MoRe SpOeMs

I got another part of The Walrus and the Carpenter today from a piece of spam:

The Walrus and the Carpenter Pt.1

The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright-
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.

Here's another notable 'spoem' found within an email about a 'personal satellite navigator.' I really like this one. It was entitled - Chicago Poet Pt.2, but I call it..

'Looking Glass Man'

Ah, this looking-glass man!
Liar, fool, dreamer, play-actor,
Soldier, dusty drinker of dust-
Ah! he will go with me
Down the dark stairway
When nobody else is looking,
When everybody else is gone.

So, before you mindlessly throw that spam away, maybe you should think twice and see if there's a 'spoem' in there. Ha ha ha.

Here's yet another one from today:

Chicago Poet Pt.1

I saluted a nobody.
I saw him in a looking-glass.
He smiled-so did I.
He crumpled the skin on his forehead,
frowning-so did I.
Everything I did he did.
I said "Hello, I know you."
And I was a liar to say so.

Notable or favorite movie quotes

From the movie Tadpole: quotes by Voltaire or Mirebeau

"Cherish truth, pardon error."

From The Wedding Date, out of the mouth of the escort:

"Every woman has the love life she wants"

I'm your huckleberry!

- From Tombstone, spoken by Doc Holladay, played by Val Kilmer

I've got two guns, one for the each of ya!

- Doc Holladay, drunk as usual, but still with his wits about him

The Oracle Speaks

Know thyself.
-- Delphic Oracle, 8th century BC

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

-- Paul Valéry, 1895

From The Internet Oracle
also known as The Usenet Oracle

Notable Movie Quotes

These quotes are all from the movie Tadpole and from the philosopher Voltaire or is it Mirabeau?

"One must not only conquer, but learn to seduce." -- a paraphrase of a quote from Voltaire

"The more esteemable the offender, the greater the torment" -- Voltaire

"One should always aim at being interesting rather than exact."

"The composition of tragedy requires testicles."

A personal favorite:

"Cherish truth, pardon error."

And finally:

"Every man is guilty of the good he didn't do."

From The Wedding Date, out of the mouth of the escort:

"Every woman has the love life she wants."

mUsiC

Name it - I like it.. with the exception of pompous music.. music just for the sake of the big companies or something like that with no real substance. I can't think of anything specific, but it's been out there.

I will give more details later on exactly the range of music I like..

Here... Current music I'm listening to right now!

Seal - Killer 12 inch mix (great song) - it's not about what it seems, it's about a relationship ending and what it's doing to the person who's singing it. Very futuristic sounding song from the early 90's.

Listening to on and off all the time:

Lorenna McKennit - The Mummer's Dance
Dead can Dance
Masters of Chant - Gregorian Chant singers sing pop songs. It's good. Very relaxing.

David Bowie - any song, any time period, any time..

SiLvEr SeRenDipiTy

This is a poem I wrote a few years back, it has been posted on other sites and been read by my poetry class and others. I feel that it can speak to a lot of people, so I would like to post it here.

Silver Serendipity

Silver serendipity
How lucky am I!

A disaster beholden
And long denied.

I rode the eccentric horse
To town, a paradigm of
Problematic woes.

I lost my head in an
Aesthetic yellow box.

I hope it can help somebody out - whoever reads it. It's really about something you thought you wanted and you received it in luck (serendipity - an unexpected and not looked for bit of luck basically), but then it turns out to not be as good as it at first seemed. Nevertheless, it can be something good in the end.

Copyright, 2000-2006, Elizabeth Aralica, Babbling Brooks Productions, (1994-2006)

Denial

Another one of my 'real' poems: this one was started in 1998 and was finished in the year 2000.

Denial

You come in such sweet disguises
Like the sirens in the sea

Calling to weary sailors
Who long for peace

Silk and satin red velvet, blue

Seductively you slither
through the shadows, you!

The honey-sweet sting lasts not so long. . .
and then it is gone, but the
aroma remains...

Denial, you have served me well!
But now you sting me till I swell!

Copyright, 2000-2006, Babbling Brooks Productions (1994-2006)

SPoEmS

Occasionally, there will be a rather good poem hidden in the garbage of spam or junk email. I call them "spoems" or a combination of spam and poems. Here is one recently found:

The Walrus and the Carpenter

The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done-
"It's very rude of him," she said,
"To come and spoil the fun!"

Well, I guess there's something to be gleaned from spam - sometimes! Okay, I did a google search and The Walrus and the Carpenter is a poem by Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872. Here's the complete link:

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html. It's really a very delightful little poem.

Notable quotes

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are."

- The Talmud

Links

For those astrologically inclined:

www.madalynaslan.com

For those who have an interest in the Tarot, etc.

www.facade.com

Very, very important link:

http://www.freewillastrology.com/beauty/pronoia.therapy.html

My other web page through yahoo geocities.com:

http://www.geocities.com/renaissance_woman2001/

http://www.poetry.com

Rain, rain go away..

This is the third of fourth Friday in a row that it has rained here. And, this is not a place where it usually rains. Is somebody doing rain dances every Friday now?

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with rain, but it's just so strange.