The School Where I Studied

I passed by the school where I studied as a boyand said in my heart: here I learned certain thingsand didn’t learn others. All my life I have loved in vainthe things I didn’t learn. I am filled with knowledge,I know all about the flowering of the tree of knowledge,the shape of its leaves, the…… Continue reading The School Where I Studied

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The Tollund Man

Some day I will go to AarhusTo see his peat-brown head,The mild pods of his eye-lids,His pointed skin cap.In the flat country near byWhere they dug him out,His last gruel of winter seedsCaked in his stomachNaked except forThe cap, noose and girdle,I will stand a long time.Bridegroom to the goddess,She tightened her torc on himand…… Continue reading The Tollund Man

‘The City’ – C.P. Cavafy

ONLY THIS You said:  "I'll go to some other land, I'll go to some other seaThere's bound to be another city that's better by far.My every effort has been ill-fated from the start;my heart-like something dead-lies buried away;How long will my mind endure this slow decay?Wherever I look, wherever I cast my eyes,I see all… Continue reading ‘The City’ – C.P. Cavafy

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Morning Haiku

An innocent tubeThis small white bottle of lubeA snicker profound!Mateo de Colón

John Berger – Each pine at dusk

Each pine at dusklodges the birdof its voiceperpendicular and stillthe forestindifferent to historytearless as stonerepeatsin tremulous excitementthe ancient storyof the sun going down. John Berger from “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos” New Yorker – Postscript: John Berger, 1926 – 2017: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/postscript-john-berger-1926-2017 

“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” 

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May *oil on canvas *101 x 82.5 cm *signed b.r.: J.W. Waterhouse. / 1909

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles todayTo-morrow will be dying.The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,The higher he’s a-getting,The sooner will his race be run,And nearer he’s to setting.That age is best which is the first,When youth and blood are warmer;But being spent, the worse, and… Continue reading “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” 

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Quote: Auguries of Innocence – William Blake

Auguries of InnocenceBy: William Blake To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43650

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