Showing posts with label Desire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Desire. Show all posts

20081108

Falls the Shadow


Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow


T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

20080122

Secret Garden


Caines, Australia Photo by Mr. Blue

"Shell let you in her house
If you come knockin late at night
Shell let you in her mouth
If the words you say are right
If you pay the price
Shell let you deep inside
But theres a secret garden she hides

Shell let you in her car
To go drivin round
Shell let you into the parts of herself
Thatll bring you down
Shell let you in her heart
If you got a hammer and a vise
But into her secret garden, dont think twice

Youve gone a million miles
How fard you get
To that place where you cant remember
And you cant forget

Shell lead you down a path
Therell be tenderness in the air
Shell let you come just far enough
So you know shes really there
Shell look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
Shes got a secret garden
Where everything you want
Where everything you need
Will always stayA million miles away"


Bruce Springsteen

20080106

Wild Nights

Pacific Ocean off Baranof Island, Alaska 2007 Photo by Mr. Blue



WILD nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile the winds
To a heart in port,—
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart.

Rowing in Eden!
Ah! the sea!
Might I but moor
To-night in thee!

Emily Dickinson (1830–86)

20060424

A Frozen Tear


A frozen tear
Fell from the sky
Passion’s gift
Yielded in a sigh

Touching earth
Spring’s return
Hope suspended
Where desire burns

A frozen tear
Fell from her eye
Mournful silence
Whispering goodbye

Touching flesh
Cradled in hand
Memories burn
Diamonds in sand

A frozen tear
Is part of me
Surrounds a heart
None can see

Touching dreams
Hidden by night
Spirits dance
Disappearing by light

20060414

The Wire

There’s hard silence
On the end of a wire
Like the free trial
Time will expire

A book of photos
Gathers dust
Along the way
I lost the trust

It is her life
She can not share
If I was to fall
She can not care

Hoping to escape
She had a scheme
A distance shore
She builds a dream

Asking for little
Wanting too much
I look at the wire
Barely in touch

Should I let go
Adrift from shore
Tides wash away
Never was before

There’s hard silence
On the end of a wire
What does it matter
Only fools desire