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Friday, March 27, 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Postcard from Trakl, John Yau
Memory’s branch quivers
beneath the weight of a butterfly
beneath the weight of a butterfly
How am I to know what it wants
without asking
without asking
Could it be that simple, the question
and then the answer
and then the answer
Why do we fall outside of these additions
or consult the zodiac surrounding us
or consult the zodiac surrounding us
read its rotten walls and bulb glare
Why substitute names for things
Why substitute names for things
when the things name us
(our vowels and consonants)
(our vowels and consonants)
into their sleep,
one from which they will never awaken
one from which they will never awaken
Am I just an echo drifting back to myself
who is sitting beneath the river
who is sitting beneath the river
drinking air
Something must have told me to say this
Something must have told me to say this
A rock or the memory of a rock
falling toward the shadow it once owned
falling toward the shadow it once owned
Borderline Personality,Tommy Tiernan
for the fun..
Guns N Roses, Patience
Monday, March 23, 2020
Please Be With Me, Eric Clapton
Oh my word, what does it mean?
Is it love or is it me
That makes me change so suddenly?
Looking out, feeling free.
Sit here lying in my bed,
Wondering what it was I'd said
That made me think I'd lost my head,
When I knew I lost my heart instead.
Won't you please read my signs, be a gypsy.
Tell me what I hope to find deep within me.
Because you can find my mind, please be with me.
Of all the better things I've heard,
Loving you has made the words
And all the rest seem so absurd,
'Cause in the end it all comes out, I'm sure.
Won't you please read my signs, be a gypsy.
Tell me what I hope to find deep within me.
Because you can find my mind, please be with me
Loneliness, Scott Cohen
Loneliness
by: Scott Cohen
Here I am, alone in my room, feeling lonely.
Loneliness is horrible. This is an objective
statement. Sometimes I think to objectify
something means to isolate myself from it.
Sometimes when I’m alone I think of you.
You do not seem the type that is ever alone.
I don’t feel like watching television or
listening to the radio. There’s no one
around to visit. I think I may read Genet’s
Our Lady of the Flowers a bit later. I owe
Jack a letter but I don’t feel like writing
one now. I’m sure that right now, at this
very moment, thousands of people are feeling
pretty lonely. The knowledge of this is not
very consoling. I have read about lots of
famous men who have spent their lives in
solitude. This isn’t very consoling either.
I wonder if there really is something con-
soling to a lonely man. That is, besides
another person. To distract myself I’ve
written out the line “In the abalone shell
lives the abalone.” I’m not sure what an
abalone is except that it has the word
“alone” in it and sounds just like “lonely.”
It must really be lonely inside the abalone
shell. This is not an objective statement.
I once read that if you think long enough
about something, you yourself start to take
on the characteristics of that thing. Maybe
I should think of a crowd having a great time.
But I am thinking about you again. We are
having a great time, only I’m feeling sentimental.
I’m willing to bet the abalone is not
a very sentimental animal. Webster’s New
World Dictionary lists an abalone as a sea
mollusk with an oval shell perforated along
the rim and lined with mother-of-pearl. The
word preceding abalone in Webster’s is abaft,
which is the rear or stern of a ship. I
already know the lonely feeling one gets
aboard a ship, standing at the stern, late
at night, watching the stars drift by. Two
words down from abalone is the word abandon.
by: Scott Cohen
Here I am, alone in my room, feeling lonely.
Loneliness is horrible. This is an objective
statement. Sometimes I think to objectify
something means to isolate myself from it.
Sometimes when I’m alone I think of you.
You do not seem the type that is ever alone.
I don’t feel like watching television or
listening to the radio. There’s no one
around to visit. I think I may read Genet’s
Our Lady of the Flowers a bit later. I owe
Jack a letter but I don’t feel like writing
one now. I’m sure that right now, at this
very moment, thousands of people are feeling
pretty lonely. The knowledge of this is not
very consoling. I have read about lots of
famous men who have spent their lives in
solitude. This isn’t very consoling either.
