Old Stones

I once stood for hours
Looking at the ravaged symmetry
Of the broken marble pillars
Of the Parthenon. White, tall ruins
Weathered yet proud.
Someone said:
What do you see in old stones?
.
Eternity.

Thanks, B.

 

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Airplane not flying high

Today I arrived at the airport at six o’clock to find that the 6.15 flight suffered from one of those “technical reasons” which sets one aircraft into the much hated cathegory of “no go”. That the plane was a “no go” flight was known since two A.M.
But nothing had been done by the night staff [...]

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The Alhambra

Allí fabló un moro viejo, — de esta manera fablara:
—¿Para qué nos llamas, rey, — para qué es esta llamada?
—¡Ay de mi Alhama!—
—Habéis de saber, amigos, — una nueva desdichada:
que cristianos de braveza — ya nos han ganado Alhama.
—¡Ay de mi Alhama!—
Allí fabló un alfaquí — de barba crecida y cana:
—Bien [...]

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Still life, Robert Bennie

Our ideas feature
words paint pictures
life as art
Still life
There is nothing
more or less inspiring
than peach like hips
and a pair of breasts

Still life in a niche, Frans Snijders
Sleeping bather, Pierre Auguste Renoir

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Fleas, Robert Bennie

From this scattered jumble
of past places ideas wander
to a history of our nature
an alternate look at life
.
We all hear a different piper
see a seperate stately message
as we wend our puzzled passage
through this changling maze called time
.
While we think and taste and touch it
take a nervous nibble quickly
we must follow what we did before
…………………………….to get to [...]

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Fashion victim

Victim indeed.
I cannot find the clothes I like.
Old Levi’s 501 are out of the question.
Impossible to find jeans that fit
at the waist and do not hang from the hips
with the crotch reaching mid-tights.
Because they do hang, unless I buy a pair
one size smaller than I need.
So, what was the saying?
If you cannot win, join [...]

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