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RAJ NANDY Jun 2016
Dear Poet Friends, I hope you like this slice of Early History presented
below in simple verse. Please do read the short notes at the end, before giving your comments.  Thanks, - Raj

ARCHIMEDES : THE PIONEERING
       STREAKER OF HISTORY!

There lived in the Third Century BC, in the Sicilian
town of Syracuse, then a Greek colony,
A Greek mathematician named Archimedes.
He was tasked by King Hiero of his town,
To find the purity of gold in his crown;
Suspicious of the goldsmith having mixed
some material of inferior kind,
Which the King wanted Archimedes to find!

So, Archimedes lost in thought one day,
Entered the public bath on his way!
And as his body began to get submerged,
He happened to notice perchance,
Water spilling over from the tub!
The answer suddenly flashed across his
mind,
And he jumped up leaving everything
behind,
Wearing only his birthday suit,
Running through the street of Syracuse,
Exclaiming -  “Eureka! Eureka!”
(I have found it! I have found it!)
Perhaps to become the first known streaker  
of History!
While establishing the Principles of Buoyancy!
@ (see notes)

Archimedes, son of the astronomer Pheidias,
studied at the great Alexandrian city,
Remembered even to this day for his many
pioneering works, -
In Hydrostatics, Mechanics, and Geometry.
With his ingenious mechanical discoveries,
He held the great Roman galleys of Marcellus
at bay,
For more than three years, as Plutarch the
Roman Historian says!    + (see notes)
Later one day, while lost in deep thought,
When some intricate problem of geometry
he was trying to resolve,
Refused to hear Marcellus' bidding,
To be slain by the Roman soldiers who had
come to fetch him!
O those Romans, with lesser brains and more
brawn!

And some hundred and thirty years after
his death in 75 BC,
Cicero, then the Roman Governor of Sicily,
Found the tomb of great Archimedes, near the
Agrigentine Gate, over grown with bushes and
thorns;
Where he lay buried in the scented dust of History!
                                                   - Raj Nandy, New Delhi.

NOTES:
@ Principle of Buoyancy = any floating object displaces its own
weight of fluid. So weight displaced by a crown of pure gold and
the one already made could be compared to find the truth!
+ Archimedes designed large stone throwers, & crossbows, and
also grappling hooks using large cranes to grab Roman ships and
capsize them!
Sputnik Andrade Oct 2012
Te voy a escribir un poema, dice la voz grave, de padre severo, la que te da miedo, porque eso es lo que hago.

Porque así hiero, así deshumanizo, así  vuelvo invisible lo delineado, lo certero. Escribiendo transformo la carne y la sangre y los huesos en grafito que se borra, en caracteres que vuelan y se pierden.

Así te vuelvo a ti, todo, en nada.

Eras un gato. Eras lluvia ominosa. Fuentes sin agua, mar encerrado. Eras belleza donde nadie quería mirar. Nadie se acerca jamás a lo derruido y a lo gris a lo que huele a abandonado, extranjero.

Me gustaba llorar en tu desolación. En la tierra húmeda que estaba bajo tus pies. En las manos siempre vacías.

Eras extraordinario.

Un caballero exiliado, un detective medieval, un magnate honesto.

Eras, eras, eras.

Déjame convertirte, ahora, en algo más. Ahora que has dejado de ser, que incluso perdiste la piel, el cabello, el brillo.

Eres Siddharta, joven de nuevo camino. Eres el Buda. Renunciaste a todo [polvo, ropa usada, brillo] Te volviste nada. Un mesías. El Uno.

Poesía. ¿Tú?

Tú no eres poesía, tu no eres las copas de los árboles que se mecen [se mecen] junto con el caprichoso baile del viento. ¿Tú?

Comes y amas y vives y haces y dejas de hacer porque ya es de día y ya es de noche. ¿Tú?

Siddharta Eclipsado por la Luz. Siddharta sin voz. Sólo Om. Om. Om.

