Value —from the Proverbs of Tharmas Erthona

[shemthepenman]

Ants are very small.

[milo]

Ants are very small.

It is all relative. 
I hear they are the giants of the microbial world.

[Erthona]

2 in the bush is worth 3 in the hand,
that's two's against threes you do understand?
2's against 3's is probably Chopin,
who wanted good bush, fresh from her can.

Jamesish Khann

[milo]

This first step to be great
is to be.

[shemthepenman]

this step to be great is to be the first

bees are slightly bigger than ants.

[milo]

this step to be great is to be the first

bees are slightly bigger than ants.

Someone once told me ants could lift 10x their weight.
I wrote a poem about it.

[ellajam]

this step to be great is to be the first

bees are slightly bigger than ants.

Someone once told me ants could lift 10x their weight.
I wrote a poem about it.

I looked for it when ants came up but I couldn't find it.

[milo]

this step to be great is to be the first

bees are slightly bigger than ants.

Someone once told me ants could lift 10x their weight.
I wrote a poem about it.

I looked for it when ants came up but I couldn't find it.

It was during napm. 
I am surprised you remember. 

[Erthona]

Grace us with it milo. It's my thread
and I give you the go ahead, so go ahead.

BTW has everybody written their required Butterfly poem? If you haven't then you've missed something and will need to go back and get it, plus the butterfly poem of course. There are other require poem, but none as required as the butterfly poem.

dale

[milo]

Grace us with it milo. It's my thread
and I give you the go ahead, so go ahead.

Helping my mother move out of the family home

Two flights of stairs

and who'd have thought she'd bother
moving after all these years, "without your father
I just don't need the space and there's 
the lawn, the boiler, keeping up on stuff."

I've got the heavy end, her old couch friction-burns
my palms as my brother
guides around the turns
then two more trips - 2 lamps an "antique plate",

my mother whispers through the psalms 
(She got it down at Kmart for $1.88)
until my brother cries -enough-

My mother calms,
"Take a break, after all it's hot."
On the concrete stoop we drink a beer
and stare at ants that march around the gate.

She told me once - an ant can lift 10 times his weight
But that's OK, they don't look like they weigh a lot.

BTW has everybody written their required Butterfly poem? If you haven't then you've missed something and will need to go back and get it, plus the butterfly poem of course. There are other require poem, but none as required as the butterfly poem.

dale

From a different NaPM:

Monarch


First the worm and then the wormy chrysalis
I inch the pistils; silky, larval mass. I envy this:

the speed of the black cobra's missile-kiss,
the fissile-tongued poison thistle hiss. But no,

it is the ten day waiting as a bean green fava bean
until I break the seam,
stretch my newfound wings in newborn light
then burst to flight
a queen.

[rayheinrich]

Value  —from the Proverbs of Tharmas Erthona
Sometimes
we become so engrossed
in the how of a poem,
we completely fail to notice
if it says anything of value.
 - Erthonahillndale

A friend who was a painter (and quite loved it, her passion, I remember how
she talked of it) found she could make a (bare) living by teaching it. Years later
(under the influence of some mild drug or other) she told me the job had destroyed
her love of painting. A direct quote from her: "All I see is brush strokes."

I find it very hard to read what's being said because I'm distracted by how it's said.
And yes, that's been a cliché since Adam and Eve got thrown out for the very same reason.

[Erthona]

MoonRay,

Without the ability to take pleasure in art,
there can be no valid criticism.

—from the Proverbs of Tharmas Erthona
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Nice butterfly poem milo, almost too nice, but I guess it will pass

dale

[rayheinrich]

MoonRay,
Without the ability to take pleasure in  art,
there can be no valid criticism.

Which is why, I'd venture a guess, she turned to accountancy.




No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride... - Hunter S. Thompson

[shemthepenman]

Grace us with it milo. It's my thread
and I give you the go ahead, so go ahead.

Helping my mother move out of the family home

Two flights of stairs

and who'd have thought she'd bother
moving after all these years, "without your father
I just don't need the space and there's 
the lawn, the boiler, keeping up on stuff."

I've got the heavy end, her old couch friction-burns
my palms as my brother
guides around the turns
then two more trips - 2 lamps an "antique plate",

my mother whispers through the psalms 
(She got it down at Kmart for $1.88)
until my brother cries -enough-

My mother calms,
"Take a break, after all it's hot."
On the concrete stoop we drink a beer
and stare at ants that march around the gate.

