Happy Birthday, PrinceMyshkin!

happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Prince!:)
I was expecting an interview :)

Helga, KizPaws, Daniel Benoit., MaryD, Janine, Virgil, bill, Haunted, Logos, Sleepy, Downing, Annamariah, Hoope, AuntShecky, Symphony and... oh yes, the infinitely beautiful one who left this poem for me!

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Originally Posted by qimissung

One of my new favorite poems for one of my still favorite poets. Happy Birthday, Prince:

One Swaying Being
-Rumi

Love is not condescension, never
that, nor books, nor any marking


on paper, nor what people say of
each other. Love is a tree with


branches reaching into eternity
and roots set deep in eternity,


and no trunk! Have you seen it?

The mind cannot. Your desiring


cannot. The longing you feel for
this loves comes from inside you.



When you become the Friend, your
longing will be as the man in


the ocean who holds to a piece of
wood. Eventually, wood, man, and

oceans become one swaying being,
shams Tabriz, the secret of God.
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Happy Birthday!

I wished you on your profile wall, sire! We share the same b'date: 17th of Feb.

I'll drink to your health.

PrinceMyshkin, I am awfully sorry for missing your birthday. To defend myself, though, I haven't been to LitNet recently, so I'll wish you a happy Unbirthday instead and as for a gift, this poem by Li Bai:

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See how the Yellow River's water move out of heaven.

Entering the ocean,never to return.

See how lovely locks in bright mirrors in high chambers,

Though silken-black at morning, have changed by night to snow.

... Oh, let a man of spirit venture where he pleases

And never tip his golden cup empty toward the moon!

Since heaven gave the talent, let it be employed!

Spin a thousand of pieces of silver, all of them come back!

Cook a sheep, kill a cow, whet the appetite,

And make me, of three hundred bowls, one long drink!

... To the old master, Tsen,
And the young scholar, Tan-chiu,

Bring in the wine!
Let your cups never rest!

Let me sing you a song!
Let your ears attend!

What are bell and drum, rare dishes and treasure?

Let me be forever drunk and never come to reason!

Sober men of olden days and sages are forgotten,

And only the great drinkers are famous for all time.

... Prince Chen paid at a banquet in the Palace of Perfection

Ten thousand coins for a cask of wine, with many a laugh and quip.

Why say, my host, that your money is gone?

Go and buy wine and we'll drink it together!

My flower-dappled horse,
My furs worth a thousand,

Hand them to the boy to exchange for good wine,

And we'll drown away the woes of ten thousand generation!

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:bday_2: Happy Belated Birthday, Prince. Hope your day was enjoyable.

Oh, many, many thanks to those of you I might have overlooked before and to the more recent well-wishers: Eyemaker, Scheherazade, Papayahead, Satan, Taliesin & Lynne50!!!