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#61
General JFC / Re: Poetry Almanac
Last post by Sven2 - November 27, 2020, 02:44:33 PM Sorrow Is Not My Name
—after Gwendolyn Brooks
No matter the pull toward brink. No
matter the florid, deep sleep awaits.
There is a time for everything. Look,
just this morning a vulture
nodded his red, grizzled head at me,
and I looked at him, admiring
the sickle of his beak.
—after Gwendolyn Brooks
No matter the pull toward brink. No
matter the florid, deep sleep awaits.
There is a time for everything. Look,
just this morning a vulture
nodded his red, grizzled head at me,
and I looked at him, admiring
the sickle of his beak.
Then the wind kicked up, and,
after arranging that good suit of feathers
he up and took off.
Just like that. And to boot,
there are, on this planet alone, something like two
million naturally occurring sweet things,
some with names so generous as to kick
the steel from my knees: agave, persimmon,
stick ball, the purple okra I bought for two bucks
at the market. Think of that. The long night,
the skeleton in the mirror, the man behind me
on the bus taking notes, yeah, yeah.
But look; my niece is running through a field
calling my name. My neighbor sings like an angel
and at the end of my block is a basketball court.
I remember. My color's green. I'm spring.
—for Walter Aikens
--Ross Gay
after arranging that good suit of feathers
he up and took off.
Just like that. And to boot,
there are, on this planet alone, something like two
million naturally occurring sweet things,
some with names so generous as to kick
the steel from my knees: agave, persimmon,
stick ball, the purple okra I bought for two bucks
at the market. Think of that. The long night,
the skeleton in the mirror, the man behind me
on the bus taking notes, yeah, yeah.
But look; my niece is running through a field
calling my name. My neighbor sings like an angel
and at the end of my block is a basketball court.
I remember. My color's green. I'm spring.
—for Walter Aikens
--Ross Gay
#62
General JFC / Re: Poetry Almanac
Last post by Sven2 - October 25, 2020, 06:05:35 PMSyros
In Syros' harbor abandoned merchant ships lay iddle.
Stem by stem by stem. Moored for many years:
CAPE RION, Monrovia.
KRITOS, Andros.
SCOTIA, Panama.
Dark paintings on the water, they have been hung aside.
Like playthings from our childhood, grown gigantic,
that remind us
of what we never became.
XELATROS, Piraeus.
CASSIOPEIA, Monrovia.
The ocean scans them no more.
But when we first came to Syros, it was at night,
we saw stem by stem by stem in moonlight and thought:
what a powerful fleet, what splendid connections!
--Tomas Transtromer
translated by May Swenson and Leif Sjoberg
Posted by svengali2 at 6:56 PM No com
In Syros' harbor abandoned merchant ships lay iddle.
Stem by stem by stem. Moored for many years:
CAPE RION, Monrovia.
KRITOS, Andros.
SCOTIA, Panama.
Dark paintings on the water, they have been hung aside.
Like playthings from our childhood, grown gigantic,
that remind us
of what we never became.
XELATROS, Piraeus.
CASSIOPEIA, Monrovia.
The ocean scans them no more.
But when we first came to Syros, it was at night,
we saw stem by stem by stem in moonlight and thought:
what a powerful fleet, what splendid connections!
--Tomas Transtromer
translated by May Swenson and Leif Sjoberg
Posted by svengali2 at 6:56 PM No com
#63
General JFC / Re: Mr.Milch In The News
Last post by Sven2 - October 17, 2020, 04:23:11 PM 'Deadwood,' 'NYPD Blue' Creator David Milch Talks About Living With Alzheimer's
by Malina Saval
Oct 16, 2020 10:15am PT
From his work on the iconic, Golden Globe-winning 1980s cop drama "Hill Street Blues" to creating such TV series as "NYPD Blue," "Deadwood" and "Luck," four-time Emmy Award-winning David Milich has been an iconic figure in the biz. Milch is battling Alzheimer's, a ravaging brain disease for which there is no cure. From his residence at a care facility in Southern California, Milch describes his experience:
"I'm 75 years old and I was diagnosed about a year and half ago," says Milch. "It's a slow unfolding as you become aware of the compromising of your faculties. And that becomes increasingly dramatic and distressing. And finally, you can't turn your back on it any longer — that's been the story with me. [It's] forgetfulness of all different sorts, which compromised my ability to meet my daily responsibilities. Finally, there comes a period where you're fighting off what is clearly a change and you have to, if you're going to be responsible and meet the concerns that other people are beginning to show, you have to encounter all of that.
