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1 Pebble in the stream
Lava flowing on the hill
Our words change slowly
Frothing surf atop the waves
The tide comes and the tide goes
2 Words are given thoughts
which may melt old rocks and clog
streams which feed the seas
Seven seas brim too slowly
Attentuate too swiftly
3 Sea eels verb each noun
So what if fish tell lies, Yang?
Seals live on white lies, Yen.
Slippery tongues obfuscate
The truth and lie in all hues
4 Pure truth absent hue
Lie enfolds germ - tainted truth
Waves pound shore, cleanse truth.
Truth's diamond never corrodes
But refracts to each their hue.
5 Flood cedes, growth anew
Diamond of truth commands view
Wisdom pores, like dew. Dewdrops catch morn’s light - reflects And grows a new sun’s image
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Dewdrops catch morn’s light - reflects
And grows a new sun’s image
Thank you Mav for a lovely image.
It's been too lo9ng a day for me to write pietry so I woh't reply. (I would edit that but reading the original you can see what kind of day I had)
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Pebble in the stream
Lava flowing on the hill
Our words change slowly
Frothing surf atop the waves
The tide comes and the tide goes
Words are given thoughts
which may melt old rocks and clog
streams which feed the seas
Seven seas brim too slowly
Attentuate too swiftly
Sea eels verb each noun
So what if fish tell lies, Yang?
Seals live on white lies, Yen.
Slippery tongues obfuscate
The truth and lie in all hues
Pure truth absent hue
Lie enfolds germ - tainted truth
Waves pound shore, cleanse truth.
Truth's diamond never corrodes
But refracts to each their hue.
Flood cedes, growth anew
Diamond of truth commands view
Wisdom pores, like dew.
Dewdrops catch morn’s light - reflects
And grows a new sun’s image
Deep within earth's bosom life
Begins. Joy! Sunrise!
What urge, beauty? Seed divine.
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> sow divine?
ah, Empress of Blandings, no doubt? :)
[/We will now return to to your scheduled programme]
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re "sow divine"?
Hey, Maverick. I thought I would sow a little deeper. "So divine", so shallow. :)
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I was trying to figure out why you were talking about pigs...
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Now I get the Empress of Blandings allusion, Maverick. Very clever. [Thanks to Etaoin, as well.] :) So it turns out Fred Patzel was "the hog-caller champion of the Western states" who hollered his way into a story in Vanity Fair in 1926 which Wodehouse must have read 'cause "Pig - hoo-o-o-ey" ended up along with the Empress of Blandings in a story Wodehouse wrote in 1929 with the unlikely title of "Fish Preferred". Wodehouse and The Real
Empress Of BlandingsThe second part of my talk begins with the question - if the Empress of Blandings was, well, conceived if you like in Pig - hoo-o-o-ey by way of Fred Patzel and Vanity Fair, when and how did she become the staple element of life at Blandings, the centre of every Blandings Castle story? The 'when' is easy - that's Summer Lightning or as you call it Fish Preferred, which first came out in Spring 1929. The ‘how' is much more complicated.
Now, Pig- hoo-o-o-ey was first published in July l927 but there is a letter to Townend from Wodehouse, written I recall, in late l926, in which Wodehouse says he is trying to work out a new, full-length Blandings novel, the one we now know as Fish Preferred. It is the third Blandings novel but it is a very significant book in Wodehouse's career.http://www.eclipse.co.uk/wodehouse/pighooey.htm
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well, once again, mav has said it better than I... his allusion sailed right over my head... I was wallowing...
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I yield, Maverick. I can't have a sow hogging my "sunrise".
Ergo: "seed divine"
Just changed it. :) [Thanks for collaboration.]
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Pebble in the stream
Lava flowing on the hill
Our words change slowly
Frothing surf atop the waves
The tide comes and the tide goes
Words are given thoughts
which may melt old rocks and clog
streams which feed the seas
Seven seas brim too slowly
Attentuate too swiftly
Sea eels verb each noun
So what if fish tell lies, Yang?
Seals live on white lies, Yen.
Slippery tongues obfuscate
The truth and lie in all hues
Pure truth absent hue
Lie enfolds germ - tainted truth
Waves pound shore, cleanse truth.
Truth's diamond never corrodes
But refracts to each their hue.
Flood cedes, growth anew
Diamond of truth commands view
Wisdom pores, like dew.
Dewdrops catch morn’s light - reflects
And grows a new sun’s image
Deep within earth's bosom life
Begins. Joy! Sunrise!
What urge, beauty? Seed divine.
Green shoots break through the black earth:
Fibrous flags of green, still furled.
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