Day: June 4, 2016

Enchantment

How white and blue together recollect us
to the summer sky and the imagined swallows
darting in exquisite geometry
under the great domed space of the heavens,
like the Basilica in Constantinople
containing and giving space.
And how I held you for a moment that was infinite
and then you were gone like an angel fearing enchantment
into some finite boundaried world

Wrongly worded sentences

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1.And I’d like to thank Dr Smith for exposing himself  so  often in  postgraduate discussions when all the other fellows had left

2.I’d like to  thank the chef here for all those pots of  free wee in the afternoon

3.And the Babylonians for inventing real  lumber and the Indians for inventing Nothing

4.I’d like to thank my husband for finding a mistress so I could write my   crook

5.And Marks and Spencer for their ready made Wheels

6. l  thank the men for   wearing very baggy trousers so we ladies won’t be distracted by their gorgeous figures.

7  M& S for their  delightful cotton  blunderwear which saves much  coshing

8 And thank you to the Exams Office for their  blindness now and in the past

9 Thank you to Noreen  and Brian for typing my creases  out

10  And thank God I have finished my  studies of jumbles now and forever.I hope to  work in an other dimension if dimwitted.

 

 

The globe may look quite bent

 This is a very old poem.I find it interesting to look at them now
Geo ti guarda
Geo ti guarda (Photo credit: silgeo)

I’ll draw a graph of Mother Earth
I’ll need a lot of paper.
It won’t be easy,I know that,
But Geo’s my alma mater.

Geo came to our maths class.
We had to find her metre.
If we did then we could write
A poem with which to greet her.

With ologies and eulogies,
The earth is deep in waste.
Give me some green graph charts
I’ll do some cut and paste.

I’ll rearrange the entire globe,
Without a deal of fuss.
If anybody notices
They won’t know it was us!

I’ll put all the mountains in the world
Into one continent.
And if I am that way inclined
The globe will look quite bent.

I’ll put the lions and tigers too
Into Parliament.
Let them eat not cake but men
And don’t charge them a rent.

I’ll paste all the seas that I  can find
Onto my washing line.
With less water around the world
The weather should be fine.

Oh Geo was a darling child,
So promising and bright.
Mixed up with the graphs and charts
I hope she’ll see the light.

I’ll put all  stars into a box
We have far too many.
Yet only one sun and one moon,
So,would you pickle  any?

Geo return,I love you so.
I’ll give up cut and paste to show.
That you are all I’ll ever know,
and i do love you so

Startled too easily?

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http://www.effective-mind-control.com/startle-response.html

A few years ago I was sitting here sketching the mantelpiece which like my mother in law’s was full of shells.pebbles,little stone cats etc.Suddenly a neighbour walked into the room and I screamed.I think my husband was in the hall so he saw him coming before he rang the bell.This man wanted to see me so My husband  told him to come in here without telling me.I must say both me and the man were shocked.So I think sometimes it might be good to be  less easily startled.

Eros and philosophy

English: Amor stringing his bow, Roman copy af...
English: Amor stringing his bow, Roman copy after Greek original by Lysippos. Musei Capitolini, Rome. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Eros. Attic red-figure bobbin, ca. 470 BC–450 BC.
Eros. Attic red-figure bobbin, ca. 470 BC–450 BC. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Eros in philosophy

This is an especially good article from the NYT.The comments are interesting,

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Glory be to God for dappled things

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Mike’s photos made me think of this poem and as we were raised in the Catholic tradition we found Hopkins partly through that connection as he was a Jesuit priest

 

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918.
13. Pied Beauty
GLORY be to God for dappled things—
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;         5
    And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:         10
                  Praise him.
See Notes.