Wednesday, February 25, 2009

bArReL-eYeD FiSh HAIKU








oH bArReL-eYeD FiSh
WiTh EyEs iNsiDe Of YoUr HeAd...
WhAt ThE hEcK hApPeNeD?

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

LoNg-HaiReD eMeRaLd HAIKU






THiRtY-eiGhT miLLiOn
MiLeS aWaY fRoM tHe EaRtH…
LoNg-HaiReD eMeRaLd!




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Green light for a close encounter: 'Jupiter-sized' comet to streak past Earth tonight

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:55 AM on 24th February 2009
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1152682/Jupiter-sized-comet-streak-past-E

We have known of its existence for only two years. But if you raise your eyes heavenwards over the next few nights, you might just catch a glimpse of the comet Lulin.

Glowing green, it will come within 38million miles of Earth, the closest it has ever been, and about the same distance away as Mars.

Lulin, photographed here by an astronomer in Arizona, was discovered by a 19-year-old student from a photo taken at Lulin Observatory-Taiwan, in 2007.


Comet Lulin is delighting amateur astronomers who are observing it using telescopes and binoculars

The spectacular comet will be visible to the naked eye over the next few nights.

Its colour comes from the gases that make up its Jupiter-sized atmosphere.

The stellar traveller is very active, shedding nearly 800 gallons of water each second on its journey around the Sun. That's enough liquid to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in less than 15 minutes.

Jets from the nucleus throw out cyanogen, a poisonous gas found in many comets, and diatomic carbon, which glow green when lit by sunlight.

It could be visible any time after dark.

Nasa said: 'Dark country skies will be required. But no one can say for sure. This appears to be Lulin's first visit to the inner solar system and its first exposure to intense sunlight. Surprises are possible.'

Andrew Read, from Leicester University, said: 'The comet is releasing a great amount of gas, which makes it an ideal target for X-ray observations.'

British astronomers from Leicester University will study the comet using the NASA Swift Satellite to find out more about its chemistry and gather clues about the origin of comets and the solar system.

Monday, February 23, 2009

THOUGHTS WHILE READING "WINE AND WATER" FROM "THE FLYING INN" BY G.K. CHESTERTON


sometimes mountains are monuments

&

sometimes clouds have their arguments;


sometimes clocks lose their minds

&

sometimes homes close their blinds;


sometimes my brittle teeth bleed

&

sometimes my old eyes can't read.


But I shall never get tired of thee.


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Wine and Water
by G.K.Chesterton

Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale,
He ate his egg with a ladle in a egg-cup big as a pail,
And the soup he took was Elephant Soup and fish he took was Whale,
But they all were small to the cellar he took when he set out to sail,
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
"I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."
The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink
As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink,
The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink,
And Noah he cocked his eye and said, "It looks like rain, I think,
The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip mine,
But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."
But Noah he sinned, and we have sinned; on tipsy feet we trod,
Till a great big black teetotaller was sent to us for a rod,
And you can't get wine at a P.S.A., or chapel, or Eisteddfod,
For the Curse of Water has come again because of the wrath of God,
And water is on the Bishop's board and the Higher Thinker's shrine,
But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.




P.S.

". . .when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech…when they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude."

G.K. Chesterton



What did Chesterton mean by P.S.A. in his poem “Wine and Water”?

I don’t know.

But after going to the 25th web site for P.S.A (out of a Google-total of 34,100,000!) , I ended my search.

If anyone knows what P.S.A means in “Wine and
Water”, let me know.

Here are a few of the P.S.A.’s that I found.

(I don’t think any of them are in Chesterton’s poem.)


Pastel Society of America
Personnel Support Activity
Public Service Announcements
Plano Sports Authority
Professional Software Associates
Peace Studies Association
Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances
Photographic Society of America
Professional Services Automation
Patient Safety Advisories
Protective Services for Adults
Prostate Specific Antigen
Panther Soccer Academy
Piedmont Soccer Alliance
Poetry Society of America
Philmont Staff Association
Puget Sound Access
Psychological Science Agenda
Pyramid Scheme Alert
Pilot Safety Announcements
Publication Services of America
Peninsula Stroke Association
Pakistan Student Association








Saturday, February 21, 2009

WaR oN tErRoR HAIKU



tHe WaR oF tErRoR
oVeR hOLeS aNd CoRnErS fLoWn
By PiLoTLeSs DrOnE

Saturday, February 14, 2009

KiNgDoM oF hEaVeN HAIKU



ThRoUgH a NeEdLe'S EyE
A pOoR cAmEL eNtErS tHe
KiNgDoM oF hEaVeN