I saw a humming bird about an hour ago.  He or she was hovering next to my pink begonias.  I believe I saw the same little bird looking through my sliding glass windows a few weeks ago.  What remarkable birds.  I keep thinking - I'll get a little feeder for him or her - the kind filled with sugar water.  But I haven't.  I'll need to research the whole issue.  I believe it is considered a good thing.  I've read about it, yet I'm not sure if it is a good thing - sugar is supposed to be bad - for pretty much all forms of life - but if you look at ants and humming birds - they both seem to love it - a lot.  So that's what I was thinking about for a small little portion of my day today.  Happiness and Peace everyone. 

July 29th, 2016 - seems like quite awhile since I last posted - and even longer since I posted regularly. 

My life has changed a great deal since I was a regular 'blogger'.

I pretty much stick with Facebook - a self contained rapidly aging portion of the Internet. 

Facebook is safer and certainly bland in many ways compared to public blog posting.

So now what?

Why post?

Motive?

I'll have to think of one.

Here - watch this Coldplay Video - Adventure of a Lifetime



 https://youtu.be/QtXby3twMmI


And have a wonderful life everyone

Thoughts about public posting

It has been nearly five years to the day that I stopped posting to this blog

It is amazing what changes have taken place in my life over those five years

It isn't as if I haven't been posting - just not to this blog

In a way, I'm not sure if anyone will ever read this post.

When I run searches sometimes I'll land on someone else's blog post, so I guess someone might end up here

I used to care about such things, but no longer care

Not at this very moment anyway

I wouldn't mind if I somehow stumbled into a successful blogging career

That would be nice, but it certainly isn't something I'm even considering

No, I guess I'm going to share some thoughts and post them online

Maybe it's a type of therapy - I'm not really sure

Anyway, time for me to sleep - good night AI scanning software - good night all human readers too

Zzzzzzz

Beating Hearts and Raindrops

Beating Hearts and Raindrops

by JeromeProphet  

        
Have you ever kissed the one you loved on a cold rainy night in the driving rain?
   
We did.
  
Umbrellas wrapping us together - ever closer.  
  
Streaks of raindrops from dark to light back into darkness again.
 
The sound.
 
Beating hearts and rain drops. 
      
We were each other's solace if only for a time.
  

Pruning the Blog - and - Possibly Returning to Occasional Posting

I removed a few old posts from years ago - my life has gone on - who I am - what I believe - how I act - what I say - what I chose to share - how I write - all kinds of stuff - has changed somewhat

I left many love poems I wrote - even though I'm not in love with anyone now

I left many political commentary posts even though I'm not entirely sure what they were about
 
I sadly noted that many of the posts were not up to my editorial standards - and that photos I thought looked nice years ago - are of too poor quality - etc.

So here I am - I have a chance to add some content - so I just did

I'm getting somewhat closer to posting on occasion - I've been on Facebook for many years - but posting to FaceBook is similar to living in a Cul-de-sac - nice but boring.
 
This blog was public.

I'll give it some more thought as to what I want to do with this blog - and maybe in awhile I'll begin posting again
  
Then again maybe not

April 22 2015 - New Thoughts on Old Blog

It's obviously been several years since I've updated this blog.  Many changes in my life since I last posted.  The blog jeromeprophet was named such not because I ever felt I was a prophet - I was close to naming the blog Jerome Pundit.

I was reading the Harry Potter series of books, and the name of the newspaper in that magical fictional world is the Daily Prophet, and so I thought - why not name my blog Jerome Prophet - and so I did.

I posted a few posts that were political, and most that were not.

I attracted the attention of the editor of the Illinois Times, and even began a small feature (weekly) in that newspaper - so of the photos I posted are still accessible online there.
 
I wrapped up blogging a few years ago posting romantic poems while in love - it never worked out - but I did go on with my life since then.

I'm mostly on Facebook now - and have grown bored with Facebook.

