Author: Katherine

Poetry writer and author

I won’t let you

He said,I could go to the City

It’s just you won’t let me

I said,that’s true,I won’t let you.

Sweetheart.

He said,I could get dressed and meet my friends

But you won’t let me.

I said

No,I won’t let you.

I won’t

let you.

He said,I’ll be alright tomorrow,won’t I?Will you let me?

I said,Yes,I’ll let you.

Then he smiled at me and closed his eyes

And I let him

Go

And he went.

 

 

 

He isn’t here

He isn’t here

The air rippled like sea

Niarbyll bay and butterflies

I caught a glance

In water

Shining

He isn’t here

Waves blind me

With white heads

Sunlight in the morning

Hit the fridge door

He isn’t here

The teapot glinted

An  eye,perhaps.

The warmth is unusual for February

I went to the hospital again

He wasn’t there

He wasn’t there

He wasn’t there

 

Lydia Davis author

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6366/art-of-fiction-no-227-lydia-davis

I have a lot of books on Zen Buddhism. One of my favorite titles is Open Mouth Already a Mistake. That may provide a better insight into leaving out articles. It has something of the saying, the tag, or the pronouncement.

 

 

 

Yehuda Amichai

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2095/the-art-of-poetry-no-44-yehuda-amichai

A Child is Something Else Again

BY YEHUDA AMICHAI

TRANSLATED BY CHANA BLOCH

A child is something else again. Wakes up
in the afternoon and in an instant he’s full of words,
in an instant he’s humming, in an instant warm,
instant light, instant darkness.
A child is Job. They’ve already placed their bets on him
but he doesn’t know it. He scratches his body
for pleasure. Nothing hurts yet.
They’re training him to be a polite Job,
to say “Thank you” when the Lord has given,
to say “You’re welcome” when the Lord has taken away.
A child is vengeance.
A child is a missile into the coming generations.
I launched him: I’m still trembling.
A child is something else again: on a rainy spring day
glimpsing the Garden of Eden through the fence,
kissing him in his sleep,
hearing footsteps in the wet pine needles.
A child delivers you from death.
Child, Garden, Rain, Fate.

 

 

Caucus

  • hand and foot

caucus

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Line breaks: cau¦cus

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːkəs/

Definition of caucus in English:

noun (plural caucuses)

1(In some US states) a meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention:Hawaii holds its nominating caucuses next Tuesdayhe stumbled through the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary
2A conference of members of a legislative body who belong to a particular party or faction:Mr Kerry attended the morning caucus in the Old Senate Chamber where his fellow Democrats selected the new minority leadership
2The members of a legislative body who belong to a particular party or faction, considered as a group:she is renowned for her ability to unite her caucus
2.1An informal group composed of legislators who have shared concerns or interests:a member of the Congressional Black Caucusthe Knesset’s Christian allies caucus
A group within an organization or political party which meets independently to discuss strategy or tactics:up to fifty caucuses met daily on conference grounds to discuss lobbying strategieshe was forced out by a hard-left caucus which had taken over his constituency party

verb (caucuses, caucusing, caucused)

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1Hold or form a legislative caucus:Republicans briefly caucusedthere is one Independent who caucuses with the Democrats
1.1(Of a voter) attend an electoral caucus, especially on behalf of a particular candidate:more than half of those young people that caucused yesterday caucused for Barack Obama

Origin

mid 18th century: perhaps from Algonquian cau’-cau’-as’u ‘adviser’.

Raucous or harsh

raucous

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Line breaks: rau|cous

Pronunciation: /ˈrɔːkəs/

Definition of raucous in English:

adjective

Making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise:raucous youths

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Derivatives

raucously
Pronunciation: /ˈrɔːkəsli/

adverb

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raucousness
Pronunciation: /ˈrɔːkəsnəs/

noun

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Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin raucus ‘hoarse’ + -ous.

In the snow, I think

 

 

Too old for cold,I stand, now ,against our hedge,
Watching   snowflakes in the glare of neon street lights.
Darkness has come early,and I think of country uplands and huddled sheep.
On Salisbury Plain,shepherds watched their flocks
Just as in Bethlehem two thousand years before,
But, “between the wars”,it stopped.
Now we know there is no “between the wars”.
Who decided
To cull the sheep and shepherds and the space for kindness ?
Now that same Plain still exists,but banned.
It’s closed to human-kind,
For bombs ,not wombs it’s there
Not for birth of lamb ,nor gypsy child ,nor Saviour.
Where would He go today?

They’re tabled

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There I was with my feet on their table when she said, they’re coming  back now.I said, them? She said, oh, them, you know and all their relatives.Where will they  all sit, I asked nervously as  their chairs were full of boxes of paper for printing my new ebook on.Except you don’t print e books, do you? That’s the whole point.

