Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Poetry Picture Challenge may 22
Go Insane by the Doors
Once I had a little game
I liked to crawl back in my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called 'go insane'
Now you should try this little game
Just close your eyes forget your name
Forget the world, forget the people
And we'll erect a different steeple.
This little game is fun to do.
Just close your eyes, i'm going too.
And I'm right here, no way to lose
Release control, we're breaking through
Poetry Picture Challenge May 21
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way by you’re older.
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter. Never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines.
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way…
excerpt from Time by Pink Floyd
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Poetry Picture Challenge May 20
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Poetry Picture Challenge May 19
"The words we speak become the house we live in" ~Hafiz
Now that’s transparency!!
Poetry Picture Challenge May 18
The Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem (English Translation)
if he wish to gain honour in the sight of the Lord.
a great ranger of the moors, it is a creature of mettle.
uncommonly severe on all who sit among them.
a blessing and a joy to every knight.
on the back of a stout horse.
to all broken men who are devoid of aught else.
and is tossed about by gusts of wind
and then it melts into water.
to the children of men, to everyone who heeds it betimes.
it is a floor wrought by the frost, fair to look upon.
for rich and poor alike.
a guardian of flame and a joy upon an estate.
covering with blood every warrior who touches it.
until the courser of the deep bears them to land.
Splendid are its branches and gloriously adorned
its lofty crown which reaches to the skies.
when rich men on horseback bandy words about it;
and it is ever a source of comfort to the restless.
since the Lord by his decree will commit the vile carrion to the earth.
and the waves of the sea terrify them
and the courser of the deep heed not its bridle.
he departed eastwards over the waves.
So the Heardingas named the hero.
whatever is right and proper in constant prosperity.
and of service to all.
and the ocean proves whether the oak keeps faith
in honourable fashion.
though attacked by many a man.
and is laid in the bosom of the dark earth.
Prosperity declines, happiness passes away
and covenants are broken.
Poetry Picture Challenge May 17
Wizardry
I may be vindictive
But I know better
than to waste my wishes
on revenge.
I may be righteously enraged
But I know violence
heals no wounds
creates no peace
gives no solace
I have learned through misery
that expectations are heralds
of disappointment, prophets
blind and diseased.
Better to envision calm
vistas, pleasing to sensation,
happy successful scenes, merry
and blessed, when wishes
are conceived.
by Laurie Corzett