To see with love

 

They lay down in awe and fear,
Of what their love was bringing near.
They gazed into each other’s eyes
And so did rhapsodise.

They lay down to gaze into
the eyes and soul and heart so true.
They gazed until,when overcome,
They were united into one.

Their souls and bodies were conjoined,
And thus their hearts were well entwined;
As honeysuckle on the walls,
In joy’s sweet arbours does grow tall.

Their loving lips and eyes and hands
Gave pause to time’s soft flowing sands;
And while they touched and gazed so long,
The birds sang out in glorious songs.

The eyes are mirrors to the soul,
and love will make us grow more whole.
Gaze lovingly on humankind..
And hold care in your mind.

 

My I is in flames

My eye and my I are inflamed.

They show I am feeling ashamed.

But when I sat here

My mind was revered

By a fox which  has guessed I am tame.

 

I believe he has worshipped me well

But my ego has not shrunken nor swelled

For what is a fox for

But to sit and adore

Myself and my cat in this dell?

 

The fox thinks  he may eat the cat.

The cat’s making eyes at  a bat

I am alone.

My heart’s a hot stone.

I wonder if this form is too pat?

 

They say,you’re never alone with a what?

A cigarette  hiding under your hat.

I do like a felt hat,

But no-one felt me like that.

I  miss your warm hand and your pat.

 

 

Colligate:to bind or unite

Definition:Colligate
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 Verb
1 :
to bind, unite, or group together
2 :
to subsume (isolated facts) under a general concept
3 :
to be or become a member of a group or unit
Examples
“For instance, many words colligate with the word ‘the,’ which is a grammatical marker of definiteness rather than a word that carries significant semantic content.” — Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie,Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice, 2012

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“Research that examines the combined effect of lifestyle factors on mortality is plentiful, and data have been colligated in a recent meta-analysis.” — Valentina A. Andreeva et al., The American Journal of Public Health, November 2014

United in watching TV?

 

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Heart welts

(St. Peter’s Church, North Tawton, where Plath took the ‘Poor Box’ from in 1962)

Can brains cower  daily in a bathroom?

She suffered from heart welts after marriage to a writer and his wren,Chris.

He has foot stains all over his floor but there is no  unknown cure.How can they know that?

He éven dropped a foot hint for the police as he left the crime he had seen.

She was a ripe hearted woman despite being as thin as lamb shank.Whatever that is.

Can I eat him?Sorry,meet Jim

I could see and read his nose across the room but I adored it.And him.I am very much loved.

I stand on my heart but don’t feint.But will it charm me in the long run?

He rattled my rage but I never blew up.I am very flexible.Why I am better than a credit card.Plastic is nothing to me.

I have a heart lake when I see you.I mean I melt.But is that a good song?

What do I show?

Are you an impulsive liar?

Try to be wrong for once.

I aplore you  .

 [ BTW aplore is not a real word].I invented it.

 I loved him but my heart was not in wit  in winter.

I still firmly  believe in Father’s Whispers.

What does having beenc affeared feel like?

Mothers Nights Dress here and pray for indifference

I always feel remorse when I decode your messages.

Is your heart on the right face?

I really ought to go to the scientist.

I don’t add up any more.

Why do women feel they must wear a deodorant when they look better in dresses? Neither do I.

 He entreats me just to endure  the reign of lions for a few tears

His eyes can’t  see smells but he  hears angels.

If you are too quiet it may be bad for your commotions

Let yourself pout.

Never sulk for more than three minutes.

Be good  above all else.

Are your motives impure?Buy  my graceful washing powder online now.And how!Give me the profit.

Does fear help with learning?

 

 

The nuns at my school were over minatory

Having been refined at a non -loving Seminary

Does fear help with learning,

Or keep hell’s coals burning?

Or should we have been fried up in the crematory?

 

 

I believe I did experience   hell

In the convent school,we could not tell.

I  became almost mute

After many rebukes.

I’d have preferred to be locked in a cell

 

I was puzzled by their  incendiary ways

As I walked round the school in a daze.

I never showed off

And tried to be tough.

But my heart was  bleeding sadly  each day,

 

So later I decided to abandon

The “holy religion “they had rammed in.

I’m an atheist,sweet Jesu,

Though I have seen  God  through you.

I’m a mystic, narcissistic  wit with a tandem

 

Yes,I ride on thar seat at the back

Carrying all this stuff  in a sack.

God rides in front

Well.he will and he won’t.

I fell off and now I am black.

 

Luckily, I am a racist parvenu.

