Did anyone see the Harvest Moon last night?greenspun.com : LUSENET : TB2K spinoff uncensored : One Thread |
It was too cloudy here. Here's a representation for others who may have missed it as well:UNDER THE HARVEST MOON
Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.
Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in the dusk
Of the wild red leaves,
Love, with little hands,
Comes and touches you
With a thousand memories,
And asks you
Beautiful, unanswerable questions
-Carl Sandburg
-- flora (***@__._), September 14, 2000
Tristesse
-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 14, 2000.
{I hope this works}"Tristesse d'iti/ Sadness of Summer"
Le soleil, sur le sable, t lutteuse endormie,
En l'or de tes cheveux chauffe un bain langoureux
Et, consumant l'encens sur ta joue ennemie,
Il mjle avec les pleurs un breuvage amoureux.
. The sunlight on the sand, O wrestler asleep,
is heating a languorous bath in your golden hair
and, burning the incense on your enemy cheek,
it mingles an amorous potion with the tears. . De ce blanc Flamboiement l'immuable accalmie
T'a fait dire, attristie, t mes baisers peureux,
+ Nous ne serons jamais une seule momie
Sous l'antique disert et les palmiers heureux! ; .
Of this white blazing the immutable calm
(O my timid kisses!) has made you sadly wonder:
"Will we ever be one mummy under
the ancient desert and the happy palms?" .
Mais ta chevelure est une rivihre tihde,
Oy noyer sans frissons l'bme qui nous obshde
Et trouver ce Niant que tu ne connais pas. . But your thick tresses are a tepid river
to drown the soul that haunts us, without shudders,
To find this Nothingness to you unknown! Je go{terai le fard pleuri par tes paupihres,
Pour voir s'il sait donner au coeur que tu frappas
L'insensibiliti de l'azur et des pierres. .
I'll taste the rouge by your eyes overwept,
to see if it can give the heart you've whipped
the indifference of azure and of stones.
-Stiphane Mallarmi
-- flora (***@__._), September 14, 2000.
*sigh* {sorry Lars}Nifty moon sites:
-reality moon phase pictures:
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html
-pastiche:
http://search.britannica.com/search?query=harvest+moon
-- flora (***@__._), September 14, 2000.
"Harvest Moon" defined
-- CD (costavike@hotmail.com), September 14, 2000.