THE MOST OF IT by Robert Frost
He thought he kept the universe alone;
For all the voice in answer he could wake
Was but the mocking echo of his own
From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake.
Some morning from the boulder-broken beach
He would cry out on life, that what it wants
Is not its own love back in copy speech,
But counter-love, original response.
And nothing ever came of what he cried
Unless it was the embodiment that crashed
In the cliff’s talus on the other side,
And then in the far distant water splashed,
But after a time allowed for it to swim,
Instead of proving human when it neared
And someone else additional to him,
As a great buck it powerfully appeared,
Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,
And landed pouring like a waterfall,
And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,
And forced the underbrush–and that was all.
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Beneath the Aegean
When all Earth’s seas shall Levitate,
Dark shawled within the skies,
Upon our eyes will Starfish dance
Their waltz of Blind surprise.
The sun will Rise within wine Dark
As Argonauts imbibed,
Whose drunken arms embrace that sleep
Where Phaeton’s horses Stride.
Upon all of Earth’s wind-sanded shores,
As dolphins Learn to soar,
All we once were on the land
Shall be sealed behind the door
Of Ivory and Chastened Gold,
That the Mystery solved complete
Shall never til the seas’ Long fall
Wake mariners from their sleep.
— Van der Leun
Your Say
Song of Myself
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
SPRING
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This is one of those videos that takes. It costs you dearly; you will lose braincells watching it.
The best parts –
The imitation news cast. Hilariously true.
Rae is shown her place is in th kitchen. Very funny.
Oh, and because the news doesn’t answer me when I ask, with regards to the toxic atmosphere against men, I have a question about that guy Rob Porter, for whom the news is vilifying Gen Kelly. Can anyone here give me some kind of answer? So Porter is a terrible husband it seems. And so the White House has to fire him.
Yes, but had he been convicted of a crime, thus a liability?
And my main question – so is Rob Porter never supposed to work anywhere ever again?
A side question, has Sen Frankenstein left the Senate yet? (Although, same thing, why does this behavior, if not criminal cost a man his job?)
Weeelll, I made it through a minute or two of that and had to check out. I think I need a shower.
Well, Caesar’s wife was supposed to be above reproach, so you can’t work in government if you’ve led a less than exemplary life or had some bad times. It’s been that way for a long time
What is actually happening (imo) is that the psychopaths and sociopaths, those who are very good at masking their misdemeanors, cruelties and crimes, are purging the normies from government. When everybody is crooked, they all have nothing to fear from each other, and there is more cooperation.
You don’t really expect people to watch 11 minutes of that do you? I watched 10 seconds before I stopped it.
Actually, schoolboy, in the last week over 120,000 people have watched it.
Anyone else want to drug Cathy Areu and ship her to Saudi Arabia?
It was kinda funny with the usual bullshit as if fat had anything to do with it.
well, this got shared on some libtard site. expect more hate comments!