Imagination is more important than knowledge

ziggyzest — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 21:39:01 GMT

These Days

& these days
I stumble through crowded rooms
someone’s devil’s advocate
forever winning cases
healed heart wounds
butterfly fingers
concerto of words
mind a jellyfish
occasionally released
& has he forgotten
how we rode
through the whale cage
of the country
& why don’t we live apart
anymore
growing ever familiar
& you wonder
if he’s in bad company
if the cards
show him the joker
or the king of spades
& if birds land
on his windowsill
to curse the eve

Tristan & Iseult

a weathered cormorant
how does me pass my days
somewhere on a mountain top
or on a plaza or by an ocean
what kind of things move me
a dry stone wall a lantern
first daffodils a postage stamp
from them a spring wassail
we pass each other like shadows
& strangers do not speak
sat on benches side by side
& all our yesterdays
played out at the Minac

Copyright © Peter Antony Hewitt 2017

Enjoy...

ziggyzest — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:27:46 GMT

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ziggyzest — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:54:02 GMT

'Wall-E' is just such an unbelievably beautiful and cute movie.
I'd forgotten how much i love, love animation. The idea that all humans left earth 700 hundred years ago because it all got swallowed by trash and that the atmosphere became toxic
is ofcourse no longer some apocalyptic vision either.But the movie makes me want to go and watch ' Hello, Dolly', which I've not yet seen and which has Michael Crawford in... enter the 'Phantom'!!
But Starbucks coffee should be sued. So little coffee for so much money??? A small costs three pounds ten round the corner from where i live.

laziness is..

ziggyzest — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:49:40 GMT

1)reading a book on quirkology

2)trying to believe the new stupid scientific view that apparently yawning is the body's attempt to keep you awake.. ( cold air, entering warmed up inside..whatever...)

3) the signifigance of semi-autumnal rain

4) wondering if earths really not so unique as we make out and thinking that hey, although life is just a fluke arising out of its precise lucky position in te5rms of its proximity/distance from the sun, following that article you read in the latest economist about some astronomer who claimed that life on mars was actually ending 3 billion years ago just as ours had just begun 1 and a half billion years before that... ( he said that what is so well known now : yes, mars had probably had oceans, yes had probably had rivers, yes thered been odd bacteria living on there and brought up the whole phenomeno of meteorite, bacteria-ripe rock found in extreme conditions on earth, i.e artic that could have cvome from mars) youve had this idea that maybe, following the big bang and with the idea of the expanding universe, ofcourse planets took time to come into their precise positions as we know them and hey, maybe once mars was where earth was and had intelligent life, and earth is moving towards a mars state anyway.. ( with us humans speeding it up).

all this comes with thinking that the live earth concert the other day across the globe was just a joke... think of all the pollution produced by setting up all those stages, transporting all those artists..

5) listening to bad, bad music in dussmans,thinking that "alternative" is soetimes just complete and utter trash in the right hands of some incompetent fool who just goes out and thinks ' hey ill write some rubbish, ill call it alternative, ill make money, the actual artistic quality doesnt matter'but not going to get a better cd.

6) not bothering to figure out the meaning of salvador dali's pictures at the new exhibition at kudamm..

7) not complaining about bad coffee

8) not bothering to undress and put pyjamas on on going to bed

9) eating breakfast cereal with a fork because the washing up can be done later

10) making up ditties about rubbish bins and all their strange contents.

11) writing letters to friends in pictograms.

12) counting pigeons as you cant be bothered to look around for crows.

13) thinking up stupid names.'florelia', for example.

14) not bothering to set up a proper holder, using the music rest on the piano at home to prop up canvases and getting red oil paint onto the cover.

15) using the only two remaining figers of a hand loaded with groceries ( the other hand being free) to fumble with the door lock.

Transcendence: so it's official.

ziggyzest — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:26:37 GMT

The keys are in the hand.

