I.
Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east,
And one of them shot in the west by the sea.
Dead! both my boys! When you sit at the feast
And are wanting a great song for Italy free,
Let none look at me!
II.
Yet I was a poetess only last year,
And good at my art, for a woman, men said;
But this woman, this, who is agonized here,
— The east sea and west sea rhyme on in her head
For ever instead.
III.
What art can a woman be good at? Oh, vain!
What art is she good at, but hurting her breast
With the milk-teeth of babes, and a smile at the pain?
Ah boys, how you hurt! you were strong as you pressed,
And I proud, by that test.
IV.
What art’s for a woman? To hold on her knees
Both darlings! to feel all their arms round her throat,
Cling, strangle a little! to sew by degrees
And ’broider the long-clothes and neat little coat;
To dream and to doat.
V.
To teach them … It stings there! I made them indeed
Speak plain the word country. I taught them, no doubt,
That a country’s a thing men should die for at need.
I prated of liberty, rights, and about
The tyrant cast out.
VI.
And when their eyes flashed… O my beautiful eyes!…
I exulted; nay, let them go forth at the wheels
Of the guns, and denied not. But then the surprise
When one sits quite alone! Then one weeps, then one kneels!
God, how the house feels!
VII.
At first, happy news came, in gay letters moiled
With my kisses, — of camp-life and glory, and how
They both loved me; and, soon coming home to be spoiled
In return would fan off every fly from my brow
With their green laurel-bough.
VIII.
Then was triumph at Turin: Ancona was free!
And some one came out of the cheers in the street,
With a face pale as stone, to say something to me.
My Guido was dead! I fell down at his feet,
While they cheered in the street.
IX.
I bore it; friends soothed me; my grief looked sublime
As the ransom of Italy. One boy remained
To be leant on and walked with, recalling the time
When the first grew immortal, while both of us strained
To the height he had gained.
X.
And letters still came, shorter, sadder, more strong,
Writ now but in one hand, “I was not to faint, —
One loved me for two — would be with me ere long:
And Viva l’ Italia! — he died for, our saint,
Who forbids our complaint.”
XI.
My Nanni would add, “he was safe, and aware
Of a presence that turned off the balls, — was imprest
It was Guido himself, who knew what I could bear,
And how ’twas impossible, quite dispossessed,
To live on for the rest.”
XII.
On which, without pause, up the telegraph line
Swept smoothly the next news from Gaeta: — Shot.
Tell his mother. Ah, ah, ‘his,’ ‘their’ mother, — not ‘mine,’
No voice says “My mother” again to me. What!
You think Guido forgot?
XIII.
Are souls straight so happy that, dizzy with Heaven,
They drop earth’s affections, conceive not of woe?
I think not. Themselves were too lately forgiven
Through THAT Love and Sorrow which reconciled so
The Above and Below.
XIV.
O Christ of the five wounds, who look’dst through the dark
To the face of Thy mother! consider, I pray,
How we common mothers stand desolate, mark,
Whose sons, not being Christs, die with eyes turned away,
And no last word to say!
XV.
Both boys dead? but that’s out of nature. We all
Have been patriots, yet each house must always keep one.
’Twere imbecile, hewing out roads to a wall;
And, when Italy ’s made, for what end is it done
If we have not a son?
XVI.
Ah, ah, ah! when Gaeta’s taken, what then?
When the fair wicked queen sits no more at her sport
Of the fire-balls of death crashing souls out of men?
When the guns of Cavalli with final retort
Have cut the game short?
XVII.
When Venice and Rome keep their new jubilee,
When your flag takes all heaven for its white, green, and red,
When you have your country from mountain to sea,
When King Victor has Italy’s crown on his head,
(And I have my Dead) —
XVIII.
What then? Do not mock me. Ah, ring your bells low,
And burn your lights faintly! My country is there,
Above the star pricked by the last peak of snow:
My Italy ’s THERE, with my brave civic Pair,
To disfranchise despair!
XIX.
Forgive me. Some women bear children in strength,
And bite back the cry of their pain in self-scorn;
But the birth-pangs of nations will wring us at length
Into wail such as this — and we sit on forlorn
When the man-child is born.
XX.
Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east,
And one of them shot in the west by the sea.
Both! both my boys! If in keeping the feast
You want a great song for your Italy free,
Let none look at me!
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kat in your hat 01.08.09 at 10:35 pm
The Man he Killed
by Thomas Hardy
Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!
But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.
I shot him dead because–
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That’s clear enough; although
He thought he’d ‘list, perhaps,
Off-hand like–just as I–
Was out of work–had sold his traps–
No other reason why.
Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You’d treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half a crown.
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 10:37 pm
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!
Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?
We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.
We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.
Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.
Masnavi Book I, 599-607
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 10:41 pm
To My Excellent Lucasia, on our friendship. 17th July 1651
I did not live untill this time
Crown’d my felicity,
When I could say without a crime
I am not Thine, but Thee.
This Carkasse breath’d and walk’d and slept,
So that the world believ’d
There was a soule the motions kept;
But they were all deceiv’d.
For as a watch by art is wound
To motions such was mine:
But never had Orinda found
A Soule till she found thine;
Which now inspires, cures and supply’s,
And guides my darken’d brest:
For thou art all that I can prize,
My Joy, my Life, my rest.
No Bridegroomes nor crown’d conqu’rour’s mirth
To mine compar’d can be:
They have but pieces of this Earth
I’ve all the World in thee.
Then let our flames still light and shine
(And no bold feare controule)
As innocent as our designs
Immortall as our Soule.
Katherine Fowler Philips (1631-46)
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 10:44 pm
Living
Blink and then go away.
If blinking had a voice,
What would it say?
Don’t blink?
–Saba Kidane
hillstheone 01.08.09 at 10:45 pm
Work can be hard, friendships can be hard, dating is hard, life in general can be rough at times. Motherhood can be really hard!
So I am posting a poem about Mothers.
~ ~ ~
For All Mothers
This is for all the mothers who froze their buns off on metal bleachers at soccer games instead of watching from cars, so that when their kids asked, “Did you see my goal?” They could say, “Of course, I wouldn’t have missed it for the world,” and mean it.
This is for all the mothers who have sat up all night with sick children in their arms, wiping up barf laced with Oscar Meyer wieners and cherry Kool-Aid saying, “It’s OK honey, Mommy’s here.”
This is for all the mothers of Kosovo who fled in the night and can’t find their children. This is for the mothers who gave birth to babies they’ll never see and for the mothers who took those babies and gave them homes.
For all the mothers who run carpools and make cookies and sew Halloween costumes and for all the mothers who don’t.
What makes a good mother anyway? Is it patience? Compassion? Broad hips? The ability to nurse a baby, cook dinner, and sew a button on a shirt, all at the same time? Or is it heart? Is it the ache you feel when you watch your son or daughter disappear down the street, walking to school alone for the very first time?
The jolt that takes you from sleeping to dread, from bed to crib at 2 a.m. to put your hand on the back of a sleeping baby?
Is it the need to flee from wherever you are and hug your child when you hear news of a school shooting, a fire, a car accident, a baby dying?
I think so.
So this is for all the mothers who sat down with their children and explained all about making babies. And for all the mothers who wanted to but just couldn’t.
This is for reading “Goodnight, Moon” twice a night for a year. And then reading it again, “Just one more time”.
This is for all the mothers who mess up. Who yell at their kids in grocery store and swat them in despair and stomp their feet like a tired two year old who wants ice cream before dinner.
This is for all the mothers who taught their children to tie their shoelaces before they started to school and for all the mothers who opted for Velcro instead.
For all the mothers who bite their lips (sometimes until they bleed) when their 14 year olds dyed their hair green.
This is for all the mothers who lock themselves in the bathroom when babies keep crying and won’t stop.
This is for all mothers who show at work with spit-up in their hair and milkstains on their blouses and diapers in their purse.
This is for mothers who teach their sons to cook and their daughters to sink a jump shot.
This is for all mothers whose heads turn automatically when a little voice calls “Mom?” in a crowd, even though they know their own offspring are at home or are grown.
This is for mothers who put pinwheels and teddy bears on their children’s graves.
This is for all the mothers whose children have gone astray and who can’t find words to reach them.
This is for all the mothers who sent their child to school with a stomach ache, assuring that they would be just FINE once they got there, only to get a call from the school nurse an hour later asking them to please pick them up right away.
This is for young mothers stumbling through diaper changes and sleep deprivation. And mature mothers learning to let go.
For working moms and stay-at-home moms. Single mothers and married mothers.
Mothers with money and mothers without.
This is for you, so hang in there. The world would be a terrible place without the love of mothers everywhere. You make it a more civil, caring and safe place for the precious children in our world. – Author unknown
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 10:46 pm
On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
hillstheone 01.08.09 at 10:51 pm
The Land of Dreams
William Blake
Awake, awake, my little boy!
Thou wast thy mother’s only joy;
Why dost thou weep in thy gentle sleep?
Awake! thy father does thee keep.
`O, what land is the Land of Dreams?
