• TinSoldier said on Mar 09, 2008....

  I wish I could grok the gruks of Kumbel
  But that is hard as I had never heard of him
  Before this blog.
  
  moon has once again led me to water, and to drink is the most natural thing.
  
  
  Mankind
  Men, said the Devil,
  are good to their brothers:
  they don't want to mend
  their own ways, but each other's.
  -- Piet Hein
  
  
  

• moonriver said on Mar 09, 2008....

  tinsoldier -- look what you've done! my tummy's now aching because i couldn't stop laughing at this other morsel of wisdom by piet hein that you posted. because it's very true!
  
  i was browsing through a 2nd-hand bookstore when i chanced upon his 5-volume collection of "grooks" (gruk in danish) -- a word he himself coined to mean "short aphoristic poem". vol. 4 was missing, but i bought vols. 1, 2, 3 and 5 anyway.
  
  thanks for dropping by this early, my friend :-)
  
  

• TinSoldier said on Mar 09, 2008....

  Oh, I'm reading more right now and my mind is being blown. I might figure to post a few of my favorites.
  
  Thank you for introducing me. You know, I'm Danish by ancestry, right? (Well, partly since I'm a mutt).
   
  Check this: http://chat.carleton.ca/~tcstewar/grooks/grooks.html
  
  I am.
  
  Oh, and at first I looked him up on Wikipedia. What an amazing fellow.
  
  Moonriver, you find such treasures and instead of hoarding them for yourself you share them with us. Which is simply amazing.
  

• moonriver said on Mar 09, 2008....

  Almost exactly a year ago, I had posted a blog also containing a couple of Mr. Hein's witty poems. Here.
  
  Early this morning, I saw a crocus in bloom (not that there's winter snow here, it's more like perpetual spring... :-), and remembered his grook about spring crocuses.
  
  The great thing about his poems is that they are so easy to digest -- no cryptic layers of symbolic meaning that only a literary critic can deconstruct.
  
  I didn't know you were Danish... but now I know. Hotaka has Danish ancestry too. You're in excellent company. :-)
  
  
  Going now to check the links you gave...
  
  

• gingersoul said on Mar 09, 2008....

  Moon....i went to re-read the link to your old post.....still fresh as new....and i like this poet more and more...

  Tin......i am going to check your link too now....

• gingersoul said on Mar 09, 2008....

  I like this ....

  ON PROBLEMS
  
  Our choicest plans
       have fallen through,
  our airiest castles
       tumbled over,
  because of lines
       we neatly drew
  and later neatly
       stumbled over.
  

• Alyss said on Mar 09, 2008....

  Very cool moon.
  
  And ginger, that one speaks volumes doesn't it?
  
  

  CONSOLATION GROOK
  
  Losing one glove
  is certainly painful,
  but nothing 
     compared to the pain,
  of losing one,
  throwing away the other,
  and finding 
     the first one again.
  

  
  

• gingersoul said on Mar 09, 2008....

  Alyss...and i was going to post the one you chose...we know what these poems talk about ....{hug}

• TinSoldier said on Mar 09, 2008....

  I was going to post more, but the list got too long.
  
  Plus, I haven't finished reading all of them.
  
  So I wasn't going to post more until I read this one:
  
  
  THE UNTENABLE ARGUMENT
  
  My adversary's argument
  is not alone malevolent
      but ignorant to boot.
  He hasn't even got the sense
  to state his so-called evidence
      in terms I can refute.
  
  
  And on that note, good night.
  

• Me-Myself&I said on Mar 10, 2008....

  In your own handwriting....you quoted a Grook from Mr. Hein, about a year ago....
   
  Some girls i worship from afar
  to passionate to excess
  but when i meet them face to face
  I love them rather less....
   
  lol....you devil!
   
  I went and checked him out. I was impressed.
   
  Thank you as always, happy spring to you. oh....
   
  the first day of spring has a full moon too. cool! ~see ya

• silverwhisper said on Mar 10, 2008....

  i'll confess i've never until now encountered piet hein. i shall have to address this, i see. :>
  
  ed

• moonriver said on Mar 11, 2008....

  hey everyone, thanks for the comments including more samples from piet hein. and psst, i made a mistake. it was vol. 3 that was missing. i have vols. 1, 2, 4 and 5.
  
  ginger -- i knew you liked that gem about musa mews. it spoke to you as well as to me...lol.
  
  alyss -- i liked this consolation grook too. obviously, it could apply to people. but how, exactly, remains a mystery to me. sometimes i'm so dense... :-)
  
  tinny -- i like this one too. piet hein's ironic wit at its best. hey man, thanks again for the links. i thoroughly enjoyed reading his poems again, and only now do i realize that his poem collection totaled 30 volumes.
  
  memy -- hey, friend, it's only now that i realize this... march 20 is vernal equinox, march 21 is full moon as well as good friday. is that good or bad? i think it's good :-) will the werewolf make an appearance somewhere? i'll ask him... :-)
  
  ed -- i think you'll like his aphoristic style.
  
  

• moonriver said on Mar 11, 2008....

  And how about this, which tickles my mind no end:
  
  
  
  WHAT LOVE IS LIKE
  
  
  Love is like
  a pineapple,
  sweet and
  undefinable.
  
  
  
  what could be a sweeter definition than this? :-)
  
  

• busybusybusy said on Mar 12, 2008....

  like mr. ed, piet hein is news to me. how very nice to discover! thanks!
  love,
  anonymous

• moonriver said on Mar 12, 2008....

  busy girl -- i think you'll love his poems. :-)
  
  

• crybabylu said on Mar 12, 2008....

  
  Spring
   
   

  Spring
  by Lawanna Holt
  
  Spring is the most fun season
  Spring is a wonderful season.
  Spring showers are nice too.
  Spring colors are really pretty.
  Different colors make up Spring,

  Spring is nice and cool season.

• destinydiva said on Mar 13, 2008....

  I really like this and the other ones in the comments so I googled him and found loads what a wise man he is :-)
  
  heres one of my favourites
  
  

  WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
  
  Some people cower
     and wince and shrink,
  owing to fear of
     what people may think.
  There is one answer
     to worries like these:
  people may think
     what the devil they please.
  
  thanks mr river for introducing me to him...her?  :-) xx
  
  

  
  

• moonriver said on Mar 13, 2008....

  babylu -- that was a nice cheerful spring poem you posted, friend. i hope things are going well with you, despite these double-whammies falling left and right... :-)
  
  destiny -- it's a he. i'll post a few too. but later, friend, later... :-)
  
  

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