Re: Egyptian patterns,love, poetry, tattoos and henna

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: : As usual, Catherine ... you never fail to amaze me with your collection of treasures ! Thanks for sharing that ... they are beautiful !! : Peace ... : ~Jewel~ : Translated by Ezra : Pound : : and Noel Stock : : "The shrill of the wild goose : : Unable to resist : : The temptation of my bait. : : While I, in a tangle of love, : : Unable to break free, : : Must watch the bird carry away my nets. : : And when my mother returns, loaded with birds, : : finds me empty-handed, : : What shall I say? : : That I caught no birds? : : that I myself was caught in your net?" : : : : Another: Anonymus from 1100 BCE ... translated by John Foster : : "Lo where she come to you, bright with her thousand pleasures! : : Fragrance spreads like a floodtide : : Drowning the eyes, and the head whirls." : : More: from (Ms.?) Anonymus, 1100 BCE ... translated by John Foster : : "O then, a man big with love could come anytime : : find her house welcoming, open, : : Discover the couch decked with closewoven bedclothes, : : and a lovely young lady restless among them!-" : : and yet another, translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock : : "Even when the birds rise : : Wave mass on wave mass in great flight : : I see nothing, I am blind : : Caught up as I am and carried away : : Two hearts obedient in their beating : : My life caught up with yours : : Your beauty the binding." : : Quotes from "World Poetry", Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998 : : As if it would suprise you that ladies who wrote these would have : : hennaed fingertips! : : Has Madonna, with her hennaed hands, ever done better? Where was : MTV : : in 1000 BCE?

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