What are its mountains, and what are its streams?
O father! I saw my mother there,
Among the lilies by waters fair.
Among the lambs, cloth�d in white,
She walk’d with her Thomas in sweet delight.
I wept for joy, like a dove I mourn;
O! when shall I again return?’
Dear child, I also by pleasant streams
Have wander’d all night in the Land of Dreams;
But tho’ calm and warm the waters wide,
I could not get to the other side.
Father, O father! what do we here
In this land of unbelief and fear?
The Land of Dreams is better far,
Above the light of the morning star.
TrishfromCanada 01.08.09 at 10:52 pm
Poem about War
Friendly Fire
…
I lower my eyes in sadness
A tear falls to the ground
The death tolls rise
It’s called friendly fire
…
Through my tears I smirk
And think, glorification
How can one even justify
The loss of innocent lives
…
Friendly fire…
An interesting term
Do we say please and thank you
Before we shoot
…
I shake my head
Too many thoughts
Too many opinions
All around me
…
Death should be natural
Not a result of revenge
They say its about a personal freedom
Everyone is free when dead
…
It’s about choices
Has anyone asked
Isn’t there a better way
Where freedom can be lived
hillstheone 01.08.09 at 10:52 pm
#5 oh yes, and I forgot to say sometimes politics can be the hardest of all.
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 10:53 pm
The Women of Dan Dance with
Swords in their Hands to Mark the
Time When They Were Warriors
I did not fall from the sky
I
nor descend like a plague of locusts
to drink color and strength from the earth
and I do not come like rain
as a tribute or symbol for earth’s becoming
dark and open
some times I fall like night
softly
and terrible
only when I must die
in order to rise again.
I do not come like a secret warrior
with an unsheathed sword in my mouth
hidden behind my tongue
slicing my throat to ribbons
of service with a smile
while the blood runs
down and out
through holes in the two sacred mounds
on my chest.
I come like a woman
who I am
spreading out through nights
laughter and promise
and dark heat
warming whatever I touch
that is living
consuming
only
what is already dead.
Audre Lorde
ipotter 01.08.09 at 10:56 pm
This guy is making a documentary on media malpractice during the election: http://www.howobamagotelected.com/
gypsy rebel 01.08.09 at 11:00 pm
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 10:53 pm
Off topic: from your question downstairs –
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/01/08/obama039s-ri-relatives-attend-inauguration.html
Obama’s RI relatives attend inauguration
Lilian Budianto , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 01/08/2009 10:36 AM | Headlines
TerryDo 01.08.09 at 11:12 pm
A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or
a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you
will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON . . .
It is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty,
to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically,
emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a
godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason
you need them to be.
Then, without any wrong doing on your part, or at an
inconvenient time, this person will say or do something
to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die.
Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our
desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you
sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.
When people come into your life for a SEASON . . .
Because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount
of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things
you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional
foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the
person, and put what you have learned to use in all
other relationships and areas of your life. It is said
that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
goofsmom 01.08.09 at 11:13 pm
Off Topic…
Rancho, Dances, CasperCat… Did ya feel the quake?
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:16 pm
From the House of Yemanja
My mother had two faces and a frying pan
where she cooked up her daughters
into girls
before she fixed our dinner.
My mother had two faces
and a broken pot
where she hid out a perfect daughter
who was not me
I am the sun and moon and forever hungry
for her eyes.
I bear two women upon my back
one dark and rich and hidden
in the ivory hungers of the other
mother
pale as a witch
yet steady and familiar
brings me bread and terror
in my sleep
her breasts are huge exciting anchors
in the midnight storm.
All this has been
before
in my mother’s bed
time has no sense
I have no brothers
and my sisters are cruel.
Mother I need
mother I need
mother I need your blackness now
as the august earth needs rain.
I am
the sun and moon and forever hungry
the sharpened edge
where day and night shall meet
and not be
one.
–Audre Lorde
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:17 pm
goofsmom 01.08.09 at 11:13 pm [edit]
Off Topic…
Rancho, Dances, CasperCat… Did ya feel the quake?
——————-
Just the one from that last poem.
KarenWI 01.08.09 at 11:17 pm
Off Topic…. from downstairs:
Sorry… first time I’ve gone on here since late last night, so I don’t know if this is a repeat or not: “Paterson notes Kennedy’s ‘lack of elected experience’ ”
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/543453.html
taggles1 01.08.09 at 11:18 pm
Why
Who cares?
I might
I do
Why
It’s worth it.
Maybe not
Who cares?
Why
I need to know
So what
Who cares?
Why
I don’t believe
Does anyone
Who cares?
