Tuesday, October 31, 2023

THREE WITCHES ARE BETTER THAN ONE !

                                                                           


       




Fire burn and cauldron bubble !!!

November post-script: When King James VI came down to London from Scotland, Shakespeare wrote Macbeth. What's more, he put lots of witches in it; supposedly, just for him !!!

Friday, October 20, 2023

IN LIGHT OF THE PRESENT MID-EAST CHAOS and TURMOIL,

               I'd anticipate a fifth tragic poem; i.e., were Primo Levi still alive...


                                                     



                    In the Beginning:  a poem by Primo Levi


Fellow men, for whom a year is long,
A century a venerable goal,
Exhausted earning your bread,
Worn out, enraged, deluded, sick, and lost;

Hear, and be consoled and mocked:
Twenty billion years ago,
Splendid, moving through both space and time,
There was a globe of flame, alone, eternal,
Our common father and our executioner,
And it exploded, and all change began...



  Even now, the faint echo from this one
'Catastrophe-reversal'
Resounds from the far ends of the universe.
Everything was born from that one spasm:




The same abyss that embraces us and taunts us,
The same time that gives us life and ruins us,
Everything each of us has thought,
The eyes of every woman we have loved,
Suns by the thousand, too,
And this hand that writes...

Saturday, October 14, 2023

IT'S WELL KNOWN THAT

                                                              

OFFSHOOTS OF THE SURVIVAL

 INSTINCT CAN BE TOXIC

Our survival sense...Oh!

It's the strongest we know;

Yet, tribalism

Spoils second place...

The latter spawns

Discord, destruction and war;

Such a curse

On the whole human race!

Taking stock of our foibles,

Our faults and our flaws,

Permits one to slowly

Save face...

Does history not teach us,

Through years of despair,

That PEACE yields the

Ultimate grace??

poem by L.P.-G. / 10-2023

Monday, October 9, 2023

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, "PRINCESS KELLY QUINN"

                                                                   










                         XOXOX, 


Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Robb, Uncle Ryan and Aunt Alison, baby Hannah, Uncle Richard and Kaitlyn

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

99 is a Definite Milestone !!

                                                                         


A few days ago

He turned 99;

A past president

Who's still of sound mind...


I wish I could say

The same for  D. Trump;

Does the former even know

His brain from his 'rump'?