Not really sure if I'll ever begin any regular posting to any online service again.

In some ways I look back upon this blog as a way of saying hello to the world - what was then a fairly new online world.

I had experimented with a few short lived webpages - one or two at GeoCities.
 
I've read that as the years pass more and more online content will have been written, and abandoned due to the deaths of those who created that online content.

One day that will be true of me - I'll pass on, but I don't expect nor demand that any of what I have written online ever be thought of as a testament to my existence.
 
Peace Love and Live Long and Prosper Everyone

Green Eyes Gone

Green Eyes Gone

by JeromeProphet
Greeneyes is gone

She didn't last long

My feelings remain

Yet it ends the same

  

One sided love

Just in the cards

Stacked one by one

By my fool heart

 

Giving up on a dream

For a real love it seems

Just not meant to be

Between the princess and me

 

The truth I had known

Yet I refused to own

The fairy tale of lies

One to confuse only me

  

For despite the closeness

And despite all tears

I was but a fling

To this innocent dear

 

I could never forget her

If I ever could try

So I've chosen to love her

Until the day I die

 

But gone is the hope

And gone are the dreams

About the two of us 

Becoming one being

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Snow Fairy Love

Snow Fairy Love

by Jerome Prophet

We trace upon this land of snow
White drifts of love swirl to and fro

Love's infinite sparkling crystal place

White brilliance now with magic grace

Precious snow angel my heart entrust
So kiss me now with your fairy dust

Your flutter nymph wings they do swirl

You are my true love my magic girl

 
I'll take your hand to hold in mine

As we journey cross this place and time
And we'll leave our path upon the snow
While you guide us with your fairy glow

  

Whilst true our path is one less taken
This burning love be not forsaken

Our hearts will sail the blue frost air
With a love so bold as few could dare

My words just now they may confuse
Or perhaps, my dear, they do amuse

Yet these dreams be mine my darling dove
My precious snow white my fairy love

So take me now to your celestial place
Your crystal realm of love and grace

And melt my frozen heart God's spell

For within your love my heart must dwell

   

You are my beautiful snow fairy
Just knowing you keeps me warm
On these cold winter days

 

Dedicated to my snow fairy

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Two Voices In a Sea of Opposition

Two Voices in a Sea of Opposition

The question which faces us at this point in our journey is whether to stay the course knowing that failure will most likely greet us at the end, or whether to venture onward in hopes of a miracle.  I believe in miracles.





 

Scanning Using Quantum Entanglement

One interesting subject.

Using quantum entanglement in a sensor.

The same technology which will be (which could already have been) developed for use in Quantum computers, and quantum communication systems would be useful toward the development of a new type of scanning technology - one using quantum entanglement.

For example with radar a beam of microwave radiation is emitted from a EM source, and travels at the speed of light until it is reflected off of an object, and then returns back to a detector.  Essentially there is a round trip involved.

With a quantum entanglement based 'radar' system there is no return trip.

Now this brings up some interesting questions doesn't it?

While it would appear to operate at a faster than light speed this is not the case.

However information could be obtained instantly, or better to say at the point of photon emission.

All kinds of interesting considerations there.

Soft Kisses On Golden Days

Soft Kisses On Golden Days
by JeromeProphet

Our love is an illusion
My fault
My pained confusion?

One heart that beats
Not two
A broken heart so blue

Your silence an intrusion
Upon my self delusion
It speaks as loud as thunder
Pushing my soul dark under

And whom is there to blame
Can anyone be shamed
For what they fail to do
For not feeling 'I love you'?

For it's my thoughts and feelings
That has sent my life reeling
And not your heart so bare
of love for me or care

So what should I now do
Make die this love for you?
Or let it wither in silence
Then buried in unsung violence

And what of memories we made
The future plans we laid
Of soft kisses on golden days
Of the children we would raise?