I wonder if there really is something con-
soling to a lonely man. That is, besides
another person. To distract myself I’ve
written out the line “In the abalone shell
lives the abalone.” I’m not sure what an
abalone is except that it has the word
“alone” in it and sounds just like “lonely.”
It must really be lonely inside the abalone
shell. This is not an objective statement.
I once read that if you think long enough
about something, you yourself start to take
on the characteristics of that thing. Maybe
I should think of a crowd having a great time.
But I am thinking about you again. We are
having a great time, only I’m feeling sentimental.
I’m willing to bet the abalone is not
a very sentimental animal. Webster’s New
World Dictionary lists an abalone as a sea
mollusk with an oval shell perforated along
the rim and lined with mother-of-pearl. The
word preceding abalone in Webster’s is abaft,
which is the rear or stern of a ship. I
already know the lonely feeling one gets
aboard a ship, standing at the stern, late
at night, watching the stars drift by. Two
words down from abalone is the word abandon.
night meditation,melancholy
(another night)
in this clear night
so many stars in this sky
many died a very long time ago
but their light reaches us,
voices of our ancestry-
we living ,we are so tiny
and inside so wide,
filled with mystery,
related to all all beings
a night bird flutters
in the bushes, a sound
in this holy silence
you are me, tat tvam asi,
and i feel what i know,
nobody here is alone
and you, from far, fall into me
where i carry my sadness,
why can we not cross borders
not unveil the webs
in which we are clothed
and sing from our essence
sing to sleep and to wake
with grace and a smile
this smile of a child
astonished again each day,
when life is what it is:
a wonder
what else is love
but to recognize each other
and to find a child
i wished so much
you could bring a lightness
to my clumsy ways
and i'd have given
my warmth into your
so often tortured soul
now all melts together
and i feel all those
confined to prisons, camps
bomb shelters, hospitals,
to their flats in the cities.
in this time of a plague
none is alone,
we share this longing
for completeness, for healing
in this twisted world,
we sit with our demon
and with our beauty.
what then is liberty?
to open the window,
to change perception,
joy discovered inside
allowed to run free
like a horse in the fields
to let go
and to start again
in innocence
Sunday, March 22, 2020
if love must be a word
if love must be a word
it should be long and slow and spoken right, a voice with a lilt, a melody touching us in our night. and if the virus must have a name it should be longer, much longer, with stones screaming in the mill of our mind to wake us.
why is love a four letter word
the dead are
rising
with the
blood in my ears,
staring at
us, at me,
and their
silence is terrible
i feel them , try to listen,
breathing their molecules,
i know they
ask through time
and space and
spheres
the soul
freezes in this
the roll
call of the unknown,
before
birth, after death
all the
wasted inbetweens
i cannot
answer,
this music,
rising now
from so
bitter bitter roots,
beauty, all this strength
we are not
alone, together
we swim in flow and in pause,
grace shall
come, pray,
this shall
be our task:
to mature
to spread a
smile
across the
earth
for all
beings
to not look
away,
to see each
one as equal,
to forgive the demons
of our
shared past
o to live
like a tree
when only
the ripe apple
falls to
the ground-
i will be
silent
being born
we will all
die.
but, and.
forever and.
corona/covid, thoughts
i see intuitively (and hope) that our European way
of indifference, egomania, the arrogance of relatively rich countries, all
false feeling of safety, this idea of a right for a everlasting healthy happy
life and to maintain that all is manageable : this will be destroyed.