I tried to learn anti-semitism in the zoo

The lions were the Jews

And they  loved me till bemused.

So now I can tolerate all of  YOU.

 

I tried to hate  brown skinned men

But it seemed so unnatural  now and then.

For  men  are so handsome

I’d pay a king’s ransom

If they let me just pick up about  ten.

 

I see now my  poetry’s very poor

No ethics,no rules,so impure.

But that is like life.

Throw in a little strife.

Without sinning, how could we endure?

 

 

Menace

Being minatory is not very wise,

Unless with a devil you devise

Torture for politicians

Who  make poor decisions.

And I am unwilling to give you advice.

 

Menace sometimes tints the air

As if  evil flies proudly out there.

But it’s between human beings

And inside us unseeing.

For it hides and does not wish to share.

The guardian translated into free verse

The shadowy [grey like John Major]

and foreign [see how they overrun us]

secretary,[his he male or female]

Hilary Benn,

has said

he will not resign [or even sign]

over[ a barrel]

his backing of air [was it wind?}

strikes on Isis in Syria [ package holidays free for gun holders]

despite his party [birthday,perhaps]

leader ,[Ledenhosen]

Jeremy Cor, blimey,yn,

writing to all [ and sundry?}

Labour MPs

setting out his oppo [slang again]

sition to military

action. [equal and opposite reaction to follow?]

Benn’s insistence that

he would disagree [ and be so disagreeable as to spoil his birthday party?}

with  his leader  { Heil Mary!}

came [ as fast as a  slug,giggle]

David Cameron called [but I was on the toilet]

[on Labour MPs to back military [ in fashion again]

intervention in Syria and

“vote on the basis [ or is it basics?}

of the arguments”. [What is their basis?]

The prime minister said there [ or elsewhere]

was a compelling [entrancing and inviting]

case for Britain [ to pay back all it stole from the Empire]

’s involvement and insisted [like a tantrum of toddlers]

MPs would allow the country  [to endure]

to do “the right  [ethical?}

thing” [ that cat’s mother]

if they sup [with the devil]

and exported the government. [ to Samoa]

Benn’s stance effectively [in effect or strongly?]

challenges Corbyn [ to a duel or dual fuel?]

to allow members of the shadow [ night demons]

cabinet to vote  [and  also my sideboard will vote too]

Iwith their conscience or sack [ Send my sack  now,thanks]

him and other rebels. [Albert Camus?]

At a difficult meeting [ of the waters]

on Thursday,

around half the shadow

cabinet, [milk jug and tea pot]

including Benn,[ Nevis and Snowdon and more]

the deputy leader, Tom Watson, [Whats app son?]

the shadow education [well it is a mere shadow of what we learned]

secretary,

Lucy Powell, [sexism again]

the shadow lord [Don’t say it]

chancellor, Lord Falconer,

and

others

made it

clear

they were minded [by the army night and day]

to back the govern [ or even  commit effrontery]

ment’s case for extending[ drinking hours]

airstrikes when  [can air strike?}

put to a vote in

the Commons next week.[ the future was once fiction]

Artificial sweeteners [from a public Facebook post]

This is not written by me.I saw it on Facebook

(Cover of a later edition of ‘The Bell Jar’)

 

A KILLER IN YOUR FRIDGE

SWEET POISON..A MUST READ !!!

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter’s name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.

She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn’t find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.

I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.

I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her an article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn’t feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better.

She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.

Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda.. and literally dying a slow and miserable death

When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.If it says ‘SUGAR FREE’ on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on ‘ASPARTAME,’ marketed as’Nutra Sweet,’ ‘Equal,’ and ‘Spoonful.’In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.

Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!

Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.

In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We’ve seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly.

This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said, ‘If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs,
Cramps,
Vertigo,
Dizziness,
Headaches,
Tinnitus,
Joint pain,
Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!’ People were jumping up during the lecture saying,’I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?’

Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates.

It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve ’tissue specimens.’

Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!

Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the ‘diet products’ and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.

Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE.. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, Seizures, Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage.Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.

So called ‘behavior modification prescription drugs’ (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed.Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place!Most of these children were being ‘poisoned’ on a daily basis with the very foods that were ‘better for them than sugar.’It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.

There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.’

Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.

Sadly, MONSANTO’S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a ‘piece of the Aspartame pie.’I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.

And isn’t it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?

This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants.

The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioural symptoms.
The bill was killed.It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you’re informed now!

Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends.