It's an increasingly distressing sequence of events, but finally there's no turning your back on it. You kind of fight a rear-guard action. You look at it as a series of accumulating skirmishes where you look at the challenges for the given day and your hope is to be able to get through without acknowledging what is privately an undeniable fact. It's a demoralizing accumulation of irrefutable facts.
At a certain point you make so many adjustments to conceal or circumvent the effects of the illness. And then, if you are to retain any sort of dignity, you have to acknowledge that you've changed. And if you're going to keep your dignity you have to make adjustments to the disease, and that takes up more and more of your conscious life and emotional life. I'm grateful that I'm part of a family which has been generous and brave in trying to help me. I try to work every day, to write. Each day is about coming to terms yet again with the compromising facts of your condition, and you finally get to the point where you have to make concessions to what's going on with you. And you try to embrace your families, the concessions that they've made or are trying to make. In some ways you could describe it all as an accelerating pace of compromise.
I live in a facility which is organized around the recognition of and adjustment to what is happening and what is continuing to happen. And you just learn to live with it, as best you can. It's an accelerating deterioration. [For me], it's about being a continuing part of the community, trying to be a source of support and strength as long as you can to your family. And doing it all as you live into the recognition of the concessions that you have to make increasingly, day after day."
from:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/spotlight/deadwood-nypd-blue-creator-david-milch-brave-battle-alzheimers-1234807100/
by Malina Saval
Oct 16, 2020 10:15am PT
From his work on the iconic, Golden Globe-winning 1980s cop drama "Hill Street Blues" to creating such TV series as "NYPD Blue," "Deadwood" and "Luck," four-time Emmy Award-winning David Milich has been an iconic figure in the biz. Milch is battling Alzheimer's, a ravaging brain disease for which there is no cure. From his residence at a care facility in Southern California, Milch describes his experience:
"I'm 75 years old and I was diagnosed about a year and half ago," says Milch. "It's a slow unfolding as you become aware of the compromising of your faculties. And that becomes increasingly dramatic and distressing. And finally, you can't turn your back on it any longer — that's been the story with me. [It's] forgetfulness of all different sorts, which compromised my ability to meet my daily responsibilities. Finally, there comes a period where you're fighting off what is clearly a change and you have to, if you're going to be responsible and meet the concerns that other people are beginning to show, you have to encounter all of that.
It's an increasingly distressing sequence of events, but finally there's no turning your back on it. You kind of fight a rear-guard action. You look at it as a series of accumulating skirmishes where you look at the challenges for the given day and your hope is to be able to get through without acknowledging what is privately an undeniable fact. It's a demoralizing accumulation of irrefutable facts.
At a certain point you make so many adjustments to conceal or circumvent the effects of the illness. And then, if you are to retain any sort of dignity, you have to acknowledge that you've changed. And if you're going to keep your dignity you have to make adjustments to the disease, and that takes up more and more of your conscious life and emotional life. I'm grateful that I'm part of a family which has been generous and brave in trying to help me. I try to work every day, to write. Each day is about coming to terms yet again with the compromising facts of your condition, and you finally get to the point where you have to make concessions to what's going on with you. And you try to embrace your families, the concessions that they've made or are trying to make. In some ways you could describe it all as an accelerating pace of compromise.
I live in a facility which is organized around the recognition of and adjustment to what is happening and what is continuing to happen. And you just learn to live with it, as best you can. It's an accelerating deterioration. [For me], it's about being a continuing part of the community, trying to be a source of support and strength as long as you can to your family. And doing it all as you live into the recognition of the concessions that you have to make increasingly, day after day."
from:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/spotlight/deadwood-nypd-blue-creator-david-milch-brave-battle-alzheimers-1234807100/
#64
General JFC / Re: JFC and Milch - NewsFeed.
Last post by Sven2 - October 17, 2020, 04:10:36 PMNo one I assume would hold their breath hoping to restart a conversation about the meaning of the final scene in John From Cincinnati. Or maybe, just maybe, there are some souls, still searching, still contemplating, what do we know.
