Ralphie ★ Posted March 9, 2022 Share #1 Posted March 9, 2022 Word of the day? Mmm. That sounds good! I’ll have that. But siriusly folks, it is a brilliant blue gemstone that was used to describe the colour of Caribbean Ocean water in the book I am reading. Love that damn colour! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted March 9, 2022 Share #2 Posted March 9, 2022 Back in my days as a goldsmith, lapis lazuli was a very popular stone as was malachite. Both very pretty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted March 9, 2022 Share #3 Posted March 9, 2022 I heard of it. I don't think it has ever crossed my tongue, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted March 9, 2022 Share #4 Posted March 9, 2022 Lapis. I thought that was when you were in a race and the leader lapped you more than once. And yeah, you feel a little blue when that happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted March 9, 2022 Share #5 Posted March 9, 2022 I am betting that in the chart of "words women vs men know", it falls in the women category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted March 9, 2022 Share #6 Posted March 9, 2022 2 hours ago, Philander Seabury said: Lapis. Ever heared of it? New Wordle of the day for me. FIFY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted March 9, 2022 Share #7 Posted March 9, 2022 So, have you never read Gilgamesh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted March 9, 2022 Share #8 Posted March 9, 2022 Yes. I’ve heard of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted March 9, 2022 Share #9 Posted March 9, 2022 I've heard of it and at some point I had some of it. I know I've given some to my not wild sister. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted March 9, 2022 Share #10 Posted March 9, 2022 @goldendesignwill know. He knows everything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldendesign Posted March 9, 2022 Share #11 Posted March 9, 2022 6 hours ago, Wilbur said: @goldendesignwill know. He knows everything! Well at least jewelry related I can consider myself an expert, maybe, I am 5 years past my retirement as a jeweler. Anywho... Lapis Lazuli is a soft blue stone was found in North America, Chile, and most recently in Afghanistan. It's unique look is actually a mix of two minerals lazurite and golden pyrite. It was considered a holy stone as the deep blue was referenced in the bible for Mary's robes with golden threads. There ya go. Some learning on ya. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted March 10, 2022 Share #12 Posted March 10, 2022 My college ring from under grad had a lapis stone. I ended up giving it to the college for their legacy ring program. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted March 10, 2022 Share #13 Posted March 10, 2022 Lapis Lazuli BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (for Harry Clifton) I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay, For everybody knows or else should know That if nothing drastic is done Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out, Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls in Until the town lie beaten flat. All perform their tragic play, There struts Hamlet, there is Lear, That's Ophelia, that Cordelia; Yet they, should the last scene be there, The great stage curtain about to drop, If worthy their prominent part in the play, Do not break up their lines to weep. They know that Hamlet and Lear are gay; Gaiety transfiguring all that dread. All men have aimed at, found and lost; Black out; Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages, And all the drop scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages, It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce. On their own feet they came, or on shipboard, Camel-back, horse-back, ass-back, mule-back, Old civilisations put to the sword. Then they and their wisdom went to rack: No handiwork of Callimachus Who handled marble as if it were bronze, Made draperies that seemed to rise When sea-wind swept the corner, stands; His long lamp chimney shaped like the stem Of a slender palm, stood but a day; All things fall and are built again And those that build them again are gay. Two Chinamen, behind them a third, Are carved in Lapis Lazuli, Over them flies a long-legged bird A symbol of longevity; The third, doubtless a serving-man, Carries a musical instrument. Every discolouration of the stone, Every accidental crack or dent Seems a water-course or an avalanche, Or lofty slope where it still snows Though doubtless plum or cherry-branch Sweetens the little half-way house Those Chinamen climb towards, and I Delight to imagine them seated there; There, on the mountain and the sky, On all the tragic scene they stare. One asks for mournful melodies; Accomplished fingers begin to play. Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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