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The deepness of your eyes

No depth is like the deepness of your eyes
No warmth is like the comfort of your smile
Yet sometimes love turns out to be unwise.
And joy can change to feelings dark and vile

Yet like blue glass your eyes compel my gaze.
Your lips invite me to  conjoin with mine.
Have I learned  so little wisdom in my days?
Am I a fool to pass this warning sign?

Yet hope is ever rising in the heart.
Despair is not to be embraced too soon;
and if God wills that our two ways must part
I'll face the error and receive my doom.

For humans must  all give and take of love.
So  tender like the  flutterings of a dove

Let us bleed in public life

We bleed  and suffer 40 years

And for that we pay tax.

Tampons  packaged can be ours

If we pay our whack.

 

VAT imposed  by men

Adds greatly to the cost.

I thought about it and I ken

The  struggle is not lost.

 

Let us bleed in public  life

Let blood run down our clothes.

Let us show that  not in strife

Blood’s shed without blows.

 

Men cause other men  to bleed

And   hope that they will die.

Women nurture,grow and feed.

And down with men we lie.

 

And  for millenia we’ve been shamedn

And hid our bleeding wombs.

Unclean despite expensive towels

We feel we are entombed.

 

The womb cries out in grief and sorrow

At this cruel world.

We will not see a tomorrow,

Nor foetuses uncurl.

 

So let us make our blood our emblem

See it ,let it flow.

Down the path we are all stumbling.

Don’t hide it,let it show.

 

Hours of scrubbing,soaking washing

For menstrual blood   we hide.

Yet  men go  striking,fighting  bashing

Shed blood as they die.

 

The blood of soldiers and civilians

Is pictured on the News.

And politicians in pavilions

Will not share our views.

 

Blood of war is glorified

Their bandages are free.

Blood of women horrifies.

We  must pay VAT .

 

Let’s walk the streets with  womb blood flowing

Dripping on the paths.

For all the interest men are showing

We must show our  wrath.

 

Every month in fertile years

Our womb prepares a nest.

To welcome with our love and tears

An embryo to rest.

 

For we’re told too many children

Will destroy the world.

Yet even as we  go on  building

Men their bullets hurl.

 

Which  of us is more destructive?

Which of us is sane?

Which can better be constructive?

How  does  love remain?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maeve O’Brien: Sylvia Plath and the Language of Oppression

Very interesting thoughts about women and silence

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The English language, the words we use to speak and the texts that we write are a construct and product of patriarchy. This white male language, enmeshed in a colonial and racist history, has been forced upon lands and peoples, controlling how words and expression are defined, conveyed, written or spoken.

Accordingly, for female-identified writers, the act of trying to document their lived experiences in a language born out of what bell hooks calls ‘conquest and domination’, is rife with difficulties.

Adrienne Rich problematised the paradox of how individuals subjugated by patriarchy are expected to write in this oppressive ink in her poem, ‘The Burning of Paper Instead of Children’ where she declares, ‘this is the oppressor’s language, yet I need it to talk to you’. How can female-identified writers hope to communicate any semblance of self or aspect of their lives, thoughts, bodies or emotions in a language that…

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Charisma in verse

Charisma should not sway us too much.

But we are over-impressed by its touch.

We ignore the unassuming

Charm is confusing.

We must not consent to its clutch.

 

And people of this type have power.

As compliments  cover us in a shower.

Be your own judge of self;

Thus keep your own mental health.

For each of us is like a  sweet flower.

 

Charisma [Dictionary.com]

 

noun, plural charismata

 1.Theology. a divinely conferred gift or power.  
2.

a spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influenceor authority over large numbers of people.
3.

the special virtue of an office, function, position, etc., that confers oris thought to confer on the person holding it an unusual ability forleadership, worthiness of veneration1. , or the like.
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Also, charism

[kar-iz-uh m] (Show IPA).

Origin of charismaExpand
1635-1645

1635-45; < Late Latin < Greek, equivalent to char- (base of cháris favor,charízesthai to favor; akin to yearn, exhort ) + -isma -ism

SynonymsExpand
2. charm, magnetism, presence.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2015.
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Examples from the Web for charismaExpand
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  • She really had a lot of charisma — you didn’t want to laugh at her, youjust wanted to laugh with her.

    Little Brother Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for charismaExpand

charisma

/kəˈrɪzmə/
noun

1.

a special personal quality or power of an individual making himcapable of influencing or inspiring large numbers of people
2.

a quality inherent in a thing which inspires great enthusiasm anddevotion
3.

(Christianity) a divinely bestowed power or talent
Derived Forms
charismatic (ˌkærɪzˈmætɪk) adjective
Word Origin
C17: from Church Latin, from Greek kharisma, from kharis grace, favour
Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Word Origin and History for charismaExpand
n.

