tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post3493667830111886646..comments2023-10-28T04:53:32.505-07:00Comments on View From The Northern Wall: Squall - A Magpie Talechristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-69502768587809841722012-11-23T16:24:42.790-08:002012-11-23T16:24:42.790-08:00A good storm is an experience worth having. Nice ...A good storm is an experience worth having. Nice poem!~T~https://www.blogger.com/profile/17969562036638831748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-47928723350442014272012-11-21T03:47:05.030-08:002012-11-21T03:47:05.030-08:00I do so understand. Love how the Earth shows us i...I do so understand. Love how the Earth shows us its passions - letting us know who is really in control.<br /><br />Give me wild winds that take my breath away as I watch trees arch in its sway...<br /><br />Anna :o]hyperCRYPTICalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-60040115608464122042012-11-20T10:30:33.281-08:002012-11-20T10:30:33.281-08:00and something in me's
just pleased that you...and something in me's<br />just pleased that you'll come undone<br />in God's hairy storm.<br /><br />That is exciting and so true! ha - I love your comment about us "struggling to control acts of God"... Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-19656036959141417872012-11-20T09:39:12.331-08:002012-11-20T09:39:12.331-08:00So yesterday the Pacific Northwest experienced a w...So yesterday the Pacific Northwest experienced a weather front relatively nasty. It was pretty dark at noon... and the flags were snapping sharply in the wet gale force wind.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-73941236412453827592012-11-20T09:36:46.604-08:002012-11-20T09:36:46.604-08:00Years ago, 1975, Isabel, partner of my colleague C...Years ago, 1975, Isabel, partner of my colleague Carroll, was doing calligraphy and I requested a piece that still hangs in my house:<br /><br />We think it is calm here<br />Or that the storm is the right size.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-42957920495264261252012-11-20T09:12:41.183-08:002012-11-20T09:12:41.183-08:00Oh you are so right- the mystery of it- we certain...Oh you are so right- the mystery of it- we certainly are blessed with life and storms as well...21 Witshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00071361755673253230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-64504026461425091952012-11-20T05:56:21.750-08:002012-11-20T05:56:21.750-08:00Yup, I can relate to all this - even the possibili...Yup, I can relate to all this - even the possibility of being a storm chaser. The wild is seriously intoxicating.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-29016966147949591202012-11-20T05:49:52.658-08:002012-11-20T05:49:52.658-08:00Good on you, grand sentiments, reminds me of Lieut...Good on you, grand sentiments, reminds me of Lieutenant Dans epiphany in " forest gump" , that tale was very much a modern retelling of Odysseus, it hits me. Thanks Silent Otto https://www.blogger.com/profile/00475494332523156366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-17091224736479119982012-11-19T21:30:25.141-08:002012-11-19T21:30:25.141-08:00I love a good storm myself...
=)I love a good storm myself...<br /><br />=)Susan Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16049586085703324088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-38665805298940503982012-11-19T03:57:27.775-08:002012-11-19T03:57:27.775-08:00I love dramatic skies and weather. Nice piece.I love dramatic skies and weather. Nice piece.Sue Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15864986500627496240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-20412008930343335542012-11-18T16:18:08.154-08:002012-11-18T16:18:08.154-08:00Stormy weather always brings change and so, for go...Stormy weather always brings change and so, for good or for bad, it all comes to blows! I love the electric nature of it all... churning and dancing. Your poem congers up this imagery, Christopher. Your words crackle. Thank you for sharing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241402645242821612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-1274332979262530652012-11-18T14:05:53.048-08:002012-11-18T14:05:53.048-08:00I see the world as one big endless food chain, so ...I see the world as one big endless food chain, so I go indoors when the storm rages so as not to become stormkill. :-)Stafford Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048757515249725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-70119977217976272432012-11-18T12:32:04.867-08:002012-11-18T12:32:04.867-08:00I also love storms and the reminder that we are sm...I also love storms and the reminder that we are small in comparison to Mother Nature.Kathe W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06781645436343424010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-56975393723395889972012-11-18T12:29:55.238-08:002012-11-18T12:29:55.238-08:00Another Part of the Heath. Storm still.
Enter L...Another Part of the Heath. Storm still.<br /> <br />Enter LEAR and Fool.<br /> <i>Lear</i>. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! <br />You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout <br />Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks! 5<br />You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, <br />Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, <br />Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, <br />Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world! <br />Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once 10<br />That make ingrateful man!christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-34417101416739508482012-11-18T10:08:59.893-08:002012-11-18T10:08:59.893-08:00Oh I love the drama, too...Oh I love the drama, too...Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-33867270562113684642012-11-18T09:49:26.440-08:002012-11-18T09:49:26.440-08:00"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of st..."Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones: had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so that heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone for ever!" Berownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09524661173663604641noreply@blogger.com