Goodbye old life, hello new.

Goodbye to something one thought would last.

In the words of Eva Cassidy, though : "I guess it doesn't matter anymore"

Why should it? I'm still a Berliner at heart, after all.

Subscription to "Ex Berliner" signed.

Read a future-me ad : " Teacher seeking a one-to-two bedroom flat in Prenzlauerberg. Costs preferred : 350 euros per month."

I think that person is a bit of a dreamer.

Time to get back to reading Peter Ackroyd's "Albion : the history of English imagination", i think.....

Maybe this adds a new meaning to the phrase "Im gone, simply gone"............
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Uni Chaos.

ziggyzest — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:44:06 GMT

Last minute change in plans, everything etc...
One tip? Think of the postgrads first, degree second.
BUT. Have qualified for loan.
In short : happy.
Also have found out a good way to spend a year teaching in Europe post degree..
*lovesbritishcouncil*
Saw a movie at the local arts centre day before yest.. typical french quirky... Paris, the seine.. some person wanting to go throwing themselves off a bridge..some angel in the guise of a six-foot hooker comes down and helps him out. Effing hilarious,black and white..

film noir, comedy,...eh.. thats the life.

Today is nice..

ziggyzest — Fri, 12 May 2006 13:06:45 GMT

coz Im busy cherishing life.

its nothing much..
but..
its a nice feeling.

the user pic needs changing.. something summery..pineapples???

ziggyzest — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:43:36 GMT

whats the point?

life..

ziggyzest — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:36:55 GMT

feels rather charmed..
when youve been told..
that you dont have to hand in your french coursework till
monday...

and that actually-- youve been getting it all wrong,all this time..
it doesnt have to be 2,000 words..
it has to be 700...

meaning youre actually 1,000 words over currently..
and have to cut it all down instead of wondering of your conclusion will reach the necessary number..

eh.

after all that excitement..
i really,really needsome food..

ziggyzest — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:57:46 GMT

:cries:

ziggyzest — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:09:02 GMT

HOLY MACKERELL!!

I really do confuse myself sometimes..

argh.. go away moon, go away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its all your fault that i act this way!!

argh.. how terribly Rachel from " Friends"----

and no ..
i will NOT elaborate on that...

ziggyzest — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:27:24 GMT

ah... verrücktes Tag....

bin mit Nechama im ihren Zimmer..

glaube dass sie möchte jetz schlafen..

also.. muss ich gehn..

es ist seltsam...
shr seltsam...

strongbow cider im berlin zu trinken.

ziggyzest — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:12:43 GMT

that and the f** bus fares are going to go up by a whole 22% as of the 11th.

from a 3 quid dayrider up to a 3.60 something one, then.

i feel pity for my shoes.

I have a feeling theyll start feeling rather run-down and worn-out pretty soon.

Flight 51, the heavy metal band i saw yest at this place was dire.

So yeah.
The world is full of song and laughter.

just dont ket me have any knives in my hand just yet.

I wouldnt want to spend the rest of my life in prison.
there are an awful lot of people id like to kill at the moment......

i wouldnt reccomend getting on my bad list either.
but Freud explains everything sometimes...

sure.
im on my own.

but does that mean im worthless?

*shouts*

Thought. You may never have thought about this but...

ziggyzest — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:59:43 GMT

Its scary..
when you get the first bouts of self-confidence again after years..
or maybe for the first time in your life.

As soon has the itch starts you just take it between your palms carefully, feeling its fragility, its airiness, sooth it like a small bird thats fluttering there
and then let it go, push it away as soon as youve found it again because its just something so confusing,. just so utterly strange and new and wonderful.
and watch it soaring away into the sky, smiling that just once you managed to hold it, there,
in your very own hands..

Im having a rather strange day today.

Thats all.

im more of a person that i thought i was.

