō-bē-ə, ˌzē-\
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Simple Definition of xenophobia

  • : fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

Full Definition of xenophobia

  1. :  fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign

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Did You Know?

If you look back to the ancient Greek terms that underlie the word xenophobia, you’ll discover that xenophobic individuals are literally “stranger fearing.” “Xenophobia,” that elegant-sounding name for an aversion to persons unfamiliar, ultimately derives from two Greek terms: xenos, which can be translated as either “stranger” or “guest,” and “phobos,” which means either “fear” or “flight.” “Phobos” is the ultimate source of all English “-phobia” terms, but many of those were actually coined in English or New Latin using the combining form “-phobia” (which traces back to “phobos”). “Xenophobia” itself came to us by way of New Latin and first appeared in print in English in 1903.

Stones and leaves and flowers

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midsummer days evoke the trancelike past
where children played in joyous, daisied fields
with buttercups so bright the memory lasts
a freedom that our conscious growth will steal.

those stones and leaves and many coloured flowers
were gathered into images that glow
yet later we forget those treasured hours
when for a while we lived in life’s deep flow

we did not look and see,but felt at one
we lived as did the birds high in the trees
now we see , yet experiencing has gone
we no longer live like flowers all  filled with bees

to lose ourselves in nature is a joy
which to our adult selves we must restore

Words are like beads on a chain

1.
Words are like beads on a chain,

Alone they can’t take any strain.

But joined up in gold,

A sentence can mold.

A prayer is repeated again.

 

2l

Words cluster in salient groups,

Waiting for writers to stoop..

Then instead of one word

A sentence is heard,

Some call this poetry soup.

3.

Professors do not create words,

which from the unconscious are lured.

They only critique

What you and I speak.

After conversing and writing,that’s third.