What's Offal and were to get it Allegretto
ZGlance Phattey
is a marvelous movie
it has enough equal parts
to balance even the most
religious or anti religious
person or people.
People often get tired of
the religious reasons for doing
or not doing things. I heard
"The Baronet and Knight were
in dispute due to her belief in
a non- sexual relationship
be fore
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Categories:
torso, america, culture, film, guitar,
Form: Ballade
Sonnets X-Xvi
Sonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within, while his composed will
emanates dynamism. Otherwise
the firmly muscled abdomen could not beguile us,
nor the centering loins
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Categories:
torso, art, body, god, life,
Form: Sonnet
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation
Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within, while his composed will
emanates dynamism. Otherwise
the firmly muscled abdomen could not beguile us,
nor the centering loins make us smile
at the
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Categories:
torso, art, body, god, life,
Form: Sonnet
Head and Torso
Nothing-ness fills me
again. Once visiting a funeral
home, a child asked me,
why do the people die ?
How do I explain the dark
side of life ? A blunt trauma,
makes me jaded. One collapsing
process creates the black hole.
A nude, the tall figure, stands
on the rock, much venerated,
and you cannot take off the
eyes, deciphering
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Categories:
torso, art,
Form: ABC
One Tired Torso
One Tired Torso
One tired torso stands and sits,
reeling from its aching hips.
The lumbar vertebrae are all but gone,
with femur bones that are old and worn.
A pelvis full that bore two baby girls,
is now a barren and empty world.
A gnarled patella is the mark,
of the many prayers said in the dark.
But it’s the feet that tell
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Categories:
torso, age, body, health,
Form: Couplet