Sunday, September 16, 2018

Sunday 9-16-18

After posting every week for some time now, I missed posting last week. It's been some stressful weeks and I really didn't feel like writing anything even though I do have some stuff I want to post about. So again I'll save those thoughts for another post. My gf isn't doing all that well. Plus the insurance has a problem now. I hope to get it straightened out and have a better week this one around. I do want to share this little thing today. Many times I catch some interesting license plates. Trouble is I don't always remember them when I sit down to write. But this one I do. BEE EMW. Guess what make of car this one was on. 
One day at a time. I found a live video of one of my favorite bands. A 1981 concert footage of them doing their classic song based on one of my favorite poems of all time. Well I was going to post it. Seems it's been disabled to playback on other sites. Which is a weird thing since youtube this site and others are all Google. So I'll just post the link from youtube. Plus the poem it was based on. Have a great week....


 

Kubla Khan


Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
   Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
   The shadow of the dome of pleasure
   Floated midway on the waves;
   Where was heard the mingled measure
   From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

   A damsel with a dulcimer
   In a vision once I saw:
   It was an Abyssinian maid
   And on her dulcimer she played,
   Singing of Mount Abora.
   Could I revive within me
   Her symphony and song,
   To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

2 comments:

  1. UGH, don't even mention the word insurance. I got a notice a couple of months ago that Aetna will no longer cover individual policies in Florida after October 31. So I have been trying to find new health insurance and I made the mistake of trying to get a quote online and now my phone rings 500 times a day with people trying to sell me insurance. I was ignoring the calls for the most part, though I did talk to a couple of them and they sounded like scams because the premiums were way too low, so I did some checking and find out it is not real health insurance. So I just went through the Obamacare site and got some this weekend, but I don't know how to stop all these calls.

    I will go listen to the song now.

    I'm sorry to hear you are having some bad times and I am really sorry your girlfriend is not doing well.

    Hugss

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    1. Thanks Lia. Hopefully this week will be better.
      Good luck getting rid of those calls. Once they get started, well...

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