Photograph by pierluigi.ricci
There are in me great and turbulent storms - harsh winds and wild currents that I cannot tame. These forces, I simply let be and give them their due, lying among dreams motionless in my shell as my whole being runs asunder – raging. Believing all the while - even storms have a purpose.
- [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Storms of Purpose
Posted in Life, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged dreams, Purpose, Random, Writing, Storm, Storms, Winds, Wild, Tame, Forces, Shell on July 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Write as the Tide
Posted in Life, Passages, Quotes, Writing, tagged Book, Daily, Day, Henry David Thoreau, Page, quote, Sand, Shells, Shore, Sincere, Thoughtful, Tide, Write on July 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by rogerjporter
“No day will have been wholly misspent, if one sincere, thoughtful page has been written. Let the daily tide leave some deposit on these pages, as it leaves sand and shells on the shore.”
- Henry David Thoreau
The Current
Posted in Life, Ramblings, Writing, tagged current, hinder, hunger, Linger, move on, Past, Refelct, Sea, stumble, Writing on July 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by *Glauka
reflect but do not linger
do not stumble
do no hinder
you are here as the current
move on
and
do not for the past hunger
- Kaosar (Raatkiranii)
Photograph by Erik Kolstad
Dear, dear Sister
My Sister Lake
where are you going?
Running away.
running, running …
Running away!
Breaking the cycle
that circular motion
Stopping it once and for all
for I won’t do it anymore!
Not anymore.
no more, no more I say!
Oh ruckus,
wild, wild chaos
what have you done, Sister!
Why do you protest so?
Oh, I said, No more!
and I mean it this time.
I [...]
Prayer
Posted in Books, Life, Passages, Poetry, Quotes, fate, tagged Poet, Poem, Prayer, Whatever, Want, Galway Kinnell on July 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by ~Aphrodite
Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.
- Galway Kinnell
Tonight
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged angry night, Beat, bright, choose, dancing, Dark, deep, delight, Feel, flashing, know, lightning, loud, night, noise, pure, Random, sights, sing, smiling, snickering, sounds, strike, swing, Tonight, Tune, will, Writing on July 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by flimseflo
I hear your sounds tonight
in this deep dark night
the little little dancing
the loud loud noise
I see your sights tonight
in this deep dark night
the bright bright flashing
the hard hard strike
“angry night”
they say tonight
but I know you’re about…
dancing and flashing
loud and bright
snickering and smiling
all in pure delight
and I know you
I feel you
for I was just [...]
"The Oxford History of Islam" by John L. Esposito (Editor)
"O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas,
And change thyself with many a twist and turn;
Thou wast not born for tile solace of the shore;
Arise, untamed, and find a path for thyself."
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal