18-Dec-2024
Monday, January 20, 2025
My friend, we're holdin' a wedding
The night to the day we're a bindin'
And now the dark air is like fire on my skin
And even the moonlight is blinding
Townes Van Zandt
Rake
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18-Dec-2024
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18-Dec-2024
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07-Dec-2008
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18-Dec-2024
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This is Chirstmas; the lying likeness of
Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move
-- modified excerpt:
Our eunuch dreams
Dylan Thomas
published 1932
07-Dec-2022
The Illusion of Night
when
night
cast her shadow
It
brings
the
illusion of night
again
Stu Harley
The Illusion of Night
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1885845/the-illusion-of-night/
04-FEB-2017
Down Town Dallas at night, in red and yellow
04-FEB-2017
Down Town Dallas at night
lady in the garden
A tribute to Monet and all the birds in his beard and all the bees in his bonnet
bench by the pond
if only for a moment
part from inertia
and breathe the air
time gets lost in|
a prayer to ascend eternity|
to home
-dc
rancid wings
O garbage man
aim lower
and lose me out of here,
winds
swept by the rancid wings
of rusted pigeons
sweep deeper
that I may twist
in your torrent
like an empty bag
and enjoy my descent
one more time
-dc
next
Your illusions are a part of you, like your bones and flesh and memory
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
abstract crucifix
they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them
And they touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem
- beth orton
29-JUL-2010
archetypal detonation
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
"Anthem"
23-OCT-2010
One Eyed Jack and his Bursting Heart
15-Apr-2021
La Bahia Trail remnant
we're just pieces of sky
pieces of time drifting by
-(paraphrased) Beth Orton
10-Feb-2024
trick of the light
i met you one night
through a trick of the light
a thousand lifetimes ago
your soul
was tearing and a thread
was dragged behind you as you fled
into shadow
asaf avidan
the golden calf
27-Feb-2024
Continuum
What is this thing called life? I believe
That the earth and the stars too, and the whole glittering universe, and rocks on the mountains have life,
Only we do not call it so--I speak of the life
That oxidizes fats and proteins and carbo-
Hydrates to live on, and from that chemical energy
Makes pleasure and pain, wonder, love, adoration, hatred and terror: how do these things grow
From a chemical reaction?
I think they were here already, I think the rocks
And the earth and the other planets, and the stars and the galaxies
have their various consciousness, all things are conscious;
But the nerves of an animal, the nerves and brain
Bring it to focus; the nerves and brain are like a burning-glass
To concentrate the heat and make it catch fire:
It seems to us martyrs hotter than the blazing hearth
From which it came. So we scream and laugh, clamorous animals
Born howling to die groaning: the old stones in the dooryard
Prefer silence; but those and all things have their own awareness,
As the cells of a man have; they feel and feed and influence each other, each unto all,
Like the cells of a man's body making one being,
They make one being, one consciousness, one life, one God.
― Robinson Jeffers
