How can I find rhymes for gambit?
How can pentameters be iambic?
I am sure to discover
One way or another
But alas the Government has banned it.
Iambic is as Greek to me,
As to the English is drinking hot tea.
We boil the kettle on the fire.
As we empathise with a liar.
Iambic is schizophrenic you see
In my case I’m not Bic I am Shaeffer
I believe pens drink ink on a wafer.
For ink is their Saviour
And improves their behaviour
If no plates passed,what the hell is that tray for?
Her manner is rather abstract
It does not help her to show tact.
She’s in love with ideas
Yet her rents in arrears.
Let’s hope that her ship is not wrecked.
i saw the abstract for your book.
I’d love a much closer look.
I’ll invite you to tea
Then I can see
Just how discerning you look.
I suppose even Monet is abstract,
For his images with bright dots are packed.
I love them so well
As they both show and tell
Precisely what realism lacked
Now love is not an easy word to use,
for excess talk has torn away its soul;
In cards and letters,we must stand accused
so where love dwelt,there’s now a widening hole.
And if our language changes, what’s the cost,
when life departs from words that meant so much
or is there something permanently lost
when hands and pens have lost the way to touch?
We soon forget what loving used to mean
We change to fit our fractured complex realms
Till we are now as fractured in our schemes
and what once was,seems never to have been.
Yet there’s a remnant found in art and song
Which we can capture while our spirits long.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem02.html
A sign consists of the signified and the signifier
If what is signified is love,the signifier may vary … it can be a “x “.a bunch of flowers,a poem.
Of course it may be misunderstood if two people come from different cultures/countries or even different parts of the same country with maybe a different form of Christianity,with an atheisitic family etc
Some people tend to see a meaning in an act or word that was not intended…if carried too far it can lead to paranoia…I can imagine writing a funny play based on such confusion
Ferdinand de Saussure theorizes that a “sign“[clarification needed] has two parts: signifier and signified. The signifier is the form that the sign will take, whether it be a sound or image and the signified is the meaning that is conveyed.
Signifier: the word ‘tree’ = Signified: the mental image of a tree.
Charles Sanders Pierce analyzed sign systems and came up with the following: An Icon signifies by resemblance. An Indexical sign signifies by causal connection and finally, a Symbol signifies by learned convention.
There is no doubt we all do this reading between the lines…sometimes consciously,sometimes unwittingly.We attempt to fill in gaps in our knowledge.There are a few problems.One is in cultural differences which may affect us here on the web.We come from very different societies and the meanings of certain words and attitudes does vary considerably;
And another factor is our own desires which we are not always aware of.We may then interpret someone’s words in a way which fits with our desire or interpret someone using bad language to signify that they do not respect us.If the Soaps are an indication it seems in much of Britain every other word has just four letters. which to me shows poverty of feelings and language… but it means many people are not offended by them…But many still are.
So wishful thinking,ignorance,wanting to believe something,,,,,..cultural ignorance.. all these may make communication difficult.Perhaps we should not read too much between the lines at the beginning of a friendship…and be wary of imputing desires to another when they seem to offer what we are hoping for.
It’s a bit like the way here nearly everyone puts “love” or “xxxxx” at the end of a letter or email… so that in reality it means almost nothing at all;Words become meaningless through overuse and we will have to judge in other ways what a person feels for us..
Some people are more prone to seeing patterns or meanings in things which can be creative but it can also lead to paranoia in the insecure or lonely individual who has become the center of a huge important plot.When I was ill as a child I remember seeing faces leering at me from the wallpaper and the oil heater hissed menacingly,,, it was the fever but I was afraid…We need friends to tell us if our interpretations seem sensible and to comfort us when we are low.. and we need to be wary of assuming too much especially when we come from different cultures
Getting to know someone,I find it is good to first know what is very important to ourselves.. which sometimes we do not know consciously.Second to discover what is most important to the other.I think that may be very hard if we come from different cultures.We may never have come across some of the things most important to the other.We.even in the same culture,live i n self created worlds of meaning.
What matters to me is possibly not all conscious. but it matters that I can say what pleases me or what hurts me without attack.If this is not possible then that is the end of the friendship.
Similarly I should be able to listen to the other
2 : considering animals, objects, etc., as having human qualities
▪ anthropomorphic beliefs about nature
The reason I have posted this is that I know as a child I saw chairs and tables and houses a living beings.And the windows were eyes,the door a mouth.When I was looking up where the word “door” originated it came a thousand years ago from the word for mouth.So human beings did see the way I used to see….and no doubt further back that’s why they saw trees inhabited by living spirits for example.Everything was alive and had a personal quality.That could be frightening if you saw storms and gales that way.Maybe at some level we do still think that way and ascribe motives to the beings in the storm who want to harm us
Some people still believe in demons but I don’t.Epileptics were regarded ad possessed by demons until quite recently.
I prefer different language…. it’s a way of attacking other people saying they are possessed by demons, which I object to.
And it creates problems .by saying that you push afflicted people away.Some folk say that because demons are mentioned in the Bible they must exist.Well,remember much of what was written was explained in ways accepted then as they knew nothing of the medical science we know now.Even great prophets can only use the concepts which exist in the era in which they live.And also translations alter the meaning inadvertently.The Bible was not written originally in English.
The problem of evil and whether there is an evil principle as an opponent of God is very complex and wondering about does not to my mind help me to live better .I trust in God whatever that means.
How my heart sings 