tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20745538917820821552024-02-22T01:07:08.591+11:00I wear your shoes.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-65757512802245997332012-07-24T22:27:00.001+10:002012-07-24T22:27:34.654+10:00the overflowing.<br />
Because the sun still rises<br />
and rain still falls,<br />
the sign in the sky<br />
still appears and I can't read it.<br />
My house and the land wherein we live<br />
catch the glow,<br />
<br />
catch the dew that falls<br />
from morning.<br />
<br />
I see the hand<br />
but not the face. Nothing I've done<br />
makes a difference<br />
to what is poured out.<br />
With a distant face and heart,<br />
Wisdom calls out.<br />
<br />
She offers me her hand.<br />
She promises,<br />
allures me to your closeness,<br />
entices hope.<br />A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-48177888983351235702012-06-01T13:24:00.000+10:002012-06-01T13:55:31.579+10:00as the sun.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">hi</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">l</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ight?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> S</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ongs </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ir</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">are the praise </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">f </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">jo</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">nd </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">tr</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ue </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">l</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ove,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">or perhaps </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">h</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ollow </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">e</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">choes </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">f the night</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">E</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ven nightfall</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">r</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">esonant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">with </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">g</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">entle </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">g</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">low,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ill </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">onder </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">f </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ou </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">r</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ecognise </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ords.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Our </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">G</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">od,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> f</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">or </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">our </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ame </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">e </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ur </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">m</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ouths,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ur </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">k</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ing,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ne </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ho </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">h</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ears,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">mall </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">hing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">g</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">race </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">rinket</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">g</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">rasp</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">nd </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">p</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ut </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">m</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">p</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ocket,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">m</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">allet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">T</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">p</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ride </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">f </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ou</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">r </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">l</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ips,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">iredness </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">f our </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">h</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">earts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">we ask </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ou </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">reak. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">P</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">our </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">our </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">m</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ercy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">over </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ur </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">r</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ecklessness,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">h</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">oliness,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">bu</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">l</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">et </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">m</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ffering be </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">pu</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">re.