tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76258403065692225982024-03-19T09:17:08.411-07:00words transform realitywordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-42354880289630229062016-12-02T19:00:00.000-08:002016-12-02T19:00:14.343-08:00"A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by John Keats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its lovliness increases; it will never</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pass into nothingness; but still will keep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A bower quiet for us, and a sleep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A flowery band to bind us to the earth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkn'd ways</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some shape of beauty moves away the pall</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For simply sheep; and such are daffodils</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the green world they live in; and clear rills</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That for themselves a cooling covert make</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And such too is the grandeur of the dooms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have imagined for the mighty dead;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An endless fountain of immortal drink</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-37450682963084226362016-11-25T10:14:00.000-08:002016-11-25T10:20:51.497-08:00"Love, What Is Love"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Love, What Is Love"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Robert Louis Stevenson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love - what is love? A great and aching heart;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life - what is life? Upon a moorland bare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To see love coming and see love depart.</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-71797948187741189242016-09-06T14:39:00.003-07:002016-09-06T14:39:41.972-07:00"If You Forget Me"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"If You Forget Me"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Pablo Neruda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want you to know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">one thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know how this is:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if I look</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the crystal moon, at the red branch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the slow autumn at my window,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if I touch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">near the fire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the impalpable ash</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or the wrinkled body of the log,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">everything carries me to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as if everything that exists,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">aromas, light, metals,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">were little boats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that sail</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">toward those isles of yours that wait for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, now,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if little by little you stop loving me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall stop loving you little by little.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If suddenly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you forget me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">do not look for me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for I shall already have forgotten you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you think it long and mad,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the wind of banners </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that passes through my life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and you decide </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to leave me at the shore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the heart where I have roots,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">remember</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that on that day,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at that hour,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall lift my arms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and my roots will set off</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to seek another land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if each day,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">each hour,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you feel that you are destined for me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with implacable sweetness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if each day a flower</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">climbs up your lips to seek me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ah my love, ah my own,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in me all that fire is repeated,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> my love feeds on your love, beloved,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and as long as you live it will be in your arms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">without leaving mine.</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-85228858865999878452016-08-20T22:17:00.001-07:002016-08-20T22:17:52.012-07:00"Solitude"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Solitude"</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Ella Wheeler Wilcox</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Laugh, and the world laughs with you;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weep, and you weep alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But has trouble enough of its own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sing, and the hills will answer;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sigh, it is lost on the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The echoes bound to a joyful sound,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But shrink from voicing care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rejoice, and men will seek you;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grieve, and they turn and go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They want full measure of all your pleasure,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But they do not need your woe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be glad, and your friends are many;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be sad, and you lose them all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are none to decline your nectared wine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But alone you must drink life's gall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feast, and your galls are crowded;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fast, and the world goes by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Succeed and give, and it helps you live,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But no man can help you die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is room in the halls of pleasure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For a long and lordly train,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But one by one we must all file on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through the narrow aisles of pain.</span></div>
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wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-66459735055628190802016-08-19T08:54:00.000-07:002016-08-19T08:54:57.713-07:00"My Hometown Is a Place That Doesn't Exist"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"My Hometown Is a Place That Doesn't Exist"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Ellena Kilgallon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My hometown is a place that doesn’t exist.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the age of one, I’ve moved around the world more times than my fingers can count. My hometown is a series of
connect-the-dots in no particular pattern. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It used to bother me that I was neither Australian nor
American. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember gum trees and Scarborough Beach and burnt hotdogs
at Christmas. I’m familiar with Fourth of July fireworks and baseball games and
High School Musical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My hometown isn’t a place – it doesn’t exist. But I remember
my mother reading me Chronicles of Narnia in Sydney and in Phoenix. My late
night talks with dad span a dozen years and a dozen homes. My brothers played
pirates with me and then listened to my short stories in college.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe I didn’t live in the same house my entire life. Maybe
I have dozens of friends who have never met around the world. Maybe I’ll never
stop craving the next city, the next restart. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My hometown doesn’t exist. But I
do. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-25216849565133993322016-07-25T08:49:00.000-07:002016-07-25T08:49:05.577-07:00"Exhortation: Summer 1919"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Exhortation: Summer 1919"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Claude McKay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through the pregnant universe rumbles life's terrific thunder,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Earth's bowels quale with terror; strange and terrible storms break,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lightning-torches flame the heavens, kindling souls of men, thereunder:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Africa! long ages sleeping, O my motherland, awake!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the East the clouds glow crimson with the new dawn that is breaking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And its golden glory fills the western skies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O my brothers and my sisters, wake! arise!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the new birth rends the old earth and the very dead are waking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ghosts are turned flesh, throwing off the grave's disguise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the foolish, even children, are made wise;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the big earth groans in travail for the strong, new world in making-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O my brothers, dreaming for dim centuries,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wake from sleeping; to the East turn, turn your eyes!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh the night is sweet for sleeping, but the shining day's for working;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sons of the seductive night, for your children's children's sake,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the deep primeval forests where the crouching leopard's lurking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lift your heavy-lidded eyes, Ethiopia! awake!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the East the clouds glow crimson with the new dawn that is breaking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And its golden glory fills the western skies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O my brothers and my sisters, wake! arise!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the new birth rends the old earth and the very dead are waking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ghosts have turned flesh, throwing off the grave's disguise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the foolish, even children, are made wise;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the big earth groans in travail for the strong, new world in making-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O my brothers, dreaming for long centuries,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wake from sleeping; to the East turn, turn your eyes.</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-3677255478890484452016-07-22T08:12:00.000-07:002016-07-22T08:12:58.810-07:00"Poem (In the Morning, When It Was Raining)"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Poem (In the Morning, When It Was Raining)"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Delmore Schwartz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the morning, when it was raining,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then the birds were hectic and loudy;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Through all the reign is fall's entertaining</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Their singing was erratic and full of disorder:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They did not remember the summer blue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Or the orange of June. They did not think at all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of the great read and bursting ball</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of the kingly sun's terror and tempest, blazing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once the slanting rain threw over all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The colorless curtains of the ceaseless spontaneous fall.</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-1524130560107321612016-07-01T16:35:00.000-07:002016-07-01T16:35:10.288-07:00"A Poison Tree"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"A Poison Tree"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by William Blake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was angry with my friend:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I told my wrath, my wrath did end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was angry with my foe:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I told it now, my wrath did grow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I watered it in fears,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Night and morning with my tears;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I sunned it with smiles,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And with soft deceitful wiles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it grew both day and night,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Till it bore an apple bright.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And my foe beheld it shine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And he knew that it was mind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And into my garden stole</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the night had veiled the pole;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the morning glad I see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My foe outstretched beneath the tree.<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;"> </span></span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-8726622559574971252016-06-13T12:16:00.002-07:002016-06-13T12:16:43.441-07:00"The Yachts"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Yachts"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by William Carlos Williams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">contend in a sea which the land partly encloses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shielding them from the too-heavy blows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of an ungoverned ocean which when it chooses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tortures the biggest hulls, the best man knows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to pit against its beatings, and sinks them pitilessly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mothlike in mists, scintillant in the minute</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brilliance of cloudless days, with broad bellying sails</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they glide to the wind tossing green water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from their sharp prows while over them the crew crawls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ant-like, solicitously grooming them, releasing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">making fast as they turn, lean far over and having</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">caught the wind again, side by side, head for the mark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a well guarded arena of open water surrounded by </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lesser and greater craft which, sycophant, lumbering</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and flittering follow them, they appear youthful, rare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as the light of a happy eye, live with the grace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of all that in the mind is feckless, free and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">naturally to be desired. Now the sea which holds them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is moody, lapping their glossy sides, as if feeling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for some slightest flaw but fails completely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today no race. Then the wind comes again. The yachts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">move, jockeying for a start, the signal is set and they</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are off. Now the waves strike at them but they are too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">well made, they slip through, though they take in canvas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arms with hands grasping seek to clutch at the prows.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bodies thrown recklessly in the way are cut aside.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a sea of faces about them in agony, in despair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">until the horror of the race dawns staggering the mind;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the whole sea became an entanglement of watery bodies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lost to the world bearing what they cannot hold. Broken,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beaten, desolate, reaching from the dead to be taken up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they cry out, failing, failing! their cries rising</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in waves still as the skillful yachts pass over.</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-27325030776876352972016-05-27T23:35:00.002-07:002016-08-20T22:20:21.146-07:00"O Me! O Life!"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"O Me! O Life!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Walt Whitman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">faithless?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of objects mean, of the struggle ever</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">renew'd,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The question, O me! so sad, recurring- What good amid these, O me, O life?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Answer.</span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That you are here- that life exists and identity,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-33384755822749773792016-05-20T10:05:00.000-07:002016-05-20T10:05:36.406-07:00"We Lying by the Seaside"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We Lying by the Seaside"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Dylan Thomas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We lying by the seasand, watching yellow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the grave sea, mock who deride</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who follow the red rivers, hollow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alcove of words out of cicada shade,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For in this yellow grave of sand and sea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A calling for colour calls with the wind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's grave and gay as grave and sea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleeping on either hand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lunar silences, the silent tide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lapping the still canals, the dry tide-master</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ribbed between desert and water storm,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Should cure our ills of the water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a one-coloured calm;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The heavenly music over the sand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sounds with the grains as they hurry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hiding the golden mountains and mansions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of the grave, gay, seaside land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bound by a sovereign strip, we lie,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch yellow, wish for wind to blow away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The strata of the shore and drown red rock;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But wishes breed not, neither</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can we fend off rock arrival,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lie watching yellow until the golden weather</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Breaks, O my heart's blood, like a heart and hill.