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mirage29
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posted December 30, 2015 12:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Finishing up the Month of DECEMBER, 2015.

(music) Once Upon A December (from Anastasia, lyrics) [2:38] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1zamKoUREI

I see the song selection above as the feminine side and answer to this following song selection below.

(music) Dance Me to The End of Love (Leonard Cohen, with scene clips from Scent of A Woman) [6:06] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEVow6kr5nI

(In case people haven't seen that movie?, the male actor who dances with this woman is supposed to be a Blind man~~ that's why his eyes looks kinda open and ~weird.)

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posted February 22, 2016 06:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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(music) February Song (Josh Broban) [4:08] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KksJe5dyFtI

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posted February 23, 2016 11:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Thanks for the addition of December songs, and February too!

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posted August 01, 2016 10:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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August


Silence again. The glorious symphony
Hath need of pause and interval of peace.
Some subtle signal bids all sweet sounds cease,
Save hum of insects' aimless industry.
Pathetic summer seeks by blazonry
Of color to conceal her swift decrease.
Weak subterfuge! Each mocking day doth fleece
A blossom, and lay bare her poverty.
Poor middle-aged summer! Vain this show!
Whole fields of Golden-Rod cannot offset
One meadow with a single violet;
And well the singing thrush and lily know,
Spite of all artifice which her regret
Can deck in splendid guise, their time to go!

~Helen Hunt Jackson


Happy August...

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posted September 01, 2016 09:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bump for September..

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Originally posted by Pearlty:
September

O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped!
The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung
On wands; the chestnut's yellow pennons tongue
To every wind its harvest challenge. Steeped
In yellow, still lie fields where wheat was reaped;
And yellow still the corn sheaves, stacked among
The yellow gourds, which from the earth have wrung
Her utmost gold. To highest boughs have leaped
The purple grape,--last thing to ripen, late
By very reason of its precious cost.
O Heart, remember, vintages are lost
If grapes do not for freezing night-dews wait.
Think, while thou sunnest thyself in Joy's estate,
Mayhap thou canst not ripen without frost!

~Helen Hunt Jackson


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posted September 01, 2016 03:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
(music) September {the 21st? } (Earth, Wind & Fire, lyrics) [3:35] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk

(music) September Song (Ella Fitzgerald) [3:42] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGKd6m4Pksg

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posted September 02, 2016 05:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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posted September 29, 2016 02:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Pearlty:
September

O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped!
The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung
On wands; the chestnut's yellow pennons tongue
To every wind its harvest challenge. Steeped
In yellow, still lie fields where wheat was reaped;
And yellow still the corn sheaves, stacked among
The yellow gourds, which from the earth have wrung
Her utmost gold. To highest boughs have leaped
The purple grape,--last thing to ripen, late
By very reason of its precious cost.
O Heart, remember, vintages are lost
If grapes do not for freezing night-dews wait.
Think, while thou sunnest thyself in Joy's estate,
Mayhap thou canst not ripen without frost!

~Helen Hunt Jackson


Goodbye September....

(music) September (Daughtry, lyrics) [3:47] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLgYjNTJq5E

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posted September 29, 2016 05:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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posted October 13, 2016 02:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Pearlty:

October


The month of carnival of all the year,
When Nature lets the wild earth go its way,
And spend whole seasons on a single day.
The spring-time holds her white and purple dear;
October, lavish, flaunts them far and near;
The summer charily her reds doth lay
Like jewels on her costliest array;
October, scornful, burns them on a bier.
The winter hoards his pearls of frost in sign
Of kingdom: whiter pearls than winter knew,
Oar empress wore, in Egypt's ancient line,
October, feasting 'neath her dome of blue,
Drinks at a single draught, slow filtered through
Sunshiny air, as in a tingling wine!

~Helen Hunt Jackson


A Beautiful, warm and nostalgic kind of song for October .....

(music) Autumn Leaves (Doris Day, 1956) [3:06] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZMD_2RZrm4

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posted October 14, 2016 09:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

^ Pretty older song, coincides perfectly! Ty, Mirage
Have a nice weekend!

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posted November 01, 2016 11:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Hello November!

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November

This is the treacherous month when autumn days
With summer's voice come bearing summer's gifts.
Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts
Her head and blooms again. The soft, warm haze
Makes moist once more the sere and dusty ways,
And, creeping through where dead leaves lie in drifts,
The violet returns. Snow noiseless sifts
Ere night, an icy shroud, which morning's rays
Willidly shine upon and slowly melt,
Too late to bid the violet live again.
The treachery, at last, too late, is plain;
Bare are the places where the sweet flowers dwelt.
What joy sufficient hath November felt?
What profit from the violet's day of pain?

~Helen Hunt Jackson


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posted November 01, 2016 11:51 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Glad to see you Pearlty...was thinking about you. Hope you're doing better now...

A beautiful and befitting verse for November...Under-toned and reflective...

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posted November 01, 2016 12:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks thequeen, was thinking of all here too!
(like family, in a way) and yes I'm feeling quite better.

With all these life changes and experiences,
it often concludes with such humbleness..
people have been so kind & thoughtful these last few weeks, made the unthinkable of grieving bearable.

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posted November 01, 2016 01:13 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Life's indeed tough but having considerate people around makes it easy and all worthwhile..Glad that you are coping well... God Bless You...

Yes this place is definitely like extended family...lots of warm and affectionate members to share thoughts and words with...

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posted November 01, 2016 02:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
(music) November Skies (Lea Sunshine) [4:24] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5owbYW8F5U

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posted November 30, 2016 10:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Delightfully welcoming December..

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December

The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes
Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed:
Far fairer than when placidly it streamed,
The brook its frozen architecture makes,
And under bridges white its swift way takes.
Snow comes and goes as messenger who dreamed
Might linger on the road; or one who deemed
His message hostile gently for their sakes
Who listened might reveal it by degrees.
We gird against the cold of winter wind
Our loins now with mighty bands of sleep,
In longest, darkest nights take rest and ease,
And every shortening day, as shadows creep
O'er the brief noontide, fresh surprises find.

~Helen Hunt Jackson


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posted February 01, 2017 10:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Welcome February! <3

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February

Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
These are days when ancients held a rite
Of expiation for the old year's ill,
And prayer to purify the new year's will:
Fit days, ere yet the spring rains blur the sight,
Ere yet the bounding blood grows hot with haste,
And dreaming thoughts grow heavy with a greed
The ardent summer's joy to have and taste;
Fit days, to give to last year's losses heed,
To recon clear the new life's sterner need;
Fit days, for Feast of Expiation placed!

~Helen Hunt Jackson


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posted April 01, 2017 09:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Hellloo April!!


quote:
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April


No days such honored days as these! While yet
Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
For some fair thing which should forever bide
On earth, her beauteous memory to set
In fitting frame that no age could forget,
Her name in lovely April's name did hide,
And leave it there, eternally allied
To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.
And when fair Aphrodite passed from earth,
Her shrines forgotten and her feasts of mirth,
A holier symbol still in seal and sign,
Sweet April took, of kingdom most divine,
When Christ ascended, in the time of birth
Of spring anemones, in Palestine.

~Helen Hunt Jackson


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posted July 01, 2017 11:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Hello July!!

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July

Some flowers are withered and some joys have died;
The garden reeks with an East Indian scent
From beds where gillyflowers stand weak and spent;
The white heat pales the skies from side to side;
But in still lakes and rivers, cool, content,
Like starry blooms on a new firmament,
White lilies float and regally abide.
In vain the cruel skies their hot rays shed;
The lily does not feel their brazen glare.
In vain the pallid clouds refuse to share
Their dews, the lily feels no thirst, no dread.
Unharmed she lifts her queenly face and head;
She drinks of living waters and keeps fair.

~Helen Hunt Jackson


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posted July 02, 2017 04:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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posted July 03, 2017 03:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Happy 4th!

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posted July 04, 2017 05:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Happy Birthday, America!

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posted July 05, 2017 10:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hope everyone enjoyed it!

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posted July 05, 2017 12:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pearlty     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

We had a nice 4th of July here!
Hope you all did too!!

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