One spring acid trip,
naked on Kailua beach
badly sun burned dick.
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take away our clothes
sunburns and gay love flourish
summer dreams in heat
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Languid existence
Can be soo boring for the
Ones who don't like sex.
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An old-cherub's home
Outside, perhaps at recess
Or maybe nap-time
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from the flow of life
a mind stylizes reality
making it more true
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dream of dying leaves
we loll in this unlikely
hearts not quite in it
Last week's was very good. Too many to choose from, with picking rather difficult so I chose the five on the basis of their all having the letter 'c' in the first line. Or something like that.
Anyway, a rather curious Matisse today. God knows what he was thinking of when he painted this.
deleted the one above to change the first two lines,
from the flow of life
a mind stylizes reality
making it more true
yet far from the ideal
matisse hung in a gallery
no sense of absolute
An old-cherub's home
Outside, perhaps at recess
Or maybe nap-time
Dave Q.
(yeah, I'm insane)
Wow, very good. I do love people attacking a thing from completely different angles. Is 'attacking' the right word?
Brave men and women!
Poetry Attack Squadron!
Banzai, Banzai, yeah!
Both Matisse and Freud
To work mother issues out
Put pen to paper
Tony
One spring acid trip,
naked on Kailua beach
badly sun burned dick.
der schutte
FB
Languid existence
Can be soo boring for the
Ones who don't like sex.
Frenzied Circle dance
Kill a goat, drink the blood. A
Lovely day for all.
FB
Reincarnation
If it exists, I will return
as a lesbian.
Hey P2P, for no particular reason I checked the info on the Russian Finnish border. I remember watching a TV series years ago where a camera team traveled some famous borders, this being one of them. They also did the Greek Turkish border running through Cyprus and others I cant remember now. They were quite interesting being half documentary and half travelogue. I remembered there was a no man's land on either side of the border which I thought was 100 – 200 meters wide. The actual border is marked with border poles as normal but on either side is a fence which is guarded on each side by patrols, The Finish border Guard and the Border Service of Russia. I was wrong about the distance though. On the Finish side it is between 3 and 5 km from the border and on the Russian side it is 7.5 km from the border and you need a permit to get in.
Usually in border conflicts the attacking side takes what it can and the defending side keeps what it can but the easternmost point of Finland is the western part of an island in a lake which seems strange.
There is no particular reason I am telling you this, just musing like with the Matisse.
take away our clothes
sunburns and gay love flourish
summer dreams in heat
figure and ground tease
musky subtlety all 'round
erotic dazed gaze
by the way, I found it alot easier to see all the subliminal images when looking at a small image of the painting, for instance:
http://arthousereproductions.com/images/Mat17sm.jpg
FB,
I had to look into this, and apparently the easternmost part of eu on land is on that island you are talking about. I tried and failed to find out whether there is something cooky about it because at times finns have rather crazy reasons for stuff (I spoke about ww II with some friends last weekend and apparently we did not invade saint petersburg only because our commander in chief was a gay swede born there. yeah you guessed it, they've been planning to do a hollywood movie of him for years).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_Emil_Mannerheim#Visit_by_Adolf_Hitler
apparently the island has been a border spot already for sweden and russia in 1617. it is 70 km east from st petersburg, which I did not know, and now do think is quite awesome.
FB
P, we seem to be out awing each other now. When you said that island was the farthest place east in the EU I thought it was a typo and you meant Finland but you are right and on a longitude line it cuts through about a third of the way through Turkey and is almost but not quite as far east as Cairo. You should not however forget the schoolboy trick question “How long do you think it would take you to walk completely around the world?” The answer is that if you planted a flagpole in the north pole, put one hand on it and then walked in a circle then you would have circumnavigated the globe in a couple of seconds. So traveling distance should not be confused with longitude. Still if someone had asked me the farthest point east in the EU I sure wouldn't have picked Finland. Did you find any more info on why the border runs through an island on a lake? That Mannerheim stuff was interesting too.
Here is a photo of the border pole representing the EU's farthest point east.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/small/38307033.jpg
Except, it's not the farthest east point of EU. You forgot Cyprus which eastest point is at 34,1°, the Finland-Russia point you're talking about is at 31.6° east.
But even then, one could still make the case that the EU is present on every continent and every ocean because of the snippets of territories still officially part of EU member states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Territories_of_France_%28European_Parliament_constituency%29
And before one says something, I know that you said the eastern most point on land, but that is irrelevant imho, because it's very difficult to get to Finland within EU territory without crossing a sea.