Why
I need an answer
No one knows
Who cares?
Why
You can’t explain
No one can
Who cares?
Why
A reason
To keep going
Who cares?
Why
I know the truth
Anyone listen
Who cares?
Why
Please hear me
No one can
Who cares?
Why
I need to know
No answers
Who cares?
KarenWI 01.08.09 at 11:19 pm
Off topic… just got a text message from a friend who said they had a 5.0 earthquake in CA about 15 miles from the epicenter…. all our CA puma’s ok?
TrishfromCanada 01.08.09 at 11:21 pm
Poem About Childhood
Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
goofsmom 01.08.09 at 11:23 pm
I was just checking that too..
My mom was about 6 miles from the epicenter… everything is fine… I’m about 18 miles from the epicenter… We did fine… I grabbed goof and headed for a doorway…
Casper Cat and Rancho should have felt it too…
Dances…
LOL
TrishfromCanada 01.08.09 at 11:23 pm
Did you write that poem taggles?
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:28 pm
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/dont-be-so-quick-to-judge/
TrishfromCanada 01.08.09 at 11:32 pm
Taggles, whoever wrote the Why poem, I really like it, such few words that say so much
Casper Cat 01.08.09 at 11:36 pm
goofsmom, Hell YES!!!!!!!!! My cats were flying all over the place..If you think cats can’t fly…Well, you should of been here…Everything is ok….My Dogs would not come out of their dogs houses….But, now they are fine… I heard the Earthquake before it hit…. I just hate that sound…I was in Bakerfields in 1972 when the big one hit and it destroyed my aunts house and we were all in the bathroom trying to get through it… So, I have had a history with earthquakes..Still do not like them….
Thanks for asking ..
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:37 pm
Stop All The Clocks
W. H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:37 pm
Casper Cat
and the koi?
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:40 pm
I was in the SFO Bay Area for the 1989 quake.
yiiiiiii—-iiiii—-iiiii—-kkkkkesssss!
Casper Cat 01.08.09 at 11:42 pm
DWP… They are still in their Pond…
I am sure they thought it was just another wave… 
Did you feel the quake?????????
BillieJo 01.08.09 at 11:45 pm
Sorry, I am not a poetry fan…………..
1- Where’s the radio show? I can’t hear anything.
2- Quake in CA? Northern Calif here…felt nothing. Did it happen down south?
Hope all of you are fine.
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:46 pm
Casper Cat 01.08.09 at 11:42 pm [edit]
DWP… They are still in their Pond… I am sure they thought it was just another wave… Did you feel the quake?????????
—————-
No, ma’am. Glad everyone is okay. Where was the epicenter? Magnitude? Aftershocks?
BillieJo 01.08.09 at 11:47 pm
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:40 pm
I was in the SFO Bay Area for the 1989 quake.
yiiiiiii—-iiiii—-iiiii—-kkkkkesssss!
—–
Me too Dances, half a mile from where the freeway collapsed.
Grew up in Granada Hills, near the street that was torn up.
Was in LA for that huge one that tore apart Sylmar, my sister and her family lived in a home that was trashed.
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:48 pm
BillieJo
1- Where’s the radio show? I can’t hear anything.
——————
The show was on at 7PM our time.
Casper Cat 01.08.09 at 11:48 pm
DWP #28…Boy do I know what you mean.. Oh, and now another after shock….
BillieJo 01.08.09 at 11:49 pm
Okay, finally got the show on…
BillieJo 01.08.09 at 11:49 pm
Casper Cat, where are you in CA?
Rancho 01.08.09 at 11:50 pm
YES!! I felt it! Wow! Where was the epicenter? I couldn’t find any news abt. it on television, and I don’t want to wait until the 11:00 news in two hours.
I was on the private ERA site . . ( goofs, billiejo, please see # 202 on the private ERA site)
All SO. Cal PUMAs o.k.? Anyone feel an aftershock? I didn’t here!
Casper Cat 01.08.09 at 11:51 pm
DWP San Bernardino…the San Andres Fault… I just know we are going to have a big hit sometime really soon.. We are too warm for this time of year…and the Heat just adds to the earth’s core pressure…and it has to release. ( it is like gas in a human it has to come out)
mountainsong 01.08.09 at 11:51 pm
I am so cold and shivering.
Washington State is a disaster. Every river on the West side of the Cascade Moutains is at Flood Stage, or IS flooding or hasn’t crested yet.
First we got 2 weeks of fresh snow, like 20-30 feet up in the Cascades (prolly not quite as bad as in the Rockies, but Bad!)
