tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post6521106849485057912..comments2008-05-28T21:47:32.951-04:00Larry Keilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-15359980993229326732008-05-28T21:47:00.000-04:002008-05-28T21:47:00.000-04:002008-05-28T21:47:00.000-04:00Talking about statues. I saw this great "Treasury of Poetry" in the store. Big. Great pictures. For kids. But what else am I but a big kid? I knew I wanted it. And indeed I bought it. Two as a matter of fact. One to give away for another big kid's birthday. The price was right.<BR/><BR/>And in it I found some poems I hadn't seen in a long time. You should have heard my exclamations, going through that book. I was like a kid in a candy store.<BR/><BR/>Here comes the statue one,<BR/><BR/>OZMANDIAS<BR/><BR/>I met a traveller from an antique land<BR/>Who said: Two fast trunkless legs of stone<BR/>Stand in the desert....Near them, on sand,<BR/>Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, who's frown,<BR/>And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold commend,<BR/>Tell that its sculptor well those passions read<BR/>Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,<BR/>The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:<BR/>And on the pedestal these words appear:<BR/>"My name is Ozmamdias, king of kings:<BR/>Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"<BR/>Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<BR/>Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare<BR/>The lone and level sands stretch far away.<BR/><BR/> Percy Bysshe Shelley<BR/><BR/>It has a neat illustration. but I do not know how to send pictures, so you have to design one of your own in your imagination.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure you all know this poem. I'm not sending anything new. But maybe like me, you are pleasantly surprized to see and read it again.<BR/><BR/>I bet it was in the land of Bast anyway. Bast knew better than to boast. Her statue is in tact.wild thingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-63453126515005154962008-05-26T22:48:00.000-04:002008-05-26T22:48:00.000-04:002008-05-26T22:48:00.000-04:00You cat lover, you...Xhttp://www.mariannepaul.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-76531715253110900932008-05-20T10:17:00.000-04:002008-05-20T10:17:00.000-04:002008-05-20T10:17:00.000-04:00Serene.<BR/><BR/>Maybe there is no essential difference, Virgin Mary, Woman statue in White...<BR/><BR/>Just different expressions of the psyche.<BR/><BR/>Maybe after this Egyptian culture and a statue of Bast.wild thingnoreply@blogger.com