HINTS:
-I was born to a Virgin.
-A King tried to slaughter all the males born on the same day as I.
-Virgin mother was told by an angel that she was ‘Favored among women’.
-My nativity was heralded by a star.
-At my birth, I was visited by 3 wisemen bearing gifts.
-During my lifetime, I worked wonders and miracles.
-I was the 2nd position in my religion’s Holy Trinity.
-I was crucified, during which I was wounded by a sharp weapon.
-During my crucifixion, the sun darkened.
-I descended into Hell.
-I raised the dead.
-I brought back two boys from Hell.
-I Then ascended to Heaven.
Can you guess… WHO AM I?
Is This Poem A Sonnet?
September 26, 2009 6 comments »Equal Measure (for my niece)
Oh little angel of the brightest morn!
Happy and joyful, thou sweetest child,
Who cometh upon the world, neither tame nor wild;
A cherub, chatty and light, born of Hestia’s dawn,
And as playful as a meadow’s sprightly fawn.
From morning to night thou glideth through air
As the sun glistens upon thy soft hair,
And in thine heart there is neither hate nor scorn.
Thou skipeth and singeth in such youthful ways
And upon my face thou bringest a smile,
For to this life there is such suffering and trial,
Yet thou art the gift of more wonderous days.
So to know thee now heralds much pleasure
For we all love thee with equal measure.
In This Peom What Is The Fiery Scorpion?
2 comments »The Australian Sunrise
The Morning Star paled slowly, the Cross hung low to the sea,
And down the shadowy reaches the tide came swirling free,
The lustrous purple blackness of the soft Australian night,
Waned in the gray awakening that heralded the light;
Still in the dying darkness, still in the forest dim
The pearly dew of the dawning clung to each giant limb,
Till the sun came up from ocean, red with the cold sea mist,
And smote on the limestone ridges, and the shining tree-tops kissed;
Then the fiery Scorpion vanished, the magpie’s note was heard,
And the wind in the she-oak wavered, and the honeysuckles stirred,
The airy golden vapour rose from the river breast,
The kingfisher came darting out of his crannied nest,
And the bulrushes and reed-beds put off their sallow gray
And burnt with cloudy crimson at dawning of the day.
By James Lister Cuthbertson
How Did The Evening Go?
1 comment »Two scenarios for the outcome of the day. Two poems with differing styles and moods.
Passion Play
Take for your needs
My passionate embraces,
Give for mine the lies
That truth in time replaces
Lest the struggle, the obsession,
To arise to the higher graces,
Either fails the test of efficacy,
And soon enough outpaces,
Else forges bonds of respect
In separate spaces.
We face the doubts
That we’ve held in store,
And though we’re often cast,
Far flung from shore,
We look to this moment,
Not before,
As we gather in wisdom,
Find the open door,
And again the sun,
Our senses, to us, restore.
Knowing it’s not wrong
To say how you feel,
Be as good as you know how,
With broken seal,
And let not thoughts provoke,
Nor eyes reveal,
For just like a wound,
We surely heal,
These things that we do,
Cannot our love conceal.
But now, we’ve gone from ground
Up to the skies,
The passion play, played out
Which the heart denies,
And seeking all,
Save the needs the song belies,
In due time,
We’ll have the wherefores and the whys,
But for now,
Ample tears for my lover’s cries.
or this,
Cipher
Ruddy-skinned countenance, we race
O’er your galloping tundra, gazing
In awe of your star-strewn skies.
Nights spent frigid and longing
For the waste
Of galactic distances.
What are stones to you?
What are acres?
What is Time but Justice unclothed?
Bleed salt, yet cry oceans, humble brow,
No cloud, no mirth, no sense of salvation;
Only the seal of bleakness kissed.
Umbra of sorrow and heralded beacon,
Are you poor and wretched in your solitude?
Maiden, thou art playful.
Potent idol, you forfeit
Through the cast-off dreams
Of fitful slumber,
To the leer of daylight’s orb.
Give not into bitterness, O moon,
In shadow, I will miss thee strange.
In white gown you shine tonight,
In bone shall you pass.
Where are you now?
Faith, show thyself,
Toward the nights of pining regrets.
A hollow in your faint arced footfall,
In seven daytime sojourns,
And I wait in hallowed stillness.
Sleep, depart! Vanquish nightmares!
