What a day. I missed school & my job because my truck is down, maybe for a few days. Hopefully up by Thursday so I can go to school & my job. I can at least do my homework from home including this blog.
I’ve written about songs lately and I’m making a conscious effort not to this time. I think I will talk about a favorite poet of mine. Hafez or Hafiz are just two ways I’ve seen it spelled.
Hāfez (1325/26–1389/90) was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works (Divan) are to be found in the homes of most Iranians, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day. I love his poems. All are positive and full of love. His way with language is so unlike anything I hear or read now. Here are some.
COURTEOUS TO THE ANT
God
Blooms
From the shoulder
of the
Elephant
Who becomes
Courteous
To
The
Ant.
"I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breaths move through
Listen to this music."
Your soul and my soul
Once sat together in the Beloved's womb
Playing footsie
Your heart and my heart are very old friends.
IF GOD INVITED YOU TO A PARTY
If God
Invited you to a party
And said,
"Everyone
In the ballroom tonight
Will be my special
Guest."
How would you then treat them
When you
arrived?
Indeed, indeed!
And Hafiz knows
There is no one is this world
Who
Is not upon
His Jeweled Dance
Floor.
Two Giant Fat People
God
And I have become
Like two giant fat people
Living in a
Tiny boat.
We
Keep
Bumping into each other and
Laughing.
Thats the stuff!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Think about your troubles...
Sit beside the breakfast table
Think about your troubles
Pour yourself a cup of tea
And think about the bubbles
You could take your teardrops
And drop them in a teacup
Take them down to the riverside
And throw them over the side
To be swept up by a current
And taken to the ocean
To be eaten by some fishes
Who were eaten by some fishes
And swallowed by a whale
Who grew so old, he decomposed
He died and left his body
To the bottom of the ocean
Now everybody knows
That when a body decomposes
The basic elements
Are given back to the ocean
And the sea does what it ought'a
And soon there's salty water
(Not too good for drinking)
'Cause it tastes just like a teardrop
(So we run it through a filter)
And it comes out from the faucet
(And pours into a teapot)
Which is just about to bubble
Now
Think about your troubles
Singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson was named as the Beatles' favorite American artist when he was still a relative unknown, you’ve heard his songs. He had hits and wrote hits for others. Songs like “One”, “Everybody’s Talking” and “You Put the Lime in the Coconut”, but I want to talk about this song which has a really nice message.
One of Harry Nilsson's more evocative songs, "Think About Your Troubles" was one of the "fantasy" sections of the animated feature The Point. The song, despite being perfect in the film, works quite well on its own. Essentially, it's an illustration of the flow of ecology, using the example of water flowing from a faucet, to the boiling teapot, the environment of fish in the ocean, and on and on. There's almost a sad, mournful quality, yet it can't help but make you feel good by song's end -- a trick that Nilsson always did well.
"Think About Your Troubles" has a marvelous intricate Zen-like lyric.
Think about your troubles
Pour yourself a cup of tea
And think about the bubbles
You could take your teardrops
And drop them in a teacup
Take them down to the riverside
And throw them over the side
To be swept up by a current
And taken to the ocean
To be eaten by some fishes
Who were eaten by some fishes
And swallowed by a whale
Who grew so old, he decomposed
He died and left his body
To the bottom of the ocean
Now everybody knows
That when a body decomposes
The basic elements
Are given back to the ocean
And the sea does what it ought'a
And soon there's salty water
(Not too good for drinking)
'Cause it tastes just like a teardrop
(So we run it through a filter)
And it comes out from the faucet
(And pours into a teapot)
Which is just about to bubble
Now
Think about your troubles
Singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson was named as the Beatles' favorite American artist when he was still a relative unknown, you’ve heard his songs. He had hits and wrote hits for others. Songs like “One”, “Everybody’s Talking” and “You Put the Lime in the Coconut”, but I want to talk about this song which has a really nice message.
One of Harry Nilsson's more evocative songs, "Think About Your Troubles" was one of the "fantasy" sections of the animated feature The Point. The song, despite being perfect in the film, works quite well on its own. Essentially, it's an illustration of the flow of ecology, using the example of water flowing from a faucet, to the boiling teapot, the environment of fish in the ocean, and on and on. There's almost a sad, mournful quality, yet it can't help but make you feel good by song's end -- a trick that Nilsson always did well.
"Think About Your Troubles" has a marvelous intricate Zen-like lyric.
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