h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*just back from reading more poems by KM*
Nonnie, I'm sorry about making you feel cold - how about this one?

A FINE DAY (same author)

After all the rain, the sun
Shines on hill and grassy mead;
Fly into the garden, child,
You are very glad indeed.

For the days have been so dull,
Oh, so special dark and drear,
That you told me, "Mr. Sun
Has forgotten we live here."

Dew upon the lily lawn,
Dew upon the garden beds;
Daintly from all the leaves
Pop the little primrose heads.

And the violets in the copse
With their parasols of green
Take a little peek at you;
They're the bluest you have seen.

On the lilac tree a bird
Singing first a little note,
Then a burst of happy song
Bubbles in his lifted throat.

O the sun, the comfy sun!
This the song that you must sing,
"Thank you for the birds, the flowers,
Thank you, sun, for everything."

Yes, I did.

Thank you!

'Nonnie

You have excellent tastes! I remember reading those with glee long long ago, and only now that you've recorded them here do I remember fondly. Thank you..

'Nonnie

Oh dear.. I'm sorry if I left the impression you'd made me cold! It was more the snow ouside my window that day.

Btw, you wouldn't happen to partially be reading from "A Child's Garden of Verse" would you? I had that book as a child, and read from it nearly every night. It was lovely.. Not to juvenille, yet simple pleasures galore.

'Nonnie

Nonnie, I just thought it was all that talk about snow that made you feel cold, didn't realize it was RL snow...

...and no, I haven't got any book, but found a pretty good site on the net:

http://www.emule.com

Thank you.. I've bookmarked it.

*hrms* Should I go and dig out another of my old ones or should I go for a new one... Oh.. A new one, I think...

The Circle

We have shared the soft caress
And felt unbridled tenderness.
We've rode the wind 'neath passion's fingers,
Basking in that glow that lingers...
Ever centering our souls
Upon that moment when the throws
Of our togetherness should peak,
And those emotions that we seek
Pour over us in endless bliss--
Yes, we have shared deeply in this.

We have watched the embers dim,
Just to fan them back again;
At last to sit beside fall
And listen to the nightbirds call.
While in our warm and cosy nest
We content ourselves to rest
And talk of things outside our sphere
Or of the things we each hold dear
'Til we again the stirrings feel
And in passion once again we reel.

--Anonymouse
20 November 2000

oops.. Maybe that was -too- warm?

'Nonnie

As I was polishing my Hum-vee
To prepare for the war in the East
I saw a bear with golden hair
Drinking a pint of yeast

As I was sharpening my scimitar
To prepare for the war in the South
I saw a carp with a golden harp
Fly straight from the horse's mouth

As I was loading my armalite
To prepare for the war in the North
I saw some men (and my uncle Ben)
Painting the Firth of Forth

As I was donning my armour
To prepare for the war in the West
I lost my pen, wrote the first line again,
But couldn't remember the rest.

So I stopped.

Who wrote that?

Me, all by myself.
I'm rather proud of it.

Neat...

Hi there, allow me to introduce myself.
I am Pr. C. Tonks, GalaGroup Overseer to the Multi-Galactic Governmental House of San Beta.
Nice to meet ya...

I had a poem around here somewhere...wrote it a couple of years ago, so I'll probably be embarassed if I post it here...
Ho hum...I'll post it anyway...

*goes off and has a rummage..*

The All-Seeing Mind

Of all things, one thing sees all
Not eyes, great gods or scientists
This thing's more complex than any
A diversity of everything

Minds of intelligent beings
Hold one thing many don't
Their strongest weapon of truth
Imagination

Imagination imagines
Anything perceivable
But perceivability
Hold boundaries
The mind breaks these
and in their place
Just leaves the limit of sight

The mind sees all
Fantasy, planets, th'entire Universe
Sees through all
Like water, glass, a window

What that window is
No one knows
But something mystical
From it shows

- C. Tonks '99

That's my best!
Ahem, and only...

Anyone notice the underlying meanings at the end?

Too whacked for abstract introspection today I'm afraid, but it's good stuff anyhow!
How on earth do you do those smileys with shades?

Hehe...
'B' '-' ')', without the brackets or the spaces...

If you click on the picture, it'll take you to a smiley page, where you can find out the codes for *every* smiley imaginable!

There he is!
Chirpy little fella isn't he.

Yeah...he's cool...

I actually use that instead of my usual

It's 'cus I'm wearing my molecular density analysers you see...

Really good poem, Inkwash - and Prof!

If you see someone using a smiley you'd like to learn the code for, place your cursor above it, and one of those tiny little tags will appear, with a word in it. Place that word inside < >

Example: would work, if there were a music smiley...

Even "cat"?



Hey, that's pretty smart!

Yeah, pretty good eh?

I've made a document with all the major smileys in it...it's quick and easy to print out, with just the pictures and the code to go with them...

Helps me in no end of situations...