Saturday, 26 April 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Saturday, 12 April 2008
Friday, 11 April 2008
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
This Weather
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Something Burns in the Heart

~ If I could stay...
Then the night would give you up
Stay...and the day would keep its trust
Stay...and the night would be enough
Faraway, so close
Up with the static and the radio
With satellite television
You can go anywhere
A Summer Wasting
~ It's a crisis I know
At the end of the show
People change but we don't falter
Cause we know love is real
This is no place to shiver
So get up off the grass
You were once the main attraction
but all that's in the past
Agricultural heritage.
Our remnants remain in the place they were in the past.
Beautiful.
Run Wild
~ On the steps of the Valley of the Fallen, the 'great' memorial/mausoleum to Spanish Fascist leader Franco. Shrouded in mist, it is a place of great mystery, and misery - it was built by force: the losers of the Spanish Civil War, the Republicans were punished by being forced to construct the monument.
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
Down The Road
~And so I came to this dream-like place
But I can’t remember how
Our lives just break open in front of us
Echo of Memory
The Music We Are
Did you hear that winter’s over? The basil
and the carnations cannot control their
laughter. The nightingale, back from his
wandering, has been made singing master
over the birds. The trees reach out their
congratulations. The soul goes dancing
through the king’s doorway. Anemones blush
because they have seen the rose naked.
Spring, the only fair judge, walks in the
courtroom, and several December thieves steal
away, Last year’s miracles will soon be
forgotten. New creatures whirl in from non-
existence, galaxies scattered around their
feet. Have you met them? Do you hear the
bud of Jesus crooning in the cradle? A single
narcissus flower has been appointed Inspector
of Kingdoms. A feast is set. Listen: the
wind is pouring wine! Love used to hide
inside images: no more! The orchard hangs
out its lanterns. The dead come stumbling by
in shrouds. Nothing can stay bound or be
imprisoned. You say, “End this poem here,
and wait for what’s next.” I will. Poems
are rough notations for the music we are.
~Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
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