An old favorite poem

I do love ee cummings, and this is one that I like very much:

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot tough because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands




Now, to be honest, part of the reason I love this poem is because of an album I own. The original TV series "Beauty and the Beast" starred Ron Pearlman and Linda Hamilton. There was a nice quantity of merchandise released in connection with this series, some of which I owned. I had the life-sized poster of Vincent (the last time I hung it up was at the Brad Davidian Compound; some of you have seen it), an 8x10 glossy of the same character, a Ron Pearlman autograph (from when he came to Space Trek '89), and the Beauty and the Beast Album.
Rather than simply releasing the soundtrack (though I'd have gobbled that up, too), they put together a music/spoken word album with music from the show and Ron Pearlman reading love poetry in the Vincent voice.

Yeah. You read that right, ladies. In the VINCENT voice.

It was this album that introduced me to that particular poem above. I had already read Cummings, but this album was my introduction to Rilke. (Oh, Rilke, darling!)

I no longer possess the ability to listen to albums in my home. I'm not even sure where all of my LPs are, currently. I loved that album fiercely, though. It was called "Beauty and the Beast: Of Love and Hope".


**EDIT**
Oh, wow! It's on Itunes! Something to go on the list of things to acquire once I have cash flow.

Hot cocoa for the helpers

I had a lovely gentleman come to my door today and ask if he could shovel my walk for $10.

I happen to have cash in my purse for groceries, but I decided to have him do the work.
Two of his friends are helping him, and they asked if I wanted the driveway done, too.

Yep. I'll spend grocery money on that. Yes sir!

I also gave them a thermal mug and a thermos of hot cocoa. They're going to swing back by later and salt the spots where they shoveled, so I said to hang on to the thermos and cup and just set them on the porch when they return.

Whoo!

I must say that I LOVE my neighbors! I mean I have that one guy who is kind of a dick, but everyone else is so sweet and nice.

LOL I wonder if I'm still the "Witch lady". hee hee hee...

SNOOOOOWWWW

http://fairykukla.tumblr.com/image/72345582374

That was taken before 10am this morning.

http://fairykukla.tumblr.com/image/72346917446
This was taken a little while ago, around 1:15 or so.

Almost got away from me

HOLY CRAP DUDE
Episode 2 of Series 3 Sherlock just happened.

Fortunately, Tumblr hit me in the face with a mass of spoilers, so I hit Livestream like WHOA.

Whee!!
It was lovely.

Wasn't even spoiled by Martin Freeman saying stupid crap in interviews (and it was kind of epically stupid. Sigh.)

Well, back to my soup. I have a whole chicken in a pot of water. Mmmm.