</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-81218691021036207532016-05-09T19:52:00.002-07:002016-05-09T19:52:37.307-07:00"Music of the Night"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Music of the Night"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Darkness stirs and wakes imagination</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Silently the senses abandon their defenses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turn your face away from the garish light of day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And listen to the music of the night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Purge your thoughts of the life you knew before</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you'll live as you've never lived before</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Softly, deftly, music shall surround you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feel it, hear it, closing in around you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this darkness of the music of the night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let your mind start a journey to a strange new world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let your soul take you where you long to be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only then can you belong to me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Floating, falling, sweet intoxication</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To the power of the music that I write</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The power of the music of the night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You alone can make my song take flight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Help me make the music of the night</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-83843430378044267362016-04-30T14:24:00.000-07:002016-04-30T14:24:18.484-07:00"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tide rises, the tide falls,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along the sea-sands damp and brown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The traveller hastens toward the town,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And the tide rises, the tide falls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Darkness settles on roofs and walls,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The little waves, with their soft, white hands,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Efface the footprints in the sands,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And the tide rises, the tide falls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day retuns, but nevermore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Returns the traveller to the shore,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And the tide rises, the tide falls.</span><br />
<br />wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-69448047904483915202016-04-25T14:22:00.000-07:002016-04-28T23:34:40.489-07:00"Between What I See and What I Say"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Between What I See and What I Say" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Octavio Paz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for Roman Jakobson</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 1</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Between what I see and what I say,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">between what I say and what I keep silent,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">between what I keep silent and what I dream,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">between what I dream and what I forget:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">poetry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It slips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">between yes and no,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> says</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">what I keep silent,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> keeps silent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">what I say,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">what I forget,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It is not speech:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it is an act.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It is an act</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of speech.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Poetry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">speaks and listens:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> it is real.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And as soon as I say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <i>it is real</i>,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it vanishes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> is it then more real?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tangible idea,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> intangible</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">word:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> poetry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">comes and goes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> between what is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and what is not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It weaves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and unweaves reflections.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Poetry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">scatters eyes on a page,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">scatters words on our eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eyes speak,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> words look,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">looks think.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> To hear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">thoughts,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">what we say,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> touch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the body of an idea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Eyes close,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the words open.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-90112441520418146922016-04-23T22:16:00.002-07:002016-04-23T22:16:27.776-07:00"Fear No More"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Fear No More"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fear no more the heat o' the sun;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nor the furious winter's rages,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thou thy worldly task hast done,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Golden lads and girls all must,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As chimney sweepers come to dust.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fear no more the frown of the great,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Care no more to clothe and eat;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To thee the reed is as the oak:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sceptre, learning, physic, must</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All follow this, and come to dust.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fear no more the lightning-flash,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nor the all-dread thunder-stone;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fear not slander, censure rash;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thou hast finished joy and moan;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All lovers young, all lovers must</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consign to thee, and come to dust.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No exorciser harm thee!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nor no witchcraft charm thee!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ghost unlaid forbear thee!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing ill come near thee!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quiet consummation have;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And renowned be thy grave!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-69777761210546770392016-04-17T15:36:00.003-07:002016-04-17T15:36:55.087-07:00"Journey on the Sahara"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Journey on the Sahara"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Samantha Haren</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They tread
upon a sea of sand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With no end
in sight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shu dances
over dunes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and gives
the sand its bite<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They
struggle to set up camp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but stay
silent in their plight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Camels rest
and dunes darken<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Ra gives
way to night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The groan of
a camel <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">gives the
