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Inaugral non-fic archival post

  • Apr. 20th, 2009 at 2:51 PM
sloth: real bird perched on a no birds allowed sign ((ex)bird)
Given it is the month for poems, I figured I would start off with one of those; in this case, Rolf Jacobsen's Some People, translated by Robert Bly.


Some people
ascend out of our life, some people
enter our life,
uninvited and sit down,
some people
calmly walk by, some people 
give you a rose, 
or buy you a new car, 
some people
stand so close to you, some people
you've entirely forgotten,
some people, some people
are actually you,
some people 
you've never seen at all, some people
eat asparagus, some people
are chlidren, 
some people climb on the roof, 
sit down at table
lie around in hammocks, take walks with their red umbrella,
some people look at you,
some people have never noticed you at all, some people
want to take your hand, some people
die during the night, 
some people are other people, some people are you, some people
don't exist
some people do.


In other news, new Chuck tonight! \o/ 

I've got to say, show does a really good shop of taking ideas that make me cringe at in theory, grin at in practice. 

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arboretum: (Default)
[personal profile] arboretum wrote:
Apr. 20th, 2009 08:19 pm (UTC)


oh, no, not at all, am happy to meet new people, etc etc., I was only worried that you were someone I knew and I had somehow assholeishly missed your new!dreamwidth!username! post or something XDDD

petra is lovely name, btw!

I am val, or sometimes eddy, the spelling varies depending on who you talk to, and I really don't have a preference either way XDD
sloth: a rainbow and a shadow rainbow  (Default)
[personal profile] sloth wrote:
Apr. 20th, 2009 09:24 pm (UTC)
XD

Thanks for not being freaked out by my admittedly stalkerish tendencies ^_^

I haven't always been fond of the name Petra, but it's grown on me as I've grown into it. I like that you have two names you answer to. I tend to fracture myself in terms of what name I go by in what context; 'Petra' is my fannish/academic name, while my middle name is the one everyone from childhood calls me, and my family (both immediate and extended) have another name for me entirely.

/ramble