“gift of leadership, power of authority,” c.1930, from German, used in thissense by Max Weber (1864-1920) in “Wirtschaft u. Gesellschaft” (1922),from Greek kharisma “favor, divine gift,” from kharizesthai “to show favorto,” from kharis “grace, beauty, kindness” ( Charis was the name of one ofthe three attendants of Aphrodite) related to khairein “to rejoice at,” fromPIE root *gher- “to desire, like” (see hortatory ). More mundane sense of“personal charm” recorded by 1959.

Earlier, the word had been used in English with a sense of “grace, talentfrom God” (1875), directly from Latinized Greek; and in the form charism(plural charismata) it is attested with this sense in English from 1640s.Middle English, meanwhile, had karisme “spiritual gift, divine grace”(c.1500).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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charisma in CultureExpand
charisma [(kuh- riz -muh)]

Extraordinary power and appeal of personality; natural ability to inspire alarge following.

Note : Political leaders such as John F. Kennedy, religious leaderssuch as Martin Luther King, Jr., and entertainment figures such asGreta Garbo have all been described as charismatic.

Democracy

Is democracy as common as muck?

Is it vulgar to title books F*ck?

For again in the bookshop

I happened to look up

In spirituality that F book is back.

 

I complained about it  four years ago.

So to see it reprinted’s a blow.

The vocabulary of a writer

Should make them seem smarter.

Readers   deserve a better word show

 

Demotiv

 

Demotic [Oxford Dictionary]

Rivers of colour
Rivers of colour

 

demotic

Line breaks: dem|ot¦ic

Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɒtɪk/

Definition of demotic in English:

adjective

1Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial:a demotic idiom

1.1Relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing. Compare with katharevousa.

1.2Relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from circa 650bc and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period. Compare with hieratic.

1Ordinary colloquial speech:he blinked in mild surprise at this uncharacteristic leap into the demotic

1.1Demotic Greek.

Origin

Early 19th century (in the sense ‘relating to the Egyptian demotic’): from Greek dēmotikos ‘popular’, from dēmotēs ‘one of the people’, from dēmos ‘the people’.

Words that rhyme with demotic

abiotic, amniotic, antibiotic, chaotic, despotic, erotic, exotic, homoerotic, hypnotic, idiotic, macrobiotic, meiotic, narcotic, neurotic, osmotic, patriotic, prebiotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, sclerotic, semiotic, symbiotic, zygotic, zymotic

Definition of demotic in:

Antic:the meaning

antic

[an-tik]

noun
1.

Usually, antics.

  1. a playful trick or prank; caper.
  2. a grotesque, fantastic, or ludicrous gesture, act, or posture.
2.

Archaic.

  1. an actor in a grotesque or ridiculous presentation.
  2. a buffoon; clown.
3.

Obsolete.

  1. a grotesque theatrical presentation; ridiculous interlude.
  2. a grotesque or fantastic sculptured figure, as a gargoyle.
adjective
4.

ludicrous; funny.
5.

fantastic; odd; grotesque:

an antic disposition.
verb (used without object), anticked, anticking.
6.

Obsolete. to perform antics; caper.
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Origin of anticExpand
1520-1530

1520-30; earlier antike, antique < Italian antico ancient (< Latin antīcus,antīquus; seeantique ), apparently taken to mean “grotesque,” as used indescriptions of fantastic figures found in Roman ruins

Related formsExpand
antically, adverb
Can be confusedExpand
antic, antique.

Antic

I’m antic

pedantic

I’m a mise-en-scene

Don’t have been.

I’m frantic.

semantic.

I’m a dream of pipes

When I am ripe.

The atlantic

demonic

I’m  a sinking ship

In the antarctic

I’m a frozen sprite

Covered,white.

I’m a par amour.

Oh.d’accords

A terr0r scene

What has been?

The Russian boy

Convoy.

Arctic circles

Trapped shall hurtle

Pi has gone

Transcending dread.

Oh,my he.

What can we be?

Tantric

Mantric.

Mindful be

Drowned in see.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise-en-sc%C3%A8ne

 

Back on the antibiotics

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Please forgive me if I don’t reply to comments in the next few days.My doctor phoned and I have still got a  UTI after 7 weeks.At this rate I’ll have a free Xmas in hospital,maybe just by where His Majesty passed on.I do think he was very selfish dying like that and if I go I shall tell him so.However I am determined to live as I have just got a new washing machine. installed.

Alfred has been in the kitchen and knocked over the bin as  there was a bit of chicken in it.Then he refused to  go out via the cat flap.What a nerve!

