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PHILOXENIA # My Fairy ladies Luella, Cheryl And The Phoenix Bird
4/4/2009 3:47:50 PM

Dear Philoxenia Friends!

Today i would like to share a nice fairy tale work by Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark "The Phoenix Bird". I am coming from a nice forum named "Expressions of Nature"  whe my good friend Sara Gardner Blow. After reading the nice poems written by Cheryl Baxter and all the comments  made by friends and community members I can clearly say a visit there  "makes the heart sing and the brain vibrate".

For first time I met Cheryl in a forum started by Luella May in October 2005 titled The Face of Katrina.  I knew Luella from earlier and knowing that her daughter was lost for more than two weeks I tried to encourage her.  Luella asked me to comment her forum topic, but I was very shy because ofmy bad English. She convinsed me to comment her article and there I read a poem in Cheryls reply. I am not sure if ishe wrote it or not but I liked that poem so I mentioned the the charisma to be a poet and writer. Luella and Cheryl  came back with replies and convinsed me to start write with replies in the forums to excercise and bettering ny English.


Today I feel grateful to both Ladies for pushing me in to the forums, to tell my opinion, to contribute and share my feelings and way of thinking, therefore, I dedicate this thread to my good fairy ladies Luella and Cheryl.

I am Grateful to you Ladies
 
 
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THE PHOENIX BIRD

© Hans Christian Andersen

 

 

IN the Garden of Paradise, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, bloomed a rose bush. Here, in the first rose, a bird was born. His flight was like the flashing of light, his plumage was beauteous, and his song ravishing. But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when she and Adam were driven from Paradise, there fell from the flaming sword of the cherub a spark into the nest of the bird, which blazed up forthwith.

 

The bird perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a new one- the one solitary Phoenix bird. The fable tells that he dwells in Arabia, and that every hundred years, he burns himself to death in his nest; but each time a new Phoenix, the only one in the world, rises up from the red egg.

 

The bird flutters round us, swift as light, beauteous in color, charming in song. When a mother sits by her infant's cradle, he stands on the pillow, and, with his wings, forms a glory around the infant's head. He flies through the chamber of content, and brings sunshine into it, and the violets on the humble table smell doubly sweet.

 

But the Phoenix is not the bird of Arabia alone. He wings his way in the glimmer of the Northern Lights over the plains of Lapland, and hops among the yellow flowers in the short Greenland summer. Beneath the copper mountains of Fablun, and England's coal mines, he flies, in the shape of a dusty moth, over the hymnbook that rests on the knees of the pious miner. On a lotus leaf he floats down the sacred waters of the Ganges, and the eye of the Hindoo maid gleams bright when she beholds him.

 

The Phoenix bird, dost thou not know him? The Bird of Paradise, the holy swan of song! On the car of Thespis he sat in the guise of a chattering raven, and flapped his black wings, smeared with the lees of wine; over the sounding harp of Iceland swept the swan's red beak; on Shakspeare's shoulder he sat in the guise of Odin's raven, and whispered in the poet's ear "Immortality!" and at the minstrels' feast he fluttered through the halls of the Wartburg.

 

The Phoenix bird, dost thou not know him? He sang to thee the Marseillaise, and thou kissedst the pen that fell from his wing; he came in the radiance of Paradise, and perchance thou didst turn away from him towards the sparrow who sat with tinsel on his wings.

 

The Bird of Paradise- renewed each century- born in flame, ending in flame! Thy picture, in a golden frame, hangs in the halls of the rich, but thou thyself often fliest around, lonely and disregarded, a myth- "The Phoenix of Arabia."

 

In Paradise, when thou wert born in the first rose, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, thou receivedst a kiss, and thy right name was given thee- thy name, Poetry.

 

THE END

 

 
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Re: PHILOXENIA # My Fairy ladies Luella, Cheryl And The Phoenix Bird
4/4/2009 3:49:03 PM
HAVE A BLESSED EASTER

καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς·
πορευθέντες εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἅπαντα κηρύξατε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον πάσῃ τῇ κτίσει ὁ πιστεύσας καὶ βαπτισθεὶς σωθήσεται, ὁ δὲ ἀπιστήσας κατακριθήσεται.

αnd he said:
Go ye in to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shal be saved, but he tha believeth not shal be damned.
Mark 16:15-16

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Re: PHILOXENIA # My Fairy ladies Luella, Cheryl And The Phoenix Bird
4/4/2009 4:02:00 PM

Dear Philoxenia  Brother

Georgios



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Re: PHILOXENIA # My Fairy ladies Luella, Cheryl And The Phoenix Bird
4/4/2009 4:11:10 PM

Hello Georgios,

You are a wonderful and sweet man.  Thank you for this forum honoring Luella and Cheryl....  What a wonderful gift to them and those of us who respond......

Have a wonderful and blessed day!!!

Take care,

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Re: PHILOXENIA # My Fairy ladies Luella, Cheryl And The Phoenix Bird
4/4/2009 4:17:56 PM

Georgios,

Poetry indeed.

Thank you for this.

This is a lovely tribute to your friends and I know that it is appreciated.

I envy your skills in presenting such lovely graphics.

I viewed your beautiful video, I have a huge desire to visit your country. It is very beautiful.

Roger

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