I love the Baby Giant Panda;
I’d welcome one to my veranda.
I never worry, wondering maybe
Whether it isn’t Giant Baby;
I leave such matters to the scientists:
The Giant Baby — and Baby Giantists.
I simply wish a julep and a
Giant Baby Giant Panda.

Ogden Nash (via sparklesdire)

some nights
the senses
make more sense
than anything else

parallaxis

asthewhitecrowflies:

you & i we run on
beautiful parallels
creating a shape they
never taught me in
geometry class

when your lines run
along the horizon like
warm July sunsets then
i veer standing tall
& stately against
rose-tipped clouds &
a hint of summer rain

when you emerge from
your quiet sleep on
the dimpled side of our
bed awake & erect i
lean down to become
your parallel lines &
complimentary shape

more than I think

asthewhitecrowflies:

I think there is more
more music more hope more reasons
to stay afloat & more than I think
I know

I see your skin peeled back
& underneath a fine layer of essence
that stays afloat & more than I think
I love you

I am I am & without you
I am vaguely making waves, treading water
& staying afloat & more than I think
I need you

karkadann: a Ghazal

with passion and fury I fly across the sands like the wind,
anger in fresh desert furrows, baring my teeth to the wind.

my skin tingles, thrilled, as I imagine his deft touch again,
but moments are not genies nor spirits; they flee like the wind.

I sweep up the dunes, hard and proud, my mane and tail streaming,
stretched out to my limits, straining towards his kisses like the wind.

never has my own kind shown me such tender ministrations,
dismissing my passion as foal’s folly, soon cleansed by the wind.

his adornments are fleeting, but my prince wields his fine sword well,
yet now I stand at the edge of the storm, defying the wind.

I am not to be called, to be caged, to be collared or chained;
try to reign me in, and I will flee like the hot desert wind.

The ABC’s of Community

Acceptance rates have gotta be sky high

Britta and Troy have got a thing now (it’s fly)

Chevy Chase is their top-billed star

Dean Pelton walks in like “I’m a sexy pirate, yarrr”

Evil Abed (darkest timeline) wears a felt goatee

Fat Neil does your bidding for a piece of candy

Gillian wears leather like it’s thrift store fodder

Heard about Jeff? He killed Pierce’s father

Ian Duncan teaches stuff, though he couldn’t say what

Jeff can’t seem to do friendship (yeah, he’s in a rut)

Ken Jeong gets naked and rubs himself down

Leonard needs to shut up, he’s such an old clown

Magnitude couldn’t finish, he was gonna say “pop”

No one saw Boobs take the pen, he couldn’t be stopped

Only sound effects were needed to play a game of D&D

Picture zombies, paintballs, anime, and you’ve got Community

Queen of Adderall, that’s Annie, now she’s wound up, uptight

Rich is Jeff’s weirdest role model, uncomfortably Mr. Right

Starburns isn’t Starburns, he’s Alex, you see

Troy and Abed in the Morning is must-see TV

Understanding all the timelines has to wait till season’s end

Vaughn’s got nipples like a baby, but a sexy rear end

Without Jeff, Shirley would still be “Big Cheddar Bennett”

Xtra footage is called “Community on the Internet”

You may not get every joke, or love every scene –

Zip your lip, watch the show, or it’s goodbye Community.

to not pretend!
that is some threshold reached
only by trust and trying.