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">from </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">eyond the mountains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">but my words are faltering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Morning </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">reaking,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> s</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">mashing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">to </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">p</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ieces </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">m</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ttempts </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">alk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">where I w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">alked,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">elling </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">m</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">e</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I m</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">issed </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">p</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ath,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> p</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ersuading </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">m</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">e </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">urn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">l</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">inger </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">r</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">oad,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">urn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">urn </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ack </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">nd </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">lmost </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">alk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Where </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ou </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">g</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ill </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">g</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">r</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">emember </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">u</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">H</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ere </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">eyond </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">en</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">d </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">f </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">orld</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">f</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">inal </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ord,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">un </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ursts </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ver</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">with </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">f</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">lame </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">f </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">his </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">d</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ay</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">lmost </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ake </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">tep,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> s</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ee </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">l</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">andslide,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> f</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ind </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ou </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">till.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> I</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> k</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">now </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ou </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">h</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">eart,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">to </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">se</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">arch </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">mong </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">hese t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ents</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">p</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">eople </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ong,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">nly</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">y</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ou</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">h</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ear </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">h</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">er <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">r</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">espond.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">No wonder. This is no small thing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">in my hands. Not emptiness,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">rebellion, or a faltering sun.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Let him give her the words</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">of his mouth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and let me hear with your ears</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">when the light is opened.</span></div>
