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Poems

Posted in poetry, tagged , , , on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Problem Of Comparison
1.
I had this stone in my kidney:
Even when stoned
None said ‘Look at Benny
I wish to God I had
A stone as large as his.
2.
My house sits on a goldmine
And my lawn is
fine; but still shame is mine,
See what the neighbor has:
The greenest you ever saw.
A Chameleon’s Epitaph
Here lies one
Who changed
colors
Once too often;
It was [...]

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A Point To Ponder

Posted in life, tagged , on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There is no greater misfortune than not taking a much needed lesson from a bad experience. No one is proof from life’s tragedies-bereavement, disappointments or heartaches and grief. But to go past them without having some good that is inherent in each (experience) is the real tragedy.
benny

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counterclockwise – duckweeds

Posted in art, cartoons, humor, writing, tagged , , , , , , on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Gilding The Lily

Posted in life, tagged , , , , on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Truth is so self evident that any attempt to put a handle to it merely distracts us from what is true.
benny

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A Parable

Posted in philosophy, stories, tagged , , on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Story of Three Sisters©
Misery could not bear stay at home. So went she visiting. Wherever she went she announced herself thus,” I am Misery.” She came home all the more miserable.
Her sister Joy thought she knew how to amuse herself. She sold everything she had and went visiting. She bought presents to give away. Wherever [...]

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Stories For Dudes

Posted in stories, tagged , , , , , on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A Fortune Cookie ©
A treasure-seeker went into the Arabian Desert. The night before he set out on the last leg of his journey he was in an inn where he picked a fortune cookie. Within the cookie was a strip of paper rolled neatly that read, ‘Ask kindly and do not forget to thank me [...]

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Plans Of Mice and Men

Posted in books,, history, philosophy, politics, tagged , , on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Between cause and effect there lies a slippery path where all your moral lessons must bite the dust.
‘As you sow so shall you reap.’ says the moralist and in early days when a woman was ‘fallen’ he was there to point out she was there because of her sin. Is it so? If she on [...]

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Tale of the Bull and the Ass

Posted in art, books,, history, writing on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From the Tale of Two Brothers
(Arabian Nights)
Illustration by Benny
book through: www.lulu.com/content/2146827

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Illustrated Arabian Nights-the book

Posted in art, stories, tagged , , , , , on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Tale of Two Brothers is published by bennymkje and available through www.lulu.com/content/2146827/
This story is the first in the series of Thousand and One Night and freely adapted from Sir. Richard F. Burton’s version. Benny Thomas has provided some 30 and odd illustrations in watercolour and pen and ink. Those who wish [...]

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True Grit

Posted in life, religion,, stories, tagged , , , on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The last time I Saw PIE-in-the- Skye:
Monk Anselmo one day was telling his pupils of some personages from antiquity. The story made such impact on me and I shall merely quote him from memory.
Etruscans, or some other tribe I cannot exactly remember which, before Rome became a republic had something of a reputation. It was [...]

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