Then the warm rains originating in Hawaii that we call, “The Pineapple Express.”
The rain hasn’t stopped for a ittle over 3 whole days and the snow is melting. I’ve spend 40 years in the Pacific Northwest, and like others who have been here longer, have never seen it his bad. And we have seen BAD.
Night before last, the town I lived in when I built my cabin got a little less than 7 inches of rain in 4 hours. The bigest river flowing thru there is the Skagit River and it is flat RAGING!!!
Lades older than me were out there helping with sandbags (heavy) throughout the day.
In Washington State, right now, every East-West lateral highway through the mountains is closed by avalance, mudslides, or road washouts.
Between the cities of Chehallis and Centralia, about 5 miles of I-5, the major North-South Freeway on the West Coast. is under water and closed.
Many, many people have been evacuated and many have already lost their homes. One guy, who ows a Glass Company, was out sandbagging in front of his riverfront house, maybe a half-million dollar home. He thought he was safe, when a huge tree in the swollen, raging river, crashed right throught the banl. within minutes, the house split in half and the front half with the deck went crashing down the river. It was really sad. I wonder of BO will ‘bail him out’.
Only 3 counties in the whole state have not declared Diesaster Status. It’s a mess. They were even giving people driving to work this morning, $124 tickets for trying to drive around ‘Road Closed” signs.
After 6 hours of sandbagging, on the way home my car overheated and broke down. I got it home and got the thermostat replaced, only to find out the radiator is plugged. More $$.
If I can even move tomorrow, I’ll proly help again. But tonight my ass is thoroughly kicked
I might do poetry, or prowls, but I really think I’m going to take a hotbath.
Sorry, I did miss you all today, and I will get back to that letter ASAP.
Casper Cat 01.08.09 at 11:54 pm
BillieJO I am in Riverside California… about 15 minutes south of San Bernardino… I am in the Inland Empire… And, about 1 hour east of Los Angeles.. and about 1 hour from DWP…
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:55 pm
Me too Dances, half a mile from where the freeway collapsed.
——————
The Nimitz! That freeway always felt shakey… what a freakin’ nighmare… and then the Bay Bridge section collapsing… and the Marina District… and the clock tower clock stopped at 5:04 … and we all learned the word “liquifaction”.
Ugh…awful, awful, awful.
mountainsong 01.08.09 at 11:56 pm
Sorry bout my typos, but I’m really tired and my fingers feel numb from the cold.
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:59 pm
mountainsong,
thank for reporting in, we were worried about you.
Sounds awful! You gonna be okay?
mountainsong 01.08.09 at 11:59 pm
Casper Cat 01.08.09 at 11:51 pm Yep, it’s gonna happen. Everyone like scientists think it’s going to happen and it’s what I saw in my long-ago vision. It’s getting worse and more frequent, just like labor pains. One kind or another all across the country, along with economic collapse.
Barack, it’s time to shit or get off the pot!!!
DancesWithPumas 01.09.09 at 12:00 am
“…about 1 hour from DWP…”
I didn’t realize you were that close to me! Well, dang…
cool!
TrishfromCanada 01.09.09 at 12:00 am
Ok not really so much about childhood, more about being a child, this poem makes me laugh like a kid when i read it
My Shadow (Robert Louis Stevenson)
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow-
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there’s none of him at all.
He hasn’t got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he’s a coward you can see;
I’d think a shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
Casper Cat 01.09.09 at 12:04 am
Well, DWP I think that’s is cool too!!!!
glad you are safe and away from the quake….
mountainsong 01.09.09 at 12:10 am
DancesWithPumas 01.08.09 at 11:59 pm I’ll be ok, thanks for asking, Dances.
I just did way more than someone my age should and I’ll be hurting in the morning. My own fault, but it’s worth it.
Oblowshisown is SUCH a Skank!!!!! How the HELL did that Dork get elected? Most meaningful speech was “Er, umm, well, uh, IF….
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mountainsong 01.09.09 at 12:14 am
“The shadow”!! That’s so cute.
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:15 am
I’m glad all us So. Cal Pumas are okay.
Now for the offical report from USGS:
Epicenter 1 mile south of San Bernardino
Depth approximately 8 Miles.
Magnitude was originally reported as a 5 and has been downgraded to a 4.5
Strongest aftershock so far is 3.3
For more info.. USGS Link for earthquakes…
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/
mountainsong 01.09.09 at 12:17 am
They actually remove the embryo from the womb to determine the sex and then replace it or dispose of it… All to insure a baby boy.This fvkking world is gone MAD!!!!
