Once a giant
Carried me over a gorge.
Enlightenment is different
You must make your own way there.
But test each step
Along the path.
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The Giant
Tuesday, 16 Aug 2016, 23:17
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Twilight
Monday, 15 Aug 2016, 21:45
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The dear dead voices are most clear
At twilight: when we hear
At twilight: when we hear
Birds and people: calling one another.
Plus Ça Change
Sunday, 14 Aug 2016, 22:38
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First there was a proposal to remove the "Disagree" button.
"Agree" won the vote, so "Disagree" was removed.
Then there was a proposal to reinstate the "Disagree" button.
No-one disagreed, so it was reinstated.
Statisticians Fight Back
Saturday, 13 Aug 2016, 23:10
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"There are liars, damn liars, and politicians."
(No offence, but they were rude about us first. And who is the more accurate?)
Salad Daze
Saturday, 13 Aug 2016, 20:12
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Q. How do you get a baby leaf salad off to sleep?
A. Rocket.
Plain English
Friday, 12 Aug 2016, 22:07
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In a recent buzz with some flies I know
I utilised the word "longevity"
They never came back
Of course the word
Was too long
For them
Or me
Life
.
Late Summer Geese
Friday, 12 Aug 2016, 21:33
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Geese Iheardyoutell
Each other where you're going tonight.
Please take me too.
Singing Mice
Thursday, 11 Aug 2016, 18:10
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Edited by Richard Walker, Thursday, 11 Aug 2016, 18:23
This is a recording of mice singing. I wanted to check if it is still possible to embed sound in these posts, so I chose this sample, which reminds me of the Clangers! The mice are really much higher in pitch and the frequency has been lowered so humans can hear it, similarly to how bat detectors work.
Download this audio clip.Audio player: audioS1.mp3
Source http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051031/multimedia/audioS1.mp3 (needs Quicktime)
Blackberries and Poetry
Wednesday, 10 Aug 2016, 22:39
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I love eating wild blackberries during my walks at this time of year. Sampling one or two tart berries from every bush along the way, it always seems to me that each produces fruit unlike any other, any place else: as (they say) small vineyards produce distinctively different wines because of their soil and situation.
But professional tasters (if any exist) of local blackberries have to work on a much more delicate scale than wine tasters. One meter is a long way in blackberry space.
A poem Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney starts
Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it.
Summer Grasses - Basho Haiku
Tuesday, 9 Aug 2016, 00:31
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I tried to capture a famous Haiku in my own words
Summer grass
All that's become
Of warrior dreams.
Basho 1644-1694
Then I tried to rewrite it in Anglo-Saxon form, because that is another style of poetry I admire greatly.
Between the pebbles and the bone-washing beach.
All along the strand where valorous warriors gave their lives.
The traveller hears nothing now save the sea.
Only the grass whispers the stories of the brave.
All along the strand where valorous warriors gave their lives.
The traveller hears nothing now save the sea.
Only the grass whispers the stories of the brave.
Why not?
Monday, 8 Aug 2016, 23:35
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And why not
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Sack me
Then
I'll
Havemore
Time to figure out
Poetry
Yours not
Silver Spoon
Saturday, 6 Aug 2016, 23:57
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I've just bought a silver spoon. I plan to die with it in my mouth.
One Liner
Saturday, 6 Aug 2016, 22:00
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They say all the nice girls love a sailor. But the nauticals do too.
Spicy Daffinitions
Saturday, 6 Aug 2016, 21:57
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mace = place to get lost.
galangal = female perspective.
cumin = traditional Yorkshire doorstep welcome.
cloves = 's whatcha wear, innit?
cinnamon = can run but can't hide, all on that day.
cayenne = 1 nautical mile per hour.
caraway = overdid it, as in "Shorry, I got caraway".
bay leaf = court official.
anise = place to get gun.
galangal = female perspective.
cumin = traditional Yorkshire doorstep welcome.
cloves = 's whatcha wear, innit?
cinnamon = can run but can't hide, all on that day.
cayenne = 1 nautical mile per hour.
caraway = overdid it, as in "Shorry, I got caraway".
bay leaf = court official.
anise = place to get gun.
One Liner
Friday, 5 Aug 2016, 23:03
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"Newfangled". There's an old-fashioned expression.
Cracker Motto
Friday, 5 Aug 2016, 00:45
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Although fewer than 141 days remain to Xmas, most of the Elves are still on their hols.
However a young apprentice has recently joined and shows good promise. Here is her first joke. Please applaud a star in the making.
Q: If lions had feathers, why would that be restful?
A: Because it would be lion down.
One Liner
Thursday, 4 Aug 2016, 23:12
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I once had a postman named Alfred, who was really aggressive and testosterone-driven
He had this T-shirt made that said "Al for mail".
Angel
Thursday, 4 Aug 2016, 22:56
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What kept you, Angel?
Angels I hear lot about.
But you may be the last I run up against.
Epitaph for an Insomniac Film Buff
Thursday, 4 Aug 2016, 22:37
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The Big Sleep
Is The Best.
Snail Winter Haiku
Tuesday, 2 Aug 2016, 23:36
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Snail
In winter, will you wrap up like me?
What answer did I expect?
Tom Swifty Misquote #1
Tuesday, 2 Aug 2016, 23:23
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"Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well", said Tom gravely.
Clerihew
Tuesday, 2 Aug 2016, 23:19
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Diogenes
Had scabs all over his knees.
Some were clinical
That's what you get from living in a barrel and being cynical.
Doubting Angel
Tuesday, 2 Aug 2016, 00:59
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I met a doubting Angel in a late-night bar
Who said: "I do not question why (or even if) we are."
"But why should existence in itself exist?"
There was no answer I could give to this.
Loss of the forest
Monday, 1 Aug 2016, 22:20
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oh my heart oh my heart
the red forest fell in the autumn
the green shoots that rise in spring
are never you. oh never
Kōan of the Day
Monday, 1 Aug 2016, 21:54
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The teachers and the taught were on different wavelengths.
Wisdom advised them to tune in.
Wisdom advised them to tune in.
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