Poetry. Old Envelopes, 25. #0405

--''It is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.'' < Sir Winston Churchill. -from A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. >
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--''Here at the world's end, on its last inch of liberty, we have lived unmolested to this day, defended by our remoteness and obscurity. Now the farthest reaches of Britain lie exposed. . . nothing but sea and rock and hostile Romans, whose arrogance you can't fool by complaisance or modest self-restraint. Predators of the world. . . (Neither) east nor west has satiated them. . . to plunder, butcher, steal __ these things they falsely name empire. They've turned the world into a wasteland, and they call it peace.
< Tacitus, Agricola, quoting British Chieftan Calgacus on the Romans. >
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-😀''That's where Coyote's got it wrong,'' Zia said. ''You can't change the world by stirring up something in Raven's pot.''
''Then how do you change it?'' ''By being strong and true.'' ''See,'' Maida added. ''That's what makes the cuckoo's so bad. You can only gentle them by killing them and every death diminishes us. (Crow girls - Zia & Maida.)'' Zia nodded. ''We should know.''
''Or ask Jack if you don't believe us.''(Jackdaw.)
''I believe you,'' Ray (Fox.) said. ''I just never thought of it that way.''
''The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed.''
''By looking inside yourself,'' Zia said. ''Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it.''
''And you know,'' Maida added. ''That mirror can be a story you hear, or just somebody else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so that you can see yourself in it.''
''We can't do that with the cuckoos?'' Ray asked.
Maida shook her head. ''You can't do it with people who never look outside themselves.''
< Charles de Lint. >
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--MEBAHIAH : Eternal God., -champions motherhood & child-birth - grants life-full of love & vitality., -if yearning for a child., -a difficult pregnancy - job related to women or infants., -approx 23/12 - 27/12 (1° - 5°♑)
--POIEL : God who supports the universe., -realizes ambitions., -helps win glory and celebrity., -grants wishes., -approx 28/12 - 1/1 (6° - 10•♑)
--NEMAMIAH : Laudable God., -grants prosperity to the impoverished & freedom to prisoners., -approx 1/1 -5/1 (11° - 15°♑)
--IEIALEL : His who hears the generations., -soothes grief., -cures ophthalmic problems., -approx 7/1 -10/1 (16° - 20°♑)
--HARAHEL : God who knows all things., -nakes sterile women fertile., -smootges conflicts between generations., -facilitates gains (Stock Exchange)., -approx 11/1 - 15/1 ( 21° - 25°♑)
--MITZRAEL : God who defends the oppressed., -cures mental illness (madness)., -helps oppressed escape persecution., -approx 16/1 - 20/1 (26° - 30°♑)
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''A troll was out walking
one calm and sunny day
eyes beyond horizon
marching feet without pain
zom zom dribble dribble
zom zom dribble dribble
Let us go u oo
All of the way e ai
Let us go o o
Let us go ooo
< Simon.T. >
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''January with your long hair blowing
where have you been these years gone?
Life in mystery nobility growing
with your honest eyes, experience done.
Where is the sea and siren singing
steadfast and true your heart, and
Joyful the memories this morn is bringing
rise with the sun, run with the band.

Where you are is here and now
always present in eternal moment,
All your anxious doubts and worry
teach in the world how deep to bow.
Be yourself within and still,
expand awareness from the fragment,
Use the magic of the world and journey,
come up from the valley and stand on the hill.

I love to see the sunshine
in your clear honest eyes,
To hear the sweetest chiming
of joy within your voice.
Within the aura of your presence
is a spark quite undefined.
And you walk across my dreams
like an ideal from the gods.
< Simon.T. >
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''Read Not Books Alone, But Men; And, Above All, Read Thyself.''