caravan a fright.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two stones
are struck together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the fire
comes alight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All welcome
the warmth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sparks rise
and take flight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then dreams
take one to places far,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A home of
warm delight.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-49656142021501087042016-04-07T18:39:00.000-07:002016-04-07T18:39:17.142-07:00"The Treasure"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The Treasure"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Rubert Brooke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When colour goes home into the eyes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> And lights that shine are shut again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With dancing girls and sweet birds' cries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Behind the gateways of the brain;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And that no-place which gave them birth, shall close</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The rainbow and the rose:-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still may Time hold some golden space</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Where I'll unpack that scented store</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of song and flower and sky and face,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> And count, and touch, and turn them o'er,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Musing upon them; as a mother, who </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Has watched her children all the rich day through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sits, quiet-handed, in the fading light,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When children sleep, ere the night.</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-82102779888742950822016-04-01T12:00:00.002-07:002016-04-01T12:00:57.328-07:00"Ogun's Friend"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Ogun's Friend"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Jayne Cortez</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I saw your eyes like bumps of flint</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i saw your shoes like high-top boulders</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i saw your hands like faces of fire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i saw your fingers like axes of Shango</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i saw your body like a rocker of steel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i heard a hum down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i heard a rumble down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i heard a ghost down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i heard a thunderbolt expel down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i heard a anvil in the night go hummmmmmmm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hey whose metals are shouting so loud</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">they must be the tapper that Ogun knows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">whose are those beads so hot and black</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">they must be brass for Ogun to fill</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who's that worker with corrugated gums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it must be the worker that Ogun chose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who's that one with feet like flames</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it must be the welder that's Ogun's friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i smell a chicken in here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i smell some charcoal in here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i smell a goat in here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i smell a dog in here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i smell some clay and some oil and some blood in here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hey i see your chains like links of teeth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">crow-bars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i see your coils like female pouches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">barbwire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i see your grills like braided snakes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fish-net</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i see your ladder like a totem of pliers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">crocodiles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i see your pipes like razors on tusks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wine bottles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i see your scissors and your keys on the table in there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">uh-huhn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you got pant legs made into hats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you got diamond plates made into walls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you got straightening combs made into steps </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you got hammer-heads made into skulls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you got flat-rings made into ears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pant legs diamond plates</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">straightening combs hammer-heads</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">flat-rings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">yo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i feel your flux</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i feel your sander</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i feel your drill bit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i feel your grinder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i feel your drill press</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i feel your hack saw</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i feel your brick ax</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yo </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i saw your windows like sheets of steel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i heard a gong down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i saw some navels like bushes of wire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i heard a bird down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you got lizard tongues made into tongs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i feel your bald spot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you got snakeskins covered in bronze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i feel your chin marks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lizard tongues bald spots</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">snakeskins chin marks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yo </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i smell some fish in here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i see a rail down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i smell some toes in here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i see a horn down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i smell some funk in here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i see a knife down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i smell some ratheads in here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">i see a person down there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whose that one so brown and fine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ogun's friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">whose that one in green on green</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ogun's friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">whose that one who eats so fast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ogun's friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">whose that one with toothpaste lips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ogun's friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">whose that one who spits on tools</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ogun's friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yo Ogun's friend</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-84932440043384655742016-03-28T20:25:00.002-07:002016-03-28T20:25:45.005-07:00"Life"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Life" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Charlotte Bronte</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life, believe, is not a dream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So dark as sages say;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oft a little morning rain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Foretells a pleasant day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But these are transient all;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If the shower will make the roses bloom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">O why lament its fall?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rapidly, merrily,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life's sunny hours flit by,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gratefully, cheerily</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enjoy them as they fly!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What though Death at time steps in, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And calls our Best away?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What though sorrow seems to win,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">O'er hope, a heavy sway?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet Hope again elastic springs,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unconquered, though she fell;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still buoyant are her golden wings,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still strong to bear us well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Manfully, fearlessly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The day of trial bear,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For gloriously, victoriously,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can courage quell despair!