She told me they always brought their  folding chairs. from the garden And food?I queried anxiously.Don’t worry it’s a Fasting Day today.There you are, that is a good day to ask people round as if Catholic they can  only drink tea and eat bread and if Jewish they can’t have anything at all so it’s economical.That seems very selfish, I replied.Well, they’re always  eating and are obese already.I see, how disgusting I told her thoughtlessly, as she was about 4 stone overweight by her own  reckoning.

Well, there it is.Take it or leave it.The religious and their traditions could fill a book! As if………………The Bible!They’re very sensitive to criticism so I usually use witticisms instead.Very nice, too.

There were ten  full green bottles  and they’re all empty.Their owner will be hopping mad.It’s like their mother’s milk.Except she had no bottles built in.And cigarettes, what are they? I guess Irigay says  it’s  the end of the rule  of the  phallic  domain and  that oral sex  is a relapse into preverbal tonguing and inchoate irreplaceable longings.I don’t find their antics over there bemusing at all but  they’re a source of  laughter when the cat is asleep on my keyboard.

 

 

Where our consolation is

When tensions  push  sharp splinters through our souls
And into stranger’s ears we pour our woes..
When grief and sorrow shudder with our walls.
And whether all is lost we cannot know

When what is in or out we cannot tell;
Reality and dream become confused.
When spears of agony are felt to maim each cell.
When sensibility is utterly bemused.
.
He in whom we trusted wills to fail
For what he said was love was mere desire.
Then pain and disappointment make  us frail;
With torment know, this lover was a liar.

Then, having lost all other means to live,
We turn to darkness where our consolation is.

A life now absurd

Tribulation seems an old fashioned word

A religious note  struck and then heard.

To think of our troubles

As  tests and not muddles

Gives meaning to a life now absurd.

 

I think I’ve had enough tribulation

And the same goes for all deviations

Standard  or mean,

How numbers do scheme.

I prefer now  my feline fabulations.

U A Fanthorpe,an important poet

 

 

Rivers of colour
Rivers of colour

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/u-a-fanthorpe-poet-who-championed-the-underdog-and-whose-work-was-rooted-in-english-history-1677685.html

She wrote so well but made it understandable to all.

So we can sin:How not to learn English

 

Sadder than a  set  trifle with Carnation milk would be in Bloomsbury
I made it  big  from the sins of my  briefs.Amongst other undies,sundries and blunders.
 My hat  is made of old money and old rope.
Impale that gin so we can sin.
I,inane,   wish for beauty ‘ere I die
I made a brake for  my mind

My mind needs a mini-break
Make a long story  taut by editing and deleting 97 per cent
They made a mountain out of a coal hill and we got Abergavan
Make ends meet: Sew them together

Make lens suit: press your eyes.

Dry your eyes and press them nearly
You can make heads or tails of tadpoles into soup
I make like a  flea and leave a bite
We make no bones about it.It’s a corset.
Make or break this marriage: come to bed,my beloved.The sheets need changing as the Rorsach blots are boring.
He makes out like I planned it myself.
I make the Sadean protean and the  signifier  phallic , implying the edge of language is near and the Fall is clear.Oh,dear.
We make tracks in the sand.In the dessert,in fact.
Why makeup when arguing is free?
 Don’t make  the suave pay for that U
Make your move by collapsing all choices
 The new kettle makes my blood boil but  he prefers tea

Happenstance

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 [hap–uh n-stans]
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noun
1.

a chance happening or event.
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1895-1900

1895-1900; happen + (circum)stance

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  • But the happenstance habits of nature were steadily being integrated intothe control program of man.

    The Thirst Quenchers Rick Raphael

  • The German was just a happenstance, a castaway in the war for Arzachel.

    First on the Moon Jeff Sutton

  • Out of the chaos of happenstance they were finding rules of order, certain formulas of behavior, equations of force.

    Empire Clifford Donald Simak

  • This is contrasted to happenstance decision making based on impulsiveness and wishful thinking.

    Sequential Problem Solving Fredric Lozo

  • As for deceased, his ontimely evaporation that a-way is but the frootes ofhappenstance.

    Faro Nell and Her Friends Alfred Henry Lewis
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happenstance

/ˈhæpənˌstæns/
noun

1.

chance
2.

a chance occurrence
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n.

1897, from happening + ending from circumstance.