Are those thoughts now unmade
Or living in another way
In some distant place and time
A place we still could find

I'm hoping you hear it too
The song that led me to you
It's sung each and every day
God blessed in every way

And if you understand
We'll reach that promised land
And join our souls as one
Eternal Infinite love
.
.
.

Greeneyes - This is the poem I told you about earlier this week.
  
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14 Hours Of My Love Life

14 Hours Of My Love Life

by JeromeProphet 

She Loves Me

After we marry we'll go to my church darling

Dear

Honey

I love you

I won't change my mind

Sweetheart

Are you happy?

She Hates Me

You're Evil

You're Twisted

You pathetic sad man

You Loser

Never contact me again

FINAL WARNING

Bye!

 

Note: I wrote this a few months ago

Love and hate can be exchanged so rapidly that it leaves me astounded and confused

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I'm A Tool

I'm A Tool

by JeromeProphet

   

I'm a tool

I'm just your fool

I'm what happens

When dumb love rules

 

I'm a toy

I'm just your boy

I'm not your man

  But a plan to annoy

 

So sell me out

Then you go pout
It's not all about
How you've been wronged

 

Then cuss me up

And cuss me down

Cuz you're singing

That same ole song

  

 One line for him

Then one for me

Just been betrayed

So easy to be

Abuse you crave

A sad sad game
You could escape
That's what I see

But you must step up
And be the grown up
Neither his mommy 
Nor his slave

For you are the maker
And the shaper
You're in charge
Of your own destiny

 

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To My Father's Father's Father

To My Father and Father's Father

by JeromeProphet

 

Blinded by your situation

You coldly crafted intimidation

You wielded anger with such ease

And lashed your hate with expertise

 

Yet when you peered into your mirror

It was your father's face you feared

Your voice did shake as he appeared within that

trembling face unclear

You heard him in your own voice told

No matter whether young or old

For his anger placed within your soul

To terrorize your heart so cold

I warn you brother don't forget his days

For those torments reside within the haze
And if you deny his uncaring ways

His anger will rise within your blaze

 

So know him now and forever more

He was your father once adored

It's only through your knowledge well

That you'll escape his given hell 

  

For I have seen him times before

I've battled him from soul to fore

I've refused him guidance of my path

And challenge him his angry wrath

 

Yet I have forgiven the two

For what else could I do
But forgotten them not

For I still wage war against their lot

 
Though not with hate filled blood

Of you my father or fatherhood
For instead I have understood

Guided by my Mother's love

Tune-Age Video Picks For 12-19-09

Epica - Solitary Ground

Genre: Symphonic Metal (this song shows a softer side)

Where From: Netherlands

Core Members (present day listed below):

Simone Simons
Mark Jansen
Isaac Delahaye
Yves Huts
Coen Janssen
Ariën van Weesenbeek

 

Epica Wikilink

Avantasia - Lost In Space

Genre: Power Metal, Symphonic Metal, Heavy Metal

Where From: Germany

Group Core Members (present day - below):

Tobias Sammet - Lead vocals, Keyboards, Bass guitar (1999-present)

Sascha Paeth - Guitars (2007-present)

Eric Singer - Drums, Vocals (2002-present)

Avantasia Wikilink

Tristania - Equilibrium

Genre: Gothic Metal

Where From: Stavanger, Norway

Members (Present Day Listed Below):

Østen Bergøy
Mariangela Demurtas
Anders Høyvik Hidle
Gyri Losnegaard
Ole Vistnes
Einar Moen
Kenneth Ølsson

Live Members:
Kjetil Nordhus
Tarald Lie

Tristania Wikilink

 

Tristania - My Lost Lenore (Live)

 

Tune-age Video Picks For 12/11/2009

Nightwish - Amaranth

Group: Nightwish
Where From: Finland
Female Lead: Anette Olzen (Swedish)
Comment: Anette replaced Finish operatic lead Tarja Turunen, and the ongoing controversy has never ended since. Just who is better? Was it the right move for the group?
Wikilink for Nightwish



Nightwish - Nemo

Group: Nightwish
Where From: Finland
Female Lead: Tarja Turunen (Finland)
Comment: Anette replaced Finish operatic lead Tarja Turunen, and the ongoing controversy has never ended since. Just who is better? Was it the right move for the group?
Wikilink for Nightwish


Nightwish - Nemo Live with Tarja Turunen

Tarja certainly was the center of the group, and Nightwish certainly changed with her dismissal.