Rancho 01.09.09 at 12:19 am
Thanks Goofs for the update!
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:21 am
No problem Rancho…
mountainsong 01.09.09 at 12:21 am
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:15 am That is a dangerous area when it comes to earthquakes. They are, anywhere. But I’ve been there. I’m glad you are all alright.
Casper Cat 01.09.09 at 12:22 am
Mountainsong………. I am soooooooo glad YOU are alright…Good to hear from YOU….
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:23 am
((mountainsong))
I was very glad to see you are okay to…
DancesWithPumas 01.09.09 at 12:24 am
No reports of deaths or injuries…
Quake: Map
http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=node/22102
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:25 am
Dances
That is a blessing… yes indeed…
mountainsong 01.09.09 at 12:25 am
William Butler Yeats
The Sorrow of Love
The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves,
The full round moon and the star-laden sky,
And the loud song of the ever-singing leaves,
Had hid away earth’s old and weary cry.
And then you came with those red mournful lips,
And with you came the whole of the world’s tears,
And all the sorrows of her labouring ships,
And all the burden of her myriad years.
And now the sparrows warring in the eaves,
The curd-pale moon, the white stars in the sky,
And the loud chaunting of the unquiet leaves
Are shaken with earth’s old and weary cry.
DancesWithPumas 01.09.09 at 12:25 am
“Light to moderate”… imagine what the big one is gonna feel like??
San Bernardino CA – A light to moderate earthquake hit Southern California at 7:49:46 pm. The preliminary magnitude has been set at 4.5 to 5.0, and the tumbler was felt throughout the Los Angles basin and in Orange and San Bernardino County (34.113°N, 117.294°W
mountainsong 01.09.09 at 12:27 am
Likewise and backatcha, Casper and goofs.
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:27 am
Dances…
The biggest one I was close to was the Landers quake at a 7.2… That made the house rock and roll and we were 20 miles from the epicenter on that one…
Saw your note up thread on the SF quake… Unbelievable…
DancesWithPumas 01.09.09 at 12:30 am
7.2 ?? whoaaaaaaaaa that’s a big quake!!
When was the Landers quake?
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:31 am
Mountainsong
Please be nice to yourself tonight… get toasty warm and rest…
mountainsong 01.09.09 at 12:33 am
I’ll prolly slip on a slimy ballot and die from the fall.
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:34 am
Dances.
1992 and my mistake it was a 7.3… with a 6.4 follow up quake in Big Bear a few hours later… yep… that was a fun 24 hour period of time. We were living in Redlands in 92.
mountainsong 01.09.09 at 12:34 am
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:31 am ~~~ Thank you~~~and, on that note, I bid you all good-night.
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:35 am
Dances…
Link on Landers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landers,_California_earthquake
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:35 am
Nighty-night Mountainsong… no slipping on any slimy ballots…
hillstheone 01.09.09 at 12:41 am
Obama stimulus plan to include major corporate tax cuts
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
PUMAsss,
please post comments supporting Sarah Palin here:
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/08/palin-takes-digs-at-fey-couric/
DancesWithPumas 01.09.09 at 12:42 am
Thanks, goof…
I thought the SFO 1989 was like an 8.2. They say it went on for 15 seconds… but it felt closer to 45 seconds to me… I went from my upstairs bedroom to the front door (being bounced against the wall as I went down the stairs), got to the front door and realized I didn’t have a blouse on…back upstairs…putting on the blouse as I ran down the stairs again (and was bounced against the wall a few more times) and back to the front door… and the quake was going that entire time!
sue66 01.09.09 at 12:42 am
mountainsong
glad to see your post. I was worried because they showed what Washington flooding was like on the news and about the evacuations. Good to know ypu’re ok.
hillstheone 01.09.09 at 12:43 am
hi goofsmom! earthquakes, floods, what’s next?!
sue66 01.09.09 at 12:44 am
obviously from the overt typo, I’m tired, glad YOU’RE OK.
hillstheone 01.09.09 at 12:44 am
Nite-nite everyone, tomorrow’s another great day to be a PUMA.
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:44 am
hillstheone
“O” as the president…
goofsmom 01.09.09 at 12:46 am
Dances…
maybe you were moving really fast…
Actually, I don’t think they measure the entire time the earth is moving… just the worst part of it..
Casper Cat 01.09.09 at 12:47 am
DWP… Just a night cap… Hope you enjoy… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlE_ksyDyE
DancesWithPumas 01.09.09 at 1:00 am
Casper….
did you get to the Van Gogh exhibit in LA in 1999 (?)
omg omg omg… Teh Van Gogh family put it together…
I always thought people who talked about spiritual experiences when viewing art was hyperbole, and frankly, corny…. until that show… that’s when I experienced for myself what they had been saying.
