Poem #545) The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ

 The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
 Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
 Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
-- Omar Khayyam

...Bill!

--- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> KG.."is the moving hand that once writ"...... who knows this quote? and who 
> is it from?..
> merle
>   
> Merle,
> 
> >who are you KG?...
> 
> I don't know if it's a coincidence, but I just saw a Bat sign in the sky...
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2012, 7:32
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen O'Clock
>  
> 
>   
> 
> 
>  love this..merle..
> who are you KG?...pretty please tell??????
> 
> 
>   
> 
> Thirty years to go? 
> Prediction of reflection,
> Thirty years ago.
> 
> ---------------
> 
> Nirvana calls us
> No funeral bells ring out
> The future, silent
> 
>  -------------
> 
> The old tune plays on
> The record sometimes skipping
> Round and round and and
> 
> -------------
> 
> KG
> 
> 
> On 8/8/2012 9:16 PM, Joe wrote:
> 
>   
> >Kris,
> >
> >Well, I spent good money on the Jack Benny Home-Study
>               Course in Sit-Down Comedy. ;-)
> >
> >Just forget it for now, but mark your calendar (not in
>               that order).
> >
> >Bodhisattvas have their own inscrutable agenda, and beings
>               are not to scrute them. Even if they can.
> >
> >Not seeking thanks, no; predicting you will ring with
>               thanks in 30 years. Or whatever technology is foremost at
>               that time. And may the Devil take the hindmost, I guess,
>               when it comes to orphan technology.
> >
> >But I find myself practicing Morse code, here. For radio.
>               A great mode, an original mode, requiring little power,
>               and able to get through (to be read through) heavy noise,
>               QRM or QRN. Lovely sounds: I can play them on my 'cello,
>               as well as with key, paddle, or bug.
> >
> >73,
> >
> >--Joe
> >
> >PS You *bet* it takes 30 years to get established. Keep
>               going! I mean, it takes longer.
> >
> >> Kristopher Grey <kris@> wrote:
> >>
> >> The Bodhisattva seeking thanks from a sentient being?
>               You are a funny one.
> >> 
> >> On 8/5/2012 6:10 PM, Joe wrote:
> >>
> >> > I let it go at this. Thank me in 30 years.
> >
> >
>



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