Count yourself fortunate that it didn't resemble Everest and that neither Hillary nor Sherpa Tenzing were in the vicinity!Originally Posted by _Shannon_
Count yourself fortunate that it didn't resemble Everest and that neither Hillary nor Sherpa Tenzing were in the vicinity!
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
That's so you!
A woman comes into view,
like a cross between Mother Goose
and the lead locomotive,
her height accentuated
by the train
of parti-coloured
goslings trailing after her.
“Bonjours, les bébittes,"(bugs)
I call out to them.
Some wave at me, some smile, some
look puzzled. “Nous ne sommes pas
des bébittes," one blonde, curly-headed kid
calls out to me.
“Non?” I say, astonished.
“Non,” he continues, “nous sommes
des humains, des enfants!”
Come to find out!
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
A turbanned black woman
in a brilliant floral print dress
teeters on chicken legs
across an incurious street
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
I understand now! It was "les bébêtes"! Nothing to do with les bibites!
You Franch! You speak a language all your hown, eh?I understand now! It was "les bébêtes"! Nothing to do with les bibites!
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
A child the size of a sweet
jelly bean
rides on the shoulders
of her massive papa
bouncing up and down
with every step he takes.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
A tiny, ancient Chinese woman,
whose footsteps are like small,
cautious bites of an over-rich food,
pauses to sneeze
and I watch in concern
lest the force of it
take her straight up into the air.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
A young Khassidic woman,
wearing the sort of coarse cotton stockings
meant to make her legs
unappealing to strangers,
hurries up to the school-bus
that has stopped for her, and I note,
with pleasure in equal parts
lascivious and anti-religious,
how shapely are her legs!
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
Oh Prince! Sweet jellybean child, small footsteps, cautious bites, such images I love. I just hate to keep saying it over and over, that thing about being amazing.
And lxxiv, I'm reminded of a woman jazz singer in a smokey bar playing the piano and watching the antics of Rock Hudson with Doris Day and she adds to her lyrics, "You dawg you."
I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.
"If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor
This is such a beautiful and well wrought image.
Wonderful! You're in GREAT company! The last time somebody called me that - maybe 6 years ago - it was Pat S. who was at the time a prominent official at FBI headquarters, and because of her androgynous first name I had initially assumed she was male."You dawg you."
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
A young man sits at one of the outdoor tables
with an older male friend.
A young woman appears
from around the corner
and he leaps up
and the two of them move into a kiss,
pull back maybe all of an inch
then move in for another one.
From this angle I can see
the dimple deep in his cheek
and the way her eye crinkles
with the whole of her love
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
An elderly man in three-piece suit,
open-necked dress shirt,
carrying a furled umbrella
like a jaunty walking stick,
pauses at the trash bin
outside the restaurant,
looks expertly in,
retrieves a half-eaten bun
and carries on along his way.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
To feed the pigeons, I hope? I hope the poor guy wasn't that badly in need of food!
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
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