Larkin Poe
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Beannacht
On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The grey window And the ghost of loss Gets into you, May a flock of colours, Indigo, red, green And azure blue, Come to awaken in you A meadow of delight. When the canvas frays In the currach of thought And a stain of ocean Blackens beneath you, May there come across the waters A path of yellow moonlight To bring you safely home. May the nourishment of the earth be yours, May the clarity of light be yours, May the fluency of the ocean be yours, May the protection of the ancestors be yours. And so may a slow Wind work these words Of love around you, An invisible cloak To mind your life. ~ John O'Donahue ~ |
I have a thousand brilliant lies I have a thousand brilliant lies If you think that the Truth can be known |
Snake Song
You can't hold me I'm too slippery I do no sleepin' I get lonely You can touch me If you want to I got poison I just might bite you Lie in circles On the sunlight Shine like diamonds On a dark night Ain't no mercy In my smilin' Only fangs and Sweet beguiling Future, he don't Try to find me Skin I been through Dies behind me Solid hollow Wrapped in hatred Not a drop of Venom wasted You can slip in Try to find me Hold your breath and Flat deny me It makes no difference To my thinkin' I'll be here when You start sinkin'. ~ Townes Van Zandt ~ Echoes of Leonard's "Bird on a Wire" First heard this in the movie "Calvary" - a very (very) good film.. |
'Among the Thugs: The Experience, and Seduction of Crowd Violence' |
One of the patron saints of this blog is Sinead O'Connor - the teensy Irish woman with a voice like a hurricane.
She took a beating back in the day for tearing up that picture of old JPII on SNL when he and Joey Ratzinger were busy slow-walking all those thousands of child rape cases. A ballsy move on the part of Sinead, and one she's never been properly thanked for.. Fire on Babylon ~ Sinead O'Connor She took my father from my life oh Fire on Babylon She's taken everything I liked Fire on Babylon Life's backwards Fire on Babylon Fire on Babylon |