Today's poet

[Hes]

It Takes One Minute...

...for life
to depart.

One minute
for pleasure to snap
and sink to gloom.

One minute
to tumble down
the deep ravine
of darness, fear
uncertainty and perplexity.

In each minute
the universe whirls
and
one minute has grown.

devadatchan

(I think that could be about survival...)

[Derby Tup]

I've always taken the 'life's a bitch...' thing in a kind of philosophical shrug of the shoulders, 'tell me something I don't know', kind of a way

My colleague had another one, 'life's like a brown paperbag full of sh1t. It's okay until the bottom falls out of it!'

[Nathaniel Lee]

Life is a tragedy when seen in close up,but a comedy in long shot.

Charlie Chaplin.

All a matter of perspective i suppose.

[Hes]

I've always taken the 'life's a bitch...' thing in a kind of philosophical shrug of the shoulders, 'tell me something I don't know', kind of a way

My colleague had another one, 'life's like a brown paperbag full of sh1t. It's okay until the bottom falls out of it!'

Ha ha...that is grim but funny. I like your attitude DT.

To misquote Forrest: "life is like a box a chocolates...which has been mislabelled, it is never holds exactly what you expect it to but sometimes the flavours are better than you could have dreamed and sometimes they take your fillings out".

[Hes]

Life is a tragedy when seen in close up,but a comedy in long shot.

Charlie Chaplin.

All a matter of perspective i suppose.

Now that is good!!!
My awful Indian epic 40hour train journey has now turned into an hallucinogenic comedy in the retelling but at the time it felt like hell on earth (the toilet was my refuge which says how bad it was).

[Nathaniel Lee]

Was it type high or type low Hes ?. The toilet that is.

[freckle]

Reveille
Primo Levi

In the brutal nights we used to dream
Dense violent dreams,
Dreamed with soul and body:
To return; to eat; to tell the story.
Until the dawn command
Sounded brief, low
'Wstawac'
And the heart cracked in the breast.

Now we have found our homes again,
Our bellies are full,
We're through telling the story.
It's time. Soon we'll hear again
The strange command:
'Wstawac'
eamed with soul and body:
To return; to eat; to tell the story.
Until the dawn command
Sounded brief, low
'Wstawac'
And the heart cracked in the breast.

Now we have found our homes again,
Our bellies are full,
We're through telling the story.
It's time. Soon we'll hear again
The strange command:
'Wstawac'

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OW good to be reminded of the importance of today, good choice of poem.

http://www.diis.dk/sw13037.asp

[freckle]

Now that is good!!!
My awful Indian epic 40hour train journey has now turned into an hallucinogenic comedy in the retelling but at the time it felt like hell on earth (the toilet was my refuge which says how bad it was).

"Life is a s**t sandwich
the more bread you have
the less s**t you eat!"

[Hes]

Was it type high or type low Hes ?. The toilet that is.

A squatter. It was the only place I could get any peace and quiet.

[Hes]

Reveille
Primo Levi

In the brutal nights we used to dream
Dense violent dreams,
Dreamed with soul and body:
To return; to eat; to tell the story.
Until the dawn command
Sounded brief, low
'Wstawac'
And the heart cracked in the breast.

Now we have found our homes again,
Our bellies are full,
We're through telling the story.
It's time. Soon we'll hear again
The strange command:
'Wstawac'
eamed with soul and body:
To return; to eat; to tell the story.
Until the dawn command
Sounded brief, low
'Wstawac'
And the heart cracked in the breast.

Now we have found our homes again,
Our bellies are full,
We're through telling the story.
It's time. Soon we'll hear again
The strange command:
'Wstawac'

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OW good to be reminded of the importance of today, good choice of poem.

http://www.diis.dk/sw13037.asp

Thanks for this Freckle. Along with OWs it is a poignant reminder of how much so many have suffered and how fortunate we are.