Ode to the Onion by Pablo Neruda

Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your belly grew round with dew.
Under the earth
the miracle
happened
and when your clumsy
green stem appeared,
and your leaves were born
like swords
in the garden,
the earth heaped up her power
showing your naked transparency,
and as the remote sea
in lifting the breasts of Aphrodite
duplicating the magnolia,
so did the earth
make you,
onion
clear as a planet
and destined
to shine,
constant constellation,
round rose of water,
upon
the table
of the poor.

You make us cry without hurting us.
I have praised everything that exists,
but to me...

Ode to the Onion by Pablo Neruda

Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your belly grew round with dew.
Under the earth
the miracle
happened
and when your clumsy
green stem appeared,
and your leaves were born
like swords
in the garden,
the earth heaped up her power
showing your naked transparency,
and as the remote sea
in lifting the breasts of Aphrodite
duplicating the magnolia,
so did the earth
make you,
onion
clear as a planet
and destined
to shine,
constant constellation,
round rose of water,
upon
the table
of the poor.

You make us cry without hurting us.
I have praised everything that exists,
but to me, onion, you are
more beautiful than a bird
of dazzling feathers,
heavenly globe, platinum goblet,
unmoving dance
of the snowy anemone

and the fragrance of the earth lives
in your crystalline nature.

Is this a special section....
Perhaps I should just save it, or should I bookmark the page to surf the Silk road Cuisine....
I'm still quite a zombie with computer art.... please forgive me for being old and doddery.... I do enjoy clipmarks and wish my wits could catch on faster... but belonging to the crowd born in the first half of the 20th Century, with very little or no work experience with the electronical and technological shere of life..... I've just been drifting along with this silly gadget,,, often getting myself into trouble....
I received a web-cam for Christmas... I fondle it and wonder what they meant when they told me it's easy, to get a download of Skype.... I guess I'll get ...

Is this a special section....
Perhaps I should just save it, or should I bookmark the page to surf the Silk road Cuisine....
I'm still quite a zombie with computer art.... please forgive me for being old and doddery.... I do enjoy clipmarks and wish my wits could catch on faster... but belonging to the crowd born in the first half of the 20th Century, with very little or no work experience with the electronical and technological shere of life..... I've just been drifting along with this silly gadget,,, often getting myself into trouble....
I received a web-cam for Christmas... I fondle it and wonder what they meant when they told me it's easy, to get a download of Skype.... I guess I'll get around to that sometime... perhaps with the help of some patient, young acquaintance....

Yeah, sorry for the confusing bit with the clips not being on my main clipcast. If my different clips all wound up in the same place I would lose my mind.

I think about this not so much as a computer thing, but as a very orderly and flexible filing cabinet. Each clip is a file on something i found as well as notes on what my clip friends like about it.

The each clipcast is a different drawr for the different subjects I research. My main clipcast is devoted to the news, since I read four newspapers a day. (sadly, only one or two online, hence clipable.)

This is a totally separate research project, on the food that unites our different cultures. If you like it, when you are at the Silk R...

Yeah, sorry for the confusing bit with the clips not being on my main clipcast. If my different clips all wound up in the same place I would lose my mind.

I think about this not so much as a computer thing, but as a very orderly and flexible filing cabinet. Each clip is a file on something i found as well as notes on what my clip friends like about it.

The each clipcast is a different drawr for the different subjects I research. My main clipcast is devoted to the news, since I read four newspapers a day. (sadly, only one or two online, hence clipable.)

This is a totally separate research project, on the food that unites our different cultures. If you like it, when you are at the Silk Road Cuisine clipcast, you can just click on the little heart, and choose to favorite this specific clipcast and check in on it whenever you want. If you follow me the clips will also appear in the "my clippers" because they are all public.

I hope you guys keep commenting! I welcome everyone's perspective on this food, because it contributes to the great mosaic that is global culture: united as one, not divided into clashing civilizations.