She told me once - an ant can lift 10 times his weight
But that's OK, they don't look like they weigh a lot.

BTW has everybody written their required Butterfly poem? If you haven't then you've missed something and will need to go back and get it, plus the butterfly poem of course. There are other require poem, but none as required as the butterfly poem.

dale

From a different NaPM:

Monarch


First the worm and then the wormy chrysalis
I inch the pistils; silky, larval mass. I envy this:

the speed of the black cobra's missile-kiss,
the fissile-tongued poison thistle hiss. But no,

it is the ten day waiting as a bean green fava bean
until I break the seam,
stretch my newfound wings in newborn light
then burst to flight
a queen.

These are excellent. I really like the Helping My Mother... one.

And yeah, ants are wicked strong. I read they can lift far more than just 10x. Something like 50x or 100x.

[rayheinrich]

A butterfly of puce and white,
Seems red in ultraviolet light.
The ant that lifts it seems quite slight,
But hand'ly wins the proxy fight.

[tectak]

"The poor have nothing -
the rich want."

Seems love and happiness might be commodities the rich seem lacking in and that the poor, surprisingly have more of. Certainly money does not make one happy, in fact it often leads to the opposite.

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle, than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."  --the Bible somewhere

dale

If you read it as written, it is actually 2 statements.

1.  The poor have nothing.
2. The rich want.

It is irony.

There are more poor people who steal than there are rich people who steal...but the rich steal more.
tectak

[milo]

Grace us with it milo. It's my thread
and I give you the go ahead, so go ahead.

Helping my mother move out of the family home

Two flights of stairs

and who'd have thought she'd bother
moving after all these years, "without your father
I just don't need the space and there's 
the lawn, the boiler, keeping up on stuff."

I've got the heavy end, her old couch friction-burns
my palms as my brother
guides around the turns
then two more trips - 2 lamps an "antique plate",

my mother whispers through the psalms 
(She got it down at Kmart for $1.88)
until my brother cries -enough-

My mother calms,
"Take a break, after all it's hot."
On the concrete stoop we drink a beer
and stare at ants that march around the gate.

She told me once - an ant can lift 10 times his weight
But that's OK, they don't look like they weigh a lot.

BTW has everybody written their required Butterfly poem? If you haven't then you've missed something and will need to go back and get it, plus the butterfly poem of course. There are other require poem, but none as required as the butterfly poem.

dale

From a different NaPM:

Monarch


First the worm and then the wormy chrysalis
I inch the pistils; silky, larval mass. I envy this:

the speed of the black cobra's missile-kiss,
the fissile-tongued poison thistle hiss. But no,

it is the ten day waiting as a bean green fava bean
until I break the seam,
stretch my newfound wings in newborn light
then burst to flight
a queen.

These are excellent. I really like the Helping My Mother... one.

And yeah, ants are wicked strong. I read they can lift far more than just 10x. Something like 50x or 100x.

As strong as they seem, I could lift more than 1000x an ant's body weight.
Glad you liked the poems, perhaps they warrant revision.

[shemthepenman]

As strong as they seem, I could lift more than 1000x an ant's body weight.
Glad you liked the poems, perhaps they warrant revision.

It depends what you mean by revision. If you mean revision as in 'to reconcider and change' then that is pretty funny. Like, 'oh YOU like them... maybe I should change them then'. But anyway, these poems are really great, and they are two of three poems I have read recently that have kind of lit that spark in me.

[milo]

As strong as they seem, I could lift more than 1000x an ant's body weight.
Glad you liked the poems, perhaps they warrant revision.

It depends what you mean by revision. If you mean revision as in 'to reconcider and change' then that is pretty funny. Like, 'oh YOU like them... maybe I should change them then'. But anyway, these poems are really great, and they are two of three poems I have read recently that have kind of lit that spark in me.

lol - no, I mean revision as in polish.  Make basic edits, perhaps make a few metric fixes or what not.  Make them a little easier on the ear.  I am glad they lit a spark, it made my day to hear that.

[Erthona]

"There are more poor people who steal than there are rich people who steal...but the rich steal more...per occasion."

-tiztec