A crucible of bliss, like the fluted glass
Of a drunken sot in midnight revelry,
And werewolf’s woeful end, silver bullet bleeding
The cursed changeling’s impenetrable heart.
Self-same engineer of twilight,
Search the heavenly sphere,
There,
Not one, not two, but uncountable likenesses
Of your sunset worlds.
Memories
Of expanding impermanence,
Seen beyond seeing,
Virtuous beyond charity,
Equal of poverty.
Once the mighty Tycho
Did interrupt the sacred winds,
Flayed and bruised your gentle complexion,
And the puerile glow was scarred.
And now, the façade’s crest and trough
Of mountains erected,
The monument of solid stone,
The sacral temple complete
According to the ruling dimensions foretold,
We stand in devotion,
Supplicating for mercy.
Cast upon upward searching,
Utter mystery,
Celestial orthodoxy,
Gregarious luminosity.
Two single and opposing forms,
One hand, but two hearts,
Locked reflexively,
Knowing simple is too simple,
Reaching, as if the dust, we would never grow old,
Breathing, as if breath could not be shared,
Yet in loneliness, never abandoned,
One truth, one love.
One question:
Celebrated miser, do you not remember?
In search of you, dear quandary:
Worry no more, since yesterday.
Tortured reason seeing,
Through excessive beauty possessed,
The day’s torch encloses,
I’ll catch the tears you cry,
I’ll stroke your tresses fine,
I’ll still the trembling hand;
We shall meet o’er the seas of madness
Until fertile meadow lined forests
Grow wild on your plains and plateaus.
I pry, but I ponder, poignant motive force,
Heart to heart, face to face,
Life to life endured, hide me now my soul.
Come to me come, ere divine twilight
And we’ll dance and sing for all eternity
To the twinkling stars.
Proof Of Human Stupidity!!!?
12 comments »READ is worth it !!!!!is funny
1. Only in America……can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance
2. Only in America……are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America……do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America……do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
5. Only in America……do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America……do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America……do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America……do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America……do we use the word ‘politics’ to describe the process so well: ‘POLO’ in Latin meaning ‘many’ and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.
10. Only in America……do they have drive-up AT M’s with Braille lettering.
11.Only in America…..Will you go to a restraint in sea world and ask for band aids and get mayonnaise
EVER WONDER Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
Why women can’t put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Why don’t you ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”?
Why is “abbreviated” such a long word?
Why is it that doctors call what they do “practice”?
Why is it that to stop Windows 98, you have to click on “Start”?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dish washing liquid made with real lemons?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?
When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff??
Why don’t sheep shrink when it rains?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
—————— In case you needed further proof that the human race is doomed through stupidity, here are some actual label instructions on consumer goods:
On a Sears hairdryer: Do not use while sleeping. ( that’s the only time I have to work on my hair).
On a bag of Frito’s:! ..You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside. (the shoplifter special)?
On a bar of Dial soap: “Directions: Use like regular soap.” (and that would be how???….)
On some Swanson frozen dinners: “Serving suggestion: Defrost.” (but, it’s “just” a suggestion).
On Tosca’s Trams dessert (printed on bottom): “Do not turn upside
down.” (well…duh, a bit late, huh)!
On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: “Product will be hot after heating.” (…and you thought????…)
On packaging for a Rowenta iron: “Do not iron clothes on body.” (but wouldn’t this save me more time?)
On Boot’s Children Cough Medicine: “Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication.” (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction accidents if we could just get those 5-heralds with head-colds off those forklifts.)
On NTL Sleep Aid: “Warning: May cause drowsiness.” (and.. .I’m taking this because???….)
On most brands of Christmas lights: “For indoor or outdoor use only.” (as opposed to…what?)
On a Japanese food processor: “Not to be used for the other use.” (now, somebody out there, help me on this. I’m a bit curious.) (Ok, It was supposed to be translated as ” to be used for intended use only” basically what it means is don’t use your food processor as a wood chipper people. Lil)
On Salisbury’s peanuts: “Warning: contains nuts.” (talk about a news flash)
On an American Airlines packet of nuts: “Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts.” (Step 3: maybe, uh…fly Delta?)
On a child’s superman costume: “Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.” (I don’t blame the company. I blame the parents for this one.)
On a Swedish chainsaw: “Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals.” (..was there a lot of this happening somewhere?)
