Forbidden Fruit
June 3rd, 2012 § 13 Comments
Image © Klaus Enrique Gerdes
An apple wasn’t the only fruit he used
Garnished with everything edible
he could possibly find
even using sweet scented flowers
to further lure and to entice
He peeked out from behind
those black soul-less eyes
mouth hidden
but the devil couldn’t help
smiling
so aware that everything
about him was saying
‘Bite me’
~*~
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I wanted this to be deeper than just about fruit. Despite it being fruit the pic seems somehow darker than that (to me)
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Leonardo
June 3rd, 2012 § 19 Comments
Sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci
A sudden streak of lightening
burst through the open wood shutters
of his studio
its flash hit the sculpture square on
quickly followed by a loud crash of thunder.
The surprise caused the elderly man
to miss-strike with the hammer and chisel.
He saw it pierce and split his skin
and knew there would also be a bruise
come morning.
Too on edge to sculpt anymore
but the night was still yet young
his old bones groaned at the crouch
as he picked up then shook a layer of dust from
pieces of parchment which lay in a crumple
on the cold stone floor
and, without missing a beat
of wasted time
Leonardo lit more candles
and ‘neath their flickering glow
proceeded instead
to draw.
~*~
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As soon as I saw the Sunday Whirl words, I knew I wanted to find an artist but because of the word chisel, someone who also did sculpture too. Who better than Leonardo da Vinci. A remarkable genius with so very many talents. Leonardo da Vinci
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The Sunday Whirl #59 12 random words. Make a poem with them. This is a lot of fun each week. If you haven’t ever paticipated, please join in.
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Computers
June 2nd, 2012 § 24 Comments
It isn’t work at all
if you love what you do.
Apart from words
gadgets are my thing
I love taking them apart
putting them back together again
and hopefully still,
they sing.
They call the board a mother
because (I suppose) she does
all the work, knows everything
and nothing is possible
without her being in attendance.
It needs cards for this and
cards for that and cards to
make it reach out and touch
the world.
Some have been so addicted
they’ve left here close to tears
because they had to leave it behind
and would miss their Bingo or
other games they play.
Some addicted to sex
(Rolls eyes)
Hard drive so full of adult porn
no wonder it caught all the
social diseases going and hence
couldn’t perform.
Some freak at the sight of
the blue screen of death
(used to freak me out too)
Some are dead as door nails
but,
I get such a kick out of
raising them from the grave
then, seeing the big cheesy grin
on the faces as I hand them
their baby all back up and
running again.
Sometimes I’ve spent all
night long on a conundrum
trying to solve a problem
of how or what or why
and when I do
I could jump for joy at
the beating of the puzzle.
No,
it isn’t work at all
when you love what it is that you do.
~*~
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*The pictures are both Google images.
My computer knowledge is all self taught.
A few years ago, as a challenge to myself, I bought an empty computer casing, bought all the parts I needed and built my own computer from that empty box.
With nearly everyone wanting access to information on the go, soon (I think) desktop computers will be history, laptops, tablets and cell phones are taking over and I’m now getting more and more into wanting to work with laptops. I can replace hardware, hard drive, ram, DVD/CD drives and such, but, want to learn a whole lot more about their internal workings.
I find it all absolutely fascinating.
Once I had a computer belonging to a friend’s 17 y/o grandson. He’d put a dreadful porn picture as his desktop wallpaper but his comp was filled with so many different bad viruses so, I couldn’t remove the picture at all because the machine wouldn’t let me do too much with it and he didn’t want it formatted. Each time Chloe (then aged about 11) walked by, I had to cover it with the largest book I had so that she wouldn’t see the screen. After working on it for a few hours and hiding the screen dozens of times, she herself realised I was hiding it because it was porn. I finally got rid of a lot of the viruses and then was able to delete the picture.
Boys will be boys….lol His comp was always breaking down. LOL
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