Here's one at least.
from:
6 unresolved cliffhangers from television that still haunt us
The A.V. Club
Just because I can't tell you what happened in the season-one finale of John From Cincinnati doesn't mean I didn't want to see where it was going. David Milch's notoriously impenetrable surfing drama was canceled by HBO the day after it aired its final episode, an unceremonious end for a show that may or may not have contributed to the premature end of Milch's Deadwood. And while JFC is no Deadwood—what is?—I grew to love the way Milch's lyrical soliloquies flowed from the mouths of his seaside eccentrics and deadbeats. But, while the cast always intrigued me more than the story's miraculous healings and prophetic visions, I still find myself returning to that first season's parting shot. John, the mysterious, Christ-like figure at the center of the narrative, intones, "Mother of God, Cass-Kai," as Kai, a relatively minor character played by Keala Kennelly, surfs across the screen. I've turned it over again and again in my head over the years, weighing it against the show's Christian allusions and explorations of community and miracles, but every time I come up empty. Milch got a chance to wrap up Deadwood with a movie, maybe he can do the same with JFC? I'm not holding my breath. [Randall Colburn]
from:
https://tv.avclub.com/6-unresolved-cliffhangers-from-television-that-still-ha-1845371166
Here's one at least.
from:
6 unresolved cliffhangers from television that still haunt us
The A.V. Club
Just because I can't tell you what happened in the season-one finale of John From Cincinnati doesn't mean I didn't want to see where it was going. David Milch's notoriously impenetrable surfing drama was canceled by HBO the day after it aired its final episode, an unceremonious end for a show that may or may not have contributed to the premature end of Milch's Deadwood. And while JFC is no Deadwood—what is?—I grew to love the way Milch's lyrical soliloquies flowed from the mouths of his seaside eccentrics and deadbeats. But, while the cast always intrigued me more than the story's miraculous healings and prophetic visions, I still find myself returning to that first season's parting shot. John, the mysterious, Christ-like figure at the center of the narrative, intones, "Mother of God, Cass-Kai," as Kai, a relatively minor character played by Keala Kennelly, surfs across the screen. I've turned it over again and again in my head over the years, weighing it against the show's Christian allusions and explorations of community and miracles, but every time I come up empty. Milch got a chance to wrap up Deadwood with a movie, maybe he can do the same with JFC? I'm not holding my breath. [Randall Colburn]
from:
https://tv.avclub.com/6-unresolved-cliffhangers-from-television-that-still-ha-1845371166
#65
General JFC / Re: Poetry Almanac
Last post by Sven2 - October 15, 2020, 08:54:51 PM Fable
We had, each of us, a set of wishes.
The number changed. And what we wished --
that changed also. Because
we had, all of us, such different dreams.
The wishes were all different, the hopes all different.
And the disasters and the catastrophes, always different.
In great waves they left the earth,
even the one that is always wasted.
Waves of despair, waves of hopeless longing and heartache.
Waves of mysterious wild hungers of youth, the dreams of childhood.
Detailed, urgent; once in a while, selfless.
All different, except of course
the wish to go back. Inevitably
last or first, repeated
over and over --
So the echo lingered. And the wish
held us and tormented us
though we knew in our own bodies
it was never granted.
We knew, and on dark nights, we acknowledged this.
How sweet the night became then,
once the wish released us,
how utterly silent.
--Louise Gluck
We had, each of us, a set of wishes.
The number changed. And what we wished --
that changed also. Because
we had, all of us, such different dreams.
The wishes were all different, the hopes all different.
And the disasters and the catastrophes, always different.
In great waves they left the earth,
even the one that is always wasted.
Waves of despair, waves of hopeless longing and heartache.
Waves of mysterious wild hungers of youth, the dreams of childhood.
Detailed, urgent; once in a while, selfless.
All different, except of course
the wish to go back. Inevitably
last or first, repeated
over and over --
So the echo lingered. And the wish
held us and tormented us
though we knew in our own bodies
it was never granted.
We knew, and on dark nights, we acknowledged this.
How sweet the night became then,
once the wish released us,
how utterly silent.
--Louise Gluck
#66
General JFC / Re: Poetry Almanac
Last post by Sven2 - September 14, 2020, 04:51:19 PMDrought
Mid-August, and the hanging petunias are finally dead. Only the vines survive, wiry and sick, and soon they will die too, hopefully. Perhaps then it will be safe.
For a long time I brought them water from my bath, so if the neighbors called the police, I could speak into the truth machine and prove I had not broken any laws. But then someone did call, perhaps Mrs. Bressen, a patriot, who is such a nice old lady. My snapdragons opened their buds each morning for weeks afterward.
I had a café table in the southeast corner of the terrace, facing the lake, which was once as blue a cornflower, and two lemon-colored garden chairs, begonias overhead. I was lucky they let me go; in another neighborhood it might have been different. Hard times need hard measures.