Translusence.

ziggyzest — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:13:07 GMT

Witches of Eastwick at the theatre - very fun
babysitting - very fun
weather - bloody freezing this morning
work - pretty okay
study - starting to feel the coursework pressure
social life - bleh.
plans - too many practical neccessities to be carried out somehow
easyjetflights - impossible, it seems to book at the moment.
Francis Ford Coppolla's "Dracula" - sexiest, lushest, most spookiest movie ever

general feeling?
a bit mixed, kinda....

to say the least....
to say the very, very, very least..

ziggyzest — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:59:10 GMT

why do i even bother.

ziggyzest — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:38:19 GMT

life

ziggyzest — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:10:45 GMT

oh well, at least that poem's sent off now.

we have an interesting new lodger.

The sky is grey

english lesson.

my room looks odd now the landlady has moved stuff around.

thers a good play on at the OLd vic, it seems this weekend.
Im going.

never drink baileys on a bumpy plane..

not a good idea.

#grins#

ziggyzest — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:57:59 GMT

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Choose a circle to host your party at.
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Spiked the punch.	zassmy
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Challenged the devil and won a fiddle made of gold for their efforts.	eavanmoore
Got their arm bit off by Cerberus. Ouch.	aasaf
Is playin' Texas Hold'Em with some demons.	blood_stnd_lace
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hellos and bows..

ziggyzest — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:50:47 GMT

Hmm.. ive really missed this site..
Life is still a bit complicated
But im having a fun time being back amongst narrow streets, choking traffic, saying "thankyou"'s to bus drivers, heavenly sandwiches at last, local accents, 50 p priced books in the ORIGINAL LANGUAGE (!! X)), faces from what seems a long-gone past, general local eccentricities and well... some far,FAR too-good-looking guys ive managed to meet over the past few days going to various gatherings with Heidi..(its soooo bad...id forgotten how cool british guys can be!! help!)
so in short - ARGH!!
Life is blimmin whacked.

and college is getting sorted slowly too..

but i miss berlin..
potzdamer platz....unter den linden, kudamm and hugendubles,kreuzberg...
my home area...

but argh,
its still fun here.for now.

Perfection

ziggyzest — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:57:28 GMT

Perfect, perfect evening
Perfect, perfect night.

Damnit.
I cant really leave this city.

I love it too much.
I just love it way too much..

Damnit.
How can you love a place so much?

Stanzas

ziggyzest — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:05:42 GMT

Today i realised that im finally becoming one of those awful people who thinks all they need in this world is a good computer to keep everything on - thoughts, memories, creativity, books, etc.
I know its just this time we´re living in, but its worrysome.
Even though it seems to make life easy.

Its strange how dark colours affect me.
I put on my black coat and it depends - some days its fine, other days you just want to run to light,
bright colours.
Like i actually want to do today, but its ok my lilac t-shirt is acting as a protective shield to things at the moment.

Oh gimme lilac forever, give me lavender, gimme a sunlit woodland, fresh air on a summer´s day, the smell of freshly mown grass, musky rain and a wide, wide sky and far horizon..

An Edward Hopper, i think.#peersclosely#

ziggyzest — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:04:24 GMT

In many ways id say the week has been ok. From taking Kirsten to see the mongolian film "The hole of the yellow dog" at the cinema Paris on the tues ( after REAL difficulty of choosing which film to go to.."the hole" ended up being a good choice though, since K likes artistic movies but doesnt have much chance to see them since her friends are more into the whole blockbuster scene - my, doesnt that sound familiar! I had the same problem when i was 13/14 - totally..) then hanging out with Nechama the past few days,( thankyou again for everything!) first going to see "Die Insel" on the thurs with her and)some friends of hers, then the next two nights hanging around at her place, the first night till 2am, when after a delicious dinner prepared by her(insp ite of a few problems with the wine..#ahem# well.. what can i say - im an amateur when it comes to wines...) we ended up going to mcdonalds at those odd hours to see if her laptop would work from there and then steaying on-line for an hour or so, me l istening partly to the music on the players they have availleable there - and the radio aswell..
(really wierd hearing BBC world from a Mc Donalds stelle, though..just a bizarre experience, really) and then yest doing the same thing mostly, going to M cDonalds, going to her place,
sitting around eating and chatting, and then saying Tchüss, me going off home, her going off to meet Sam.
Again one of those times today when you wake up and and realise that woah - youve hardly been at home iproperly (i.e i n the awake state) for the past three days..
im going to miss that.

