Beautiful Chinese Music

[drakke1]

As prompted by Makwaiskwew on this thread http://indigosociety.com/showthread....ic-From-Serbia absolutely beautiful traditional music, wonderful scenery, art and many other pleasant enjoyments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Fc2...eature=related


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And, definitely

http://www.youtube.com/user/MadePossible?feature=watch

[magonia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUSKj2fxqN4

I was shown this a few years ago. What is amazing they are cannot talk or hear at all!

[drakke1]

The Chinese paintings shown in this video, from the series linked in post #1 below, are definitely first rate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1j01...cp&playnext=11

[makwaiskwew]

Well I aim to please......lol

Geisha
A master at her arts of teasing...
and pleasing.
She loves without loving;
Waiting to be called to become the mysterious consort again.
Learning to gain her pleasure through others.
the unattached concubine masking her
emotions to say what the other needs to hear.
Controlling the circumstance with submission.
sending the bodies she touches into sweet convulsions.
Pleasing the mind as well as the body.
Provoking profound thoughts with simple words.
Providing a ear to listen,
not just the lips to whisper into one.
Gracefully, fluidly dancing
to distract one from his troubles.
Singing smooth melodies,
the notes linger in the air like her
enticing fragrance.

I am moved by their history..............and poetry..........and life
Maiko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

* 舞子 or 舞妓, apprentice geisha

as a given name

* 舞子, "dance, child"
* 麻衣子, "hemp, clothes, child"
* 真衣子, "truth, clothes, child"
* 舞衣子, "dance, clothes, child"


Maiko

Among the satin blush petals of the cherry blossoms
like snow cover atop a lush sage grass
eclipsing a garden in Kyoto where foreign ivy
and a drove of prismatic blossoms
bring artistry to the dull blacks and grays of the city
she sits a dowager queen amongst the flowers
who are apprentice to her beauty

She is Geisha

Were I to compass her siren splendor
parody a taste of her lustrous allure
share but a little of her sway over the
Hanamachi, flower towns,
I could caress the concept of deathless fame
and know what it is to be more than just merchandise
to be a cardinal prize whom which men
outbid and outdo their brothers and comrades
to spend a night with the essence of dreams

But I know not the power she commands
with a slight exposure of her rarefied wrist
or the coy enticement of her flicker down eyes
as her dahlia lips part for a sigh
and she reveals the draw of the Geisha girl

I am only Maiko

I join the regiment of men who flock the Okiya
with gifts of Obi and Kimono
to hear her pluck but a note on the Shamisen
to hear her sing but a verse of Yuyake, Koyake
to hear her whisper but a word of praise

For if she were to praise me
imbue the ways of the Onna Geisha history
down upon me
I would rise to the vocation of discipline
and tedious tics of compulsive demands
of the culture of my foresisters before me
I would come to learn and make
the karyūkai, the flower and willow world,
my own world, my own home, my own dream
and one day I will sit among the fallen petals
stealing breaths from the men who lay their
eyes upon me and know they will meet no other
woman who will satisfy their company the way I do.
One day I will be where she is.

One day I will be Geisha

Also the music...but hey...I love most music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=026kO...eature=related

and rambling along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a20VuIecgM&feature=fvsr

xxoo

[drakke1]

Ms. M, you are just quite something !! Amazing "stuff" !! Thanks

[makwaiskwew]

As are you lion heart..xx