My flowering lace. My red bee balm. My exuberant orange marigolds. My sprightly purple zinnias. My impatiens, my lobelia, my prim rose. My poor snapdragons, what summoned your strength each morning for one more push, one last burst of trust?
--Alpay Ulku
Mid-August, and the hanging petunias are finally dead. Only the vines survive, wiry and sick, and soon they will die too, hopefully. Perhaps then it will be safe.
For a long time I brought them water from my bath, so if the neighbors called the police, I could speak into the truth machine and prove I had not broken any laws. But then someone did call, perhaps Mrs. Bressen, a patriot, who is such a nice old lady. My snapdragons opened their buds each morning for weeks afterward.
I had a café table in the southeast corner of the terrace, facing the lake, which was once as blue a cornflower, and two lemon-colored garden chairs, begonias overhead. I was lucky they let me go; in another neighborhood it might have been different. Hard times need hard measures.
My flowering lace. My red bee balm. My exuberant orange marigolds. My sprightly purple zinnias. My impatiens, my lobelia, my prim rose. My poor snapdragons, what summoned your strength each morning for one more push, one last burst of trust?
--Alpay Ulku
#67
General JFC / Re: JFC and Milch - NewsFeed.
Last post by Sven2 - August 29, 2020, 11:21:30 PMWith passage of time, these mentions are rare finds, something a wandering shell collector might discover far from the seashore, in the dunes, or in the dry grass. It's a surprise they are there, small relics of the now distant past.
One doesn't have to take the shows seriously, they are presented with irreverent humor. It's better to remember yesterdays that way, with a smile, isn't it?
Sven
Nine shows to stream on HBO Max right now
By Bill Frost
"If you were an HBO Now subscriber, you may have noticed that it somehow became HBO Max seemingly overnight this summer. Or not — it's sheer confusion in the land of HBO streaming. Maybe you still have HBO Now, which is just HBO... now, or HBO Go, which is HBO Gone.
Anyway: HBO Max is the New Hotness, because it streams all the HBO shows, plus some exclusive originals, though the only one worth mentioning is Doom Patrol, the greatest series ever—seriously, you need it in your life. The rest are just HBO Meh.
The real draw of HBO Max is its deep library of classic shows from HBO and corporate parent WarnerMedia, which is owned by AT&T, which in turn is owned by ... 5G Satan? Could be, but they don't pay me enough here for that kind of investigative journalism. We'll never know.
Here are nine series from HBO past and present worth discovering, or revisiting, on HBO Max (or regular ol' HBO). Then watch Doom Patrol — have I mentioned how fan-damn-tastic Doom Patrol is?
Los Espookys (Season 1, 2019)
A group of 20-something friends run a business staging supernatural illusions in an undisclosed Latin American country, with support and wisdom from their stateside uncle (show co-creator Fred Armisen). Los Espookys is a loveably weird comedy that packs 60 episodes of story and dialogue (almost entirely subtitled Spanish) into six, establishing a distinct set of quirky characters immediately. Don't be put off by the subtitles; you'll be laughing too hard to notice.
A Black Lady Sketch Show (Season 1, 2019)
Another new series from last summer, A Black Lady Sketch Show is more than just a female version of Key & Peele or Chappelle's Show: it's the first-ever TV show acted, written, and directed entirely by black women (it's not just a clever name). Co-creator Robin Thede leads the cast and numerous guest stars through benign-to-brutal sketches from a fresh (read: usually overlooked) perspective. It's "edgy" without even trying, and universally hilarious.
Boardwalk Empire (Seasons 1-5, 2010-2014)
Everyone's lists of HBO prestige dramas — The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Carnivale, Watchmen, etc. — always seem to gloss over Boardwalk Empire. The sprawling 1920s period piece about Atlantic City mobster-politicians, fronted by Steve Buscemi at peak cragginess, is more relevant today than ever — at least the elected criminals of Boardwalk Empire were subtle. A 58-episode masterpiece that's among Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese's best.
John From Cincinnati (Season 1, 2007)
Speaking of acclaimed showrunners, David Milch closed up Deadwood and jumped right into John From Cincinnati, a single-season "surf noir" series that immediately confused the hell out of everyone. JFC is more of a "vibe" than a coherent drama, like Twin Peaks set against the backdrop of Imperial Beach. Is mystical newcomer John an alien? Jesus? Insane? Doesn't matter. The scenery is stunning, as is the surfing — just go with the flow, bro (yeah, sorry)."