Friday, March 20, 2020
diary note
i have tried to be another. i won't try anymore. i have been others. most of them died. i am me and they are enough. sometimes i am kind, sometimes not. that must be enough, we all breathe the same air and each other and the dead.
diary notes
a peaceful day. beauty. what i miss in my soul is nothing to do with words. today i go for a long walk and the sea will talk to me.
sunset now. the day
was slow and beautiful. nothing needs to excessively 'special'. i am calm. a
longing which i will not name walks with me like a dog, i watch it moving. we
sit together near the fire. the weather changes.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
diary note
i am happy and also a bit ..morose?
and., i know my weakness, my strength.
and i know i am alone.
i may live and die here alone.
but i like the atmosphere.
layers are falling off.
i am lighter that way.
i still smoke though less.
and i spent some weeks too much
of my time on twitter, though i found much
which awakened memories and thoughts
and though it shows acutely the
desperation and the fight
and the lies and the soul of humans like
and not so much like me:
my head fumes with quotes.
i need more time with me.
here. now.
and., i know my weakness, my strength.
and i know i am alone.
i may live and die here alone.
but i like the atmosphere.
layers are falling off.
i am lighter that way.
i still smoke though less.
and i spent some weeks too much
of my time on twitter, though i found much
which awakened memories and thoughts
and though it shows acutely the
desperation and the fight
and the lies and the soul of humans like
and not so much like me:
my head fumes with quotes.
i need more time with me.
here. now.
Friday, March 13, 2020
Thursday, March 12, 2020
mind-walker
maybe i am alone,
but you and all
breathe in me,
i taste the silence,
the murmur of stars and rivers,
the anger of storms and winds,
the moments between birdsong, the wildness of forest fires,
the bitter buds of spring,
the salt of this sea
and the richness of soil,
i maybe alone,
but my skin touches all,
all roots grow deep
through the echoes of time,
and to hold will be
to let go.
Monday, March 9, 2020
Emerging, Pablo Neruda
A man says yes without knowing
how to decide even what the question is,
and is caught up, and then is carried along
and never again escapes from his own cocoon;
and that’s how we are, forever falling
into the deep well of other beings;
and one thread wraps itself around our necks,
another entwines a foot, and then it is impossible,
impossible to move except in the well —
nobody can rescue us from other people.
how to decide even what the question is,
and is caught up, and then is carried along
and never again escapes from his own cocoon;
and that’s how we are, forever falling
into the deep well of other beings;
and one thread wraps itself around our necks,
another entwines a foot, and then it is impossible,
impossible to move except in the well —
nobody can rescue us from other people.
It seems as if we don’t know how to speak;
it seems as if there are words which escape,
which are missing, when have gone away and left us
to ourselves, tangled up in snares and threads.
it seems as if there are words which escape,
which are missing, when have gone away and left us
to ourselves, tangled up in snares and threads.
And all at once, that’s it; we no longer know
what it’s all about, but we are deep inside it,
and now we will never see with the same eyes
as once we did when we were children playing.
Now these eyes are closed to us,
now our hands emerge from different arms.
what it’s all about, but we are deep inside it,
and now we will never see with the same eyes
as once we did when we were children playing.
Now these eyes are closed to us,
now our hands emerge from different arms.
And therefore when you sleep, you are alone in your dreaming,
and running freely through the corridors
of one dream only, which belongs to you.
Oh never let them come to steal our dreams,
never let them entwine us in our bed.
Let us hold on to the shadows
to see if, from our own obscurity,
we emerge and grope along the walls,
lie in wait for the light, to capture it,
till, once and for all time,
it becomes our own, the sun of every day.
and running freely through the corridors
of one dream only, which belongs to you.
Oh never let them come to steal our dreams,
never let them entwine us in our bed.