cant write about the rest of life anymore.

inspite of doing all of the above its just been difficult to go out and do just these simplest things.
I think it could be something people c all a natural state of depression.

ten days and then "dealing with reality 2 - the full horror" starts playing in this home cinema, due to certain arrivals of certain people from certain places.
No idea whats going to happen then. With anything.

Edit4minslater//
ok.. i thought this was accurate mood-wise ..

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spiffing, just marvellous..

ziggyzest — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:11:50 GMT

" what would
you do
if the
rain
fell up?

Who me?
Yeah..

Id have to get used
to living
on a cloud,
I guess. "

Richard Brautigan

Perfect end to a rainy day.
maaaaann i LOVE this guy´s works!
hugendubles rocks..

" Lazing on a sunny afternoon!"

ziggyzest — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:04:27 GMT

Finished watching "Dawsons Creek" already a while ago now -. but still cant get out of the mood - how is it that i havent grown-out of that series?
What is it about it that holds one so and gets one involved from the second the music for it starts abnd gets you singing along, impatient for the drama to begin?
I dont know.
It just seem to be the perfect growing-up, psychological angst - entertainement.

So what if Joey is an annoying whine, Pacey a cynical bore and if youve secretely always thought that Dawson was really quite an idiot?
And Jack´s angst about being gay maybe goes a little to far ( even for the real angst that such people must go through) and that Jen really is a selfish, spoilt brat?And that the dialogue between the characters throughout isnt one anyone would ever seriously really lead in real life ?
Something is addictive about the programme, in spite of its so-called " faults" - something about it speaks to you - maybe the very fact that its so "unrealistic" makes it real - i dont know.
But there is something so very human about it -
because in the character´s faults, (all crammed-in over-the-top to make the drama, i think)-you do see yourself
and in their good points - you see humanity.
And hey who hasnt once thought of living in those huge houses by the river, anyway and of going down to that one spot to sit down with Dawson and just lead long, "deep" conversations about the meaning and details of the " self" and so on?

Geeze!.. There i have to just throw my hands up in the air in submission and say " guilty as charged" - i cant help it!

The fact that those characters cant seem to solve anything for themselves or between themselves just shows how humans really are..

And somehow you cant help bit envy those characers and want to actually be there - be one of them - which is crazy.
Inspite of all the angst and messes - theyre somehow just perfect and there are true bonds between the people. I dont get it.
The mysterious ways of the tv-world...

" "Friends " with less humour and coziness and a bit more of a " bite." "
thats the way id describe this programme.

I love and hate it at the same time.

And half-the time when im watching an episode im always telling myself " really, you should know better, you know"
but still .- its the only thing on tv which speaks to the cynic i have in me.The bitter-side we all have - and that bitterness is there in every line of that programme.

Its a testament of survival. a sort of " just getting away with your skin emotionally-wise" image of this world - which is actually very true, if you look closer. Which you cant help but get involved in, even if it is rubbish in everyway.

Anyways. i just thought id write those above lines.
Just as a form of acknowledgement, i guess.

If there are avid fans of the programme here and ive
" ruffled some feathers" by writing so negatively about the negative parts - im sorry.
But funnily enough, as i said - the very things that make the programme irrittating as hell - also make it seriously watcheable.

And that ought to be honoured.

#hums# " I dont wanna wait"

yep.. the spell is still as strong as it was back at the beggining...