Pardon the error if i AM making one i don't sleep a lot and have a lot on my mind... Perhaps i already posted this?
ALL beauty is but ART unknown to thee,
ALL chance DIRECTION that thou cans't not SEE,
ALL disCORD HARMONY misunderstood,
ALL partial evil UNIVERSIAL GOoD,
Alexander Pope
(what does evil spell backwards anyway?)
SEELOVE
03-04-2007, 07:32 AM
Posted another ONE of your gems today with more ART, here is ONE for you:
ONE ART
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
-- Elizabeth Bishop (https://www.cs.rice.edu/%7Essiyer/minstrels/index_poet_B.html#Bishop)
SEELOVE
03-04-2007, 07:32 AM
Posted another ONE of your gems today with more ART, here is ONE for you:
ONE ART
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
-- Elizabeth Bishop (https://www.cs.rice.edu/%7Essiyer/minstrels/index_poet_B.html#Bishop)