Eras el soldado sin nombre. Todos ellos, deshechos por la guerra, con lámparas de aceite en la mirada, pasos tenues.

Eras.

Eso es lo que eres. La exaltación [mía] del pasado, el vivir en los recuerdos, la nostalgia, la niñez difuminada, antes de anochecer, una sonrisa inocente. No es un vacío o un espacio sin polvo entre los libros, la marca de que un cuerpo que estuvo entre las sábanas.

Eres el pasado que murió y ya no existe. No eres, dios reencarnado.

Te volviste santo, te sentaste y te transformaste en piedra tallada, te cubriste de musgo y de olvido, solamente. Todo lo demás es demasiado humano.

Siddharta, inútil cualquier intento. Porque no puedes ganarme. Yo soy la pluma que escribe. Yo te invento, yo te insuflo vida y yo ya no quiero dártela, porque estás intentando escribir y eso no te lo puedo permitir. Eso no lo puede hacer.

Yo soy Jesús de Judea, vivo, muerto, con luz propia, crucificado, envuelto en rosas, en todas partes, los puentes, las manchas, los cuellos, las malas palabras, el ****, el día y la noche, tinta, papel de arroz, copal y oro. Todo, todos.

[

Entre dos montañas y un río,
el Buda más grande de la Tierra se sienta.
En su oreja izquierda, sin embargo,
vive una familia de golondrinas.

]

Esta es mi venganza, piedra verde, chiquillo de la nada.
Helas, helas por do vienen
La Corruja y la Carrasca,
A más no poder mujeres,
Hembros de la vida airada.
Mortales de miradura
Y ocasionadas de cara,
El andar a lo escocido,
El mirar a lo de l'Hampa.
Llevan puñazos de ayuda
Como perrazos de Irlanda,
Avantales voladores,
Chapinitos de en volandas.
Sombreros aprisionados,
Con porquerón en la falda,
Guedejitas de la tienda,
Colorcita de la plaza.
Mirándose a lo penoso,
Cercáronse a lo borrasca,
Hubo hocico retorcido,
Hubo agobiado de espaldas.
Ganaron la palmatoria
En el corral de las armas,
Y encaramando los hombros.
Avalentaron las sayas.
CORRUJA: «De las de la hoja
Soy flor y fruto,
Pues a los talegos
Tiro de puño.»
CARRASCA: «Tretas de montante
Son cuantas juego;
A diez manos tomo
Y a dos peleo.»
Luego, acedada de rostro
Y ahigadada de cara,
Un tarazón de mujer,
Una brizna de muchacha
Entró en la escuela del juego
Maripizca la Tamaña,
Por quien Ahorcaborricos
Murió de mal de garganta.
Presumida de ahorcados
Y preciada de gurapas
Por tener dos en racimo
Y tres patos en el agua,
Con valentía crecida
Y con postura bizarra
Desembrazando a los dos,
En esta manera garla:
[MARIPIZCA:] «Llamo uñas arriba
A cuantos llamo,
Y al recibo los hiero
Uñas abajo.
»Para el que me embiste
Pobre y en cueros,
Siempre es mi postura
Puerta de hierro.»
Rebosando valentía,
Entró Santurde el de Ocaña,
Zaino viene de bigotes
Y atraidorado de barba.
Un locutorio de monjas
Es guarnición de la daga,
Que en puribus trae al lado
Con más hierro que Vizcaya.
Capotico de Antemulas,
Sombrerico de la carda,
Coleto de por el vivo,
Más probado que la pava.
Entró de capa caída,
Como los valientes andan,
Azumbrada la cabeza
Y bebida la palabra:
[SANTURDE:] «Tajo no le tiro,
Menos le bebo;
Estocadas de vino
Son cuantas pego.»
Una rueda se hicieron;
¿Quién duda que de navajas?
Los codos tiraron coces,
Azogáronse las plantas;
Trastornáronse los cuerpos,
Desgoznáronse las arcas,
Los pies se volvieron locos,
Endiabláronse las plantas.
No suenan las castañetas,
Que de puro grandes, ladran,
Mientras al son se concomen,
Aunque ellos piensan que bailan.
Maripizca tornó el puesto,
Santurde tomó la espada,
Con el montante el Maestro
Dice que guarden las caras.
[MAESTRO:] «De verdadera destreza
Soy Carranza,
Pues con tocas y alfileres
Quito espadas.
»Que tengo muy buenos tajos
Es lo cierto,
Y algunos malos reveses
También tengo.
»El que quisiere triunfar,
Salga de oros,
Que el salir siempre de espadas
Es de locos.»
MAESTRO: «Siente ahora la Corruja.»
CORRUJA: «Aquesta venida vaya.»
MAESTRO: «Jueguen destreza vuarcedes.»
SANTURDE: «Somos amigos, y basta.»
MAESTRO: «No es juego limpio brazal.»
CORRUJA: «Si no es limpio que no valga.»
MAESTRO: «Siente vuarced.»
SANTURDE:                             «Que ya siento,
        Y siento pese a su alma.»
Tornáronse a dividir
En diferentes escuadras,
Y denodadas de pies,
Todas juntas se barajan.
Cuchilladas no son buenas,
Puntas sí de las joyeras.
[MAESTRO:] «Entráronme con escudos,
Cansáronme con rodelas;
Cobardía es sacar pies,
Cordura sacar moneda.
»Aguardar es de valientes
Y guardar es de discretas,
La herida de conclusión
Es la de la faltriquera.»
Cuchilladas no son buenas,
Puntas sí de las joyeras.
[MAESTRO:] «Ángulo agudo es tomar;
No tomar, ángulo bestia;
Quien viene dando a mi casa,
Se viene por línea recta.
»La universal es el dar;
Cuarto círculo, cadena;
Atajo, todo dinero;
Rodeo, toda promesa.»
Cuchilladas no son buenas,
Puntas sí de las joyeras.
[MAESTRO:] «El que quisiere aprender
La destreza verdadera,
En este poco de cuerpo
Vive quien mejor la enseña.»
Sí, yo he escrito estos Abrojos
tras largas penas y agravios,
ya con la risa en los labios,
ya con el llanto en los ojos.

