Posted in Hermeticism, Language, Life, Literature, Mysticism, Poetry, Religion, Words, tagged body, soul on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Why deny
this body
its rights?
It is this
soul’s one
and only
and best
container
this time
around.
– Niebla
A somewhat late response to “Body and/or Link” (Two for Tuesdays VIII).
Posted in Blabla, Imagination, Language, Life, Words, tagged color, colors, hues, moods, One Single Impression, tarot on April 21, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Color moods for the day (like pulling tarot cards):
Brown = what you have to work with
Washed-out dark blue = weather mood
Orange = the sun you’re longing for
Blue with violet tinge = what you’d want your unknown love to be wearing today
Yellow = think of it and put it inside you
– Niebla
Colors chosen and moods written for [...]
Posted in History, Humor, Imagination, Language, Life, Literature, Mystery, Words, World, tagged 3WW, Helena, Homer, Iliad, mysterious, parallel, Paris on April 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Helena walked with a mysterious bounce of her well-padded rear. The only difference between this story and its classic parallel was that there was no Paris around to watch…
– Niebla
This contemporary short rendering of the attraction that may have resulted in the Iliad shows how the whole tragedy of Troy could have been avoided.
Written to [...]
Posted in Blabla, Humor, Language, Life, Literature, Words, tagged novel, novella, novelty on March 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I went into the neighborhood novelty store that had opened a few days ago.
“Can I help you?”
“I’m looking for some novelties. Nothing specific.”
“I’ll be glad to show you some of our novelties. Are you more interested in classic or the latest novelties? We have new and used.”
“Only the most novel novelties, please. Used only if [...]
Posted in Blabla, Dadaism, Imagination, Language, Words, tagged concrete poetry on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
… aisle, aisha
… bleat
… circuit, connection, communication, convention, convenience,
… door, distance
… enmity, effigy, evil, Easter
… foolishness, foolhardiness, fysh
… ghoul, ghastliness
… home, heaval, hope
… isle,
… jail, June
…
… lemur
… madness, mind, maturity
… neem
… opal
… preety
… quaint, quantum, query, queer
… rust, reunion
… store, stain, static
… weevil
This association thread was instigated by a call for contributions on the word [...]
Posted in God, Hermeticism, Language, Life, Mystery, Poetry, Words, tagged eight, eternity, globe, round on March 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Circle
Round
Globe
Eight
Double circle
Eternal
“Hath no beginning,
no end”
– Niebla ( © during a cycle on a globe in 2008 )
Inspired by One Single Impression’s topic Circle.
Posted in Food, Humor, Imagination, Language, Life, Literature, World, tagged grotesque, meme, rubes, ruby, story, surreal on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
When we finally arrived in Ruby City, the ruby-red sunset was upon us. One of the citizens, steeped in the ruby-red light of the passing day, showed us the way to the Ruby Hotel, the only one in town.
We found out that same evening that everything edible and potable in Ruby City was ruby-red.
In fact, [...]
Posted in Blabla, Dadaism, Death, Despair, Eden, Humor, Imagination, Language, Paradise, Poetry, Scardanelli, Words, tagged celebration, dada, Dickinson, Donne, nonsense, Vogelweide on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Thank you, unknown visitors, for 999 visits!
In celebration of which a dada poem derived from reflected and unreflected sources and eclectic syntactic influences:
Tandaraday
Death – do not despair*
Eden ith nair –
Tandaraday –
Where we lay
In days long past
Memory – thou hast
Tandaraday
– Scardanelli
* Having shed pride
Posted in Dadaism, Language, Literature, Poetry, Words, tagged alliteration, Indoeuropean, Indogermanic, Language, Poetry, Sanskrit, Words on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Ne
ma
stria,
aún no ma:
stitia hu, bahut
melancholy, ne ma stria.
– Niebla
Note
A fibonacci in what language? Several? None?
The dadaists did this kind of sound stuff; mostly it was meant to sound funny, an effect achieved by an extended sort of alliteration (words sounding similar to something known).
This one plays around with various Indogermanic language minimals and even some [...]
Posted in Blabla, Hermeticism, Language, Literature, Scardanelli, Words on March 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Have you ever tried to be completely disjointed?
You will find it extremely hard.
Write down a word. Then try to think of another one that is completely disjointed from the first.
Hard, isn’t it?
Says Scardanelli, your friendly neighborhood tester
