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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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I’d say that just about sums it up.
Extremely well done.
Cant Stop The Message, Google/Amazon/Twitter/Facebook. You opened the door;REAP the resulting whirligig of Consequences.
This week I found out there are pissed-off doctors who have a counter-opinion to the broadcast opinion. No shit! It then turns out that their spokeswoman likes demon sperm, and anyway, Hydroxychloroquine fails to work at week three if you are standing in a dumpster fire and eating fried chicken. Proof enough! We must wear those masks; it’s the most important thing we can do/ sarc.
I cringe at what they have for us in October. But, I feel in my bones they’re not really holding an election, anyway. Taiwan? Mexican border raid? Nuke disaster? Congress dissolved?
Thanks for posting this, Gerard– it says it all. I’m sending the link to like-minded friends.
PA Cat, be sure you send the BitChute link. You know damn well when utube gets wind of this one it’s gonna be memory-holed.
Plus, it’ll be a great way to intro others to that platform. You can bet most normies know nada of it.
I’m forwarding this to my friends with the bitchute url. This video will be disappeared from youtube.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/w64rFwcO2TSO/
It would be swell if Trump was actually representing normies instead of talking about representing normies. He exhibits no attention for detail and is outflanked by people who do, especially within his own family. The most sophisticated revolutionaries must take amused satisfaction at having Trump as their foil.
james wilson, he’s not so much a foil, as a flaming mace. I prefer the flaming mace.
Something to keep in mind throughout all this.
https://medium.com/interfaith-now/why-your-christian-friends-and-family-members-are-so-easily-fooled-by-conspiracy-theories-5c36a835ef07
@BroKen
“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”
Interesting that the phrase “conspiracy theory” was coined by cia to discredit any opinion counter to the official narrative. Any questioning of that narrative was to be regarded as loon territory.
Why would Christians be especially susceptible to an alternative view of events, aka “conspiracy theory”? Perhaps it is through the recognition that all government being composed of evil persons is evil in itself; that whenever both media and government put forth the same narrative both are lying, to avoid disclosing the truth.
The history of the world is one of conspiracies, beginning with the conspiracy to seize power in Heaven. An acceptance and understanding of this is crucial to viewing the world without blinders or rose colored glasses; rejection of this enables the unquestioning acceptance of official lies.
What say you?
iggy, I say that it may not be that Christians are more susceptible to conspiracy theories although we (Christians) are the (my link) author’s audience. In any case, I say we all should be skeptical, especially of our own pet theories.
I say that there is a war going on but at a much higher level than any Deep State or other human agency. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. When we turn on other humans, especially those who are deluded and deceived, the principalities and powers of this world are winning.
I say there probably is a Deep State but it is likely more of a mass of bureaucrats who are determined to protect their own power than a nefarious cabal to which government obeys.
I say their are real casualties in this war and it would seem that Mike Adams was one. I say along with Mark Steyn that the academy is bonkers and has raised up monsters.
I say when I read “Fangs Out and Full Speed” to a friend and colleague this morning, I kind of choked up and had trouble getting through it (even though he says David took three stones instead of five!).
And finally, I say Gerard’s posting of the video “Hobo Matters” is a beautiful satirical counter-weight to the video at the top of this thread. In the middle of confusion all kinds of things seem plausible. In hindsight, most plausible things are obviously wacko.