Tu noble y leal corazón,
tu cariño, me alentaba
cuando entre los dos mediaba
la mesa de redacción.

Yo, haciendo versos, Manuel,
descocado, antimetódico,
en el margen de un periódico,
o en un trozo de papel.

Tú , aplaudiendo o censurando,
censurando o aplaudiendo
como crítico tremendo,
o como crítico blando.

Entonces, ambos a dos,
de mil ambiciones llenos,
con dos corazones buenos
y honrados, gracias a Dios,

hicimos dulces memorias,
trajimos gratos recuerdos,
y no nos hallamos lerdos
en ese asunto de glorias.

Y pensamos en ganarlas
paso a paso y poco a poco...
Y ya huyendo el tiempo loco
de nuestras amigas charlas,

nos confiamos los enojos,
las amarguras, los duelos,
los desengaños y anhelos...
y nacieron mis Abrojos.

Obra, sin luz ni donaire,
que al compañero constante
le dedica un fabricante
de castillos en el aire.

Obra sin luz, es verdad,
pues rebosa amarga pena;
y para toda alma buena
la pena es oscuridad.

Sin donaire, porque el chiste
no me buscó, ni yo a él;
ya tú bien sabes, Manuel,
que yo tengo el vino triste.Juntos hemos visto el mal
y en el mundano bullicio,
cómo para cada vicio,
se eleva un arco triunfal.

Vimos perlas en el lodo,
burla y baldón a destajo,
el delito por debajo
y la hipocresía en todo.

Bondad y hombría de bien,
como en el mar las espumas,
y palomas con las plumas
recortadas a cercén.

Mucho tigre carnicero,
bien enguantadas las uñas,
y muchísimas garduñas
con máscaras de cordero.

La poesía con anemia,
con tisis el ideal,
bajo la capa el puñal
y en la boca la blasfemia.

