Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Judih - sometimes it happens, (not to often but once in awhile) that I have to wait for a groove to come along before proceeding. In your case one of two things happens; either your thoughts & words spin me right off & I go running with it or I have to wait for the space around me to reveal itself before I can do a thing. This is the power of how you say things. Thanks Judi for the words you put here.

sometimes a poem is a house
and sometimes a word is a seed

"sometimes a poem is a house
and sometimes a word is a seed"

Mj,
I read a poem years ago that expressed the same sentiment and I remember that part. It goes: "And yet, and yet the daughter of the dead man is stepping in water and turning to seed" I think the poet's name was Kondos. Yannis Kondos. Check him out if you are not familiar with him already, you might enjoy his writing. It was a "selected poems" kind of thing. The ones I enjoyed the most were the selections from "Ta Osta", in english "The Bones". But the poem I have quoted here was taken from "In the Dialect of the Desert" included in the same book. The poem in its entirety was entitled "The Strength of Destiny" and goes:

The Strength of Destiny

Peelings of dreams, discarded newspapers, and February.
Silk girls unravel before me.

And yet, and yet the daughter of the dead man
is stepping in water and turning to seed.

It is a thin book and left me wanting more. You're right, a word is a seed. The greatest of seeds. Thanks Mj, for dropping by.

Spent most of the night last playing online chess ...went down went up went round & round... about to do it again tonight...saw some high school photos in a former school building today...back to 1928... school is no longer a school and ain't been for I don't know how long - community building now... so I'm looking at the pictures because they talk to me about where we are at any given moment...The high school class of "34 shows one Mary D__________. She was hot in '34 & she was eating the camera up with it...she'd be about 93 now if she's still alive...empty buildings are echo chambers...reminders not so much for looking back but for looking ahead...anyways... ...

Anyone know what a Class III strong verb is ? I ran across this phrase looking up the etymology of the word "path". Thanx.

whenever i need more info on just about any subject, i turn to wikipedia. this is what they had to say about class iii strong verbs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_morphology

since english isn't my first language, this is all a little over my head. but i'm sure it will give you a general idea of what it means.

strong verbs make you do things forcefully and without regret, plus they taste pungent if steeped too long. i never cared for that.

Thanx Mj, that was some heady stuff. I didn't get it all myself but at least I understood the meaning of the phrase "Class III strong verb".
What is your first language ?

mt - don't know whether I can agree with ya or not. I do know I don't mind pungent until it turns acrid. I get off the train right there.

Rain...wet roads...July is ready to shut her doors ... I've been told it's going to rain all the rest of the week. I've been told a lot of things in my life & I've told them right back let me say. I've even rubbed up against some damn big rocks without any objection from the rocks ... it's dark and my light won't come on ... Goodbye July !

Getting a pack of smokes is a play
the store is the stage
the customer & the cashier
are Bogey & Bacall
and the curtain has been up
since 50,000 B.C.
or before

America, your children await you !
Come, & remain.

When America
was encountered by the Europeans
all America asked of the newcomers
was beads.

my first language is afrikaans (i live in the states now, but i was born and raised in south africa). it is probably most like dutch. SA has 11 official languages of which i speak two, afrikaans & english (which is the business language) and a few words & phrases in sesotho (an african language of the central parts).

here's a wikipedia link for you, if you're interested in afrikaans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans
& if you are interested in the 11 official languages of SA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_l ... uth_Africa

Thanx for the link, Mj. Most of the time I have all I can handle just trying to use English. I think everybody makes any given language their own. Language accommodates us more easily than the other way 'round.

I believe that languages are living things. Words are born and die on the native tongue and they even travel.

For example...At one point there was this fear in SA that afrikaans would die out entirely as a language. This right after english was declared the official business language. And of course as generations go, kids started to use slang more often (which for afrikaans mostly meant mixing in english words). The older generations were fighting to "keep the language pure". Of course we the younger generation ignored them. and as I always knew, the language survived and is spreading through out the world as afrikaans people immigrate to other countries. Even though this is a fairly young language, compared to the rest of the world's languages, even we have "ancient" words that became too formal to use, new words sprouting from experimentation and repeated use, and also words, phrases & idioms that just can't be translated into other languages without losing it's full meaning and wit. I love afrikaans. It's my mother tongue. It's what I speak at home. For some reason I've learned to express myself in english artistically (even though I probably only use half the words. Or maybe less. Heh. I am still learning every day. And I get my "not so english" days too ).

and yes, the fact that languages are so versatile, gives people the opportunity to use it however it fits their comfort level. so yes, it does accommodate us (here's a little secret...i write with a dictionary closeby )