Rainbow Lists

Made by silvercat17

Theme: Words

1. L’appel du vide (French): Literally translated to “the call of the void”; contextually used to describe the instinctive urge to jump from high places.
2. Komorebi (Japanese): The sunlight that filters through the leaves of the trees.
3. Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): “unwelcome kindness;” an act that someone does for you even though you didn’t want them to do it and you tried to avoid it. They did it anway determined to help and despite all the trouble or irritation caused you’re expected to express gratitude.
4. Filotimo (Greek): a person who understands the responsibility to themselves being to always do the right thing and with honour. No matter what this person will do the honourable thing regardless of the consequence.
5. Mokita (Kivila): The truth everyone knows but agrees not to talk about.
6. Sobremesa (Spanish): After-lunch conversation around the table. When the food is gone but conversation continues
7. Verschlimmbessern (German): To make something worse when trying to improve it.
8. Backpfeifengesicht (German): literally means a ‘face that should be slapped’ or ‘a face in need of a slap’
9. Elmosolyodni (Hungarian): A kind of soft smile that forms when something isn’t especially funny but you can’t help but smile anyway.
10. Gökotta (Swedish): To wake up early in the morning with the purpose of going outside to hear the first birds sing.

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Theme: Literary

1. You with pattern-woven flowers, immortal Aphrodite, / child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, I implore you, / do not devastate with aches and sorrows, / Mistress, my heart! (Sappho 1, "Prayer to Aphrodite" translated by Gregory Nagy)
2. How can someone not be hurt over and over again, O Queen Kypris [Aphrodite], whenever one loves whatever person and wishes very much not to let go of the passion? [What kind of purpose] do you have [in mind], uncaringly rending me apart in my [desire] as my knees buckle? (Sappho Kypris Song 1–6, translated by Gregory Nagy)
3. "Who is doing you, / Sappho, wrong? / For if she is fleeing now, soon she will give chase. / If she is not / taking gifts, soon she will be giving them. / If she does not love, soon she will love / even against her will.” (Sappho 1, "Prayer to Aphrodite" translated by Gregory Nagy)
4. And I—aware of my own self— I know this. (Sappho Song 26.11-12, translated by Gregory Nagy)
5. Whatever thing he wants in his heart to happen, let that thing be fulfilled. And however many mistakes he made in the past, undo them all. (Sappho Song 5.1–11, translated by Gregory Nagy)
6. Don’t you have the resources for me to be able, Mother, to celebrate at the right season the festival, which is a delight for [us] mortals, creatures of the day that we are? (Sappho Song 9, translated by Gregory Nagy)
7. I tell you / someone will remember us / in the future. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
8. Now, I shall sing these songs / Beautifully / for my companions. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
9. The moon is set. And the Pleiades. / It’s the middle of the night. / Time passes. / But I sleep alone. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
10. But come, dear companions, / For day is near. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
11. I desire / And I crave. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
12. Listening to your sweet voice and exquisite laughter / That makes my heart so wildly beat in my breast. / If I but see you for a moment, then all my words / Leave me, my tongue is broken and a sudden fire / Creeps through my blood. No longer can I see. (Sappho 31, translated by Edward Storer)
13. When she left, she wept / a great deal; she said to me, “This parting must be / endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly.” (translated by Mary Barnard)
14. On soft beds you satisfied your passion. / And there was no dance, / no holy place / from which we were absent. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
15. As a wind in the mountains / assaults an oak, / Love shook my breast. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)

from poetry and songs of Sappho

Made by thisbluespirit

Theme: Contrasts

1. Far and near
2. hide and seek
3. time and place
4. knock and enter
5. wait and see
6. cats and dogs
7. thick and thin
8. hand and foot
9. sickness and health
10. sweet and sour
11. sugar and spice
12. oil and water
13. wind and wave
14. deep and wide
15. rise and fall
16. stop and start
17. give and take
18. buy and sell
19. open and shut
20. now and then
21. everywhere and nowhere
22. town and country
23. back and forth
24. push and pull
25. over and under
26. hue and cry
27. lost and found
28. lock and key
29. blessing and curse
30. gods and monsters

( Plain text version below )

Made by silvercat17

Theme: Music

1. That's when I swore that someday, someday I would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place - Albuquerque
2. When I'm sick of takin' abuse / I just make up some lame excuse / Freedom's just seven digits away - Callin' in Sick
3. Put down that chainsaw and listen to me - Dare To Be Stupid
4. Nobody's sure what I do here, / And ahh, that's just fine with me. - Dog Eat Dog
5. Everything you know is wrong / Black is white, up is down and short is long / And everything you thought was just so / Important doesn't matter - Everything You Know is Wrong
6. Risin' above the city, blocking out the noonday sun / It dwarfs the mighty redwoods and it towers over everyone - Frank's 2000" TV
7. They're out to get me / They wanna control me / They wanna destroy me / They're tryin' to kill me / It kind of upsets me - Germs
8. Well, what's the matter little friend, you think this party is the pits / Enjoy it while you can, we'll soon be blown to bits - Happy Birthday
9. You tell all your friends we're the perfect couple / Well, maybe you should get a clue - I'm So Sick of You
10. If you can't think outside the box / You'll be downsized - Mission Statement
11. It slices, it dices / Look at that tomato / You could even cut a tin can with it / But you wouldn't want to - Mr. Popeil
12. I'd rather rip my heart out of my ribcage with my bare hands / and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it 'till I die / Than spend one more minute with you - One More Minute
13. My life is filled with such regret / A bad mistake I can't forget / And now I'll never be the same - Ringtone
14. Oh, where did they come from? / What do they want from us? / Who do they think they are? - Slime Creatures From Outer Space
15. What was he trying to prove, who was he trying to impress / Why did he build it, how did he do, it was anybody's guess - The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota
16. Now we're all goin' nowhere fast / Well, I guess that's perfectly clear - Traffic Jam
17. There's no feeling any greater / Than to shoot first and ask questions later - Trigger Happy
18. He looks so handsome, he stands so tall / So glad he's big enough to cover up that hole in the wall - Velvet Elvis
19. Can't you tell the universe revolves around me? / Don't you know you suckers owe me everything? / And can't you see that I'm the highest form of life that there could ever be? - Waffle King
20. You make me wanna break the laws of time and space - You Make Me

style parodies by "Weird Al" Yankovic

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