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2014-07-30

"When you go" (Edwin Morgan)


                                                                   Saudade.


When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there's nothing I'd be saved by
more than the time 
you fell asleep in my arms
in a trust so gentle 
I let the darkening room
drink up the evening, till
rest, or the new rain
lightly roused you awake.
I asked if you heard the rain in your dream&
and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.

― Edwin Morgan

2014-07-28

Now. Here.




Then one day, just like that
and seemingly out of order,
a gust of pixie dust blows your Universe
open ― a space at a sacred place
in your heart, in your mind
conjure old new wor[l]ds
from the solace of nowhere ―
a promise, in now here.

                                                (just like that)
                                                In a brave instant.

2014-07-23

Wheat field

Five somber days gone by. Over
the wheat fields of Europe's Granary
a Firebird was shot down. In broad daylight.

Now a ghostly train travels back. At night
wagons loaded with corpses. Instead of grain ― 
death. Hatred maddening the senses.

The ripe wheat left in the field.
Bent down. Unharvested. 



                                                        Google Images

2014-07-01

Riddle



"I'll tell you a riddle. 
You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. 
You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. 
But it doesn't matter. . .
How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?" 

- Inception, The Movie