Ffolkes,
“Food, sleep, fear, propagation;
each is the common property of men with brutes.
Virtue is really their additional distinction;
devoid of virtue, they are equal with brutes.”
~~ The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.) ~~
Defiant Beauty….
Hajime…. It’s been a week or more (I’m too lazy to actually stop to figure out the exact interval…) since I last posted a fully fresh, fully filled-in Pearl, & I said I’d post, so, to avoid any significant build of inner angst (some folks call it ‘guilt’, but, not me, nosiree…. too personal….), I’m going to go ahead with what I’ve cobbled together, so I can work on a properly constructed piece of work, one with which I can be content. With this one, I am, if not content, then, tolerantly bemused. There’s a good older poem of mine, some fine music (three centuries of music enthusiasts can’t be ALL wrong….), and a number of excellent pearls strung together to make up the final, always odd finishing section of old-school pearling. Not bad, given the severe shortage of time spent at the computer in creating it….
Whatever my reasoning, or, euphemisms used, it’s going to have to serve, because I’m too invested in playing in the real world to stop at this point, with so much of the world still to explore. I’ll work hard to finish off the new poem, if only to get it out of my head, so, it won’t be long before the next fresh Pearl shows up. I’m sure, by now, y’all are thrilled to hear that. Well, perhaps ‘thrilled’ puts a strain on your credulity, but, you know what I mean, right? If not, boy, I’ve been doing something wrong, or, have been gone too often for my irony to register. SIGH…. Oh, well, that’s Life, y’know? Delicious ambiguity….
For now, let’s quit fooling about, & get on with what I have for y’all to enjoy today. I’ll even refrain from employing any of the customary BS, & just say this….
Shall we Pearl?….
“Just being weird is enough.”
~~ Truthful Bee ~~
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We’re going with a default selection today, to save time and cognitive angst which builds up the longer I take to make a decision on it. We’re also going with my personal favorite composer, for similar reasons… I do hope you enjoy it; I intend to do so as well…. Abondanza!….
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Classical Music
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The new poem isn’t done; it’s leaking out in small pieces. Here is one of my better efforts from 2013….
After the odyssey….
Portraits of iconic symbols, crashing, singing, forgotten;
evolving into mature innovation, as yet pale, and rotten.
Still water justly breeds, impenetrable primal verses resound;
unholy moments tarry, emotion swirls in passion unbound
Spiritual ovulation precedes each pregnant pause;
gravid, time moves on, following destiny’s cause.
Cast adrift on waves of confusion, to a final, damp landing;
salvation beckons sweetly, fed well on understanding.
Dreams directly fall, in night’s grey bower, unbidden;
lingering flavors in simple taste, lovingly, cleverly hidden.
Childish laughter sounds, joyful, bright, and clear;
no need ever to hide, no more monsters to fear.
Temper most foul arrives under unregistered mail;
forgotten taunts live on, lashed by an ancient flail.
Plain dealing delivers such lasting specks of honest hate;
savage in retrospect, never hasty, always running late.
Forever, cries an ambient lover of the pending night;
his pale, weak issue forms its own failing light.
Still, fortune favors such as those who apprehend;
Sweet love of Gaia, let it never end.
~~ gigoid ~~
3/10/2013
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Naked Pearls
Further Notes on Life @ Large….
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“It is in changing that things find repose”
~~ Heraclitus ~~
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“Anyone can hate. It costs to love.”
~~ John Williamson ~~
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“If you want to be happy, be.”
~~ Leo Tolstoy ~~
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“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
~~ Anne Sexton ~~
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“The Soul is born old, but it grows young;
that is the comedy of life.
The Body is born young and grows old;
that is life’s tragedy.”
~~ Oscar Wilde ~~
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“Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.”
~~ Pope St. Gregory I ~~
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“How admirable,
he who thinks not,
‘Life is fleeting’,
When he sees the lightning!”
~~ Basho ~~
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I did it. Again. I don’t know how, or why, and don’t wish to tempt fate by trying to figure it out. I’m just going to be happy with what there is, & move on to different, if not better things. Y’all enjoyed it, I hope; if not, well, as Epictetus said, happiness & freedom begin with a clear understanding that some stuff isn’t within our control Cute, eh? And, just tricky enough to be true. I’ll see y’all in a day or two…. Be well & happy, ffolkes…,
Y’all take care out there,
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest Carole, Mark,Theresa, & Richy
and everyone else, too…
When I works, I works hard.
When I sits, I sits loose.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.
Which is Why….
Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes,
I just sits.
gigoid, the dubious
The *only* duly authorized Computer Curmudgeon.
PLEASE STOP READING THIS MESSAGE NOW.
“SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!”- Oscar the Grouch
À bientôt, mon cherí….
gigoid 
“Food, sleep, fear, propagation;
each is the common property of men with brutes.
Virtue is really their additional distinction;
devoid of virtue, they are equal with brutes.”
~~ The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.) ~~
SMiLes gigoid and Happy Big Blue Room NoW
Good Will Hunting to you with Love as i’ll stART
off with this one above to Dance and Sing i most
often come here for SHiNoLA and predictably
find it and also go to some places
of SHiToldYa and predictably
find it tHeiR too so
sure.. i appreciate
YouR SHiNoLA
Very much..
