Mar
25
2010
connected
But the truth, the first truth,
probably,
is that we are all connected,
watching one another.
Even the trees.
Arthur Miller, Timebends
Mar
23
2010
hope
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
Mar
22
2010
nizar
A Man’s Nature
A man needs one minute
to love a woman
and centuries to forget her
…Nizar Qabbani
Translated by L. Jayyusi and C. Middleton
In The Summer
In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you.
Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have [...]
Feb
17
2010
a girl
The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast -
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.
Tree you are,
Moss you are,
You are violets with wind above them.
A child – so high – you are,
And all this [...]
Feb
9
2010
springtime
The temple bell stops.
But the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
Matsuo Basho
Its house abandoned,
the garden has become home
to butterflies.
Iio Sogi (1421-1502)
Dec
27
2009
self-knowledge
And a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge.
And he answered saying:
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your [...]
Dec
23
2009
winter haiku
an extract from a lovely haiku by P Noble
freshly cut oranges
revive memories
too deep for sharing
orion’s arm
reaches over the horizon
tossing stars
Nov
23
2009
thinking
Love.
So many different ways
to have been in love.
Boncho
thinking…
must get back to blogging more often
with thanks to Bel-Vedere for the pics
Jul
9
2009
love men
A life without men? no thanks, I love men
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
from the gallery
on lastfm
