tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7773830161171906159..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: PowerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57781814909267776632010-07-19T08:32:38.738-07:002010-07-19T08:32:38.738-07:00Don,
Yes, they are indeed close cousins, or to us...Don,<br /><br />Yes, they are indeed close cousins, or to use the term of Keats (To Autumn), "bosom friends".TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89700877005213502592010-07-19T04:06:51.312-07:002010-07-19T04:06:51.312-07:00Beautiful, beautiful ... the quality of dream, clo...Beautiful, beautiful ... the quality of dream, close cousin of myth, simply wafts over the reader. <br /><br />Where the Jaguar leaves you ... we have all been there, in that room, eh? Radiant light, no sound. Our arrival, our departure.<br /><br />Home.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68571842817717619942010-07-17T07:27:01.876-07:002010-07-17T07:27:01.876-07:00And hear them still through THIS morning's fog...And hear them still through THIS morning's fog -- pad, pad, pad, pad. . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83917090421624139702010-07-16T08:27:30.743-07:002010-07-16T08:27:30.743-07:00Well, that big cat DOES look sleepy... but through...Well, that big cat DOES look sleepy... but through the dense morning fog I can hear soft footfalls... pad, pad.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51671593897163036742010-07-16T07:30:40.272-07:002010-07-16T07:30:40.272-07:00Tom and Curtis,
Thanks for such thoughts (or mig...Tom and Curtis,<br /><br />Thanks for such thoughts (or might I say affirmations) arriving through thickness of this morning's fog. . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61141845269505574532010-07-15T18:53:51.586-07:002010-07-15T18:53:51.586-07:00looks like jaguar left you b/c he wanted to take a...looks like jaguar left you b/c he wanted to take a nap! hehe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-72207433875608720622010-07-15T17:38:54.277-07:002010-07-15T17:38:54.277-07:00I need this BIG kitty to purrtect me!
meeerrrrooow...I need this BIG kitty to purrtect me!<br />meeerrrrooow!Cjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579501780380982697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48048101244463962312010-07-15T16:52:32.883-07:002010-07-15T16:52:32.883-07:00When the power of the sun leaves on our own, it is...When the power of the sun leaves on our own, it is nice to think we have such a fine and mighty animal to protect us and accompany us. I was not aware of the Mayan myth either, Tom. Thank you for sharing it with us =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15698561021369658432010-07-15T10:11:42.722-07:002010-07-15T10:11:42.722-07:00Jaguar was the great power, the god who gets the p...Jaguar was the great power, the god who gets the people through the World Night.<br /><br />Panthera onca (the animal) however has lost much of its power in recent centuries as the population has declined steeply and worrisomely.<br /><br />In his night aspect the Jaguar appears <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/night-sun-black-jaguar.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />Not too much was said about that at the time but over the past year the post has proved, in some sort of inexplicable sub rosa manner, the mode and meaning of which baffle me, the most popular item in this gallery. (An esoteric big cat cult, we have sometimes speculated?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50841830167068521572010-07-15T08:48:53.765-07:002010-07-15T08:48:53.765-07:00Both these poems are very special to me and raise ...Both these poems are very special to me and raise my day to a different, higher plane. (I also wait each morning in happy expectation of learning what Steve has seen and how he's seen it and I remember it all day.) I didn't know the Mayan jaguar myth, but now I do and I couldn't agree more that each day is and should be seen and experienced as a whole new ballgame. One funny thing about raising a child (now almost a teenager) is having conversations about things like this, which I do frequently when Jane has the blahs and blases. (Sorry, no accent aigu on my keyboard.) The first thing I needed to do this morning was to drive a fair distance to be fingerprinted, which I found sort of exciting. The technology has changed completely -- no more ink! Now onto the next tasks, which will not live up to the fingerprinting, I'm afraid, but I know life's not all cake. I think Power has the power of myth and could be read and remembered that way.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-32179019171811903832010-07-15T07:55:21.068-07:002010-07-15T07:55:21.068-07:00Steve,
I wait in eager anticipation of, bask in a...Steve,<br /><br />I wait in eager anticipation of, bask in and remember the radiant light you bring every morning, fleeting gift from<br /><br />the eye, viewer who looks at<br /><br /><br />(The Mayan jaguar myth reminds us that the arrival of the light in the morning is something that should not be taken for granted, it's a new ballgame every time.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-72522930953887549662010-07-15T07:12:24.497-07:002010-07-15T07:12:24.497-07:00Tom,
Beautiful, posted here just 8 minutes ago. ...Tom,<br /><br />Beautiful, posted here just 8 minutes ago. Here sun is visible as faint white disk in the fog. Clear earlier, as it was getting light, planet up there visible for the first time in days and days (of fog). That whiteness of egret yesterday (something) like a "warm radiant white light" (in light of this). . . .<br /><br />7.15<br /><br />first grey light in sky above black plane<br />of ridge, silver of planet beside branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> in the world that took place,<br /> circumstances prevented<br /><br /> the eye, viewer who looks at,<br /> distinction compared to<br /><br />sunlight slanting across fog on ridge,<br />whiteness of egret flapping toward itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com