</div>A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-28704190537936304152012-02-20T14:45:00.000+11:002012-05-09T00:06:35.586+10:00a promise.My last breath will be given back<br />
to the one who gives it to me.<br />
Every day till then<br />
I will wait, I will see you.<br />
<br />
Every morning,<br />
let the words that catch my breath<br />
not fall to the ground empty,<br />
but make me come alive,<br />
<br />
and let the brightness<br />
of the likeness of your nearness<br />
speak on my behalf, show me, wake me:<br />
I have nothing else.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-66338507155302548192011-12-18T16:40:00.000+11:002013-06-22T01:26:44.467+10:00sweetly I take thee, obligation dread.Let these words, printed pages,<br />
phrases, the smell of ink faded<br />
be devoid of beauty now.<br />
Come to these shelves not again,<br />
we who beg because of hunger.<br />
Empty them of sound or sigh,<br />
battered by uncomfortable fits of chance,<br />
finally divorced from dreams<br />
to heal in sullen silence.<br />
The elegy of beauty was stark.<br />
<br />
Desolate in endings,<br />
tear them from strength or pallid sweetness,<br />
kindness, longing, choosing, sickness,<br />
disappointment. Hate the length of sounds<br />
and quiet friendship<br />
of syllables, flash of something new,<br />
chemicals and blood.<br />
The next breath; worlds languish,<br />
dying, and the sun burns blindly.<br />
Sky stretches without sackcloth,<br />
clashes all inside with something<br />
and nothing, nothing else;<br />
brutal our mighty steps<br />
through towns where novels spill no light.<br />
<br />
Let our words decay and shatter<br />
at the sound of singleness.<br />
Poured in a dry riverbed,<br />
they would shout in their millions<br />
an endless cacophony<br />
of something<br />
and everything else. Turn the lights brighter,<br />
make the music louder. Drown the sky.<br />
<br />
Heart, steal not memory<br />
from blood or parchment,<br />
words of any goodness.<br />
Pour your apathy into<br />
the mouth of earth’s darker tunnels.<br />
Surrender cold cynicism<br />
to the hands of one desirable,<br />
the words that speak endlessly<br />
and perplex us<br />
(long nights alone).<br />
<br />
Once, I loved you.<br />
More than I could say.<br />
Today I know only<br />
the tumbling leap of my<br />
own mind. In my universe,<br />
your words move the air<br />
scattering resonance,<br />
austere and alone.<br />
<br />
The elegy of beauty was forgettable.<br />
We are the ones who desired,<br />
who were satisfied.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-47392540340736033052011-11-30T22:41:00.011+11:002011-11-30T23:21:04.448+11:00as if in a mirror.Faithfulness, thankfulness,<br />a path known well and trodden often,<br />a gift, a surprise, and the hope<br />enveloped like a bird<br />in the mountains,<br /><br />endless, darting<br />amidst the songs welcomingly.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-80553778603763487232011-11-30T22:34:00.006+11:002013-06-22T01:25:17.323+10:00wellspring.Half-awoken, shifting or falling<br />
in the earth; who sighed<br />
with my sigh, near to me?<br />
Darkling world,<br />
you mourn the exhaustion<br />
of rivers who flow forward<br />
endlessly, or end<br />
in perpetual barrenness.<br />
Empty rivers stretch in testament<br />
of movement.<br />
<br />
Do we speak<br />
to all that springs forth<br />
green and bright as a friend,<br />
when we people the world<br />
with lore, knowing ourselves<br />
in the swimmingness of rivers?<br />
Do we shy from light with the single desire<br />
to be, desire written intricately<br />
across all else,<br />
folded gently into me?<br />
<br />
Nothing was said of this.<br />
Who divides mercy from madness?<br />
Who divides water from water,<br />
light from light,<br />
the endless darkness, hurtling,<br />
from the sweetness of sleep,<br />
when we wake up<br />
deeply refreshed?<br />
I heard you walking near<br />
<br />
while I sat near the window on a rainy day,<br />
and someone practised the piano.<br />
I asked about my parents,<br />
the parents of their parents, trying to trace<br />
far back to what cannot be reached<br />
in time, or in evident process.<br />
In a simple step,<br />
a simple way, movement in time.<br />
We fill the pages, finite, almost endless,<br />
all with stories,<br />
synonymity.<br />
<br />
Morning wakes<br />
for a winsome world,<br />
who also yearns to wake.<br />
I yearn again to wake<br />
when my eyes see light,<br />
when the light falls sweetly,<br />
when leaves sway inanimately.<br />
<br />
A boat stirs the lake,<br />
a child moves in the womb,<br />
and I lie in the shade of the valley.<br />
I lie here and try to remember<br />
under elemented skies.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-84732517380135319192011-11-20T01:21:00.001+11:002011-11-20T01:21:42.901+11:00cearu.I strive to understand the words<br />addressed to me, unknown. Immense<br />as unread shelves and the minutes<br />till morning,<br />robed in silence;<br /><br />you are more than I've clung to<br />or imagined.<br /><br />Lost in the elaborate and foreign gaze,<br />you are to me<br />like one who is spoken of.<br /><br />Under an unchanging sky<br />and windswept clouds,<br />you are to me like one<br />whose words are of more worth<br />than I'd known.<br /><br />When you spoke,<br />I heard, after many days.<br />You are like one who stays with me<br />near an unlit fire,<br />who waits for me, with me,<br />through seas of restlessness.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-31005249219756653462011-11-16T16:07:00.000+11:002011-11-16T16:08:01.604+11:00you restore.I revel not in a dying sun;<br />my eyes, my feet, lament not western seas,<br />nor will I sacrifice again the bird that sings,<br />but cleave my heart, my eyes,<br />to your paths over me.<br /><br />To these,<br />one thing I know;<br />my heart, my feet,<br />my hands that grope,<br />my eyes grown dim,<br />the crops that fail,<br />the vine grown sweet.<br />One thing I've known,<br />the house I return to.<br /><br />One lingers on the horizon,<br />fills the fields, the trees,<br />the words and the days.<br />Here is one thing, one hand,<br />one voice left<br />at the end of all things,<br />and your paths over me.