found it -- 1969 prequel of Every Breath You Take

Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 4 months ago to The Gulch: General
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as previously hinted, 14 years before Sting:::

I Am Watching...

Lover, I am watching you,
for I want to know all of you:
from your smile,
but it's not your smile:
it's a silver-blue sparkle
from behind your eyes,
or two smooth curves,
rising, across your cheeks,
or the curve of your mouth,
bending up, to linear and beyond;
from your body,
but it's not your body:
it's a silver-gold-tan blur of motion,
begun by silver and tan,
by the light behind your eyes,
followed by the drifting-gold afterglow
of your hair streaming after,
or the taut lines of your arms,
converging at that point behind your eyes,
now closed and looking inward,
striving to find the source of that lifelight
of a moment of ecstasy,
and the rising and falling of your breasts,
velvet-textured in the moonlight,
moving in time with your search for the source
and slowing,
as the search ends and the source is known;
these and more, ever more,
whose sum is you,
are the beauties I know as I watch;
I see myself, smiling your smile,
from within me,
moving through the day with you,
slightly ahead, then slightly behind,
then breathing my breaths,
that you may work to breathe yours
while making mine seem impossible to find;
in these ways each of us moves into the other's life;
we learn one another as we learn ourselves,
gaining an added dimension
by reflection, each in the other,
as we live,
alone,
together,
and watching... jpm.28dec69, alone.


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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 4 months ago
    Holy S.....!
    I'm very old, but I gotta say, reading that...well, I'm going to have a conversation with the wife. After 59 years together, we still make that trip that lovers write about as above. Is it hot in here?
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    • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
      a touch so soft that it seems as though remembered ... -- j

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      • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 4 months ago
        Beautiful.
        So many lumps in my throat, you'd think I had a goiter.
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        • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
          that line is from the complement poem "consummation"
          which I will eventually find, here in the "stacks" --
          if you remember how they used to call the back
          rooms at the library....... -- j

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          • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 4 months ago
            When I was a teen, I went to the Detroit Main Library (Paradise) and went into the forbidden stacks to find books no longer on the shelves. How I discovered the "secret" passage there is the tale for another day.
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            • Posted by khalling 9 years, 4 months ago
              I love secret passages in libraries. The local college where I grew up (first college west of Mississippi) had underground passageways, ostensibly for the Underground Railroad.
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            • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
              like the secret passage I found to the back of the
              Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ in my family church --
              such a thrill to watch it work (I was about 12) while
              the organist was practicing! -- j

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              • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 4 months ago
                I've seen that too. Most people are unaware of all the action that goes on with a real pipe organ because the real pipes are usually covered by the phony ones.
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                • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
                  man -- all the clicking and hissing and whooshing
                  and air doing strange things in the pipes before
                  producing the real note ... it was majestic, for a
                  budding mech engr student !!! -- j

                  p.s. and the genuine steam calliope on the
                  Alaska Queen (we went up there in '09) was
                  a hissing whoosher too -- way out of tune,
                  most of the time! (tone varies with steam
                  quality, % of water saturation compared
                  with max possible.)

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                  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 4 months ago
                    We once took the paddle-wheeler down the Mississippi and they had a steam calliope which I had the opportunity to play. The steam poured out of the top and when the sun hit it formed rainbows. There are miracles all around us.
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                    • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
                      you got to play it! . WoW, sir -- a magician *and* a musician!
                      y'know, that's something which is a constant source of fun
                      with people -- the lead guitarist with the astrophysics PhD,
                      the economics professor who has a sideline in defrauding
                      the voters, the actor who flies helicopters to rescue hikers
                      in the mountains ... people are fascinating! -- j

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                      • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 4 months ago
                        I started out as a musician. Sold shoes to pay for school, became photographer (Hobbyist to pro) owned a camera shop, became a publisher & editor. So it goes.
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                        • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
                          eclectic! . now, you get to enjoy them all -- take a
                          nikon on the stern-wheeler, play the calliope and
                          write about it when you get home. . that's super!!! -- j

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                          • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 4 months ago
                            I was going to give you a clever retort, but damn if I can think of one after that.
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                            • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
                              well, if you sold shoes, you might enjoy this one:::
                              (please note that this is verbatim from sender)
                              =====================
                              Ralph, age 80, always wanted a pair of authentic cowboy boots so he bought a pair and wore them home. Walking proudly, he sauntered into the kitchen and said to his wife, "Notice anything different about me?"
                              Ethel, age 75, looked him over. "Nope."
                              Frustrated, Ralph stormed off into the bathroom, undressed and walked back into the kitchen completely naked except for the boots.
                              He asked Ethel a little louder this time, "Notice anything different NOW?"
                              Ethel looked up and said in her best deadpan look, "Ralph, what's different? It's hanging down today, it was hanging down yesterday and it'll be hanging down again tomorrow."
                              Furious, Ralph yelled, "AND DO YOU KNOW WHY IT'S HANGING DOWN, ETHEL?"
                              "Nope. Not a clue, Ralph," she replied.
                              "IT'S HANGING DOWN, BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING AT MY NEW BOOTS!"
                              Without missing a beat Ethel replied, "Shoulda bought a hat, Ralph. Shoulda bought a hat."
                              ======================= -- j

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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 4 months ago
    As an alien, watching the human race over the centuries, I see a vicious, bloodthirsty, species that kills, tortures, and inflicts unspeakable acts upon one another. And yet, and yet....
    Is capable of creating such beauty in all the arts. Even their buildings and vehicles strive for beauty. They are a puzzle within an enigma. They have the power to reason, they have volition, and yet billions of them prefer horror to beauty, war to peace, irrationality to reason.
    They are magnificent and malevolent. If you can read the above and not be touched, there is something missing within.
    In the words of the King of Siam, "'Tis a puzzlement."
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    • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 4 months ago
      It's called Passion. It's what drives both the muse and the warrior, the businessperson and the inventor, the artist and the musician. Without it, life would be calm, predictable, and bland... because of it, and the uncertainty it brings, life is gripping, potentially devastating, potentially awe-inspiring.

      Without it, we'd still be eating cold weeds pulled from the earth, and huddling silently by ourselves under the shelter of a rocky overcropping, looking upon each day's beauty like the sullen gray of a cold, foggy, dank day, not knowing how to be grateful for each spark that arouses that within us...
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    • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
      in music, art, architecture, well, nearly everything,
      there is beauty ... just the caress of a hand can be
      gorgeous ... and we should focus on it more! -- j

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      • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 4 months ago
        Nice.
        A look with a smile, a head on someone's shoulder, "goodnight sweetie." Is it corny and yokel-like? Probably. Just call me Rustic Rufus..
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        • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
          my first wife and I Always went to sleep, touching
          one another. second and current (17 years together)
          wife and I hold hands 'til ... -- j

          p.s. corny? nope!

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          • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 4 months ago
            The Wizard and I have been together over 40 years, and we still hold hands when we're walking and go to sleep in each others' arms.
            If someone labels true love "corny", they obviously don't know what it is - and, poor things - probably never will.
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            • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
              Winter, a friendly female shrink once asked me
              where I felt the most safe.

              my reply -- "in her arms." . she understood.

              that was almost 20 years ago. this new world
              makes it even more true. . -- j

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  • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
    p.s. all of the subordinate lines are indented
    in the original, starting with "but it's not your smile" ...
    this thing forgot my indents. -- j

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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 9 years, 4 months ago
      Some websites do that. Yahoo Answers is notorious for how it ruins examples of Python code, where (unlike most other computer languages) the indenting is syntactically significant.

      "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
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