July 2010
“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare,...”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (via quote-book)
Summer Songs I Like
“Touch” by Natasha Bedingfield
“You Lost Me” by Christina Aguilera
“Just the Way You Are” by Bruno Mars
Sunflower Sisters
Sunflower Sisters
Tall maidens dance in the breeze under golden rays and brilliant blue. Graceful and green they stand and sway to their dance of summer sisterhood.
My Late Night Summer Poem
A Summer List
Seems-like-yesterday memories,
camera ready
picture perfect moments,
bright faces
sharing smiles
feeling young
breathing in deep
seeing everything new
heart beating,
jump in the air,
diving in the water
for the first time
drunk with under-the-sun-bliss,
living vivid, dreaming wonder
sunshine-forever time-of-my-life
days and nights,
Summer streaked
a happy face...
Song of Love XXIV by Khalil Gibran
Song of Love XXIV by Khalil Gibran
I am the lover’s eyes, and the spirit’s Wine, and the heart’s nourishment. I am a rose. My heart opens at dawn and The virgin kisses me and places me Upon her breast. I am the house of true fortune, and the Origin of pleasure, and the beginning Of peace and tranquility. I am the gentle Smile upon his lips of beauty. When youth Overtakes me he...
Song of the Soul XXII by Khalil Gibran
Song of the Soul XXII by Khalil Gibran
In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of my heart. It refuses to melt with ink on Parchment; it engulfs my affection In a transparent cloak and flows, But not upon my lips. How can I sigh it? I fear it may Mingle with earthly ether; To whom shall I sing it? It dwells In the house of my soul, in fear of Harsh ears. ...
Song of the Wave XVII by Khalil Gibran
Song of the Wave XVII by Khalil Gibran
The strong shore is my beloved And I am his sweetheart. We are at last united by love, and Then the moon draws me from him. I go to him in haste and depart Reluctantly, with many Little farewells. I steal swiftly from behind the Blue horizon to cast the silver of My foam upon the gold of his sand, and We blend in melted brilliance. I quench his thirst and...
Song of the Flower XXIII by Khalil Gibran
Song of the Flower XXIII by Khalil Gibran
I am a kind word uttered and repeated By the voice of Nature; I am a star fallen from the Blue tent upon the green carpet. I am the daughter of the elements With whom Winter conceived; To whom Spring gave birth; I was Reared in the lap of Summer and I Slept in the bed of Autumn. At dawn I unite with the breeze To announce the coming of light; At...
“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear...”
A Moment's Indulgence
I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit by thy side. The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards. Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil. Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove. Now it...
Closed Path
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power,—-that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity. But I find that thy will knows no end in me. And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with...
“ I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,
in life after...”