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-1746945372427202542011-11-03T01:37:00.004+11:002011-11-03T01:49:56.465+11:00akin to pleasantness.Fire-heart,<br />my words like sharpened stone,<br />drawn and formed from mercurial soil<br />to shatter violence.<br /><br />No small river, your words<br />like eternity. Waters passing over,<br />over and over me.<br />(Had you abandoned me?)<br /><br />Having no names<br />they take my stone-heart mail,<br />rend open the ceiling<br />to see the sun.<br /><br />All I lament<br />this soil, beneath the sky.<br />My paths wend back for no one<br />into ignominy.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-21517129617649839422011-10-30T22:31:00.020+11:002011-11-01T23:33:35.636+11:00a cord of many strands.As the waking stars slowly emerge,<br />in the middle of the night<br />or in sleep like valleys,<br />in the morning<br />when the light is sweet<br /><br />we belong to this day, flowing seamlessly<br />from week to year, hour to hour<br />of daylight, inclining<br />to the words beneath.<br /><br />Small fires flare, some nights;<br />vast storms ascend.<br />In our last rest (last breath),<br />sunrise, earth, and sky immense<br />flee from your presence.<br />Words on our lips<br />are standing on the path where eyes<br />find coastlines, never seen before.<br /><br />We’ve silently remembered<br />for a long time, turning it over<br />and over, brighter still<br />in an ordinary conversation.<br /><br />Earth and sky are waiting<br />as the waking stars slowly find light.<br />Rest, rest in this,<br />or stand on the precipice of wordlessness.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-64029728782998473462011-10-12T15:41:00.003+11:002011-10-12T16:10:51.576+11:00the smallness of things.“Good evening! Are you still awake?” The small face looked out into the night, listening carefully for her friend’s response. The night peered down on her for some time before glancing across the earth, noticing a more solemn face at a distance. This friend sat, ornately established, on an old stone roof in the centre of a city. He contemplated words in the silence.<br />“Yes, Wristwatch.” He spoke, after a pause: “I am here.”<br />The watch smiled. She was a delicate but plain piece of silverwork, not very costly, nor as old as the stone-tower clock. She had a pleasant nature and a bright face.<br />“A lovely evening!” she murmured a few times, half-mindful of her listener. “How is the city tonight?”<br />Stone-Tower Clock spoke his mind, although he was accustomed to silence. “My eyes are failing, Little Watch. There is little difference from night to night in the movement of the people; the year is growing warm, yet they all wear their coats and seem to be unmindful of the seasons.”<br />“A strange thing,” agreed the wristwatch. She was still looking out at the night, but she listened intently.<br /><br />Being set with about an hours’ difference, the two conversants grew increasingly aware of the symmetry and difference of their movements. Wristwatch spent a while admiring the silence. “Aren’t the seconds fascinating? I think I’m overwhelmed by the idea.”<br />“Yes.” Stone-Tower Clock spoke in a strange voice, she thought. “I try not to think about it.”<br />“Oh.”<br />“I rarely think; I prefer to observe.”<br />Wristwatch was thinking, her small motor buzzing almost without sound. “I love how we are so small, but we are caught up so inherently with something as large as time. Is this what it feels like to be swimming, or breathing?”<br />“Time is distant, Little Watch,” Stone-Tower Clock responded gently.<br />“I have always felt it to be close.”<br /><br />“Think about what we are.”<br />“Clocks.” The watch felt curious, uncertain.<br />“You are silver and leather. I am embedded in these rocks. We are material things and the hours escape us.”<br />The thought was almost too foreign for Wristwatch to find a reply to. “Our hands are always moving. We are moving things, set to move in time.” She frowned a little as she thought.<br />“But can you hold time, or speak to it?” Although his eyes did not meet those of the night, he appeared very respectable in the clouds’ dappled shadows. “You are almost irreverent to the immensity, Little Watch.”<br />“So large we can hardly flee from it.”<br />“Are you made of movement? Are you time itself? Are you as old as I am?”<br />“I am not time.”<br />“Do we represent time?”<br />The wristwatch imagined what the night might perceive when it saw her. “Not very well.”<br />“And where is time, what is it like? Words are elusive as the thing itself. So you see,” said the city clock, “that some things are too immense for either you or me to ponder well.”A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-69875728457797898792011-09-24T21:18:00.002+10:002011-09-24T21:38:58.030+10:00so much yet lies buried.Ours are the conversations,<br />the pages and days of the world,<br />the shapes of silent music from an unknown<br />brightness of all forgotten or submerged<br />voices in a place that appears no longer.<br /><br />"A voice speaks and you listen:<br />wondering at the form of what is foreign<br />or alike you listen, speak in reply and listen."<br />Why hope that there is something material,<br />something less like ghosts who slip<br />treacherously out of meeting<br />in the words we knit and reach for?<br /><br />Languages fierce in their secrets intersect<br />or slice apart the dreams proffered<br />across gravity, space, time, motion.<br />The sky speaks and the vacant face<br />looking up to shapeless face<br />speaks, unheard and unknown.<br />So much unfolds to be told.<br />We stare together at the same spark<br />and then go home.<br /><br />What if there were more to give<br />and a heart to empty into hands,<br />whatever that would mean,<br />regardless of how it were held?<br />Though you've rested in this place<br />I can barely breathe.<br /><br />This is the gift that isn't yours to give,<br />the canvas that isn't yours to fill.<br /><br />"We could still stand together.<br />I hope we could walk as if we weren't alone."A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-6438550731340400112011-09-03T13:52:00.000+10:002011-09-04T17:12:54.172+10:00to be, to be like.I've heard sometimes that there are two ways of understanding and defining things. You can either describe what they are like or divide them from what they are not, and these are conflicting approaches. While the first way seems to evoke a primitive kind of cosmology, a tangible world where similitude, meaning and metaphor belong together, the other is linked more with Western rationality. The whole idea seems to lament the responsible necessity of dividing logic's desired Reality from the countless perspectives known by experience.
