the poetry of words

-WHY SHOULD I CRY FOR YOU-

under the dog stair sail
over the reefs of moonshine
under the skies of fall
north, north west, the stones of Farve

under the Arctic fire
over the seas of silence
hauling on frozen ropes
for all my days remaining
but would north be true?

all colours bleed to red
asleep on the ocean's bed
drifting in empty seas
for all my days remaining

but would north be true?
why should i?
why should i cry for you?
dark angels follow me
over a godless sea
mountains of endless falling,
for all my days remaining,

what would be true?

sometimes i see your face,
the stars seem to lose their place
why must i think of you?
why must I?
why should I?

why should I cry for you?
why would you want me to?
and what should it mean to say,
that, "I loved you in my fashion"?

what would be true?
why should I?
why should I cry for you?

-sting-
from "THE SOUL CAGES"

to

to let go and to let the chips fall where they may...
to love without fear and expectation...
to close your eyes and dance like a whirling dervish...
to love all and nothing in particular...
to stare life in the face and not back down...
to answer our call to service with a willing heart...
to have the courage to stand alone...
to have the courage to let people in...
to be a citizen of a world of countries without borders,
races without colour and faiths without religion...
-karen l-

bach and ballet

kundera and nietzsche

Excerpts from an all time favourite book.....

"In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsiblity lies heavy on every move we make.This is why Nietzsche called the idea of eternal return the heaviest of burdens (das schwerste Gewicht)."

"But is this heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?"

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us,we sink beneath it and it pins us to the ground.But in the love poetry of every age,the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultanoeously an image of life's most intense fulfilment.The heavier the burned, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become."

"Conversely,the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air,to soar into the heights,take leave of the earth and his earthly being,and become only half real,his movements as free as they are insignificant...... so what then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?"

"Parmenides posed this very question in the 6th century BC... and in his opinion lightness is positive,weight negative. Was he right in saying that ?"

"The only certainty is : the lightness/weight opposition is the most mysterious,most ambigous of all."


from
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
by
MILAN KUNDERA