Bored to Death (Seasons 1-3, 2009-2011)
Before he stole the show in The Good Place, Ted Danson swiped Bored to Death from Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis. A Brooklyn writer (Schwartzman) begins moonlighting as an unlicensed private eye, occasionally dragging his editor (Danson) and comic-artist friend (Galifianakis) along on cases. Bored to Death is charming, smart, droll, and all the other adjectives that get series canceled, but these actors have yet to top it. Where's the movie?
Enlightened (Seasons 1-2, 2011-2013)
Another lauded actor who arguably peaked with an HBO series, Laura Dern absolutely owns every second of Enlightened, even if no one noticed. Dern plays Amy, an office drone whose destructive lifestyle leads to an ugly meltdown and a stint in a holistic therapy center. She emerges ready for positive change, but her world is still negative AF (we've all been there... or currently reside there). Enlightened isn't really a comedy or a drama, but it is all heart.
United Shades of America (Seasons 1-4, 2016-2019)
Comedian W. Kamau Bell was on the journalistic racism beat four years ago — the first episode of United Shades of America was a friendly-ish hang with the KKK! Bell's docuseries also places deep focus on prisons, gangs, gentrification, megachurches, gun owners, LGBTQ rights and, in a prescient 2016 episode, policing tactics. But, United Shades isn't a downer, thanks to Bell's quick wit and hopeful outlook — good luck the next couple of seasons, W.
Arli$$ (Seasons 1-7, 1996-2002)
The Sopranos wasn't the first HBO original, and neither was Oz: In the olden days of 1996, there was Arli$$. HBO funded 80 episodes of sports agent Arliss Michaels (Robert Wuhl) sitcomming it up with real-life jocks and celebrities, and at least half of 'em turned out funny — not a bad return. Arli$$ is mostly notable for being an already-sharp Sandra Oh's (Killing Eve) first steady gig, as well as calling out Donald Trump's bullshit before it was cool/civic duty.
Dane Cook's Tourgasm (Season 1, 2006)
Just a sobering reminder that Dane Cook was once a thing.
from:
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/nine-shows-to-stream-on-hbo-max-right-now/Content?oid=20164642
One doesn't have to take the shows seriously, they are presented with irreverent humor. It's better to remember yesterdays that way, with a smile, isn't it?
Sven
Nine shows to stream on HBO Max right now
By Bill Frost
"If you were an HBO Now subscriber, you may have noticed that it somehow became HBO Max seemingly overnight this summer. Or not — it's sheer confusion in the land of HBO streaming. Maybe you still have HBO Now, which is just HBO... now, or HBO Go, which is HBO Gone.
Anyway: HBO Max is the New Hotness, because it streams all the HBO shows, plus some exclusive originals, though the only one worth mentioning is Doom Patrol, the greatest series ever—seriously, you need it in your life. The rest are just HBO Meh.
The real draw of HBO Max is its deep library of classic shows from HBO and corporate parent WarnerMedia, which is owned by AT&T, which in turn is owned by ... 5G Satan? Could be, but they don't pay me enough here for that kind of investigative journalism. We'll never know.
Here are nine series from HBO past and present worth discovering, or revisiting, on HBO Max (or regular ol' HBO). Then watch Doom Patrol — have I mentioned how fan-damn-tastic Doom Patrol is?
Los Espookys (Season 1, 2019)
A group of 20-something friends run a business staging supernatural illusions in an undisclosed Latin American country, with support and wisdom from their stateside uncle (show co-creator Fred Armisen). Los Espookys is a loveably weird comedy that packs 60 episodes of story and dialogue (almost entirely subtitled Spanish) into six, establishing a distinct set of quirky characters immediately. Don't be put off by the subtitles; you'll be laughing too hard to notice.
A Black Lady Sketch Show (Season 1, 2019)
Another new series from last summer, A Black Lady Sketch Show is more than just a female version of Key & Peele or Chappelle's Show: it's the first-ever TV show acted, written, and directed entirely by black women (it's not just a clever name). Co-creator Robin Thede leads the cast and numerous guest stars through benign-to-brutal sketches from a fresh (read: usually overlooked) perspective. It's "edgy" without even trying, and universally hilarious.
