Via Letters of Note: "I see no beauty in lopsided true love"Elizabeth Smart was in her 20s when she first met and fell for fellow poet George Barker; despite his already being married, by 1941 she was pregnant with the first of their four children. Smart and Barker’s unorthodox relationship was a famously rocky affair due in no small part to their ( Read more... )

Click to view

I want to kiss the world beautiful
I want to kiss the world fine
Shoulder to shoulder, cheek to cheek
That don't sound much like a crime

I want to kiss the world beautiful
I have no name for this desire
I believe in the light, but don't know what to write
With this darkness drawing near

I want to kiss the world beautiful
Lay down my life, I think I would
( Read more... )

“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my ( Read more... )

Dear Universe:

Just writing to say thank-you for the lovely that is my here-and-now.  Thanks to Dreampepper, I have a better-paying job at an office, instead of more retail/near-minimum-wage drudgery with seemingly no end in sight with an indifferent company.

Music in my life continues to blossom, encouraging me to go further.  The band has released ( Read more... )

Click to view

I am lost, in our rainbow, now our rainbow has gone ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury of Indifference,  I am in love, in love with a woman of clarity and beauty that may be elusive to some, but shiningly obvious to me, now, if not at the beginning ( Read more... )

telemetry [tɪˈlɛmɪtrɪ]
n
1. (Electronics & Computer Science / Telecommunications) the use of radio waves, telephone lines, etc., to transmit the readings of measuring instruments to a device on which the readings can be indicated or recorded See also radiotelemetry
2. (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) the measurement of linear distance using a ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

 
( Read more... )

 
( Read more... )