By car it would take 30 hours of travel for 2600km from Brussels to the nearest road of that point.
http://maps.google.fr/maps?saddr=Brussel,+Belgi%C3%AB&daddr=Hatuntie%2FRoute%C2%A0522&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&ll=60.003106,20.489502&spn=0.878841,1.639709&sll=60.081284,20.835571&sspn=0.876763,1.639709&geocode=FSTqBwMd3mZCAClnaMdz7aTDRzGnAnN4ZjqLwQ%3BFWDsvwMd1RbdAQ&mra=dpe&z=9
You'll notice that you take a ferryboat twice, between Germany and Denmark and between Sweden and Finland.
If one wants to stay on land only, it gets a little bit longer, 3320 km in 37 hours.
http://maps.google.fr/maps?saddr=Brussel,+Belgi%C3%AB&daddr=55.338448,10.45245+to:62.3855,17.31184+to:65.58265,21.99396+to:Hatuntie%2FRoute%C2%A0522&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&ll=62.385277,17.314453&spn=3.260317,6.558838&sll=54.990222,12.568359&sspn=4.034806,6.558838&geocode=FSTqBwMd3mZCAClnaMdz7aTDRzGnAnN4ZjqLwQ%3BFdBlTAMd4n2fACk96q_eFiFNRjGg3oELQPgOhQ%3BFVzttwMdYCgIASkrAb8QaGdkRjFAhUi3BkUDEw%3BFTq26AMd6JlPASlLUE35NW9_RjFwiM65BkUDEw%3BFWDsvwMd1RbdAQ&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=7&via=1,2,3&z=7
So, technically, Finland is an Island viewed from the "EU-heartland"
Ok I just found the list of overseas territory that are officially part of the EU.
The 4 french departements d'outre mer: Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélémy, Martinique, French Guyana and Réunion (Mayotte is now also a département but is not yet officially part of EU).
The Portugese oversea regions of Açores and Madeira.
The Spanish Islands of Canarias.
So the most eastern point of the EU would then be La Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
yes, finland is an island floating partly by the remnants of soviet union. how poetic and funny. and, it explains why illegal drugs are so expensive here.
what I meant by "on land" was "on the continental europe." though I remember reading years ago that st. petersburg and parts of russia are considered part of the "continent of europe," too? ach.
FB,
I did some serious googling to find out if there is something special about the border being in an island, but couldn't really. though, there has been an epic battle around there in 1944:
"In the eastern regions of what is Ilomantsi today, a fierce battle was fought in the summer of 1944. The battle took over a week, the advance of two Soviet divisions was stopped, and the foreign troops were almost completely destroyed. The Finns were able to defend their land.
Nearly four hundred Finnish soldiers died or went missing, and there were over 1,300 wounded. It has been estimated that the Soviet army lost 3,200 men, and thousands were also wounded."
http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20010807IE11
while googling I found this which I think would be a perfect image for haiku (it is actually taken in the small village where my father is from, some tens of kilometers from the border island under scrutiny):
http://www.cartinafinland.fi/fi/picture/78582/Pilkkij%E4+sai+komean+ahvenen.html
FB
I think it is amazing that we start off discussing Matisse and quickly navigate to the shape of Europe, mind you that was mainly my fault. Yeh Gal I did forget Greek Cyprus after having just mentioned it in a previous comment. Then we get into other areas never intended such as what is EU and what is Schengen Area. It gets complicated because there are three non-EU countries in the Schengen Area, Iceland; Norway and Switzerland. It gets even more complicated because (apart from bits and pieces countries like San Marino and The Vatican etc) there are three major EU countries which are not in Schengen, Romania; Bulgaria and wait for it – Cyprus. I was in Bulgaria a year ago and this was not yet in the Euro-zone, the others I don't know, so they seem to have one foot in and one foot out. The dependent territories (canary Islands etc) are non- Schengen even though their mother countries are. I don't even want to start thinking about what continent Greenland is in :-) And all because I thought it was odd that a national boundary ran through an island in a lake.
Gallier you saucy free-loading devil! You won't write us a haiku but you will pop in and discuss the Easternmost point of Europe. Typical. And La Reunion? Pah! Hong Kong! Now that was when Europe had an East. Mind you, who needs Europe? When you've got Hong Kong?
Um, have I changed the subject again?
camembert de wok
peanut oil Szechuan peppers
à Chez Cheung Man Yuk
yummy
And P, that is a perfect pic. It might end up as some variety of caption contest, but that's alright isn't it?
And John. Sorry mate, in amongst the Szechuan peppers I forgot about your idea. I actually spent a lot of time staring at various rez of this picture and then I wandered around to see if anyone had anything to say about it, and finally decided: nah.
I think it just looks like there's another picture there. And if there is one - to what end? It's all so vague as to be pointless. I think it's just one of those pictures. Weirdly enough I had curtains like this in the old man's apartment. The pattern would resemble all sorts of things but really it was just what it was - a watercolour of some geraniums.
But you never know!
patterns in patterns
the world in kaleidoscope
forming reforming
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