Gratitude 14 -- All Hallows Even and Odd

the dancer 
takes an exploratory 
half step
the soldier 
takes a bold
whole step

their feet know
the melody
as if they were
making it up as they go
and been dancing it
for centuries 

we watch them
just like 
just like angels 
in the architecture 
seeing things
feeling things
remembering
the call
the call
the call to what
what was it

the dancer
is in the soldier’s arms
the soldier
surrendering 
to this just this
embrace 
we remember 
this falling 
falling 
falling 
that feels like flying 
this human thing
that humans do
that angels never dare

the dancer
bows to the soldier 
who salutes
and smiles
the smile
of those who
know the victory 
of being completely 
so completely 
disarmed

Choose Your Weapons Wisely

Fish Poem

Each bar is a cycle of 1/4 notes over 1/16th playing on the 1 and 4 of 5/16.

The Twelve Surprises

Alexanderplatz Blues

Sometimes we meet challenge with a pivot and a pirouette

Pivot and Pirouette

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are considered to be one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. They were built in the ancient city-state of Babylon, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil, in Iraq.

The Hanged Man's symbolism points to divinity, linking it to the Passion of Christ in Christianity, especially The Crucifixion; to the narratives of Osiris (Egyptian mythology) and Mithras (Ancient Persian mythology, Roman mythology). In all of these archetypal stories, the destruction of self brings life to humanity; on the card, these are symbolized respectively by the person of the hanged man and the living tree from which he hangs bound. Its relationship to the other cards usually involves the sacrifice that makes sacred; personal loss for a greater good or a greater gain.
The Hanged Man is often associated with Odin, the primary god of the Norse Pantheon. Odin hung upside down from the world-tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days to attain wisdom and thereby retrieved The Runes from the Well of Wyrd, which the Norse cosmology regarded as the source and end of all Mystery and all knowledge. The moment he glimpsed the runes, he died, but the knowledge of them was so powerful that he immediately returned to life.

Hanging Gardens Hanging Man

What is the crucial feature of faery stories that sets them apart from other fantastical tales?

Victorias Mix

Pout-n-boots

Occasionally, it tastes and feels like poison, initially. This keeps the sheep away from the good stuff.

Sweet venom

Divinity's visitation rights

A study in velleity

Joel David Palmer turns in an awesome solo on this one.

Jangly guitar tune

Lullaloombye

Don't look back when it's your time to go!

Flying away without looking back once

i go to the desert on information my heart's desire was seen there
under the moon with the dunes whispering oasis from every direction
a rider on camelback approaches

i give the customary greeting to one on the other side of the veil
what do you look like? what do you look like
i am giving the customary reply
nothing, nothing only peace

Regatta Diabola

The wise virgins have gathered the oil for the lamp and may enter the bride chamber.

leithaus

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