Born in Time

Rebellious rocks pierce the sky
Frightening waves rip the bank
The backwash churns vast snowy swells —
River and mountains like a painting
how many heroes passed them, once …

While masts and oars vanished to flying ash and smoke!
I roam through ancient realms
Absurdly moved
Turned to gray too soon —
A man’s life passes like a dream —
Pour out a cup then, to the river, and the moon .

  [excerpt[  Battle of the Red Cliffs

  Su Tung-po
(1037 – 1101 / China)

 

 

The Stone Lizard

The waterfalls are real. All night it rained
  On black rocks where eels
  Slither and cling for centuries
  Out there in the black hills.
  or the lizards in the poem of that name:
  Lizards are kin and can return to stone
  At will. Transfixing a shield
  Like a spear a lizard froze in the sun, a thing
  Of bronze, yet quick. See the dart of his tongue!

 

   excerpt ‘Rain’

  by David Campbell

Sedona Arizona,USA

This photo is dedicated to my partner in spirit Kim…who brought me to this beautiful place.

 

   Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in the fields of gold

See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold

I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that Ive broken
But I swear in the days still left

We’ll walk in  the fields of gold
We’ll walk in the fields of gold…

  (excerpt.. from ‘Fields of Gold ‘ by Sting)

Phoenix

Got out of Phoenix, just in time
A box of kleenex, for the ride
The tumbleweeds said, their goodbyes
To javelinas and DUIs…

I wanted to believe in you and baby I believe it still
Baby I’ve just had my fill
You love me like a dollar bill
You roll me up and trade me in
And if you have the chance you will
And if you get the chance again
I know you’ll do the best you can

But baby love doesn’t change anything at all
I know love doesn’t change a thing

 

  (excerpt from Aimee Mann’s ‘Phoenix’

 

Rescue Me

I ________________ [super hero name] will act responsible to serve the community, protect innocent bystanders,further

the knowledge of science and ensure the rights of all to the pursuit of libery,justice and equality. I will never allow

personal friendships to influence superhuman conduct. I will not accept payment for my superhuman powers.

And lastly,I will always be on time for Superhero and  community meetings. [signed] ______________

 on this date ____________

 

 

Checkmate

For this day’s game was notably not to be;
Today was not for the King’s move or mine,
But for the Bishop’s; and the board is empty.
The words that I have waited for more days
Than are to now my tallage of gray hairs              
Have come at last, and at last you are free.
So, for a time, there will be no more war;
And you are going home to Camelot.”
 
“To Camelot?”…
  “To Camelot.” But his words              
Were said for no queen’s hearing. In his arms
He caught her when she fell; and in his arms
He carried her away. The word of Rome
Was in the rain. There was no other sound.

 

                                                                 VI  Lancelot [excerpt]

                                                                 author: Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935).  Collected Poems. 1921.

 

                                                                

Wreckage Zero

 

We knew the world backwards and forwards
So small it fit in a handshake
So easy it could be described in a smile
As plain as the echoes of old truths and a prayer

History did not greet us with triumphant fanfare
It flung dirty sand in our eyes
Ahead of us were distant roads leading nowhere
Poisoned wells, bitter bread

The spoils of war is our knowledge of the world
So large it fits in a handshake
So hard it could be described in a smile
As strange as the echoes of old truths and a prayer.

 

We knew the world backwards and forwards

By Wisława Szymborska