Boardwalk Empire (Seasons 1-5, 2010-2014)
Everyone's lists of HBO prestige dramas — The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Carnivale, Watchmen, etc. — always seem to gloss over Boardwalk Empire. The sprawling 1920s period piece about Atlantic City mobster-politicians, fronted by Steve Buscemi at peak cragginess, is more relevant today than ever — at least the elected criminals of Boardwalk Empire were subtle. A 58-episode masterpiece that's among Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese's best.
John From Cincinnati (Season 1, 2007)
Speaking of acclaimed showrunners, David Milch closed up Deadwood and jumped right into John From Cincinnati, a single-season "surf noir" series that immediately confused the hell out of everyone. JFC is more of a "vibe" than a coherent drama, like Twin Peaks set against the backdrop of Imperial Beach. Is mystical newcomer John an alien? Jesus? Insane? Doesn't matter. The scenery is stunning, as is the surfing — just go with the flow, bro (yeah, sorry)."
Bored to Death (Seasons 1-3, 2009-2011)
Before he stole the show in The Good Place, Ted Danson swiped Bored to Death from Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis. A Brooklyn writer (Schwartzman) begins moonlighting as an unlicensed private eye, occasionally dragging his editor (Danson) and comic-artist friend (Galifianakis) along on cases. Bored to Death is charming, smart, droll, and all the other adjectives that get series canceled, but these actors have yet to top it. Where's the movie?
Enlightened (Seasons 1-2, 2011-2013)
Another lauded actor who arguably peaked with an HBO series, Laura Dern absolutely owns every second of Enlightened, even if no one noticed. Dern plays Amy, an office drone whose destructive lifestyle leads to an ugly meltdown and a stint in a holistic therapy center. She emerges ready for positive change, but her world is still negative AF (we've all been there... or currently reside there). Enlightened isn't really a comedy or a drama, but it is all heart.
United Shades of America (Seasons 1-4, 2016-2019)
Comedian W. Kamau Bell was on the journalistic racism beat four years ago — the first episode of United Shades of America was a friendly-ish hang with the KKK! Bell's docuseries also places deep focus on prisons, gangs, gentrification, megachurches, gun owners, LGBTQ rights and, in a prescient 2016 episode, policing tactics. But, United Shades isn't a downer, thanks to Bell's quick wit and hopeful outlook — good luck the next couple of seasons, W.
Arli$$ (Seasons 1-7, 1996-2002)
The Sopranos wasn't the first HBO original, and neither was Oz: In the olden days of 1996, there was Arli$$. HBO funded 80 episodes of sports agent Arliss Michaels (Robert Wuhl) sitcomming it up with real-life jocks and celebrities, and at least half of 'em turned out funny — not a bad return. Arli$$ is mostly notable for being an already-sharp Sandra Oh's (Killing Eve) first steady gig, as well as calling out Donald Trump's bullshit before it was cool/civic duty.
Dane Cook's Tourgasm (Season 1, 2006)
Just a sobering reminder that Dane Cook was once a thing.
from:
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/nine-shows-to-stream-on-hbo-max-right-now/Content?oid=20164642
#68
General JFC / Re: Linc Stark - Luke Perry.
Last post by Sakamotox - August 26, 2020, 12:51:45 AMIt's a very good story. Expressing the insidiousness in conversations
#69
General JFC / Re: Poetry Almanac
Last post by Sven2 - June 25, 2020, 02:03:28 PMTo The Tune Of "A Lotus Leaf Cup"
I remember that year under the flowers
at midnight
when I first spent time with Miss Xie
in the pond chamber with a painted curtain hang on
the west side,
And I held her hand and we made secret vows
till we felt grief of morning orioles and a left-over
moon,
but after she departed --
not one word,
and now like traveling strangers
there is no chance we will meet again.
--Wei Zhuang (c.836-910)
Translated by Geoffrey Waters
I remember that year under the flowers
at midnight
when I first spent time with Miss Xie
in the pond chamber with a painted curtain hang on
the west side,
And I held her hand and we made secret vows
till we felt grief of morning orioles and a left-over
moon,
but after she departed --
not one word,
and now like traveling strangers
there is no chance we will meet again.
--Wei Zhuang (c.836-910)
Translated by Geoffrey Waters
#70
General JFC / Re: Technical Forum & Website ...
Last post by Sven2 - June 09, 2020, 01:57:46 PMI vote, remotely, :D to stay on course. We can vote by mail, absentee ballot or in any other way!
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If not, how much is necessary?
P.S. We need more emogies, the selection is too limited.
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If not, how much is necessary?
P.S. We need more emogies, the selection is too limited.
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