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<br />I'm not sure that this is right. The fullest and most resonant ideas seem to approach their subjects according to their <span style="font-style:italic;">shape </span>and their <span style="font-style:italic;">substance </span>simultaneously, working through the relationships and differences between both aspects of each thing as we see them to be. The universe is varied and yet it's real; it's not a homogenous field of feeling, intense yet irrelevant to the nothingness outside it. It's not a mass of shadows or echoes, and certainly not a cold shell of categories.
<br />
<br />Logic stands strong, but never stands alone. The further you travel into understanding the layers upon layers of what the world is (independently of us, except for ourselves) and is significant as, this grows: feeling and meaning stand together in a highly natural way.
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<br />Knowledge like this can be surprising and intense. It can be familiar and ordinary. That's not the point; there's something deeply right about handling what defines and what comprises a thing in the same breath. Even if you won't and can't pin all things down like dead moths, they may not be elusive to reason.
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<br />Even when it feels like the sense of sight has rarely, if ever, existed for us.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-11093488973067471412011-08-26T14:51:00.000+10:002011-08-26T14:53:48.997+10:00faithful.As warmth rises in the afternoon
<br />of what has been winter,
<br />I stand and face the west.
<br />It’s weeks now since I stood
<br />
<br />and months, years long
<br />since I spoke, but I’ve learnt songs
<br />and I anticipate the morning,
<br />morning from behind the hills of sunset.
<br />
<br />To have words and not the heart
<br />or to have the right heart and yet long
<br />to be filled with the words
<br />you spoke or speak.
<br />
<br />To hold what is not apathy
<br />but is numb to the voice
<br />that spoke or speaks,
<br />to stand, to move,
<br />
<br />simply to be in a place
<br />and understand the warmth
<br />of the sun over us. Oh agitation
<br />of beginnings, of costliness.
<br />
<br />I stand facing the west
<br />with eyes closed because colours are perceptions
<br />and I ache for the real, because sunset
<br />and sunrise are too deep a lake.
<br />
<br />I can’t help but listen
<br />to what is not silence,
<br />join the songs from somewhere
<br />in the past.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-57444694827992783712011-08-12T17:46:00.003+10:002013-06-22T01:05:25.807+10:00friend.How could I hide the morning? Even my home I’ll shift<br />
to find you, show you a field with treasure marked.
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I felt your hands tremble. Friend; smallness adrift<br />
among strangers, your brother, the oracle, the anarch.
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How can I share a life that he will sift
<br />
like flour, how tempt you to embark
<br />
and give yourself to him, your life the first gift?
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Let the steel storm of questions build to lift
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and unveil my decision. Would I bury the first light’s spark?
<br />
Or choose to see that night, responding swift
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to give myself to you, my life the first gift.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-54551463405497393182011-06-26T00:56:00.018+10:002011-07-24T13:07:18.454+10:00speak.Are humans inherently selfish or relational? By looking at the way people live and at the way we create and compose, it seems your answer to this question defines your understanding of what absolutely everything is. Regardless of all the other questions we might have, if we could answer this one our cultures and lives would be utterly different.