posted April 24, 2009 09:28 PM         

Quality Street and Roses are not all good.

Food, yeah, where was I?

posted April 25, 2009 01:01 AM         

No repeats sorry, just like a PBS script with no repeats. Chocolate - kicked it, Coffee - kicked it. No more habits but would I like to be stung with a pen?

On a serious note, get what it's about? You must be mad if you don't...

posted April 25, 2009 01:11 AM         

Would you like to be stung with a pen?

posted April 25, 2009 04:42 AM         

I like this....

quote:

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But what is prudence without logic?
And what logic without intuition?

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posted April 25, 2009 05:27 AM         

Here's a clue. The poem turns on these lines :

I was born alone and I was born

Then I discover the lilting pleasures

My mind turns

My inners pang

I have a DVD

And now it is time for me to analyse the DVD

I need balance to critique

Peace is no good without a steel spine

Ha ha!

Only hard work makes you worthy

But what is prudence without logic?

But my soul is with you all

posted April 26, 2009 06:37 PM         

ARIES
I was born alone and I was born
Kicking and butting anyone around
My face is red
My eyes pierce
And I will burn you to win
TAURUS
Then I discover the lilting pleasures
Of a fleshy body
Oh how I eat my chocolate bars
Hedonism
That makes my dancing being for you to watch
GEMINI
My mind turns
It spins and jumps
Bubbly and effervescent
Speedy and agile
I'm not on a straight course
But you can't catch me for I am the baby deer
CANCER
My inners pang
I run sideways to avoid you
Yet I want to be so close
So close to you
To cook you a meal
In a place where you can go back
to a place when your mother was with you
LEO
I have a DVD
These flashing lights
Bright smiles
Watch me
Love me
For I am the head chorus girl
with her feathery boa and tiara on her head
VIRGO
And now it is time for me to analyse the DVD
I want account for the errors of it
And maybe nurture the characters
To claim order on the wild fire
To claim order on hedonism
LIBRA
I need balance to critique
For I like to say please
And I like you to say please
Let's be together, you and me
And be like two little cooing pigeons in peace?
SCORPIO
Peace is no good without a steel spine
What can you offer me?
I want to soak into your soul
And feel it inside out
Don't try to tell me that you aren't you
But you can't tell me who I am
SAGITTARIUS
Ha ha!
I can tell you who you are
Ha ha!
Well you are part of the greater world
You are an extension of the wild nature
Let me teach you
Let me kindly teach you
CAPRICORN
Yes I will teach you
Only hard work makes you worthy
And discipline with the hard hoofs
Elegance comes with time
You'll see
As does prudence
AQUARIUS
But what is prudence without logic?
And what logic without intuition?
And what is intuition without man?
Distance makes your heart grow fonder
I'll email you tomorrow about us
PICES
And so I send the email
But my soul is with you all
Please forgive me for my sins
Before I am laid to rest
And I become one with all.

The poem comes across as the full evolution of life through the signs, the cycle of astrology. Prior to me writing this and this may have not come across through the poem, I was thinking of the evolution of signs through their elements.

By this I mean (and I do not infer that these are the only qualities of a sign and that all Aries is selfish, that all Taurus is lazy etc, these qualities are more complex than that):

FIRE
Aries: direct energy, narrow, "self-centred", black and white --> Leo: creativity of energy, "self-centred" but generous to another and thus relation of me to another --> Sagittarius: broad energy, generous, philosophical: colour and the relation of me to the world

WATER
Cancer: personal home, self-defence and vulnerability --> Scorpio: a continuing self-defence but through control of another somehow, strength, you are part of my home --> Pisces: forgiveness from when hurt, dropping of self-defence and fusion with another, home being the universe

EARTH
Taurus: luxuriating and complaisance, voluptuary, the enjoyment of possession --> Virgo: critically analysing or ordering sensuality and thus striking a "balanced" reason (be it health, general cleanliness, presentation, life etc) --> Capricorn: luxury after work, possessions as status, refinement of sensuality

AIR
Gemini --> speedy thought process but something that can be dispersed; Libra --> thought process with solution through carefully considered balancing of both sides; Aquarius --> structured, slower and pointed logic asked through questions and driven by curiousity

I found some parts incredibly difficult to write on the spot. For some reason, I could not quite express Libra or Gemini and I would rewrite Pisces again. My favourite bits are Scorpio and Aries. These came very easy to me, a good question is "why"? LOL