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Poetry Friday

SUMMITS

Mountains bloom in spring they shine in summer they burn in autumn but they belong to winter every day we travel farther and at evening we come to the same country mountains are waiting but is it for us all day the night was shining through them and many of the birds were theirs

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Poetry Friday

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of [...]

Video Poetry (Forever Edition)

ALKALINE TRIO – GOODBYE FOREVER

Take your wings outside You can’t fly in here Besides a purple sky Is better soaring For you my angel You’re an angel You little devil As for me I’ll stay inside I’ll be a spy And I’ll watch from the window

Cannot categorize The nature of this sickness [...]

Poetry Friday

THE STORM

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Against the stone breakwater, Only an ominous lapping, While the wind whines overhead, Coming down from the mountain, Whistling between the arbors, the winding terraces; A thin whine of wires, a rattling and flapping of leaves, And the small street-lamp swinging and slamming against         the lamp pole.

Where have the people gone? [...]

Video Poetry (Twilight Edition)

THE WEAKERTHANS – CIVIL TWILIGHT

My Confusion Corner commuters are cursing the cold away As December tries to dissemble the length of their working day And they bite their mitts off to show me transfers, deposit change and I can’t stop finding your face in their faces, all rearranged and angry like you never [...]

Poetry Friday

Donal Óg

It is late last night the dog was speaking of you; the snipe was speaking of you in her deep marsh. It is you are the lonely bird through the woods; and that you may be without a mate until you find me.

You promised me, and you said a lie to me, [...]

Poetry Friday

JANUARY

Dusk and snow this hour in argument have settled nothing. Light persists, and darkness. If a star shines now, that shine is swallowed and given back doubled, grounded bright. The timid angels flailed by passing children lift in a whitening wind toward night. What plays beyond the window plays as water might, all parts [...]

Video Poetry (the unlucky part)

RANCID – FALL BACK DOWN

Don’t worry about me, I’m gonna make it alright Got my enemies cross-haired and in my sight I take a bad situation gonna make it right In the shadows of darkness I stand in the light

You see it’s our style to keep it true I’ve had a bad [...]

Quote of the Day

I go out of the darkness           Onto a road of darkness     Lit only by the far off             Moon on the edge of the mountains.

Kuraki yori Kuraki michi ni zo Irinu beki Haruka ni terase Yama ho ni no tsuki

  —Izumi Shikibu (c. 974 – c. 1033), Japanese courtesan and poet.

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Video Poetry (part deux)

ALKALINE TRIO – WE’VE HAD ENOUGH

In the shadows where the heads hang low You hear voices as the wind blows, asking “can’t you see?” Reminding you to breathe It’s only time before it catches up to you and all your broken luck I found a better way to get even with my memory

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