"Just to keep the heart’s simple given beat Through a neighbour’s striptease or a friend’s suicide To keep one’s hand away from the kitchen knife
Through that returning weekly need To maim oneself or carve up wife And child. Always and everywhere, to eat
Three square meals at regular hours, suppress That itch to take a peek at the dead street- Dog before the scavengers come. Nor to be caught
Dead at sea, battle, riot, adultery or hate Nor between the rollers of a giant lathe. Yes, To keep it cool when strangers’ children hiss
As if they knew what none could know nor guess At the bottom, of all this bottomless Enterprise to keep simple the heart’s given beat,
The only risk is heartlessness”
It a poem by an Indian poet AK Ramanujan.
May you have your heart always, Lorraine...i hope you have not lost it...bleeding is fine, thats what a heart is meant for...humaneness starts with that I think! :)
Wow Dev do you ever come back with a big bang, love it, I won't leave...don't either, you are back right!!! Alleluia, maybe you can awaken bloggers.com, nobody seems to post anymore!
No worries about signing off, see you've been here, and already I have 4 comments, maybe blogger just needed a push from you :) be back now, I insist, you can respond to this while I go do my 30 minute jjogging and then when I respond I will have 6 comments, see how great you are, shaking things up already!
Blogging is an interesting thing. People come and go, come and go. I am still here. I just need to get inspired to post something. Sometimes the words don't come! I hope you won't leave. Have a great day!
I'm always here Anne, occasionally I delete everything and then bring them all back to life, I'm moody lol thanks sweet girl, you know when you can't think of words to write, you can talk about a book, or a particular colour you like, or just post a photo...it's all good!
Hey Brian, poor you, it's weird that all my life on the beach, in the sand, barefoot, I've never been cut ;) I've been cut to pieces in other ways lol but never on the sand ;)
mind boggling-- to stand on the Lorraine shore and listen to my beating heart echoing the waves of Devika such a day ebbs and flows ebbs and flows ebbs and flows where is Eternity?
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The Hindoo - The Only Risk
"Just to keep the heart’s simple given beat
Through a neighbour’s striptease or a friend’s suicide
To keep one’s hand away from the kitchen knife
Through that returning weekly need
To maim oneself or carve up wife
And child. Always and everywhere, to eat
Three square meals at regular hours, suppress
That itch to take a peek at the dead street-
Dog before the scavengers come. Nor to be caught
Dead at sea, battle, riot, adultery or hate
Nor between the rollers of a giant lathe. Yes,
To keep it cool when strangers’ children hiss
As if they knew what none could know nor guess
At the bottom, of all this bottomless
Enterprise to keep simple the heart’s given beat,
The only risk is heartlessness”
It a poem by an Indian poet AK Ramanujan.
May you have your heart always, Lorraine...i hope you have not lost it...bleeding is fine, thats what a heart is meant for...humaneness starts with that I think! :)
btw, don't leave :)
wishes,
devika
Wow Dev do you ever come back with a big bang, love it, I won't leave...don't either, you are back right!!! Alleluia, maybe you can awaken bloggers.com, nobody seems to post anymore!
hahah!! awakening is more than done, I guess :)
probably i will be back someday...now here and there...But I do LOVE this world for what it is....and am reading it, regularly - you know it :)
love,
dev
ps: i forgot the way i use to sign off here :)
No worries about signing off, see you've been here, and already I have 4 comments, maybe blogger just needed a push from you :) be back now, I insist, you can respond to this while I go do my 30 minute jjogging and then when I respond I will have 6 comments, see how great you are, shaking things up already!
haha! Actually, in between i got committed to a few things....and now running for time!
i miss it too...probably in a month or two I should be free and back :)
dev
This was just a teaser, well, It was nice to see you Dev :)
Blogging is an interesting thing. People come and go, come and go. I am still here. I just need to get inspired to post something. Sometimes the words don't come!
I hope you won't leave.
Have a great day!
yes, my heart has bled, though i have stubbed my toes a few times...i still stick around. smiles.
I'm always here Anne, occasionally I delete everything and then bring them all back to life, I'm moody lol thanks sweet girl, you know when you can't think of words to write, you can talk about a book, or a particular colour you like, or just post a photo...it's all good!
Hey Brian, poor you, it's weird that all my life on the beach, in the sand, barefoot, I've never been cut ;) I've been cut to pieces in other ways lol but never on the sand ;)
mind boggling--
to stand on the Lorraine shore
and listen to my beating heart
echoing
the waves of Devika
such a day
ebbs and flows
ebbs and flows
ebbs and flows
where is
Eternity?
much love
gillena
Eternity is there Gillena for us to reach...
O snail:
Climb Mount Fuji,:
But slowly, slowly
Kobayashi Issa
it might take as much time as we all learn to walk together, yet knowing we have come alone and need to go alone :)
Lorraine...with your permission :)
love,
dev
I loved this, Lorraine. Broken hearts can be soothed with views like that and a soft place to rest weary feet.
Ha Gillena, that is so beautiful and a propos, I must say ;)
Dev, of course...:)
Oh yes Talon, you heard me the sole of our feet on warm soft sand, can cure many a heart :)
La vie est un éternel recommencement.
Très belle image!
So positive..liked this one.. :))
Take care
Merci beaucoup Richard :)
Hey Sam, thanks a lot ;)
putting feet in sand
nice warm sand for closing eyes
uncovered skin burns
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