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Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
Gary Snyder
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
— BY THEODORE ROETHKE
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
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
Gerard Van der Leun
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Some of these death tolls are off. Vietnam is WAY off. So wo further ado ..
Revolution .. KIA .. 5000 …… Total deaths including exposure (Valley Forge) disease, POW mistreatment — 25,000
Civil War … long established figure … 600k
Union — 360 total; 140,000 KIA
Confederacy — 200K dead, no division between KIA and other deaths. Tens of thousands of civilian deaths in immediate aftermath of war
WWI — 116K total deaths, of which 46K were caused by influenza pandemic … 56,000 KIA (30K flu deaths occured in stateside training camps in a period of 4 weeks … incredible!)
WWII — Used to be 408k; but recently revised to account for 9500 Merchant Marines killed by U-Boats in Battle of Atlantic …. Some 310,000 KIA to inclube the Merchant Marines
Korea — 37K total deaths … 33K is total for KIA
Vietnam — 58K total deaths, of which 47000 were KIA …… 282K figure WAY off
Very inspiring. Thank you.
Multiculturalism. Under Ba’al.
A couple other corrections/additions: 1) Why leave out the War of 1812? True, the KIA toll was relatively light (2200 to 3500; deaths from all causes 15,000), but the war proved that our country was a going concern, and it gave us our national anthem (there’s a reason why Francis Scott Key’s statue in San Francisco was targeted last week).
2) WWI: We didn’t enter the war officially until April 1917, so the video’s reference to the outbreak of the war in July 1914 is (unintentionally) misleading. If we had joined the Allies in 1914, the KIA toll would have been much higher.
The hippies are entirely within their rights to burn the flag at Gettysburg on the 4th of July. That being said, if they try that shit next to me, I will whip their asses.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Why? Why should God? As Americans and the Church allows itself to be put into bondage to the demonic?
BTW you Traditional Americans, speaking of their “rights’ and their “free speech”, how’s the rights and free speech of yours working out? Have you noticed that the rights and free speech that you proclaim to so cherish for everyone, is not only being spoken, but ACTED OUT ON, while you are not only being thrown into the curb and stomped on physically, but so is your Traditional American muh rights and free speech? Why, it’s as if you believe their rights, and their free speech, which they act on, is more valuable than your muh rights and free speech, which you dare not act on. Well, just keep flapping your lips.
The United States, indeed all of Creation, is under God; but anyone who today mistakes that the United States is one nation is deluding himself.
Casey sed: “…burn the flag at Gettysburg on the 4th of July… I will whip their asses.”
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ghost sed: “Get out of the way and take notes. Gettysburg is my birthplace and the 4th of July was when my only son was born, and I almost died twice for that flag. “Whipped Ass” will have a whole new meaning when I climb up off their smoking asses and I don’t care how many of them there is.”
Easy Elder,
Most of us are not triggered that easily. Most of us either have jobs that prevent us from acting like asses all night long, or we are not foolish enough to put ourselves in harms way unnecessarily. If and when the threshold is finally met then an appropriate response will be dished out.
This vid was a nice effort, but the youngster who made it did slip some Soviets in there, and that ruins it for me. To most people, all uniforms look alike. It’s a shame.
No matter what anyone else says, it’s been an amazing 528 years.
Just look at what has been done.
It hasn’t been all peaches and cream, nothing ever is.
But the flowers far out numbered the weeds and this isn’t arguable.