Comparison of "Soledad" with "la Historia de un Amor"

La Historia de un Amor (Carlos Eleta Almarán)

Soledad (Jah Wobble)

Ya no estás más a mi lado, corazón, en el alma sólo tengo soledad Y si ya no puedo verte porque Dios me hizo quererte para hacerme sufrir más. Siempre fuiste la razón de mi existir, adorarte para mí fue religión Y en tus besos yo encontraba el calor que me brindaba, el amor y la pasión. el amor que me brindaba, el calor de tu pasión. Es la historia de un amor como no hay/habrá otro igual, que me hizo comprender todo el bien, todo el mal. Que le dió luz a mi vida, apagándola después. ¡Ay, qué vida tan oscura! Sin tu amor no viviré. Ay, qué noche tan oscura, todo se me ha de volver.

Déjame Porque sólo tengo soledad Y los recuerdos tan perdido Un momento doloroso ¡Ay, qué vida tan oscura! Para que me sufro más Déjame Tus manos que tocan canciones Para mí fue religión Pero los recuerdos tan perdido Un momento doloroso Díme que me amarás ¡Ay, qué vida tan oscura! Sin tu amor no viviré Los recuerdos tan perdido Un momento doloroso

Epochs (origin points for counting years)

(Dates using the astronomical year numbering system or ISO 8601.)

+879	Nepal Sambat
+640	Islamic
+638	Burmese
+632	Zoroastrian 'Yazdegirdi' (mainstream)
+622	Islamic. Several calendar variants, but all use the same Epoch. e.g. the Jalali.
+592	Bengali
+284	Era of Martyrs, aka Diocletian Era
+78	Hindu: Shaka era; Indian national calendar
+8	Ethiopian; Coptic
0	Christian (mainstream) - Dionysius Exiguus
-57	Hindu/Nepali: Vikram Samvat
-248	Parthian
-312	Seleucid era
-390	Zoroastrian (birth of Zoroaster)
-544	Buddhist (Buddha attains parinirvana) +/- 1 year
-568	Zoroastrian (old)
-691	Buddhist: Anjana Sakaraj (not to be used past -544)
-753	Rome (AUC)
-776	Olympiad
-951	Berber
-1167	Discordian
-1200	Iron Age
-1710	beginning of Ovid's Golden Age, according to Jerome
-1737	Zarathustrian (Age of Aries)
-2050	Augustine's mythikon start
-2137	Varro's mythikon start
-2300	Akkad (ultra-low chronology)
-2333	Dangi (Korean)
-2376	Censorinus's mythikon start
-2200	China
-2500	Indus valley
-2600	Sumer- earliest "real" king. Earliest "coherent texts"
-2697	China: Accession of the Yellow Emperor
-2900	the actual flood, useful for dating
-3050	Menes
-3100	Egypt, unified - First Dynasty
-3102	Hindu - Kali Yuga (mainstream) - ostensibly, death of Krishna
-3113	Maya Long Count: current creation cycle, the creation of humans
-3300	Bronze Age in the Near East
-3400	Egypt (or 3000). Earliest writing systems
-3500	earliest chronologies (Sumer, Mesopotamia)
-3761	Hebrew (mainstream) - the Hillel World Era, Anno Mundi. (Maimonides; Seder Olam Rabbah)
-3952	Creation, according to Bede
-4000	Creation - Judeo-Christian - Masoretic. Many variations, from 3616 to 4192. Famous: 4004 (Ussher). Anno Lucis of the Masons.
-4339	Creation - Jewish (Seder Olam Zutta)
-4714	Julian Day Numbering. This is an Epoch commonly used in astronomy.
-4750	Assyrian
-4963	Benedictine
-5199	Creation, according to some Christian sources, particularly Jerome following Eusebius.
-5500	Creation - Judeo-Christian - Septuagint. Many variations, including the following:
-5493	Christian: Alexandrian Era
-5509	Christian: Byzantine Etos Kosmou - since Creation
-5529	Creation, according to Theophilus of Antioch
-6600	earliest writing of any kind
-6984	Creation, according to Afonso X of Castile
-8000	neolithic revolution
-8239	Maya Long Count: start of previous cycle (which was terminated early)
-9600	Creation, according to mainstream Zoroastrianism (approx)
-9700	Holocene geological epoch
-10000	Holocene Era, aka Human Era. Jericho. The most recent Heinrich Event, H0. End of the last glacial period.
-10200	The Neolithic revolution; ASPRO Period 2.
-12000	ASPRO Period 1.
-17680	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Syncellus)
-18000	Zarzian culture
-18000	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Diodorus Siculus) (approx)
-20000	Epipaleolithic
-28000	Creation, according to Sumerian King List, if we interpret years to be months
-28000	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Eusebius)
-30425	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Schwaller)
-39000	Creation, according to one Chinese source (Xu Zheng) (approx)
-39550	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Martianus Capella) (approx)
-39575	Creation, according to one Egyptian source
-39670	Creation, according to one Egyptian source
-49219	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Laeretius)
-50000	Upper Paleolithic
-153000	Creation, according to Theophilus of Antioch (Apollonius) (approx)
-3891102	Hindu: Start of the current Yuga cycle

Genera nominum sunt sex

Nouns come in six genders:

• Masculine (e.g. Cato)
• Feminine (e.g. song/poem)
• Neuter (e.g. necklace/collar)
• Two genders in common: a word can be either masculine or feminine (e.g. priest)
• Three genders in common: a word can be masculine, feminine, or neuter (e.g. cat)
• Epicene (Latin: "promiscuous"): a word can refer to either a male or female but has a fixed grammatical gender form (e.g. sparrow, eagle)

(This is my free translation of this paragraph.)

Full Deck Birthday Poem

Go out and snip off some snowbells in bloom
Doom, doom, doom

Untarnish my grandmother's silver-plate spoon
Doom, doom, doom

Hound the gray dust-hares from room to room
Doom, doom, doom

Unbar the front door, they'll be here soon
Doom, doom, doom

Blush to a jolly-old, croaking-good tune
Doom, doom, doom

Silver spoons tinking, wineglasses clinking,
Front doors and back doors and doggy doors banging,
Post-prandial strolling, and -- hark! -- snowbells tolling:
Doom! Doom! Doom!

Christmas (1974)

If I'm remembering accurately, I wrote the following when I was about 9 years old -- a long time ago.

What does Christmas mean to me?
Fragile glass balls on the Christmas tree;
Hot-burning lightbulbs of various hues;
Chimney fires in soot-clogged flues;
Shopping frustration in the holiday rush;
Multi-car accidents compounded by slush.
Numbing winds and frosty breath;
Homeless people freezing to death;
Deepening financial straits;
Astronomical suicide rates.

I found it rather hilarious at the time, and still do.