When life seems dark

 

When true love’s gone and doom hangs over head

When life flows like  my blood unto the sea

Then shall I take new lovers to my bed?

And with their carnal touch consoled be?

When my love lies and breaks my woman’s heart.

When life seems grey and rocks bestrew my path.

Then, shall I my life of evil start?

And on this world shall I bestow my wrath?

When true love lies and wrecks all loyalty.

When puzzlement makes all my world seem mad.

Then I shall upend causality

And make myself do deeds which make all glad.

For I have love’s sweet child inside my soul

And I shall tend her till at last she’s whole.

Our own gods

Why can we not choose our personal  god?

And worship them in private in our hearts.

Thus  we would not be struck with their gold rod.

Authoritarian rules would play no part.

 

I  think it is an error for gods  link

A people and the earth and all the good.

And every newborn child would have to think

As if not part of tree nor its dear bud.

 

A common God might link us all in love.

Yet  Inquisitions tortured  reviled  Jews.

Surely that was not from  God above,

Who gave  to Eve and Adam power   to choose.

 

Why Christ himself was not a Christian.

And when God spoke he merely said,I am.

 

 

Henotheism is the Word of the Day

This has nothing to do with hens unless you worship them.
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November 24, 2015
noun
\HEN-uh-thee-iz-um\
Definition
: the worship of one god without denying the existence of other gods
Examples
“For Assyrian kings, the god Ashur … was proclaimed to be the true king, and the human king was the god’s regent. In other words, in the ancient world, henotheism was a convenient method for imposing a king’s rule over subject peoples: one all-powerful god means one all-powerful king as well.” — A. C. Black, Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An Introduction, 2001

“Wishing to find the roots of Jewish monotheism in the cult of Aten, Freud worked freely with ancient Egyptian henotheism: that is, the concept of the sun as one supreme divinity among many.” — David Meghnagi, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2014

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Henotheism comes to us from the German word Henotheismus, which in turn is derived from Greek hen- (“one”) and theos (“god”). Someone who engages in henotheism worships one god but does not deny that there are others. Max Müller, a respected 19th-century scholar, is credited with promoting the word henotheism as a counterpart to polytheism (“belief in or worship of more than one god”) and monotheism (“the doctrine or belief that there is but one God”). Müller also used the related wordkathenotheism, from Greek kath’ hena (“one at a time”), for the worship of several gods successively.

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Ontology is a word I dislike

Ontology ‘s got no  image for me

It’s a word  that is linked to the verb “be”

but in science and  statistics

and engine ballistics

We never discussed  life’s latency.

 

I had seen the  ” ontological proof”

That God must exist in all truth

But up on ‘t   moors wild;

Nature undefiled.

God’s face was sad,bold yet couth.

 

Until we met Aquinas in class

I believed in  both God and the Mass.

But when I saw they were trying

To prove  he was spying

Out of that church I soon passed.

 

My reasons were never obscure

Of God I am still perfectly sure.

But the theologians proof

could never lead to truth.

For their axioms  unproved  were impure

 

 

 

Ontology

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 [on-tol–uh-jee]
noun

1.The branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such.

2.(loosely) metaphysics.

Origin of ontologyExpand
1715-1725

1715-25; < New Latin ontologia. See onto-, -logy

Related formsExpand

ontological  [on-tl-oj-i-kuh l] (Show IPA), ontologic,ontologistic

 [on-tol-uh–jis-tik] (Show IPA), adjective
ontologist, noun
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Contemporary Examples
  • But on the relative plane, Zen is this-worldly and does not deny ethics, or ontology for that matter

Historical Examples
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British Dictionary definitions for ontology

ontology

/ɒnˈtɒlədʒɪ/

noun


  1. (philosophy) the branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being

2.            (logic) the set of entities presupposed by a theory

Derived Forms
ontological, adjective
ontologically, adverb

Cut off my nose

Ology seems to end many words

Apologies  live  in  deep forests in herds.

So thank you for  those

About  cutting  off my nose.

My face has no spite,praise the Lord.

 

Zoology, phrenology,topology.

Please  do accept my apology

So in bliss frogs may dwell

On the inside of a well.

Chronology,mythology,aspirology.

Campanology

 

 

 

1.campanology – ( ) The study of bells or of bell ringing

 

2.campanology
ˌkampəˈnɒlədʒi/
noun
noun: campanology
  1. the art or practice of bell-ringing.
Origin
mid 19th century: from modern Latin campanologia, from late Latin campana ‘bell’.