Tune-age Video Picks For 12/05/2009

Video: Within Temptation - The Last Time

Where From? Netherlands

Genre? Symphonic Metal, and Symphonic Rock

Who is the female lead singer? Sharon Janny den Adel
Within Temptation Wikilink

  

The Last Time 

For so long I've tried
Could not close my eyes.  

When you became a outcast in this life.

Again and again I try
to understand the demons inside your head,
but the truth is you love them to death.

Now, I know it's the last time 

I have tried

to lift you up to make you fight.
Nothing is ever easy in life.  

I can't change it 

if you don't have the will deep inside.

I have been blind to
how you justify  

everything that you've wasted in this life.

Got lost in the illusion,  

I'd find a solution 

for the demons in your head,  

but the truth is you love them to death.

Now, I know it's the last time 

I have tried  to lift you up to make you fight.  

Nothing is ever easy in life.  

I can't change it 

if you don't have the will deep inside.

You can blame and you can hide  

behind what is wrong and what is right.  

Life is the choices we make  

I hope you'll awake before it's too late.

Now, I know it's the last time I have tried
to lift you up to make you fight.
Nothing is ever easy in life.
I can't change it
if you don't have the will deep inside.

   

NEXT VIDEO

Cherished Princess Blue

  Cherished Princess Blue

      by JeromeProphet

My Cherished Princess Blue

Our love tears our hearts into two

Now my soul's sole obsession is you

And I haven't a clue what is due

My heart shall not yield without fight

Nor could suffer a darkened love light

Yet this love has taken its toll

Upon my lonely and tattered soul

 We're entangled within this love play

So I'm crafting words just to say

They're my best to share what is true
As I promise my life unto you

And my soul it is spinning around

For you my heart's come unbound

And it's true my life's not complete
Yet there's no higher devotion I'd seek

For my faith yet remains unbroken
These feelings must always be spoken

For I can not turn, nor run away

When my heart screams out just to say

That I'm completely in love with you

That no other girl could ever do
 And that our love is real and true
My darling, my baby princess blue

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For Myself, Another, and Everyone

Video: Unsun - Face The Truth

***

 
What a beautiful song.

I know there are times when I feel like I have been forsaken in this life.
 
I know that many others feel the same way.
 
Many of us quietly suffer years of our lives away, leading what Henry David Thoreau described as, 'lives of quiet desperation'.

We often believe we are alone in carrying our burdens, but we are never alone.
 

*** 

Lyrics to Face The Truth

I'm weakening.
Something's wrong with me.
I thought that I was to come first.
I don't know what is true.
  
I'm living with fear from morning to night.
I'm losing my passion for life.
Hoping that the end of my worries is near.
 
I have changed myself growing up every day.
Face the truth about yourself.
You and I, we're all the same.
I have changed myself growing up every day.
Face the truth about yourself.
You and I, we're all the same.
 
I thought that I was right.
But I made a big mistake.
I am changing myself for good.
Because I have understood.
 
I feel like a grain of sand on the empty desert.
Every man is special, every man.
I feel like a grain.
 
I have changed myself growing up every day.
Face the truth about yourself.
You and I, we're all the same.
I have changed myself growing up every day.
Face the truth about yourself.
You and I, we're all the same.
 
I'm weakening.
Something's wrong with me.
I thought that I was to come first.
I don't know what is true.
 
I'm living with fear from morning to night.
I'm losing my passion for life.
Hoping that the end of my worries is near.
 