La envidia que desenrosca
su cuerpo y muerde con maña;
y en la tela de la araña
a cada paso la mosca...

¿Eres artista? Te afeo.
¿Vales algo? Te critico.
Te aborrezco si eres rico,
y si pobre, te apedreo.

Y de la honra haciendo el robo
e hiriendo cuanto se ve,
sale cierto lo de que
el hombre del hombre es lobo.No predico, no interrogo.
De un sermón ¡qué se diría!
Esto no es una homilía,
sino amargo desahogo.

Si hay versos de amores, son
las flores de un amor muerto
que brindo al cadáver yerto
de mi primera pasión.

Si entre esos íntimos versos
hay versos envenenados,
lean los hombres honrados
que son para los perversos.

Y tú, mi buen compañero,
toma el libro; que en verdad
de poeta y caballero,
con mis Abrojos no hiero
las manos de la amistad.
Me he quedado sin pulso y sin aliento
separado de ti. Cuando respiro,
el aire se me vuelve en un suspiro
y en polvo el corazón de desaliento.
No es que sienta tu ausencia el sentimiento.
Es que la siente el cuerpo. No te miro.
No te puedo tocar por más que estiro
los brazos como un ciego contra el viento.
Todo estaba detrás de tu figura.
Ausente tú, detrás todo de nada,
borroso yermo en el que desespero.
Ya no tiene paisaje mi amargura.
Prendida de tu ausencia mi mirada,
contra todo me doy, ciego me hiero.
Johnny Noiπ Jan 2019
To prove this,       many examples of the lecture rules
depend on the age of the accountant's Area in Greek;
ਸਕমিટ, સેલકમસ, to make sure that Archimedes enters
the large number of global areas.       And you should know that the Latin,
                                                        whose length is approximately 8 pages,
is the work of Archimedes Circle of Syracuse;
Arena rays direction.       Galen, Hiro, Siracus,
who is a son's son, is an annotation, 2. 2.
Is it easy to access Archimedes' works?
In one sense, the first research paper
shows what Gogol is. Mathematical science
has special significance, but it can be very
particle of chess games in large numbers
in some cases because it is also useful for much.
Highly highlighted what the difference
between the fact that Cancer "is, and it is used
as the end of many people and the department,
but it is also used to teach mathematics.
It is less than the mass of 30 times the electron.
It can be compared to the mass of others,
near 1.060 is 1.060 kg.                                        This ratio is about ten billion
to about 1090 cosmos Arkmidis; Google
is Googol Googol in the world, 1080.
In Eddington Number of 0,000000%,
and New in the room. The increase of theons
refers to around 1,0128.                      After going to be the anti-Archimedes,
he continues to count the number of sand 2.
Prkashwarsiy parallel universe diameter,
grain grains 1063. If it is a Filled with sand
of the day, it will be equal to 1,095 tablets.
Increase the scope of the universe, that future
of B should be low in Gogol. Soslmait Psalmith
Archimedes the size of the sample Size of grain
over the sand in the world Find out According
to the number of starts to work. In this invention,
as you say, many modern forms of parents
should not be known.  The group that has the Latin
Archimedes that I need to know, such as Areneriys 8.
King's Website Length 8. Arkiyomidij's second son
Gallo 2, which is easily accessible to explain
Was sent for. In one sense, the search work
was the first Gogol. It is especially important
in mathematics. However, these chess games
are useful for the amount of particles
that can be seen in the games. Kanser is using it
to highlight the difference between the general
and unique, and the target is sometimes
used to teach mathematics. How important
is it to understand that the total mass
of electron is less than 10 to 30 kilograms.
About the mass of the visible world, between
1,050 and 1,060 it is approximately 1.090
to 1080 billion and ten billion euros.                             0.00000001% Googol
of Nutron has shown number to Gogol Charles,
which has been completed at Eddington, 1080
and that is the whole man. About 1.0128
will note that the calculations of Archimedes
have not been calculated parallel to the sand.
The unique rights of the Armamade's position
and co-workers go after every 2 years.            Diameter is 1,063 rays of sand,
the most obvious is that the current universe
is full of sand, it is considered 1,095.
Something else of 100,000 is a black hole
that is full of Gogul sand, which is sometimes
seen as the complete mass of the Sun
in the galaxy around 0l00-1011 years,                 the beam of solar radiation L. In the future Gogol cannot be extended into these things.          The Sand
                                                         Reckoner; Greek: Ψαμμίτης, Psammites