Let us hold on to the shadows
to see if, from our own obscurity,
we emerge and grope along the walls,
lie in wait for the light, to capture it,
till, once and for all time,
it becomes our own, the sun of every day.
nameless ( depression of angels)
note:
the barbed wire around you
is the one going
through you
and through me
the despair of angels
creates prisons in the soul
where all hope is lost,
dreams curdle like milk,
even the skin turns sour,
laughter falls in the hole,
the angels' tearless sobs
tighten the throat of birds,
the light has faded,
visitors' halt in midstride,
all movement is frozen,
despair infects all and all
and nightmares survive
the only living are these,
they grow and eat, devour
the energy of angel and beast
exhaustion locks the spirit
in indifference, all meaning
has been lost, words stick
inside and in the nets around
caught like songbirds, dead.
don't turn back or you'll be
a pillar of salt, fear is an
endless and filthy implosion,
the hurt, the opening of wounds,
here thought shapes the destruction
of days and sleepless nights,
the clock ticks and death looks
like a welcome enemy,
has poison for release,
sends love and me away
for the company of the unknown,
and the waste land wins
over the greening of buds,
kisses, gardens and flowers ,
life itself suffers and weeps ,
so do i, a witness, a tree
shaking in the cold storms.
i cannot say no, i grow,
grow rings and leaves and fruit,
and falling i cry out to the sky,
with my roots naked,
i am split, but if i could
i'd fight and ask you, angel,
come out of the mountain,
leave the terror of years,
walk, take your broken
heart for a bath in the spring,
heal, open, dance
see, sing,
follow the deepest song
follow love
you are strong
and angels can.
the barbed wire around you
is the one going
through you
and through me
the despair of angels
creates prisons in the soul
where all hope is lost,
dreams curdle like milk,
even the skin turns sour,
laughter falls in the hole,
the angels' tearless sobs
tighten the throat of birds,
the light has faded,
visitors' halt in midstride,
all movement is frozen,
despair infects all and all
and nightmares survive
the only living are these,
they grow and eat, devour
the energy of angel and beast
exhaustion locks the spirit
in indifference, all meaning
has been lost, words stick
inside and in the nets around
caught like songbirds, dead.
don't turn back or you'll be
a pillar of salt, fear is an
endless and filthy implosion,
the hurt, the opening of wounds,
here thought shapes the destruction
of days and sleepless nights,
the clock ticks and death looks
like a welcome enemy,
has poison for release,
sends love and me away
for the company of the unknown,
and the waste land wins
over the greening of buds,
kisses, gardens and flowers ,
life itself suffers and weeps ,
so do i, a witness, a tree
shaking in the cold storms.
i cannot say no, i grow,
grow rings and leaves and fruit,
and falling i cry out to the sky,
with my roots naked,
i am split, but if i could
i'd fight and ask you, angel,
come out of the mountain,
leave the terror of years,
walk, take your broken
heart for a bath in the spring,
heal, open, dance
see, sing,
follow the deepest song
follow love
you are strong
and angels can.
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Icarus
Icarus
longing for paradise
we rise, we fall,
i burned a thousand times
the desire for sky,
balancing gravity
we forget how fragile
we fly
all is here as it is,
to go to heaven
we need to carry the thorns
to accept the flame
is our only way out of hell,
see we are here
sun who melts our heart,
love who takes us,
we are the coming
and our coming is a going
past midnight, diary, on miracles
my life is just my life.
i have a stale taste in my mouth
on words and feelings of love.
that had been different,
each word carried meaning and presence,
dreams, magic and future.
i have a very bad scent in my nose on the split
between body and soul, it has
infected me, it is like an ulcer now, not healing,
and a dressing will not be enough.
you feel different, i know,
and i feel like a lemon, all emotions squeezed out,
a peel, without sense and without an energy you could use.
when one cannot talk, one must be silent,
love is nothing to talk on.
i am nothing to talk on.
i move. you move.
different directions.
you loved my absence.
you loved me because of my absence.
you kept loving me through your absence,
in your absence i could not breathe,
and i have not been there.
your absence has been a wound
and a vacuum.
will you have to stay now in your absence,
in your sadness,
in your own holiness
and me in mine?
in prison and in prison,
and as we could not breathe
in our presence
maybe we can fly out of the cages.
all holiness, paradise and healing
have always been right here,
on the road.
maybe you should look for another.
and let me go free.
oblivion could be our spring...
when no miracle happens.
i am not expecting miracles,
i carry our ghosts.
