Bearded Art: Bearded Panda Presidents

This artist, Alexander Barrett, has imagined all forty-four presidents as pandas.
INCLUDING THE BEARDED PRESIDENTS:

More at his website.

Illuminations: Seven Prayers Frontispiece & Extant Prayer

I'll put up image files of this illuminated poetry book, Seven Prayers, over the next few weeks. The illustrations were done by myself, Liam Joseph Olaf Worland Golden, & Virtue; using colored pencils, paint & pens, & pomegranate & persimmon juice; on paper originally created by New Leaf Paper for the American Harry Potter books VI & VII. Click on the image to see it larger. The original text for "Extant Prayer" was posted here.

Babelizing Selected Verses, Part One of Infinite

This is an interesting website. "Babelize" is a process which online-translates thru many languages, eventually back to English. My friends, attempting to revivify the White East Bay Hyphy Hip-Hop Ghost Ride The Whip movement, found http://tashian.com/multibabel/ as a way to kivk the lyrics of the future.... but there are other uses for babelization. Especially at Five O'Clock A.M. with one's own poetry. Forgive me, peons!

Original Beautiful Poetry:
"What little I can do with a rusty bicycle, some reason to act all righteous."
-Lift Him Up

Babelized:
"Which oxidated the bicycle can give little to form with one, relation of safe transformation worked exactly."

Original Beautiful Poetry:
"He ascends a mountain of fine light, it’s all been done before in particles."
-Celebrity Canto

Babelized:
"The whole rose is light/write following and this part of the particle mountain, that one is good he ingualmente before the station of the work."

Original Beautiful Poetry:
"Where is the Theater of the Judges? Where on this spec is heaven’s edge?"
-Rhythm of the Bard's Dilemma

Babelized:
"Is the theater a judge of the transformation relation? Is the edge of the sky the section puts them in the effect of the transformation relation?"

Original Beautiful Poetry:
"I loved my sexual organs, but they've turned into bamboo, which has been eaten by pandaids."
-Extant Prayer

Babelized:
"Master to civil employee reproduktive of the body, but it modified itself could of pandaids in the bamboo eat."

Original Beautiful Poetry:
"Go study the natural cycles for a solution, and leave the praying to the more devout."
-Prophecy for an Antepenultimate Doom

Babelized:
"Normal bringing of the circulation for the solution is, compares reverently with the pagination."

Original Beautiful Poetry:
"But I will write a silent five act play, I will sustain by eating locally."
-Song of the Theater

Babelized:
"But I write a calm game of action five, that I support with the place that I eat."

Extant Prayer

I was fighting with him a lot, like two huge male failures,
But I'll end my analogies there.
My last pair of pants, the one with the busted fly, has been sent back to the tailor's,
And suddenly, all those trips down the grocery aisle seem truly fulfilling.
Where are the courtrooms?
Where are the judges with fabulous white hair?
I will return to earth, God Willing.

We've been imploring desperately silently to an invisible superman
For four score years.
Now we're in the fourth dimension, we've vindicated each detail of his grand plan:
Dr Samuel Johnson has confirmed that he is allergic to his son's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle band-aids.
Does the boy have to scratch up his knees so often?
Every time we have this conflict you succeed with tears.
I loved my sexual organs, but they've turned into bamboo, which has been eaten by pandaids.

My soul-mate was considerably older than me, the wet nurse of a dead dentist,
Otherwise, she was intense.
She had the jaw of an Australopithecus afarensis,
But don't mistake her for some movie star from the 1940's!
I have learned to believe in social contracts.
Where my faith ends, the railroad to the silver country begins.
My treasure, do not abuse me, & do not confuse me with Jorge Luis Borges.