But True in a World
that Love might Dictate is a great
thing that the SHiToldYa is finally getting
censored out.. i’m not sure that is a good thing
for you know what they say about roaches.. when
the light’s not on ‘they’ survive just as well in dark places
too and true they work twice as hard to get food.. whatever
that takes.. and
sure to Breed
some
more
Roach Folks too..
it’s true my friEnd there
are plenty of Shadow Roaches
out and about in online light now2 and
True as far as SHiToldYa’s.. the KinG Roach
is BRinGinG even more dARk out into the LiGHT
unafraid of
RaiD these
days.. hehe..
embOLDened as
‘they’ say on the Dining
Room TABLE oF LoVE too..
the thing about it is i really have
no choice but to respect roaches in the
light and in the dark for true that shadow
brute force of survival in Finding Food and
Propagating more is the Shadow Force
thaT also is the Grain of Sand
that Mountains of Love
Fly uPoN NoW
too.. True
the least i can hope
and will to do is to raise the
‘dirt’ up beneath my feet to LiVInG
LoVE for the dirt that brought my ancestors
all to the potential of a Kingdom Come oF LoVE
aLWaYs NoW to appreciate and JuST Do Do Do NoW..
i am not afraid of the dark for as always that dark is core
to all the light i am.. as Love.. i am not afraid of my shadow
nor my propensities to get Mused over the fairer and lightly
cladded other gender.. i am not afraid of Anger for i understand
how to turn Anger into a weapon of Loving Hands.. i am not afraid
of Jealousy for i understand now how to have it all in just three feet
of sand and a spiraling dance Naked with the (a) Sun of eARTh and a bite
to eat.. some water and a roof over my head for true i am the one who has it
all in just
a naked
dance of life
who once thought
there was more than Love
and Dance and Song and a few
crumbs and water and shelter to make life all
it truly needs to be as LoVinG FReED NoW to be..
true.. for in this sense and feel how can i not feel sorry
for those who are envious of what they cannot see at naked hand..
for they are already
have it all just
like me
if they
will just open
up a Real heART oF
SpiRiT as a SoUL that
and who Dances and Sings
as a Leaf of Grass in a Whitman Garden
of LoVinG
iT aLL
NoW2..
as any Kosmic Priest
will simply do forevermore
now in a City of LiGHt that
and who Lives WiTHiN..
And it’s true.. i am not
afraid to fight
but i am
strong
enough not to ever
feel less or more than
a grain of sand the same
and different too.. in other words..
there is no compelling reason for offense
and good reason to walk away as far as turning
other cheeks too.. but true fearless carries a defense on itS oWN
And a ReaP of Peace NoW as WiLL’s GracE oF LoVEFReEDNoW..
As far as gluttony goes sometimes i have to be reminded to eat.. as
Far as vanity goes you bet i love myself as much as i love you and everything else..
hehe.. have i left anything out of Brute Force too.. sure likely i have for words are limits
and essence
is everything
else
i do
LoVE too..
True.. i don’t like
everything but accepting
what i cannot change is enough
to Love all For me.. True.. my FriEnd
i am A Brute2 as i Love me some Minions too
sure or 3 as true i am A connoisseur of Minions where i live2..
i don’t want them to hide.. they work hard enough in the light..;)
“Just being weird is enough.”
~~ Truthful Bee ~~
iN short.. Amen.. with some
food.. some drink.. some
shelter and
a little
help
from
my friends..
Sure.. RaMeN noodles
will do with hot water too
and or some ‘Lucy’ crackers
with some KeTCHuP too..
sure.. as i give the
Katrina mostly
free reins
to spending
sprees on every
day as Valentine’s Day now
and the such as that.. don’t
worry dear if we run out.. there’s
always Condiments Free at Burger
King and some Hot Water in Public
Bathrooms for remember a Roach
will do what he and or her has to do..
And if we can scrounge up enough money
for the Church Casino Trip ‘they’ have free food
on the Tour Bus and Free RootBeer at the Hard Rock Cafe..
as long as i have love and health and Jesus F in Christ a Free
Dance and Song and Free Wi-Fi at Burger King too.. and if all my
computers die.. free computers at the Public Library to Write on too..
And Free Books to Read at Barnes and Nobles if we can catch a ride
there when all our cars die from old age too.. and true as far as electricity
goes it never
gets to
cold to
bundle up
and hug wHere i live..
and on top of that even if die
in that last breath i will say i FucKinG LiVED with a Good
bye… hehe.. what else.. yep that’s enough for NoW hAHA..
Stay
Hungry
my friEnd..
like that dude
says who is the
most powerful man
in the World in that Booze commercial hehe..
Oh God i am so fucking fortunate i was born poor to feel and sense
the
Truth
of Hungry
LoVE aLL FReEDNoW..
Hehe.. other folks build towers
and threaten and hope for the end
of the world and never find Heaven now.
-sad but true.
“It is in changing that things find repose”
~~ Heraclitus ~~
“Anyone can hate. It costs to love.”
~~ John Williamson ~~
“If you want to be happy, be.”
~~ Leo Tolstoy ~~
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
~~ Anne Sexton ~~
“The Soul is born old, but it grows young;
that is the comedy of life.
The Body is born young and grows old;
that is life’s tragedy.”
~~ Oscar Wilde ~~
“Be not anxious about what you have,
but about what you are.”
~~ Pope St. Gregory I ~~
“How admirable,
he who thinks not,
‘Life is fleeting’,
When he sees
the lightning!”
~~ Basho ~~
YeP.. LiKE
i sAid2..:)