Poetry

A Hymn to the UN

Music: Pablo Casals Words: W.H. Auden

Eagerly, musician.

Sweep your string,

So we may sing.

Elated, optative,

Our several voices

Interblending,

Playfully contending,

Not interfering

But co-inhering,

For all within

The cincture

of the sound,

Is holy ground

Where all are brothers,

None faceless Others,

Let mortals beware

Of words, for

With words we lie,

Can say peace

When we mean war,

Foul thought speak- fair

And promise falsely,

But song is true:

Let music for peace

Be the paradigm,

For peace means to change

At the right time,

as the World-Clock

Goes Tick- and Tock.

So may the story

Of our human city

Presently move

Like music, when

Begotten notes

New notes beget

Making the flowing

Of time a growing

Till what it could be,

At last it is,

Where even sadness

Is a form of gladness,

Where fate is freedom,

Grace and Surprise.

The Red Pope of Qatar Living

I have seen a twelve toe stripper, I have seen one breasted stripper, I have seen a brainless stripper, but never in my life a one legged stripper! Quentin tarantino-Planet Terror--

Persian:

“ بنى آدم اعضاء يک پیکرند

که در آفرينش ز يک گوهرند

چو عضوى بدرد آورد روزگارد

دگر عضوها را نماند قرار

English:

Of one Essence is the human race

thus has Creation put the base

One Limb impacted is sufficient

For all Others to feel the Mace

Arabic:

من جوهر واحد هو الجنس البشري

وهكذا فقد خلق وضع قاعدة

احد اطرافهم اثر يكفي

لجميع الآخرين يشعرون صولجان

”

—Saadi (1184–1283) Persian Poet...

This poem below which is inscribed on the entrance of United Nations' Hall of Nations.

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No man is above the law and no man below it.