I have changed myself growing up every day.
Face the truth about yourself.
You and I, we're all the same.
I have changed myself growing up every day.
Face the truth about yourself.
You and I, we're all the same.
 
Everything I've known about, about the world.
Was just a fraction of the truth, truth about him.
I feel like a grain of sand on the empty desert.
I feel like a grain of sand.
I feel like a grain.
 
I have changed myself growing up every day.
Face the truth about yourself.
You and I, we're all the same.
I have changed myself growing up every day.
Face the truth about yourself.
You and I, we're all the same.

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My TuneAge Picks For 11/28/2009

Unsun - Whispers 

Unsun Facts:

Where From? Poland - yes Poland.

Her name?  Annelyse "Aya" Stefanowicz

Genre: Gothic Metal

WikiLink for Unsun

     

Unsun - Whispers

I'll give you all I've got to give

It's never too late to say I'm sorry

We have one life to live,

That'll be the beginning of a great story

You are my sun in the darkness of the night,

You are my ice land on the sea of memories

You are my sun in the darkness of the night

And be my eyes when I lose my sight

I like your whispering in the dark

There are whispers of the past

You are hiding deep inside my dreams,

Dreaming the final dream, the last

I like your whispering in the dark

There are whispers of the past

You are hiding deep inside my dreams,

Dreaming the final dream, the last

Give me more than you can take,

Then I'll give us a second chance

We have one life to live,

I'll give you all I've got to give

Like a moonlight, you're showing me the way,

Like heroine

You course in my veins,

Like a moonlight, you're showing me the way,

Like heroine

You course in my veins

I like your whispering in the dark

There are whispers of the past

You are hiding deep inside my dreams,

Dreaming the final dream, the last

I like your whispering in the dark

There are whispers of the past

You are hiding deep inside my dreams,

Dreaming the final dream, the last

 

NEXT VIDEO!

Sirenia - The Path To Decay

Group: Sirenia

From: Norway

Genre: Gothic-Metal with a mix of Symphonic Metal and Death Metal

Her name: Ailyn (From Spain, born Pilar Giménez García)

Ailyn Wikilink

Lyrics - The Path To Decay

   

(Verse 1)

Life brings nothing for the same

Keep searching new days on the horizon

While time just seems to slip away

I’m leaving no trace along the way

(Chorus)

Seems like I’m falling deeper, deeper inside myself

Feels like I’m growing weaker, much weaker each day

Along the path to decay

(Verse 2)

The lights are fading day by day

No cure for the lost, there’s no ascending

When life could not become more pale

A new dawn is here, another day

(Chorus)

Seems like I’m falling deeper, deeper inside myself

Feels like I’m growing weaker, much weaker each day

Along the path to decay

(Verse 3)

Darkness within myself (my soul?)

With people that stand to fall

The daylight is long since gone

But a new dawn has yet to come

(Chorus)

Seems like I’m falling deeper, deeper inside myself

Feels like I’m growing weaker, much weaker each day

Along the path to decay

   

NEXT VIDEO

 

Lunik - Everybody Knows

Where From? Switzerland

Genre: Pop, Rock, Trip Hop 

Who is she?  Jaël, born as Rahel Krebs

Wikilink for Lunik

 