is a work by Archimedes in which he set out
to determine an upper bound for the number
of grains of sand that fit into the Universe.
In order to do this, he had to estimate the size
of the universe according to the contemporary
model, and invent a way to talk about extremely large numbers.
The work, also known in Latin as Archimedis
Syracusani Arenarius & Dimensio Circuli,
which is about 8 pages long in translation,
is addressed to the Syracusan king Gelo II,
son of Hiero II), and is probably the most
accessible work of Archimedes; in some sense,
it is the first research-expository paper.
A googol has no special significance
in mathematics. However, it is useful
when comparing with other very large
quantities such as the number of subatomic
particles in the visible universe or the number
of hypothetical possibilities in a chess game.
Kasner used it to illustrate the difference
between an unimaginably large number
and infinity, and in this role it is sometimes
used in teaching mathematics.
To give a sense of how big a googol really is,
the mass of an electron, just under 10−30 kg,
can be compared to the mass of the visible universe,
estimated at between 1050 and 1060 kg.
It is a ratio in the order of about 1080 to 1090,
or only about one ten-billionth of a googol;
0.00000001% of a googol. Carl Sagan
pointed out that the total number of elementary
particles in the universe is around 1080,
the Eddington number, and that if the whole
universe were packed with neutrons
so that there would be no empty space
anywhere, there would be around 10128.
He also noted the similarity of the second
calculation to that of Archimedes
in The Sand Reckoner. By Archimedes's
calculation, the universe of Aristarchus
roughly 2 light years in diameter fully
packed with sand, would contain 1063 grains.
If the much larger observable universe of today
were filled with sand, it would still only equal
1095 grains. Another 100,000 observable
universes filled with sand would be necessary
to make a googol. The decay time for a super
massive black hole of roughly 1 galaxy-mass;
1011 solar masses) due to Hawking radiation
is on the order of 10100 years. Therefore,
the heat death of an expanding universe
is lower-bounded to occur a googol years
in the future. Examples of courses of instruction
are this: Dependent on the mathematician
Arnold (Greek ਸ kt মি ট, સેલકમKS) to enter
the enclosed world. And Latin, a length of 8 pages,
was called the Artists Club, Syacacuse
Arenener Giorgis. Gilemma, Heiro, Citrix,
is the note of his son, 2 2. Is it easy to find work?
On the one hand,     the first study report shows
what a Googol is. Mathematical science
has special significance, but in some cases
it is important for many and may involve
a large number of chess games. The difference
between the fact of life in Carnival and the end,
as well as the end user's, but it is also used
to teach mathematics, less than 30 times
less electron. Compared to other than 1.060 kg,
it is 10 billion to 1090 acres. Google is 1080
in Googol. In Eddington 0.000000% and in the new
section of the ton increase to approximately 1.0128
after the antimicrobial following the sand count.
Prkashwarsy parallel parallel diametre grain,
grain 1063. Beginning with "Gojam" ("B"),
"Sample", the size of the contrast begins
to begin with "the grain size of the world's sand."
Here, like your Many modern-day parents
cannot be identified as the group of Latin
Archery teams, the group's team, 8. The length
of the king's web site 8. Athosimi's
second-year son, Gallo 2, was easy to explain:
the search work was the first gig, especially
in mathematics. But these chess games
are beneficial to the particles that can be seen
in games; It is used to emphasize the difference
between total and different, and it is sometimes
used to teach mathematics. It is important to note
that the total balance of electrons is less than 10 to 30 kilograms,
ranging from 1,050 to 1,060, from 1.090
to 1080 billion and Tons of EURO, 10 billion
0.000000001% Gogol of Nutrons has shown
to Google's publicity number, which is completed
by Eddington 1080.  This is a total of 1,0128 notes.
The figures of the stories do not seem to be sandy
Armamade's status and the privileges of colleagues
continue every two years Diameter 1,063 Moon.
The most obvious is that the sand is 1.095
and the other 100,000 is a black sandy white
sandstone, sometimes with a full spectrum
of radiation at the time of the year 0100011,
the sun's radiation excitation.                                                  As in the future,
Gog Cannot exist.                                                           ­                       Things.
Ken Pepiton Jan 2019
See the reasons warring