each line and each silence
have shown me day for day
distance and walls behind,
closures, rejections,
concepts, judgements,
opinions, a lack of response,
the death of synchronicity,
and each step and opening
has been a stillbirth,
ending in conflict and reaction,
only created opportunity for staying
in the patterns of past,
walking backwards
and out and inside alone.
you created with me a dead volcano,
i am colder day for day,
i freeze,
i have longed so much for you to open
your heart for me, to welcome me,
to be a home with me,
no flower is in the garden,
when i‘d say flower
you‘d say nothing,
maybe out of fear
there could be a flower
and it would die
the moment of being called
so it is only my flowers,
yours are yours.
please when you cannot come fly away,
bring cherries when i die.
but you‘ll be late,
i know.
i have a stale taste in my mouth
on words and feelings of love.
that had been different,
each word carried meaning and presence,
dreams, magic and future.
i have a very bad scent in my nose on the split
between body and soul, it has
infected me, it is like an ulcer now, not healing,
and a dressing will not be enough.
you feel different, i know,
and i feel like a lemon, all emotions squeezed out,
a peel, without sense and without an energy you could use.
when one cannot talk, one must be silent,
love is nothing to talk on.
i am nothing to talk on.
i move. you move.
different directions.
you loved my absence.
you loved me because of my absence.
you kept loving me through your absence,
in your absence i could not breathe,
and i have not been there.
your absence has been a wound
and a vacuum.
will you have to stay now in your absence,
in your sadness,
in your own holiness
and me in mine?
in prison and in prison,
and as we could not breathe
in our presence
maybe we can fly out of the cages.
all holiness, paradise and healing
have always been right here,
on the road.
maybe you should look for another.
and let me go free.
oblivion could be our spring...
when no miracle happens.
i am not expecting miracles,
i carry our ghosts.
each line and each silence
have shown me day for day
distance and walls behind,
closures, rejections,
concepts, judgements,
opinions, a lack of response,
the death of synchronicity,
and each step and opening
has been a stillbirth,
ending in conflict and reaction,
only created opportunity for staying
in the patterns of past,
walking backwards
and out and inside alone.
you created with me a dead volcano,
i am colder day for day,
i freeze,
i have longed so much for you to open
your heart for me, to welcome me,
to be a home with me,
no flower is in the garden,
when i‘d say flower
you‘d say nothing,
maybe out of fear
there could be a flower
and it would die
the moment of being called
so it is only my flowers,
yours are yours.
please when you cannot come fly away,
bring cherries when i die.
but you‘ll be late,
i know.
space
somewhere is always a cloud, i know.
today i talked to the sea coming in,
small waves followed my heels.
i put my head against a tree.
soon the bulging buds will burst into songs of colour. i took my shoes off, a fox ran in front of me, birds danced at my door.
silence is space
today i talked to the sea coming in,
small waves followed my heels.
i put my head against a tree.
soon the bulging buds will burst into songs of colour. i took my shoes off, a fox ran in front of me, birds danced at my door.
silence is space
scars, freedom
this bark and skin, i shed it in the forest,
you take or leave, i grow without,
the scars i kept- and freedom.
you take or leave, i grow without,
the scars i kept- and freedom.
naked
ascent&descent~ when i walk i do not think, i let all pass and each step is more real than words.
i make it so...
now hunger wakes me, thirst, desire.
the rawness of it. i stopped smoking.once 13 years, now 13 hours.
i meet my naked wishes, they are wolves, not peanutbutter...
shadow
once as a child i had pulled my knees to my chin.
So lost and frozen , i cried with fear.
the shadow of things drove me under the kitchentable. then i named the shadows - and was not killed.
we walk with our shadow and with our radiance
in the light of the earth,
saint and zebra.
So lost and frozen , i cried with fear.
the shadow of things drove me under the kitchentable. then i named the shadows - and was not killed.
we walk with our shadow and with our radiance
in the light of the earth,
saint and zebra.
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