Haiku

Have you sampled their cuisine sur place though? And I'm not talking about restaurant offerings but what Thais eat themselves. SE Asians generally eat some of the weirdest foods on the planet IMHO. Thailand has several species of large beetles (2 inches and upwards) with wings and the flying skills of a stuffed Oliver Hardy on a late Friday night that come buzzing in whenever there's heavy rain, usually within an hour of sunset. They fly towards any source of light you may have left on, and usually keep missing it by ten yards or so, crashing heavily against walls instead, before dropping off and crawling to a corner to die. I asked my landlady about them and she pulled up one, "aaah, these, vely good in a soup, stew, mmm!" In general, they take the craziest spices you could never imagine, throw them together with a hundred forbidden chemicals and marinate the hell out of every thing that crawls, flies, swims or flollops, fry it, dry it, mai mai it and eat it with gusto. The stank alone reminds you more of a morgue than of a kitchen.

It took me several weeks of explaining before they realised that I like my fruits SWEET and ripe. "Aaaa! [staring at me in wonder] But why?" What a mystery. Why, indeed, don't I like my mangoes, durians, champadaks, dragon fruits, cherimoyas, mangosteens, rambutans, longans, litchis and so on hard, unripe, bitter and eye-wateringly sour? What a strange farang.

No, Thai tastebuds love all things sour, crazy spicy, pet pet and just plain weird. The upside is, they sold me their home-grown mangoes for a penny because they didn't think they were worth anything (only the single most divine taste experience granted unto men by gods, save perhaps a perfectly ripe Khadum Thong durian)

Originally Posted by OrchestraInside

I'm on a haiku hiatus, though you never know when something pops out. I could use a couple of Noors spurring me on, lol

The world couldn't cope with a couple of me

Shine all day,
crumbling diamonds
ancient eyes

Ancient eyes
Tell no lies
A burger,Coke and a side of fries

(sorry Frankie,I couldn't help myself)

in your arms
I miss
your arms

a bleeding Valentine's
I send
with no recipient

may it not
head
for Paphos

Originally Posted by OrchestraInside

may it not
head
for Paphos

I think I would like to request a history/general knowledge (?) lesson here

Originally Posted by Doug Denslowe

Ancient eyes
Tell no lies
A burger,Coke and a side of fries

(sorry Frankie,I couldn't help myself)

OMGoodness . . .

Originally Posted by OrchestraInside

a bleeding Valentine's
I send
with no recipient

may it not
head
for Paphos

Funny, OI! Do you fear the Greek love goddess queen?? Or her husbands?

It isn't really funny, Frankie... Though I see how it might be interpreted as such, no offence taken

Paphos is where Pygmalion lived. Since I want to love but have no one to love, I send a bleeding Valentine's but it has no recipient. I hope it will not head for Paphos = that I will not create someone in my head to love. I had the idea after watching 'Ruby Sparks' (pretty good BTW), which in turn was inspired by Pygmalion: a lonely, introverted writer creates a character he falls in love with, and the character becomes real. I create people and things in my head all the time, or rather, they create themselves unless I actively suppress my mind, and I would rather find a real love than be like Pygmalion (creating a "sculpture" I fall in love with).

In other words, I wish for love, and I hope it will be a real person, not something I make up in my head. The problem is, real people are complicated (or maybe I am ) whereas the things and people in my head are whatever I wish them to be...

Originally Posted by OrchestraInside

It isn't really funny, Frankie... Though I see how it might be interpreted as such, no offence taken

Paphos is where Pygmalion lived. Since I want to love but have no one to love, I send a bleeding Valentine's but it has no recipient. I hope it will not head for Paphos = that I will not create someone in my head to love. ...

I am so glad you did not take offense. I thought you were referring to the Greek Goddess of Love, Aphrodite! So sorry. You are right . . . your true explanation is not funny. Thank you so much for revealing yourself so openly. And for excusing my wrong presumption!

Originally Posted by Frankie Jasmine

I am so glad you did not take offense. I thought you were referring to the Greek Goddess of Love, Aphrodite! So sorry. You are right . . . your true explanation is not funny. Thank you so much for revealing yourself so openly. And for excusing my wrong presumption!

I'm actively trying to get closer to my emotions now, I've noticed I tend to write "from a distance". I would like to get closer to their rawness...

A symbolic heart
Before my eyes, did not understand
The heart was real

Do you not think
All these hearts simply
light the forum?

I should have asked way before for an avatar

Thanks, Frankie I am deeply touched. My 'heart' avatar is a cut of a deep-space photograph BTW...

Originally Posted by OrchestraInside

Thanks, Frankie I am deeply touched. My 'heart' avatar is a cut of a deep-space photograph BTW...

So I noticed, my friend. Beautiful.

yes the heart was real
just for a moment it seemed
the mind was astray

Stabat mater:
from her loins
life poured forth.

Mind astray
Eyes and ears functioned as though
Blind and deaf

Blind and deaf
living in this life
unaware

Play with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee