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Try To Praise The Mutilated World
written by Adam Zagajewski
translated by Renata Gorczynski


Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You've seen the refugees heading nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
and leaves eddied over the earth's scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the grey feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
and returns.

It's almost 4 am and I seem to be the only one here so I'ma keep going. It's strange being on the org at this hour, kinda like your 13 and your parents went away and you have the house all to yourself. Maybe I should order a pizza and run around neekid!

Byron I think I might see the error in my hater ways....

This is a cool thread.

Footprints

One Night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonged to him and the other to the Lord.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life.
This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it.

"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you you'd walk with me all the way, but I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me."

The Lord replied, "My precious, precious child, I love you and would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

"Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger everyday" -Alan Jay Lerner

"Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up." Cervantes 15-47- 1616

"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals." Brigitte Bardot

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

TheFrog said:

A friend sent this to me a couple of years back and I always remembered it! thanks for posting it!

“If you cannot answer a man’s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
-Elbert Hubbard

Lleena said:

Final sentence gives me chills whenever i read it.

Whenever I feel an epiosde of "low self esteem" coming on, i remember this poem:

"Phenomenal Woman"
...Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me...