The two middle aged men got into a fist fight in the last room of teh exhibit. LOL!! Guess they couldnt deal with experiencing softer deeper emotion… or something.
Nijma 01.09.09 at 1:14 am
Mark Twain’s War Prayer:
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle – be Thou near them! With them – in spirit – we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it – for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
Casper Cat 01.09.09 at 1:30 am
Yes, DWP I was there…And, it was a life changing experience… WOW!!! I love the Arts, Music and of course our Puma Family…
invalidresponse 01.09.09 at 1:40 am
Dances are you still up tonight???
Luckyseven 01.09.09 at 1:45 am
The following are chapters in Larry Sinclair’s book to be released on January 16.
Obama Idiots, Threats
CHAPTERS IN THE UPCOMING BOOK
The following are Chapter Titles in the Book BARACK OBAMA & LARRY SINCLAIR: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder? The book will include pictures as well as full names of those involved.
Who is Larry Sinclair?
Early Adulthood Mistakes
How Larry Met Barry (aka Barack Obama 1999)
Realizing Who I Blew
In Comes Donald Young
Chicago Tribune & New York Times
Parisi/Axelrod Polygraph Scam
Obama Attacks
Chicago Police & Detective McVickers
DC Arrest & The Biden Connection
The Physical Description
Luckyseven 01.09.09 at 2:02 am
While my following comments may be off topic, I feel that it is very essential that this country and everyone in it deal with it.
If we have political unrest and muslim riots in this country as they are having in Europe and throughout the rest of the world – where in Oslo today muslims firebombed a group of people in support of Israel and many senior citizens were injured – where in France an elderly Jewish doctor who treated muslims was just murdered , Mumbai where a pregnant woman was murdered, sexually humiliated and tortured as were other victims, etc. etc.. Downtown Oslo is said to be full of tear gas.
Esther Leavens, head of the Israel Unity Coalition said that there are 300 banks in this country that are sharia compliant. Think about that.
I am reposting the following:
This is off topic, but if the world does not wake up to the threat of these people – the fact that they want to go back to barbaric times, the Lily Ledbetter, Chicago politics etc. will be nothing to worry about. About the only rights that women will have will be their right hands, right ears, right eyes and right legs to say nothing of right breasts which will be mutilated if they do not follow sharia law..
There is too much complacency in this country about the aims of the muslim world. I have been told by someone who was very well versed in the muslim traditions and attitudes that if they don’t get what they want right away, they will work and work at it, even if it takes another 100 years. That will impact our children and our grandchildren.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1M4eH9Kk7I&eurl=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
It is very commendable to write letters asking that Ron Favreau be fired, but if you had a muslim government, letters and any other form of protest could be punishable by death. The father that murdered his two daughters in the name of honor killing is still at large. This can go on and on. I know what Puma stands for and what we have been fighting for. However, I really don’t think that world events such as those mentioned can go without notice or action, since our freedom to comment, denounce, protest etc. could be gone.
Nijma 01.09.09 at 2:56 am
luckyseven:where in Oslo today muslims firebombed a group of people in support of Israel and many senior citizens were injured
Nope. Didn’t happen.
I went looking for this news story and this is what I found:
After several warnings, the Oslo police used tear gas to stop demonstrators outside the Israeli Embassy in Oslo on Sunday. There was also a demonstration in Tromsoe against Israel’s operations in Gaza.
The demonstration in Oslo started as a legal demonstraion, and was the third against Israel’s attacks against Gaza in the Norwegian capital in a week.
After the police had announced that the demonstration was over, a smaller group refused to leave and threw stones and eggs against the police. This was when the police used tear gas to disperse the group.
Tromsoe is Gaza’s twin town, and the demonstrations there were staged by the Palestina Committee.
http://www.norwaypost.no/content/view/21446/26/
Looks to me like an ordinary demonstration like we saw in Denver (I saw some arrests there) or like Code Pink is doing outside Obama’s hotel right now. I have absolutely no sympathy for Hamas, they are brutal thugs who only want power at the expense of their own people, but this kind of thing really turns me off the cause that is being promoted, whatever it is.
I’m not even going to google for the other accusations.
