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to remember

you have done well
in the contest of madness
you were brave in that war
you have all the honourable wounds
of one who has tried to find love
where the beautiful bird
does not drink

may i speak to you
like we are close and
locked away together?
once i found a stray kitten
and i used to soak my fingers
in warm milk,
it came to think i was five mothers
on one hand

traveller
why not rest your tired body?
lean back and close your eyes.
come morning
i will kneel by your side and feed you
i will so gently
spread open your mouth
and let you taste something of my
mind and life

surely
there is something wrong
with your ideas of the
beloved
if you think
the beloved would not be so
tender

Hafiz

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since feeling is first

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

-e.e. cummings

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the leftovers

Or sad or upset? There's an "artist" in Costa Rica starving a dog to death as an "art exhibit". Well. That's just beyond completely stupid in my book.

Here's a link to a petition against said exhibit: www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/...on.html
And a link to a blogspot/info ***warning on photos** guillermohabacucvargas.blogspot.com/
I got the news through my Tribe friend Amma, who spends so much of her fantastic energy rescuing animals: people.tribe.net/ammanaga/blog

I was hoping this was a hideous joke, but so far snopes hasn't found that to be so: www.snopes.com/critters/c.../vargas.asp

*sigh* sometimes i just feel so bad for humanity...
Tue, April 15, 2008 - 7:44 AM permalink - 7 comments
 
i have some fumbling words about what it means, or what i think it means, and what eludes me. to put them here would not really do justice to his genious. However, the next morning, technology surprised me with some concreteness to what i feel he perhaps felt.

Desperately Seeking Simplicity

this time i must confess
i feel a total hate for myself
while crowded and swarmed
my heart wishes to be a single self

seeking that single pearl
i crave to dive deep into this sea
but fear of murderous waves
makes me beg for your help my friends

scattered with so much going on inside
i long for nothing but an inner unity
duality must be abandoned
if you seek to drink the soul of unity

you must bet and lose
everything you've ever owned
if you truly desire
to become one with your beloved

listen to the secret sound
of the revelation now
when your quest aspires the skies
fly away from this lowly earth

my heavenly soul
who only nests in the heights
is tired of its house on earth
it wants to abandon the body
it wants to take the final flight

-- Ghazal 3210
Translation by Nader Khalili
"Rumi, Fountain of Fire"
Burning Gate Press, 1994

We are thinking of you now...
with love
Thu, February 28, 2008 - 11:31 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
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the banquet

Hotel Information (in *~Cincinnati Bellydance~*) For those lovely dancers coming in on July 4th and 5th to partake in the amazing fun-woweee dance workshops, we have a lovely block of rooms just a few miles away at the:

Best Western Regency
2241 Elkhorn Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40505
859-2... read more
discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 9:38 AM
Hotel Information (in Kentucky Belly Dance Darnit!!!) For those lovely dancers coming in on July 4th and 5th to partake in the amazing fun-woweee dance workshops, we have a lovely block of rooms just a few miles away at the:

Best Western Regency
2241 Elkhorn Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40505
859-2... read more
discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 9:17 AM
Hotel Information (in rakadu gypsy) For those lovely dancers coming in on July 4th and 5th to partake in the amazing fun-woweee dance workshops, we have a lovely block of rooms just a few miles away at the:

Best Western Regency
2241 Elkhorn Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40505
859-2... read more
discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 9:10 AM
HOTEL INFO (in rakadu gypsy) Hmmmm. What is this "time" thing you speak of?

For those lovely dancers coming in on July 4th and 5th to partake in the amazing fun-woweee dance workshops, we have a lovely block of rooms just a few miles away at the:

Best Western Regency
... read more
discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 9:09 AM
Re: Mira, Liz, and Zoe Workshop Details (in rakadu gypsy) Still working on the hotel info, but should have it early this week. I'll post stuff here. Gwyn, you're bringing us all pretty pants to buy, right???
discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 2:24 PM
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