Quicksilver day, leaden night
The minutes slip into hours
My silent prayer for greater insight
Wending its way to unseen powers
Earlier day was dappled golden-grey
The wind bent the trees from their places
The moments silently slipped quickly away
In the tumult, leaving no traces
Save for a cumulative strain
That grew with the dimming of light
A slow heaviness felt in the brain
Which yearns for relief in the night
May blessed calm succeed the storm
And every doubt let us defray
May powers that be work alchemy: transform
Leaden night to quicksilver day.
Heart: especially "Save for a cumulative strain". Definitely feel that: years of moments congealing in ways you wish they wouldn't - despite not being able to say for sure how you wish they would.
Yesterday afternoon we got home from some serious physical labor followed by several pints, and got into playing favorite songs through the performance amp - Linkin Park's "In The End" slithering its way into the mix....
Prynhawn da, ~inquiry, and diolch for liking the poem! I hear what you're saying about the moments congealing and you put it into words beautifully!
Speaking of conceal... today's yard work formed a perfectly pasty amalgam of sweat, soil, and lawn chemicals.... >_<
Supposed to work on some trim (no.. not the best kind... <coughs>) at a rental, but ain't be much gas left in me bio tank - not that my wife will be much interested in what her hearing processing will no doubt re-translate into the stuff excuses are made of....
Hope today's trim was of a more pleasing variety hehe :)
In re uxoris: I think I mentioned before about the two theories of arguing with women?
Now there's a new word for me that I can get seriously behind... *provided* I get the proper permission/approval in advance, of course.... :-)
"in re uxoris", you mean? it's just Latin for "in the matter of the/a wife"...
My reply was based on seeing this upon searching for some meaning in the matter of the 'uxoris':
uxorious
ŭk-sôr′ē-əs, ŭg-zôr′-
adjective
- Excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife.
- Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband.
- Overly devoted or submissive to one's wife.
Needless to say (contender for the most pointless phrase on the internets..?), I didn't know whether to do more dishes or cut it off.... :-)
"Uxorious" does indeed stem from that root :)
It somehow seems fit in - I mean fitting! - to be erecting such meat - I mean meet! - verbal homage. ;-)
I see what you did there 😃😃 and oddly enough it reminds me of a joke about two gay Irishmen 😃😃
Well now you got me wondering if I know anyone that might be the butt of that joke.... ;-)
Probably repeating myself, but we were married by a gay Christian minister friend of ours - which oddly enough has my mind connecting the word 'Pentacost' to the phrase "pent up cost"....
<wonders what to do with the textural monkey wrench next>
So the joke goes: did you hear about the two Irish boyfriends? Their names are Michael Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzmichael 😃
And no you weren't repeating yourself with the anecdote about your wedding
My kind of joke!
Ti'n croeso 😃
My garsh, it's fun learning Welsh while drinking!
My Spanish gets better when I've had a Cuba Libre or two 😃
For me it's more in the direction of chancing upon a Jessica Alba photo - e.g. spontaneous emissions a la "On the lay! On the lay!" :-)
:) The funny thing is that "andale, andale!" isn't used in Spanish as much as you might think, and not in this context... spontaneous emissions might be accompanied by a heart-felt "ay Dios, ya vengo!"
> The funny thing is that "andale, andale!" > isn't used in Spanish as much as you might > think, and not in this context...
I can believe childhood cartoon sessions might not have led to a completely accurate view of the world.
> spontaneous emissions might be accompanied by > a heart-felt "ay Dios, ya vengo!"
Whoa!
<re-reads the Midnight Pub Permissible Usage Guidelines>
:-)
I can believe childhood cartoon sessions might not have led to a
completely accurate view of the world.
It's more fun to believe in cartoon physics though :D
Whoa!
<re-reads the Midnight Pub Permissible Usage Guidelines>
:-)
I believe I'm within parameters here :D :D
> It's more fun to believe in cartoon physics though :D
Oh, gosh, what I wouldn't give to be seeing anvils falling from the sky on a more regular basis - complete with slowly developing thick enough scalp/skull to enjoy their impact!
I believe I'm within parameters here :D :D
Heh!
Also, what you said has me imagining Midnight Pub posts/replies as parameters we're unbeknownstly passing between hidden scripts....
Apparently one can post here via scripts, although I've not tried it yet
I wouldn't be surprised.
But experience tells me there'll be a loathsome security/authentication process to address that'll have me once again muttering to myself about how much I despise too much of humanity for the hoops they seemingly so love watching me jump through as their bullets well nigh grace my tootsies....
(Anyone else suddenly have the cereal "Fruit Loops" come to mind during the above whine-gasm?)
There is indeed some kerfuffle about copying a session token to make the script work, which is why I haven't bothered with it yet.
In software, if it's not one thing, it's 2^16 others.
(And of course the 'if' is actually a 'when'....)
More like 2^64 others 😃 and yes it's always when not if
I agree that it's always always. :-)
In an odd way, this reminds me of a short poem called a "grook" written by Piet Hein (have you heard of him?):
Two words
Express
My love
Galore:
Nevertheless
Everthemore.
I've not heard of Piet Hein.
But, of course, the 'Hein' is a danged good beginning to another surname....
Piet Hein was an interesting guy:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Hein_(scientist)And yes, I'm a Heinlein fan too...
Ah... I definitely recognize his photo at that URL. Must have investigated him in the path. I mean past. :-)
Wow, forgot about Heinlein, actually. I was initially thinking 'Heineken', but then I wrote 'surname', and although it's probably a surname, most would likely thinking of it more a brand name than a surname.
Speaking of people from the past, did you ever read much by Robert Anton Wilson?
Oh, man... he was a mainstay in the late 80's / early 90's for me. I haunted bookstores incessantly hoping they'd found more room for him in the section I too often felt all alone in....
I remember totally loving The Illuminatus! Trilogy, although of course I don't remember a lick of it now. I've moved several times since those days, so I'll have to dig around to see if it survived... remembering it as a thick, mostly red-colored soft-cover....