To one very dear and talented friend, I hope that your birthday is a wonderful day! Happy Birthday, Jer!
~K♥zzo
To one very dear and talented friend, I hope that your birthday is a wonderful day! Happy Birthday, Jer!
~K♥zzo
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
!!!!Happy birthday!!!!
-The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
--------William Shakespeare
-The god's paths are wayward.
- My english is bad and I know it. Sorry.
what? the old geezer is having a birthday again?
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
An interview with Prince:
How did you come about this site and what makes you keep coming back?
I think it was some member who knew me from another site. And I keep coming back because there are a number of poets whose work I deeply admire. Also, I appreciate the usually respectful comments I get on my own poems.
Are you happy with the way things are here?
Other than a problem I currently have when I access the site via Mozilla, yes - very much so.
What makes you happy?
Friendship, love, kindness, a new opening line to what I sense might become a good poem.
What is mankind's biggest achievement, and its greatest downfall?
I can't think of a greatest achievement at the moment but the downfall is sectarianism & xenophobia.
If you had a long day of hard work ahead of you what music would you be playing on your mp3, while working?
Well, I don't have mp3 but if I did, almost anything by Mozart, and maybe one of the Kronos Quartet albums or songs composed and performed by Mikos Theodorakis.
If you could take one book, music album and one video with you to a desert island, what would they be?
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr; "Pieces of Africa," by the Kronos Quartet; "Topsy-Turvy," directed by Mike Legh.
Do you feel comfortable in your walk with God?
Not in the least! If He or She did exist I would confront him about the Holocaust, the genocide of the Armenians, Darfur, Ruanda...
Which actor should play you in a movie based on your life?
Kevin Kline?
Given the option, what animal would you choose to be?
A Yorkie or a panther
What were your favorite things to do the past? What about now?
In the past it was writing fiction and raising my kids. Now it's writing poetry and visiting my grandchildren.
What activities make you lose track of time?
Writing a new poem. Being with a lover.
What makes you feel great about yourself?
My curiousity, my love of children, my sense of humour.
What are you naturally good at? (Skills, abilities, gifts etc.)
Writing, engaging pefect strangers in conversation...
What do people typically ask you for help in?
Their relationship issues.
If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
Civility, unfettered curiousity...
What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?
Raising my kids, having had them.
What song is in your head at the moment?
"Marieke, Marieke," by Jacques Brel.
The last book you bought/borrowed from the library?
Mr. Golightly's Holiday, by Salley Vickers
Which book are you reading at the moment?
The Liars' Club, by Mary Karr.
The last book you finished reading?
The Turnabout, by George Pelecanos
Favorite food?/ Comfort food?
Mu shu pork; chicken pot pie.
What time of day do you most often find yourself on the LitNet?
First thing after breakfast.
What are you wearing at the moment?
Long black thermal underwear.
Favorite poem?
The Second Coming" by Yeats
First novel you remember reading on your own?
Probably Buff, a Collie.
Favorite TV shows?
In Treatment," "Entourage," "Bill Moyers Journal," "60 Minutes.
Which LitNet members would you like to meet in person if you could?CdnReader, Thefifthelement, firefangled, Ampoule, Makai
Favorite post on the Forum?
Personal Poetry
Last food did you have?
Home made vegetarian chili & rice, followed by a bite or two of a double chocolate muffin
Last words you said out loud?
Recital of "The Second Coming" that I left on the answering machine of two of my friends...
Last person you hugged/kissed?
Someone I dated once after she initiated contact with me via an internet site
What do you do (for a living) to be able to keep your LitNet addiction going? And are you happy with your chosen profession?
Retired but I loved teaching Creative Writing.
What question would you like to ask yourself?
Why can't you be more patient and less anxious?
What would you like to be if you could change your profession?
A psychologist.
What is your most outstanding feature?
My sense of humour
If you could change one thing about the way you look, what would that be?
My height!
43. Which book do you wish you had written?
The Brothers Karamazov
What should you be doing at the moment instead of answering these questions?
Taking the post dinner walk prescribed by my doctor to help improve my sleep.
The most embarrassing moment in your life?
Caught shoplifting.
List some of the things that annoy you immensely.
Braggarts. Know-it-alls.
Anything that you want to forget but you never can?
How deeply I hurt my first wife by falling in love with someone else.
Tell us about some amusing translation mistake you have heard or made yourself.
At an ice-cream store soon after I moved back to quebec I specified that I wanted my ice-cream in a "cornichon"!
Are you mostly happy with life or are you still in pursuit?
Very much still in pursuit.
Are you male or female?
Male.
What gives your life meaning?
My children and grand-children.
One final word of wisdom for LitNet users?
Love as deeply as you can and do not demand love in return.
What would you like to ask to the person to be interviewed after you?
Are you sure you want to do this?
~
"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
~
Happy Birthday.
Big Cheers!
Happy Birthday Prince!!What a reat interview!
This had me laughing:
What are you wearing at the moment?
Long black thermal underwear.I've never seen thermal underwear in black, but the thought of you in that by the computer had me laughing out loud!
Here are some presents for your birthday:
And since we both like Yeats so much, how about a chance to read one of my favorite Yeats poems:
The Circus Animals' Desertion
by William Butler Yeats
I
I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,
I sought it daily for six weeks or so.
Maybe at last, being but a broken man,
I must be satisfied with my heart, although
Winter and summer till old age began
My circus animals were all on show,
Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,
Lion and woman and the Lord knows what.
II
What can I but enumerate old themes?
First that sea-rider Oisin led by the nose
Through three enchanted islands, allegorical dreams,
Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose,
Themes of the embittered heart, or so it seems,
That might adorn old songs or courtly shows;
But what cared I that set him on to ride,
I, starved for the bosom of his faery bride?
And then a counter-truth filled out its play,
'The Countess Cathleen' was the name I gave it;
She, pity-crazed, had given her soul away,
But masterful Heaven had intetvened to save it.
I thought my dear must her own soul destroy,
So did fanaticism and hate enslave it,
And this brought forth a dream and soon enough
This dream itself had all my thought and love.
And when the Fool and Blind Man stole the bread
Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea;
Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me:
Character isolated by a deed
To engross the present and dominate memory.
players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.
III
Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
happy Birthday Prince!!
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heppy b'day wee wain.
So sorry I am late. Happy Birthday Prince!
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
That was a great interview, Jer.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
Sorry I'm late!!I sent you a message earlier though!
I hope your birthday was wonderful, Prince, and perfectly sweet!!
And eyemaker, the picture of that cake just made my arteries clog.
Then she would run until morning to ease the ache; swifter than rain, swift as loss, racing to catch up with the time when she had known nothing at all but the sweetness of being herself.
-- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Happy Birthday, PrinceMyshkin!
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
May you have the best of birthdays up till now!
Happy birthday
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
Happy Birthday!!!
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