Lyrics - Everybody Knows

I love fairy-tales about shoes that dance on their own

About prince and princess in glittering dresses on festivals

I love sunsets when the world seems so sweet

Everything inside me is longing for a happy end

Why can't they let me be

This is me

Do I harm anyone

I love to live in harmony and die for trashy melodies

But this ain't life it's all about this game

Everybody shows and everybody sees

Everybody dares and everybody fears

In the end we're all the same

Everybody knows and everybody feels

Everybody hurts and everybody heals

In the end we're all the same

I love to stand still, feel the wind in my hair

Taste a raindrop spy out a bookshop and observe the people reading there

Why can't they let me be

This is me

Do I harm anyone

I love to live in harmony and die for trashy melodies

But this ain't life it's all about this game

Everybody shows everybody sees

everybody dares and everybody fears

In the end we're all the same

Everybody knows and everybody feels

Everybody hurts and everybody heals

In the end we're all the same

I whistle during shopping and weep when there's no way out

From time to time I even laugh out loud

Everybody shows and everybody sees

Everybody dares and everybody fears

In the end we're all the same

Everybody knows and everybody feels

Everybody hurts and everybody heals

In the end we're all the same

Everybody shows and everybody sees

Everybody dares and everybody fears

In the end we're all the same

Everybody knows and everybody feels

Everybody hurts and everybody heals

In the end we're all the same

Oh I don't like this game

Everybody, oh everybody knows, everybody knows

  

NEXT VIDEO PICK!

 

The Distillers - The Hunger @ Slims (In San Francisco)

 

The Distillers Facts:

From: Los Angeles, California

Her name: Brody Dalley from Australia

Genre: Street Punk

Comments: Brody wrote or cowrote most of the songs which appear on the group's recordings.

The Distillers Wikilink

Lyrics - The Hunger

Holy eyes, I never knew I'd beg down at your feet

Hold on tight, I never knew I'd know much more than this

Open sky, the wave of pain, the scent of you is bliss

Hungry eyes, they stare at me...

I know, I know--

Don't go...

Summertime, the taste of saint secretes a perfume mist

Console the mind, I take it in with lips of pink I kiss

Lonely sky, the more you take the more that I give in

Holy eyes, I never knew, I know, I know--

Don't go...

Hold onto the memory, it's all you've got

I know you'll be there to soak up blood lost, blood lost, blood....

Don't go...

Hold onto the memory, it's all you've got

I know you'll be there to soak up blood lost

Hold onto the memory, it's all you've got

I know you'll be there to soak up blood lost, blood lost, blood lost.

Hey hey ah hey ah

Yeah

Hey hey ah hey

Yeah

Eyy hey ah hey hey ah

Yeah oh

Hey hey ah heh ah

Yeah-Hwuah

Ooh yeaghh Ooh yeaghh

Hey ooh hey ooh

Ooh hey it's true

Yeah

Hey hey hey hey it's you

oh oh

NEXT VIDEO PICK

The Distillers - Die on a Rope

The Lyrics - Die on a Rope

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die?

I wish that you didn't love me no more, I've been dead for years,

I wish that you didn't own me no more, I've been here before.

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die? No, I won't!

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die?

I want to draw the blood from your neck, spill the lies in your bed.

I will give you a holy white rose, cut the tongue from your head.

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die? No, I won't!

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?

Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die?

I belong to a line of red scent, teach the heart to reflect.

The wound is wise for primal black eyes, there's a scarlet letter in my chest.

 

That's it for me!  And thank you Captain Dave for the hospitality, the brew, a place to hide out for a while from the superior forms of life which tolerate us - women.

  

TUNE-AGE FACTS

 

What is 'Tune-age'?  Tune-age is a diversion from boredom which accompanies many beers, and talk about sports, and women.

Where does it take place?  "Dave's World" - a solace from women (in Springfield, Illinois).

When? Usually on Saturday nights, but it can be a Friday night too.

How is Tune-age played?  Everyone must bring some music video picks, and they get played.  We then either say good things about the video, the group, the song, the music - or we completely ignore it.

Who Plays Tune-age? Just us cool guys who show up - about four in number.

Where Is Dave's World? My buddy Dave's - in his west side Springfield, Illinois "Den".

Dave's Blog: www.the11thhour.blogspot.com

    

NOTE: By the time we descend into "Dave's World" many fine beers have been consumed, and this fact seems to help make the experience much more interesting than it probably is.

  

Last week I was informed that females can actually join in the festivities if one were to want to - but we're keeping that a secret.