who fools fools for money then makes the king pay

that one m'y be the culprit

whence came the king thing?
I mean it did not pop full formed
into mito mom one

fining
day as a re of sun set its eye on a
particular nail hole
in the tin roof corrugated

good word, rug ated, like walked on, y'llthank?

a collective loss of soul
noticed by the few

mad men who felt some call to lie'n when
facts,
camera obscura facts, proved they saw
I saw
light bent
through a nail hole
brought the sunset to my wall

or all of it that mattered,
the part I saw...

face? No,
yeah, I could see that,
If I could see what you say you suppose

supports your pre-sense presence if it ivity
whither Grammarelyearly versions

howled as I claimed the idle words holding true

riches from the stone re
jected jeckled and hidden, lapis,

was there a gem with in and a gen with out?
Ah, he sang that line

Ragpicker evolved to Recycling Frontliner Earth day Youtube stars
what a job. Save the world...

stumbled and
lost the thread

fracture  ice cracked ice mud shrunk in from
hidden  edges where the weakest

or most open

imagine you are with me in the mud

bubbling old ideas settle peace

fully here fully there, the ever over
flowing where
we met.

?¿ yen yanker ****** ain't it?¿

hiero-glyphic ifs effeing ity ness. per se.
mud shrunk in from
hidden n-degree edges where the weakest

or most open bonds are loosed on earth as they are
ever
let go let be let

until he be taken, obscureference,
Bubble Bible fact' never acted as if I knew

he who letteth shall let until he be taken out of the way.

may be today. lest we forget

imagine you are with me in the mud
I find I am enter tained in ways no hermit ever imagined. Good days are to be commended for having been, I pose or posited.
MetaVerse Mar 10
There was a Young Lady who tweezed
The hair from her nose as she sneezed;
She then plucked her eyebrows from lowbrows to highbrows,
That plucky Young Lady who tweezed.

There was an Old Person of Cairo,
Whose exploits were carved into hiero-
glyphics on stones where a pharaoh's wrapped bones
Are preserved in a chamber in Cairo.

There was an Old Man of Kampala;
He prayed in the morning to Allah,
And in the bright light of the day, and at night,
That observant Old Man of Kampala.

There was an Old Man of Burundi,
Who prayed to the Salvator Mundi
Who met him upstairs and who answered his prayers
And who sainted that Man of Burundi.

There was an Old Man of Djibouti,
Whose substance was frothy and fruity;
A regular dandy with pickles and candy,
He dandled the Dongs of Djibouti.

There was an Old Man of Manilla,
Whose favoritest bean was vanilla;
He climbed up a tree and befriended a bee,
That beneficent Man of Manilla.

There was an Old Man of Beijing,
Who'd study all day the I Ching;
He balanced his qi with white rice and green tea,
That mystical Man of Beijing.

There was an Old Lady of Donegal,
A sister named Mary McGonegal;
She ruled with a ruler every pre-to-high-schooler,
That punishing Lady of Donegal.

There was a New Baby, whose nose
Was loving the smell of a rose
When it noticed the riper brown smell of a diaper,
Which offended that New Baby's nose.

There was an Old Man of Hong Kong,
Whose nose had a luminous ****;
It lighted his way by night and by day,
That lucky Old Man of Hong Kong.

— The End —