OT ~ Welcome to Saturday!
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
Good morning good people!
The first rose i ever saw 
seen by billions before
wet by thousand rains of dew
smelled by countless passersby
perched upon by tiny feet
sucked of nectar, sweet
given
hopes of love
saved for lack thereof
petals of memory
coloring images
secreting feelings
between leafs of books
The first rose i picked
breaking skin in blood, sweet
to the lips
not knowing thorns lived there
nor did i care
beyond a dare its radiance
overshadowing
growing in the meadow
under the apple tree
The mighty rose
scented anew, devouring
entrancing succulence, sweet
vampires we became
sucklings born in shame
raising kingdoms to reign
cutting grasses, trees and cover
even lucky clover
spilling waters from the vase
into nevermore polluted brooks, contraptions
imprisoning race
and labour
and alas, hearts and minds
Why?
The first rose i ever saw,
i loved.
Art today: Eduard Manet ~ Two Roses On A Tablecloth, Jackson Pollock ~ The She-Wolf, Kandinsky's Bastards ~ David Tycho and Pollock's Stenographic Figure.
In a Pollock mood as i write, thoughts abstract as time moves on; dinner's cooking, rain coming, work at hand when day breaks...so much sameness, so much change, senseless carnage and
spineless tongues; the 'scrupled politic' in the way when little Rose comes to me to this day..."shoo fly, don't bother me."
“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
~ Lewis Mumford
Have a great day and weekend, everyone!
The stage is yours...
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Morning Smiley7 and everyone
How can we not?! With your Saturday Morning OT to get us rolling in the right direction.
I second that - 'Have a good one!'
I want a Pony!
Hola, Arrow. Have a good one yourself.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Arrow, been concerned about you; so happy to see
you, hope this means you're mending! >3!!!
Good morning
It's a rainy one here...so no trade day. Thought I would drop by to say hey.
Thanks for the art, poetry, and OT.
“People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for--Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind.”...
“Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Earth in correspondence with my mind.”...
poetry in few words. How does one distill a beautiful sunset, anyways: floundering in choppy waters, releasing a boat in harbor: understood and heartfelt.
Thanks for working on a better way and day!
Good morning, Smiley7 (et. al.). Bright sky already,
but also already 7:42. Stayed horizontal extra long to try to placate a cranky back, but no go. Rats, mucho yard and garden work to be done, fun in the sun, and I'm moving slow. All the same, your OT brightens the day and perks one up. The first pic connected big time and so it is off to the races.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Actually not the first pic - the roses, but Pollock's She Wolf.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hey, el, take care with the back as it can easily gets worse.
Know you are busy, Spring on the way and all; relax until the back tells you its ready. Forgive my mother hen, you are special.
Thanks. For the record, its chronic, since about '73. I'm
as used to it as one can get.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
(Update:) Here’s something we can use and help
out the planet at the same time. (It’s a pleasant feeling finding something positive while trolling the ‘intertubes’ [1]
I just downloaded the Ecosia Browser and typed in caucus99 and it took me to a selection page similar to Google’s or Safari’s which brought me right here. In fact, it reminds me of Safari. Since Google has started censoring websites it doesn’t approve of, I’m looking for something else in the browser category anyway. (This hopefuily proves to be it. I’m not on it right this second because I already had C99 up in Google.)
I hope this works out. I’m off to experiment some more. I get ads anyway. Why not turn it into something good?
[1] A series of tubes" is a phrase coined originally as an analogy by then-United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to describe the Internet in the context of opposing network neutrality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
EDIT: selectin/selection
UPDATE: I am having a problem posting on that site. True, I just started playing with it but some things are basic, like going to s site and posting on it, clicking to go to a different site, then clicking back to your post. You expect it to be there. That isn’t working for me on Ecosia. I can only post my entire response all at once because I lose everything going back and forth. Smarter people probably have better luck than I am.
Shoot!
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I have been using ecosia for about 6 months
I use it for all of my search engine stuff.
I use google or chrome as little as possible. I have a google account, but that's it. I don't even use chrome on my chromebook.
Thanks for the OT smiley!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
I kept it kept it on my phone and have looked stuff up. For
trolling it’s fine and that’s what I do most. And helping a cause like this is certainly worth it. And I get ads anyway.
EDIT: typo
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Consider finding out about their practices. There was once a
tree planting charity that was planting Melaleuca far and wide all over the planet. Given that it is an invasive, that was not such a great thing.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks Amanda for the link and for being here...
planting trees is where we should be. Computer stuff is beyond me, now; but many here know these things and i'm sure they will assist in tuning out the harder edges bringing new platforms and methods to fruition.
Again, good to see you!
hi smiley
Your poem brought to mind lines from Chris Isaak:
a lot of flowers in this world
are never seen
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXxZxVFCMT0]
Stone Roses huge fans of Pollock.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wfxznecAlU]
closing eight billion and...
all, it seems, understand this sameness (historically, too); amazing.
Should be enough to lift spirits continually, alas...
Left to individual defenses, we try, don't we?
Love having you here!
edit for population #
OMG! How did i do this?
Nuts.
EDIT: Explanation - I somehow created a blank post.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Just stopping by
The Barber piece seems to be in line with the one below.
This piece could be by Remo Giazotto, or Tomaso Albinoni. Most of Abinoni's unpublished work was destroyed in the bombing of Dresden.
Kurt Vonnegut had something to say about the bombing of Dresden.
Thanks as always for the music and art.
Cheers! thanks for the music--more roses...
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
There's a backstory to that one
It had to be cleaned up for "general consumption", but the original lyrics made it clear that the "Yellow Rose" was mixed-race and her admirer (the man singing her praises in the song) was considerably darker. http://www.blackpast.org/perspectives/yellow-rose-texas-ironic-origins-s...
The legend that she was responsible for Santa Anna losing the battle of San Jacinto may be only a legend fitted to a convenient name and a memorable song.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
What a good read, TheOtherMaven, thanks for sharing it
and it also please me that it comes from the Hill.
Have memories from childhood of the cowboy guitarist radio show on the farm, we listened to on rainy days; the guitarist made the sound of a horse crossing over a wooden bridge by tapping his fingers on the instrument, always thrilled me and i'm supposing that's where i first heard the song as i can recall singing it in childhood, too.
"While many Americans are familiar with the song, "The Yellow Rose of Texas," few know the story of Emily West, the African American woman who was the inspiration for its creation. In the excerpt below from a longer article that first appeared in 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill English Professor Trudier Harris explains that history."
That backstory
is really interesting. Thanks for the link as well.