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The origins of the word tribulation

From Merriam Webster
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tribulation

noun trib-yuh-LAY-shun
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Definition

: distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution; also : a trying experience

Examples

“Now Lemsford’s great care, anxiety, and endless source of tribulation was the preservation of his manuscripts.” — Herman Melville, White Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of-War, 1850

“In sharing the many tribulations of real-life patients and physicians, Nussbaum unveils a thoughtful, well-rounded, yet thorny vision of the current state of medicine.” — Kirkus Reviews, 15 Jan. 2016

 

Did You Know?

The writer and Christian scholar Thomas More, in his 1534 work A dialoge of comforte against tribulation, defined the title word as “euery such thing as troubleth and greueth [grieveth] a man either in bodye or mynde.” These days, however, the word tribulation is typically used as a plural noun, paired with its alliterative partner trial, and relates less to oppression and more to any kind of uphill struggle. Tribulation derives via Middle English and Old French from the Latin verb tribulare (“to oppress or afflict”), which is related to tribulum, a noun meaning “threshing board.”

The penumbra limerick

Is Penumbra a  fair name for a girl?

Hi,Penumbra let’s go for a whirl.

Penumbra and Jonah

Got engaged when he phoned her

And, by gum, did he make her hair curl.

 

Pemumbra  was wedded in blue

As for bridesmaids, she had forty-two.

But she needed no rollers

When Jonah  bowled her over

As her ringlets  had been  tightened with glue.

 

 

 

 

Penumbra is derived from Latin

penumbra

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Line breaks: pen|um¦bra

Pronunciation: /pɪˈnʌmbrə/

Definition of penumbra in English:

noun (plural penumbrae pɪˈnʌmbriː or penumbras)

1The partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.

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1.1 Astronomy The shadow cast by the earth or moon over an area experiencing a partial eclipse.

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1.2 Astronomy The less dark outer part of a sunspot, surrounding the core.

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2A peripheral or indeterminate area or group:an immense penumbra of theory surrounds any observation

Derivatives

 

penumbral

Pronunciation: /pɪˈnʌmbrəl/

adjective

 

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Origin

Mid 17th century: modern Latin, from Latin paene ‘almost’ + umbra ‘shadow’.

Words that rhyme with penumbra

umbra

Definition of penumbra in:

This variegated colour

In between the  blackness and the bright,

Graded shades of grey and lilac lie.

These variegated  colours give delight.

And from my soul, I hear a  gentle sigh.

 

As we live, we dwell in mysteries;

Must take decisions based on  various views.

And unknown memories from our history

Bring out  the old , so misperceive the new.

 

For  true perception, we must humble be.

Not for moral reasons but for sight.

The emptiness   lets flood creative seas.

And allows  bright  rays of  guiding golden  light.

 

We need to know we do not know at all.

And, trembling, hold  the doors of vision wide.

So gentle  should be judgements when we fail.

Then errors  we’ll appreciate, not hide.

 

We will  deal with life unknown, unclear;

Perception is  a better   guide than  fear.

 

 

 

And so it was transfated

Google transwaite
Just go by the sound!

Vous me fait donc schlumpe;
Vous me fait sentir si glumpe.
Elle me fais, il y a des cloches à Schwunge
Enfer à brhung lunge
Et un poumon woenderful à Thunge.

Vous êtes juste un cocker alter;
En bas, dans la vieille doekker glosse
Vous me faites crissement être rimé
Je’aspire à un Signe, maligne vuenderfifle
Et un vieux bedde essen divine

Je suis autobrat non; animaux non, j;’ai a la tete.
La montagne, oy vey.
Youpi yappee yay.
Quel jour.Je sais blunderful aujourdui.

Mein Mutter Olden est kranke
Mein Olden Daddie est Swanke.
Esperanto aucune façon!
Européens  y restent.
Lehitraoat, Mutter,
Kranky vieille guttere.
Sie is mal de simple
Dreck n’est pas tout à fait un jurer.
Il ya rubbische partout?
Ils clamme le zéro de l’inflation.
Aleph null.mein héros.

Je n’ ai pas loike votre tarte;
Il n’y a pas de pomme dans son Harte.
Venez à mes Zands et emplay moi avec les handes.
Il y a toute weary muzak …
Nous tolérons aucun feares.
Dankeschön zie unt ende de l’ici-dessus.

When doubts and drawbacks struggle in the mind

When doubts and drawbacks struggle in the mind
And certainty seems but a demon dream,
When the faith to love is what no-one can find
For even when asleep, the mind still schemes.

When darkness and defeat seem close at hand
And lights dim even as we pray for peace
when wrecks and ruins rile the native sands
When in this life we feel we’ve lost our place…

Then, at the saddest depth we see the light
Surrounding with such warmth, with love adorned.
The path that seemed so wrong now leads us right
And in our hearts, warm feelings are newborn

Within each storm ,there is a calm still eye.
From there we see the fiercest clouds blown by.