tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007585410208807865.post3077535487724984935..comments2024-03-23T11:04:31.006-07:00Comments on . : Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02531079334473031464noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007585410208807865.post-21452189050010980882014-05-19T13:23:29.708-07:002014-05-19T13:23:29.708-07:00Ducky, what a great poem.
Thanks so much for shar...Ducky, what a great poem. <br />Thanks so much for sharing it here...Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531079334473031464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007585410208807865.post-82460135493423897872014-05-19T13:20:47.399-07:002014-05-19T13:20:47.399-07:00Without some means of establishing some distance, ...Without some means of establishing some distance, I think that you would soon become overwhelmed.<br /><br />-----<br /><br />Yep. This is a hard-learned lesson for me. My profession offers so many unique environments and experiences, but I know that I simply cannot do certain things, because I can't yet create that much-needed distance....Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531079334473031464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007585410208807865.post-28680528202521341892014-05-15T13:34:16.465-07:002014-05-15T13:34:16.465-07:00My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.
M...<br /><br />My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.<br />My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all.<br />Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.<br />May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade.<br />My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.<br />My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first.<br />Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.<br />Forgive me, open wounds, for pricking my finger.<br />I apologize for my record of minuets to those who cry from the depths.<br />I apologize to those who wait in railway stations for being asleep today at five a.m.<br />Pardon me, hounded hope, for laughing from time to time.<br />Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.<br />And you, falcon, unchanging year after year, always in the same cage,<br />your gaze always fixed on the same point in space,<br />forgive me, even if it turns out you were stuffed.<br />My apologies to the felled tree for the table's four legs.<br />My apologies to great questions for small answers.<br />Truth, please don't pay me much attention.<br />Dignity, please be magnanimous.<br />Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.<br />Soul, don't take offense that I've only got you now and then.<br />My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once.<br />My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man.<br />I know I won't be justified as long as I live,<br />since I myself stand in my own way.<br />Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,<br />then labor heavily so that they may seem light.<br /><br />Wislawa SzymborskaDucky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007585410208807865.post-87190249798891983132014-05-11T19:33:13.554-07:002014-05-11T19:33:13.554-07:00Methinkes that the Photo Man's "distance&...Methinkes that the Photo Man's "distance" is built into his purchases. Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007585410208807865.post-90600000007813379662014-05-11T19:24:09.022-07:002014-05-11T19:24:09.022-07:00Without some means of establishing some distance, ...Without some means of establishing some distance, I think that you would soon become overwhelmed.<br /><br />Saw "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWg7J8n6RmI" rel="nofollow">Peter and the Starcatcher</a>" at the Hippydome in Baltimore this evening... the Peter Pan prequel story. <b>In the end</b>, Molly must go home... and Peter must fulfill his own destiny, which is to one day return for Molly's daughter, Wendy...Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.com