Luckyseven 01.09.09 at 4:20 am
Nijma 01.09.09 at 2:56 am
Sorry, but there is a video proving this. if you go to the following website and scroll down, you will see the video. the oslo newspaper is no different than our biased papers. the only way the truth comes out is for actual video to be shown.
you don’t have to google for other demonstrations as google has removed a lot of anti hamas and palestinian videos. once again, go to the following website. pictures speak louder than words.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
Nijma 01.09.09 at 5:09 am
The inflammatory language on that website pretty much speaks for itself. I don’t see any video of “firebombing” or “injured senior citizens”, but I do see what looks like teargas, exactly what the Norwegian source reported.
Here’s a realtime webcam of Oslo. Looks to me like a lot of snow on the ground.
http://www.webcamsinnorway.com/webcams.php?viewcam=422
Notyoursweetie 01.09.09 at 5:47 am
This is not inverse but you’ll enjoy it: Obama snubs dean
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/schadenfreude-obama-snubs-dean/
Luckyseven 01.09.09 at 6:01 am
Nijma 01.09.09 at 5:09 am
i guess that you did not see the picture above the video -
what you might think of as inflammatory language just says it like it is. it might not be politically correct, but it speaks the truth. perhaps you should read the rest of this site. it is not pretty, but then this situation with media bias against israel is nothing new. the media has a double standard when it comes to israel.
another video made by an arab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1M4eH9Kk7I&eurl=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
Luckyseven 01.09.09 at 6:05 am
Nijma 01.09.09 at 5:09 am
in addition, a real time video showing snow on the ground only shows snow on the ground. do you really expect oslo to show you what happens in the snow? just like the problems we had here with the media reporting fraudulent voting etc., the same holds true with fraudulent reporting about israel.
turndownobama 01.09.09 at 6:46 am
KarenWI 01.08.09 at 9:57 pm
Sorry… first time I’ve gone on here since late last night, so I don’t know if this is a repeat or not: “Paterson notes Kennedy’s ‘lack of elected experience’ ”
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/543453.html
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Great story,thanks!
kat in your hat 01.09.09 at 7:22 am
Good morning pumas!
I fell asleep without saying gnight. I was so tired.
mountainsong:
sorry about the freezing cold flooding…I was thinking about you and glad you are ok.
cali pumas:
glad you are all ok from earthquake!
I need to vote now. bbl.
sue66 01.09.09 at 7:51 am
Good morning all!
They just will not give up. Sarah Palin being beaten up, again by Huff Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/08/palin-caroline-kennedy-ge_n_156335.html
cjv 01.09.09 at 8:00 am
sue66 #93
The Early Show (CBS) w Julie Chen did as well (And interivew with two others, can’t remember names as I am also getting ready for work and mostly listening vs. watching). She cut off the lady who was advocating Palin and flat out said to her the she was wrong. Of course, the guy (his last name Lockhart) was bashing Palin. I had just sent her (Chen) a nastiogram.
sue66 01.09.09 at 8:08 am
KarenWI, I caught something about that on CNN. I thought he was all for her, now he’s ….What?
Trying to make it seem like a done deal??
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/08/caroline-kennedys-lack-of-experience-noted-by-new-yorks-governor/
mkp651 01.09.09 at 8:45 am
Just logging on for the first time in over 2 weeks. Happy New Years Pumas. I noticed that Murphy has ask us to post poems about Mothers. When my mother died, we buried her 3 days before my parents 50 wedding anniversary. I wanted him to know that it was a special day for them so I wrote him this poem. I hope its ok to share with you all.
My Mother
Ther once was a women I knew,
who was wise and compassionate too.
Oh how loving and gentle was she,
She was truly so special to me.
Her eyes had a sparkle and glow,
that could see to the depths of a soul.
In her smile I found much comfort and grace.
In her present I found my safe haven.
Did I tell her all this way back when.
I’m not sure, I don’t know so then.
Allow me to say in my own special way.
I thank God that she was my MOTHER!
murphy 01.09.09 at 8:56 am
that’s lovely mkp — I’m glad you posted it.
murphy 01.09.09 at 8:58 am
beautiful poems from theovernight crew. I hope I dont get too distracted.
thanks there Sue66 — dont let the bastards get you down.
did you post that link to the SOS Forum?
mkp651 01.09.09 at 9:31 am
Thank You Murphy
murphy 01.09.09 at 9:45 am
great to see you mkp651.
Hope for Change posted,
take it upstairs!
emme 01.09.09 at 9:46 am
Completed yesterday’s prowls this morning. Good morning PUMAS!
gypsy rebel 01.09.09 at 11:23 am
cjv 01.09.09 at 8:00 am
Danielle Crittenden is also a Canadian. She was on FOX last nite! I wanted to slap her face!! I guess she writes for Huff/Puff post! She says she’s a Repub, but……..BO is so suave!!! you know the rest!
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