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Autumn Leaves - les paroles en anglais et français. A limerick about Bush's computer mouse. Images of the Baker Wetlands from Saturday. Link to my reworked ghazal; links to cockatiels and an oak. Poem: "Death is afraid". Reading Marzanna Kielar. Still ill. 9,895 views ███████ L'aura del campo ███████ AUTUMN: 16 Ilm (31 October) 'é a lua, é a lua, na quintana dos mortos' ♣ Federico García Lorca ♣ AUTUMN LEAVES Edith Piaf AUTUMN LEAVES English lyrics by Johnny Mercer, paroles: Jacques Prévert, musique: Joseph Kosma
♣♣♣♣♣♣ Cool? Think cooler ! ♣♣♣♣♣♣ Weather where I am: 43º. ♣♣♣♣♣♣ Weather in Buffalo, NY: 56º. ♣♣♣♣♣♣ Weather in Copenhagen, Denmark: 46º. It's 32º in Missoula, Montana and going down to 10º tonight. Wrap yourselves up and sleep tight! IMAGES 'Poetic' sketches woven from my trip to the Baker Wetlands on Saturday: Autumn cottonwood She hugs the tree that forever leans towards the dawn: deep ridged, lichen crusted, grey and gold. It holds fast to the ground; it's proud crown quivers. And we both know: it will still stand there when she's gone. [163.408a] Chimney swift tower Grey white feathers scatter below the summer roost of swifts. Time slows to the flapping of hawk wings struggling against the wind. A red-black beetle crawls over some abandoned golden fruit. The feathers are ignored. Here under the empty home of swifts, there is this sense of stepping aside, of letting go. [163.408b] MY LIFE Still ill. Managed to meet Krista today and I'll see Susan tomorrow, but this cough, phlegm, wheezing isn't a good sign. I have dreams of waking up in a hospital. The nightmare would be waking up in worse places, like the streets. It was good to hear from Nada the other day. We banged heads together but didn't come up with any solutions as to what I'm going to do. Doesn't matter. I love hearing from Nada! Anyone have suggestions of where I could move to? "Go to Hell" has already been mentioned, but it is a bit cliché, don't y'think? POETRY? YOU CALL THIS POETRY? Do you pronounce Cheney as "chainee" or "cheenee"? I've heard both. My mind's just stuck in 2nd gear for Duck's Spinning Nouns Contest. I had to put computer mouse (my item) with the emotion 'terror'. This isn't up to par, but it's all I got: My computer tells me who stole the V.P.'s cheese: I once knew a mouse that knew Bush, who shook with a hush and a shush: "You must'nt tell Cheney that old crusty meanie or he'll unplug my tail from my tush." [163.414] "My computer tells me who stole ..." I sent my ghazal to Khalish's contest. I had to redo it to make it more ghazal-like ... It now has it's own item: "Above the sky, the pain below" I'll have to clean and consolidate my portfolio soon. I'm up to 248 items and my max is 250. I know I can do it - just need to remember at an appropriate time. Sketched yesterday at Henry's on Old Henry Street: Death is afraid Under the red umbrellas of the coffeehouse, Death sits silent in the extra cream and sugar, the pockets full of drugs, the cancer sticks so proudly lit, the sly come-on, come-hither. It waits invisible, entranced by conversations of how the World Will End. It trembles. Without life, there'll be no place for Death on Earth. [163.411] BLOGVILLE Blogvillians who wish to join the most recent outbreak of the Duck Wars need to go to Nada 's interactive: "Invalid Item" And everyone seems to be going to Africa to see this: http://www.wavelit.com/index.asp?ch=Wildlife&sh=africam I haven't figured out how to use it yet. I've tried to catch up on reading blogs, but I still have about 30 to go. At last chalaedra is situated and blogging again. She has a wonderful entry about her oak tree: "Invalid Entry" . malaya has photos of the three cockatiel chicks at "Invalid Entry" . Scottiegazelle is apparently moving, and pregnant to boot. And there are a whole bunch of folks in Missouri and Illinois just getting over the World Series hangover. Their blog entries tend to favor the color red. Dear alfred booth, wanbli ska put some of my poems in his entry: "Invalid Entry" and responded in "Invalid Entry" . He is looking for opinions of which of his are best to make a booklet of Than-Bauk. I have more that I'll put in my next blog entry! READING Came across an awesome Polish writer, Marzanna Kielar, who writes about the North of Poland. She is well versed in nature and geology. I came across her book-in-translation, "Salt Monody". WATT'S GNUS That would be in the previous entry! QUOTE OF THE DAY " ... narrow blade of the moon's skate scratches the ice-sheet. Time splits like a hewn stone; along the brittle bright vein of that love ..." Marzanna Kielar ** Image ID #1134108 Unavailable ** Kåre Enga |