<br /><br />I want to learn to love well in every relationship- even every acquaintance. I'm convinced that love is valuable; that people are genuinely valuable on so many levels at once. There's something in friendship beyond any reason that makes sense, yet it's the opposite of reasonless. It's hard to look into all that's behind that, but if it were a gift that's real and possible... It would be worth understanding, embracing.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-9256964697490772332011-06-17T20:47:00.003+10:002011-06-17T20:55:57.112+10:00Chesterton.How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it;<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOB8YkB_PXuz2QfOTfhmxhGn_QPP_Vc_-q85b7r4T4zKLJfaATUbvXAmtJp0RHlgFDK09XvT9DLokMgxAK6_SAnMdDtPdQX6-WsDgtlQWj-_0p6cRxWweh1MezW_bQF3yaVFoGd0ttASmG/s1600/beneathstrongclouds.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOB8YkB_PXuz2QfOTfhmxhGn_QPP_Vc_-q85b7r4T4zKLJfaATUbvXAmtJp0RHlgFDK09XvT9DLokMgxAK6_SAnMdDtPdQX6-WsDgtlQWj-_0p6cRxWweh1MezW_bQF3yaVFoGd0ttASmG/s320/beneathstrongclouds.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619139995264083762" /></a>A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-75989952777174830122011-06-12T21:48:00.001+10:002011-06-12T21:49:55.623+10:00ever, only, all for thee....and in other news, today I read a well-written thought from Oliver O'Donovan.<br />"We discover we are free when we are commanded by that authority which commands us according to the law of our being, disclosing the secrets of the heart. There is no freedom except when what we are, and do, corresponds to what has been given to us to be and to do. ‘Given to us’, because the law of our being does not assert itself spontaneously merely by virtue of our existing. We must receive ourselves from outside ourselves, addressed by a summons which evokes that correspondence of existence to being."A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-70093796726266050452011-06-10T21:29:00.014+10:002013-06-22T02:42:05.464+10:00closer.I was gently reminded that <span style="font-style: italic;">knowledge is worthless if it's not part of love</span>. That understanding God is only possible through relationship with Him; that He has given us so many ways to actually know Him, and that these are perfect. In seeking wisdom or knowledge, we should also seek out which parts of those things God is leading us to value and follow- in light of the freedom He longs to bring, and the glory He is revealing to us, in us. Rather than knowing Him systematically (as our basis, I mean), we should seek His face- the Living God who's so thoroughly in touch with all the parts of our world- like in a conversation. Like many, many years of conversations, often and real.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-65500959236258791482011-06-03T00:13:00.008+10:002011-06-03T00:25:44.346+10:00day or night.That moment when I closed my eyes<br />and was hidden,<br />when I stopped speaking<br />despite poetry,<br />despite friendship<br />and welcomed every breath as a stranger.<br /><br />The breath when I yearned<br />and vowed to have no rest,<br />no rest<br />until the fire returned<br />(with little hope)<br />but hoped,<br /><br />perhaps, not to be neglected<br />or like one desolate.<br /><br />If the sky would wake and stir<br />and see the raging water,<br />there might be footsteps then.<br />Stirring of shoots<br />and the dry earth melting<br />with a shout<br />just beyond reach.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-75330937640772493362011-05-30T01:26:00.037+10:002013-06-22T00:58:51.965+10:00into the open.I might be buried
<br />
with your pages folded neatly
<br />
in my mind.
<br />
I might be called to recite,
<br />
translate old ink.
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The caverns of your essence hold<br />
your shape;
<br />
your mind is here
<br />
and mine not far away.
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A meeting,
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moment of something true.
