I love Walt Whitman. I've put this bit on sympathy cards before:
What do you think has become of the young and old men?
And what do you think has become of the women and children?
They are alive and well somewhere;
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death;
And if ever there was, it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
And ceas’d the moment life appear’d.
All goes onward and outward—nothing collapses;
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Nora's living room is the same color as mine.
Lovely poems.
I have trouble with free verse. I can't remember it at all, and I have trouble even comprehending it a lot of the time. it just swooshes right through my brain leaving behind a vague feeling of "That was nice. What was it?"
Actually, that's most poetry. It's often too pretty for me to get past the sound of the words and find the meaning.
vw or Emily-
Kate is in Natter 'splaining she has a friend looking for a place to live. He's from Germany!
ooh, I feel like an apartment matchmaker!
You're wonderful! In so many ways, but this is especially thanks-worthy right now, as I was dreading that process.
So, I was reading this article [link] about the proposed koala cull, and it says they have no natural predators on this island. Do koalas have natural predators otherwise?
Hello Lovelies!
Yay for connie and DH!
Beautiful Bon Voyage to Lilty. (Just translated the French in my head and realized I'm redundant, but leaving it alone because I hope Lilty's trip is double-lovely).
libkitty and -t have failed to earworm me because I was listening to a
VeggieTunes
(from the VeggieTales) CD. Nothing defeats the
Song of the Cebu
('cept maybe the
Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
!) So ha ha!
And -t is me WRT to poetry. Pretty, but flies right by without ever touching me, usually.
In potentially cool baseball news, DH and I have tickets Friday and Saturday for the Orioles. Saturday's involves an event with the USS Mariner blog and Special Surprise Guests, but that's not the cool part, because the guests are more likely to be some stathead types DH will get more excited about than I will than Edgar or Ichiro or anybody like that. The cool bit is that if we can somehow hold Palmeiro to one or zero hits tonight, I've got a good shot at seeing someone get his 3,000th hit live, and how cool is that?
