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To: Brumar89 who wrote (41652)	9/16/2013 9:46:10 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

The really honest thing to do would be to say we don't know how life originated or what caused life to change over time And again keep making the same mistake over & over again, evolution does not address the abiogenesis or origin point of life...or the universe etc, thats an entirely different thread. This poetry by the Persian poet Hafez from 1350 is really something, am absolutely sure this started a revolution back in Europe when they brought such literature back with them from the Crusades nearly two centuries before. And you think there was no syncretism or outside cultural effects, too bad the poets didn't rule. *All the Hemispheres* Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadow and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new watermark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness And giving Upon our intimate assembly. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence Lie beside an equator In your heart. Greet Yourself In your thousand other forms As you mount the hidden tide and travel Back home. All the hemispheres in heaven Are sitting around a fire Chatting While stitching themselves together Into the Great Circle inside of You.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (41652)	9/16/2013 9:53:11 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Leaving the subject of Evo/Devo, yes indeed we see the very strong influence of another poet in Italy starting at the same time 1300's to end of century,as Hafez over in Persia Francesco Petrarca was a major, major force in shaping that pivotal time of Europe leaving the Dark Ages, "Petrarch" he was known as, stirring the hearts of almost all of europe simultaneously, welcomed in every court, most highly respected. Known as The Father of Humanism, and you thought it was all new age... wrong. I think you worship the wrong gods... Petrarch Father of Humanism Breeze, blowing that blonde curling hair, stirring it, and being softly stirred in turn, scattering that sweet gold about, then gathering it, in a lovely knot of curls again, you linger around bright eyes whose loving sting pierces me so, till I feel it and weep, and I wander searching for my treasure, like a creature that often shies and kicks: now I seem to find her, now I realise she’s far away, now I’m comforted, now despair, now longing for her, now truly seeing her. Happy air, remain here with your living rays: and you, clear running stream, why can’t I exchange my path for yours?