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Something like proximity
<br />
or life,
<br />
or bright words striving with a void
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outside our time.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-6236849060410738612011-05-22T21:52:00.042+10:002013-06-22T02:37:36.375+10:00centre.I've been feeling the strangeness, lately, of having my life centred around a relationship with God that is so clear to me- yet invisible and even ridiculous to most of the people I know. When faith is compelled by reasonable evidence, met by indescribable and obvious blessing, it's a beautiful thing... But I'm tired of my friends seemingly not being able to see these things at all, despite how <span style="font-style: italic;">actually important</span> they are. I care a lot, and it can be confusing. I think that sometimes I try to see things from the perspective of others' experiences so much that I forget the simple reality I'm genuinely allowed to rest in.<br />
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If I surrender deeply to the things I can't dispute, how can taking them seriously be considered fundamentalist or naive? What am I expected to believe? The reality is intricate, not to be waved off with unnoticed double standards or considered undesirable. So when friends seem to engage with all these things and then dismiss them as an emotional, social or aesthetic choice- or misunderstand the nature of them, even when genuinely peering into them- it's just surreal. It hurts, it can be awkward and it's discouraging. Has something so large ever seemed so invisible?<br />
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God has revealed Himself to our generation in a way that asks faith and desire of us, even whilst giving us the grounds for it. I feel more and more that belief is not only about seeing things on the surface of reality and affirming them, but rather being willing to be stirred when God asks if we want anything to do with the kind of goodness that is His. Willing to be bound to this love, though it costs everything I thought was worth my desire. Willing to study, have my small perspectives challenged and have integrity with belief, and yet to surrender to what isn't comfortable. To acknowledge that we aren't being judged, but welcomed and desired, far beyond what we deserve. That however we imagine Him, God is desirable, faithful and good, not to be treated as worthless.<br />
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I need to remember the nature of the reality I walk in, even whilst trying to stay in touch with how others see it. To know that we are all subjects of this king, like it or not. To find the energy and the thankfulness to be lost not in what is imagined (the everyday, the mere undisputed), but in reality's fullness and real meaning. To be able to keep speaking about what I have found to be real, whether or not I know how to make that clear. For my heart to adore my God as king; for Him to be like the one I come home to, who is more real than anything else I find or am found in, because He is.<br />
A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-68688359160105714652011-05-14T13:31:00.003+10:002013-06-22T00:51:32.150+10:00universe.For the marriage of simplicity and truth,<br />
sing these songs.<br />
Bid trust bring us all her gifts<br />
till the allegory fades<br />
and we, remade,<br />
are caught into the sky, the breath we come from.<br />
Rest, restored: one is here<br />
who knows us, knows us well.<br />
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Soon we’ll speak exactly as we feel and think and are, yet be well. See how our faces glow with the grace of it. The hours flow by, word of simplicity like water.<br />
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We’ll hold onto them like a treasure. Soon we’ll be eye to eye, heart to heart, and held under the poetry that wakes us gently—so well, by the fruit of these trees. The words that grow slowly, stand strongly. The cold, blue sky, the light of full sun and clouds, these gumtrees and even the homes and roads will catch their breath at her splendour (coming up from the desert).<br />
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To the light that rises for us, piecing together what was scattered, that holds my face, that catches my eyes, that holds me; whose silence speaks quietness to us here—<br />
I love you, we love you here. The depth of what we hold.<br />
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Not broken. Only sleeping, if you still create.<br />
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Whose wisdom, whose words arrived (in our hearts, in this song):<br />
let it now be like it will be.<br />
Never leave for a moment, in your promise.<br />
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Beautiful and perfect, the weaver of all things.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-18740330065686992022011-05-04T18:41:00.011+10:002011-05-04T19:01:31.768+10:00whan that the month of May is comen,I haven't been posting properly for a while because of busyness, despite having planned (and promised!) to write up some of the things I've been learning in Biblical Studies this semester. No excuse needs to be made for lapses in blog posts, nor for my never having really been a 'blogger'. Still, I do feel that the <span style="font-style:italic;">long</span>, sporadic writing here is symptomatic of the trouble I find in communicating things succinctly and relevantly. I'd love to deliberately work on that.<br /><br />A while ago now, my friend Blake encouraged me to write poems with a word limit, for a month. I think it was about thirty words- and while that may not have made my poetry much better in quality or more outward-focused, I found it helpful! So I've decided to do the same this month, with prose. I'll try to give some super-quick thoughts, two hundred words or less, a bit more often. Whether or not this writing-space even has any readers matters little. It should be good practice! :)A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074553891782082155.post-33255900601033805402011-04-21T23:28:00.011+10:002011-04-21T23:44:07.370+10:00another.Better I were without words<br />and learnt to speak again,<br />words that are found.<br /><br />Let me, sometimes,<br />wander your wordless roads<br />and rest.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02076078818767809436noreply@blogger.com0