</span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-58667710579871484262016-03-27T21:59:00.000-07:002016-07-22T08:16:26.740-07:00"Loving Someone"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Loving Someone"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by The 1975</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My heart is telling me the telly isn't telling me anything I need but it needs to keep selling me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Besides celebrities lacking in integrity holding up the status quo instead of showing the kids that they matter, who are they gonna batter next? Just keep holding their necks and keep selling them sex - 'it's better if we keep them perplexed' - 'it's better if we make them want the opposite sex'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Disenfranchised young criminal minds in a car park beside where your nan resides are not slow, they've just never been shown that you should be loving someone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We're all human, we're just like you man</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We're sentient or something or other I can't remember, whatever - we shouldn't have people afloat,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If it was safer on the ground, we wouldn't be on a boat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Charlatan telepathy exploiting insecurity and preying on the purity of grief and it's simplicity but I know that maybe I'm too skeptical, even Guy Debord needed spectacles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You see, I'm the Greek economy of cashing intellectual cheques and I'm trying to progress </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but instead of selling sex - I think I should be loving someone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am forever in alongside the boys in jumpers on bikes from schools and cars with autumn leaves fallen sparse across mid-afternoon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She blazed about how 'cultural language is an operation system, a simple interface rendered feeble and listless when tested with a divitnty or a true understanding of the human condition.' I never did understand - the duality of art and reality - living life and treating it as such but with a certain disconnect to touch that cajoles at the artist with comfort and abandon. And between the spires and rolling roofs of the white city that orange, English light casts only one, singular shadow for you are not beside me but within me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-74037441684449878782016-03-27T20:49:00.002-07:002017-07-29T20:33:47.178-07:00"With You"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"With You"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Ellena Kilgallon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I fell asleep right there with sand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in my teeth and sand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in my hair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But then, so did you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the bright sun winking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on a handful of shells, pearlescent swirls,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sea-salt memories of sunburned afternoons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the sun kissed my eyelids awake, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I turned to look at you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to push aside your hair and to feel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the warm skin on your back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our faces were aligned, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my eyes to yours and my mouth to yours.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We stared unblinking. You reached</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">your hand to touch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my cheek.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I closed my eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-51220747442286560792016-03-13T21:51:00.002-07:002016-03-13T21:51:57.145-07:00"The Second Coming"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Second Coming"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by W.B. Yeats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turning and turning in the widening gyre</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The falcon cannot hear the falconer;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ceremony of innocence is drowned;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The best lack all conviction, while the worst</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are full of passionate intensity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surely some revelation is at hand;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surely the Second Coming is at hand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A shape with lion body and the head of a man,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A gaze blank and pitiless as the gun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The darkness drops again; but now I know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That twenty centuries of stony sleep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?</span><br />
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wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-3010835066705068032016-03-12T11:34:00.001-08:002016-03-12T11:34:21.092-08:00"I Dwell in Possibility"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I Dwell in Possibility"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Emily Dickinson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I dwell in Possibility-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A fairer House than Prose-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More numerous of windows-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Superior- for Doors-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of Chambers as the Cedars-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Impregnable of eye-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And for an everlasting Roof</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Gambrels of the Sky-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of Visitors- the fairest-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For Occupation- This-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The spreading wide my narrow Hands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To gather Paradise-</span><br />
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<br />wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-57932011595755724002016-03-04T23:41:00.000-08:002016-03-04T23:41:48.147-08:00"Endless Time"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Endless Time"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Rabindranath Tagore</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time is endless in thy hands, my lord.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is none to count thy minutes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thou knowest how to wait.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thy centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild flower.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have no time to lose,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and having no time we must scramble for a chance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are too poor to be late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And thus it is that time goes by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">while I give it to every querulous man who claims it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be shut;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but I find that yet there is time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>wordstransformrealityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435177705540484901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625840306569222598.post-109435519664083602016-02-27T10:19:00.000-08:002016-02-27T10:19:04.754-08:00"5 Am"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"5 AM"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Amber Run</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We run into a dark room</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we spasm to the sounds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of a copy of Morrissey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or the blues of the deep South</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the drugs will only hide it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The feeling never really goes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You won't find love at the bottom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of a glass seat home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've got work in the morning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it's nearly 5am</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is this really what we envisioned?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We won't be 21 again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And in the haze you see colours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And problems suddenly make sense</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the way you've been going</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll be in an early grave</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you don't know what you've got</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">until it's gone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you don't know who to love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">until you're lost</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you don't know how to feel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">until the moment's passed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish you'd live like you're made of glass.</span><br />
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