Comments on: An Appreciation of Piet Hein: The Man Who Wrote 10,000 Grooks http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/ Change your beliefs, change your world. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:58:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Lee Brubaker http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-12927 Lee Brubaker Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:52:05 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-12927 PROBLEMS Problems worthy of attack Prove their worth by fighting back and some not worthy of the fray seem to hang on anyway! PROBLEMS

Problems
worthy of attack
Prove their worth
by fighting back

and some
not worthy of the fray
seem to hang on
anyway!

]]> By: Piet Hein on specialization across disciplines « Entersection http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-7591 Piet Hein on specialization across disciplines « Entersection Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:03:44 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-7591 [...] section of Life, Volume 61, Number 16, October 14, 1966, p. 64. Cited by Angus Stocking in “An Appreciation of Piet Hein: The Man Who Wrote 10,000 Grooks”. Posted on behalf of Piet Hein on Friday, January 8th, 2010 (10 seconds ago) under Quotations. [...] [...] section of Life, Volume 61, Number 16, October 14, 1966, p. 64. Cited by Angus Stocking in “An Appreciation of Piet Hein: The Man Who Wrote 10,000 Grooks”. Posted on behalf of Piet Hein on Friday, January 8th, 2010 (10 seconds ago) under Quotations. [...]

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1529 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:15:37 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1529 BLIND FAITH Some say "open-minded" When they lean towards "naive" Judge the rampant optimist By what they don't believe BLIND FAITH

Some say “open-minded”
When they lean towards “naive”
Judge the rampant optimist
By what they don’t believe

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1528 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:07:36 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1528 NOTHING FURTHER If we have potential That others plainly see At what point is this distinct From our inadequacy? NOTHING FURTHER

If we have potential
That others plainly see
At what point is this distinct
From our inadequacy?

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1527 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:38:28 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1527 POINT OF NO RETURN If our writing is a special ticket And our ideas are the special train And consensus is the destination How on earth do we get home again? POINT OF NO RETURN

If our writing is a special ticket
And our ideas are the special train
And consensus is the destination
How on earth do we get home again?

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1526 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:30:23 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1526 Infants do with their first grip What God did with one fingertip. Infants do with their first grip
What God did with one fingertip.

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1525 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:17:19 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1525 DETRITUS Mankind's search for self's divined By all that it has left behind. DETRITUS

Mankind’s search for self’s divined
By all that it has left behind.

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1524 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:13:30 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1524 REFLECTED GLORY "The grass is always greener" Is our neighbourhood's pretense Some may fail to notice There's a mirror on their fence REFLECTED GLORY

“The grass is always greener”
Is our neighbourhood’s pretense
Some may fail to notice
There’s a mirror on their fence

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1523 Steve Smith Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:07:40 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1523 FOOD FOR THOUGHT If all the world was apple pie And all the seas were ink We'd likely be not much worse off Than what's in what we drink FOOD FOR THOUGHT

If all the world was apple pie
And all the seas were ink
We’d likely be not much worse off
Than what’s in what we drink

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1522 Steve Smith Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:05:47 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1522 SINK OR SWIM People know they are alive When into gene pools they dive Satisfying primal thirst Should they opt for lessons first? SINK OR SWIM

People know they are alive
When into gene pools they dive
Satisfying primal thirst
Should they opt for lessons first?

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