The times value
Antje van der Maas
The bumblebee sinks into the thimble
It continues to suck and fly as it always does
It knows nothing of man, his struggles and aspirations
She feasts on what the day has bestowed upon her
The man plays guitar and sings his way
He opens his heart very gently and quietly
The wind always carries its song away into the distance
A stranger hears it, basks in its warmth
The old tree has already seen so much
People love, argue and ultimately leave
They strive for money, laurel wreaths and fame
And yet could rest in its shadow
Time gives away all its precious hours
So many she never found in her lifetime
The time to linger is short
How quickly a human life is forgotten
Frank Sinatra - Cycles
Frank Sinatra in the 1968 album "Cycles". Produced, arranged and composed by Don Costa.
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Thank you for having the courage to interview an authentic scientist.
ERRORS OF OUR TIME
Man sees time passing,
time sees people pass.
The greens believe that life on earth ends with CO2,
Creation knows better: without plate tectonics and thus the CO2 of volcanoes, all life ends.
Merkel, Söder, Esken & Co claim that they are fighting corona,
However, we see how they are fighting discourse and freedom of opinion and thus democracy.
Drosten and Wieler want to save the sick from the healthy,
However, the pharmaceutical industry has figured out how to make money from healthy people in the long term.
Lauterbach believes he is saving lives,
But those who know how to live life know that it dies with Lauterbach.
The press and media pretend to report the whole truth,
but the truth is known by the other half.
The whole world believes that Germany is a country of fast highways,
but the on-board computer relentlessly knows the true cut.
The wind energy industry pretends it is saving the climate,
The atmosphere knows, however, how the wind and the open landscape and thus evaporation are decreasing, so climate change is coming.
"Avenues and flowers" and gender* and with them all the errors of our time will pass,
THE POEM WILL BE REMEMBERED.
Fortunately, time heals all wounds, including those inflicted on our democracy by power-hungry ideologues and their followers. The
The fathers of our Basic Law would probably turn over in their graves in disbelief if they saw this article by the BILD editorial team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxTOK4pRS0s
You would probably find it hard to believe that 75 years would be enough to erase the lessons of the darkest chapter in our history from the minds of the politicians involved and, out of naivety, stupidity, credulity, lust for power, mass hysteria or even just self-enrichment at the feeding troughs of the pharmaceutical, climate protection and digital industries and internet commerce, to successively re-establish an unjust state on German soil in violation of the Basic Law.
It is time to remember our once exemplary Bonn Republic and to show the red card to the Berlin lack of dignity that is once again spreading throughout our nation in the upcoming federal elections.
...and now the CD player here is playing Frank Sinatra...back to the roots -...a little answer from Pablo Neruda in thanks:
Is born
"I reached the limits here,
where you don't have to say anything,
You learn everything from time and the sea,
and back came the moon,
and its lines,
and each time the darkness shattered
during a surge,
and every day on the platform of the sea
opens its wings, the fire is born
and everything stays blue like tomorrow."
(...how frighteningly hard the present time can make it...and how necessary we need the simple beauty of a bumblebee to bring us back to the essentials...)
It is beautiful and touching, indeed. But does it really help against the news from Söder, Wieler and co. It's like a good whisky - it's good for a moment, but then reality quickly sets in again.
Thank you so much for a lovely moment and for caressing my soul. Much needed these days.
For a moment I felt relieved serenity again. The poem grounds me, the song is like a carefree summer breeze by the sea. Or a glass of red wine by the fire. I'm about to read/listen to both again.
Yvonne, thank you for being here. ML.
Morning coffee, worth the time, cycles and then the floodgates opened.
I am glad that you keep drawing your silent sword.
Marina, thank you for your words of appreciation.
It's good to hear Sinatra sing - thank you!
"The question is not what we are allowed to do, but what we allow to happen to us." (Quote: Nena)
Why do we humans allow this? Because people trust, because most of them can't even imagine that they could be deceived by "their" elected representatives. Or is it all blackmail? Does fear make people compliant? Why? Why? Why?
Snapshot:
The sky was so hopefully blue today, so sky-blue
but now again and again
the roar of airplane engines in the sky
soon after, clouds upon clouds like I never saw as a child
and then masses of water immediately shoot down to the ground
and flood the old woman's small garden.
Apart from a few summer days, this has been the case since spring and throughout the summer,
It's actually summer ...
I am deeply touched. Thank you.
Wonderful and soothing! THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!
Thank you!
It touches me. There's nothing more to say.
This is a great lyrical text that should make everyone think if they haven't already done so.
What is a person worth if they are no longer allowed to be human?
Each individual can do a lot for being human.
Finally react intelligently, critically and proportionately and be self-determined.
You speak to me ... and I'm sure to many others ... from the bottom of my heart ...
How wonderful! It is so good to read these lines by Antje van der Maas and to remind yourself of what is important in life.
And to enjoy the song by Frank Sinatra