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Ian

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joined on 04/18/06
last updated 12/02/07
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Opening Lines

I like to travel, and I just got back (Oct 2007); and my pictures, available to friends are from my travels - I'll add some of this year's later.
Tempus fugit so I start with a poem:

To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell

HAD we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast;
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart;
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in this slow-chapt power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

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Fully functional older guy (if you need to ask 'how old?', you don't want to know!) - I've been 'away' for a few months now, got back in November or thereabouts!
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Random Thoughts

THE ICINGBUS
BY ROGER MCGOUGH

the littleman
with the hunchbackedback
crepto his feet
to offer his seat
to the blind lady

people gettingoff
steered carefully around
the back mound
of his back
as they would a pregnantbelly

the littleman
completely unaware
of the embarrassment behind
watched as the blindlady
fingered out her fare

..........................

muchlove later he suggested that instead
ofa wedding-cake they shouldhave a miniaturebus
made outof icing but ... read more
Tue, January 23, 2007 - 6:20 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
Poem lyrics of The Garden Of Love by William Blake:

I laid me down upon a bank,
Where Love lay sleeping;
I heard among the rushes dank
Weeping, weeping.

Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.

I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of thi... read more
Tue, January 23, 2007 - 6:18 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
I was searching Google for some help with my forthcoming Dalmatian Islands sailing holiday and this cropped up:

www.addicks.fsnet.co.uk/nat/ppage.htm

It's by a guy, Peter, who describes himslef as a 'nudist rather than a naturist' and I should say that if the sight of nude men offends you then don't go there. His naked body is in nearly every picture. Happily married to a woman who is not 'as nuts about it' as he is, and with a mother who doesn't mind him hanging around in his ... read more
Mon, May 1, 2006 - 3:53 AM permalink - 3 comments
 
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