By: Philippa Lane
Blue floats and hovers
it never comes to rest
its scent is distant bonfires
its touch moth-breath
Blue is man-child
with spiritual eyes
a stranger in a room
who isn't one
soft down on upper lip
felt without touch
it is dreaming at night
of what is not and cannot be
it is gauze-vision
half-reality
it is a shaky signature
on a typewritten page
seen through mist
Blue is pain that is borne alone
it is quena music
bone-notes quavering over absent flesh
in death worship
yawns are for want of blue
and partially for having it
Blue is pigeons
and siamese cats
and snow shadows
it is for ever
stretching
it is ten billion spindles
weaving blue fabric endlessly
it is the certain
uncertainty
(Nov.2004)
(Senneville, Quebec)
Philippa Lane
Daily Quote: I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Linguist Corner-ITALIAN: estraneo: stranger / noun
Example sentence: Non invitare estranei a casa, per favore.
Translation: Please do not invite strangers into the house.
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By: Dan Nelson
His deep expressions of love for her would be his worldly gifts,
Beyond her...he had always had a higher purpose,
To give freely to all with an open heart,
To prove that love was real,
To show others how much a man can love a woman,
To bare his heart and soul to all and without restraint.
To reveal to them his complete devotion to her.
He would become her ever loving poet,
Her best friend.
The man who loved her the most.
And she would become his most beautiful work of art,
His eternal inspiration,
His masterpiece...
Dan Nelson
Daily Quote: "Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out".
- Katherine Dunham
Linguist Corner-SPANISH: flojo, adjective / weak; lazy
Flojo is often used to describe things which are weak, from people:
Example:
Todavía tiene las piernas muy flojas.
His legs are still very weak.
...to tea:
Este té está muy flojo.
This tea is very weak.
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By: Robert Anderson
shadows aggravate
my heart,
love seems so far away --
so far, so far
and i am lost
beneath the blue veil
of my dreams
i'll linger awhile,
torn, lost without
everything
i never actually knew yet
fantasied of
constantly
no matter how
elegance no longer laces
through all i once held near
i'll wander through and search
for you
'til breath becomes the chill
the air accumulates through
its pale frigidness and
tears fall while
memories loom
i'll sit here and watch
the craving earth
endure
the fragmented rain
and want more
to escape
my very breath of life
ever... and again
Robert Anderson
Daily Quote: The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Linguist Corner-ITALIAN: tenere: to hold / verb.
Example sentence: Se lo tieni così stretto, l'uovo si rompe.
Translation: If you hold it too tightly, the egg will break.
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By: Robert Anderson
emotion escapes from what was just
a love-lit haven --
darkness bequeaths sufficiently,
like as all my embracing thoughts,
to drown the surrendering earth
tonight
it moans for you,
oh, for how eloquence formalizes in
the way you've expired
[as all angels know]
that unforgiving puddles articulate their sting
from the windows of my own secret-self
while i aim to glance meagerly
into your depth
dreams aren't enough
yet all i have to ever hold you anymore
as you lay appealingly amid the bed we made
breathing in your satisfaction
for how you graced such denouement into light
i yearn you again-- have always yearned you and pray
it is enough to ever take you in
because until the day i die
i'll ever confide in only you...
your beauty: my aphrodisiac
and i swear i love you.
Robert Anderson
Daily Quote: A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
Linguist Corner-SPANISH: suerte, noun / luck
“Lucky be a lady tonight” is a famous line from a song, and for Spanish speakers luck, la suerte, is as important as it is for English speakers. Sometimes la suerte is kind to us:
Example:
Tuvo muchísima suerte de salir del accidente.
He was incredibly lucky to survive the accident.
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By: Shilpi Grewal
One of those days when i think it through
Look into what i've done and how time flew
Me, who was so untamed,
How appearances be-fooled us two
How pointless it seems now
All makes me think just how
The time have made me stronger
And what took to make through
Friends that were everything
Now i am just left with few
Nights that were so lonely
The mistakes that made me new
The pictures i have lost,
The memories that made through,
The voices that once lingered
Are dimming down too
How losing doesn't hurt any longer
Maybe that’s part of walk through
Accepting fault isn’t hard now
I wish making them was optional too
But since love is all that matters
Believe me i love you.
Shilpi Grewal
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Daily Quote: It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Linguist Corner-ITALIAN: regalare: to present / verb
Example sentence: Il giorno del pensionamento, i colleghi le regaleranno una collana.
Translation: On the day of her retirement, her co-workers will present her with a necklace.
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By: Rabindranath Tagore
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Daily Quote: If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Linguist Corner-SPANISH: imagen, (noun) /
image, picture
Example:
- Una imagen vale más que mil palabras.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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By: Ata Augustyn
I was in your kiss
It made me a princess of your carmine dreams
It dressed me in a rose's scent
It ornamented my love's beads
I wandered through your lips
They made me a fairy tale of your wonderland
They opened so many reddish pages
They led my lips' blissful steps
I found your heart
a small wonder with a huge feeling
a strong breath with a delightful breeze
a bouquet of kindness with a love ribbon
Ata Augustyn
Daily Quote: "When love is not madness, it is not love".
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Linguist's Corner: sano: healthy /adjective
Example sentence: Alcune sane abitudini possono aiutare a vivere meglio.
Translation: Certain healthy habits can help you to live a better life.
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By: Vinod Madhok
Hold me in fingers of your thoughts
hide me in silence of your words
make me sleep in bosom of your dreams
caress me with warmth of your smile
Who wants to wake up
when sleep has so much to offer
it rhythms me back to life
in world of my words
few words...few pauses ..
and depth of silence
Vinod Madhok
copyright © Sept,2011
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Daily Quote: Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C.S. Lewis
Linguist Corner-SPANISH: cuenta, noun / to realize; to notice
Example:
- Me di cuenta de que era inútil seguir.
I realized there was no point in going on.
(Apart from using cuenta to mean bill, use it with the reflexive form of dar in the phrase 'darse cuenta' when you realize something is the case. Notice how it’s followed by de and que.)
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By: Robert Anderson
or so they say when i recite
each droplet of beauty i found deep
in your gilded soul
'til a smidgen of high finds my heart
while goose bumps
trace the depthlessness of my skin;
the very rock i knew and depended on
still remains only
you
and all my dreams lingered until...
oh, until you became
vacantly silent and refused
to tell me why; your blushing lips
closed tightly to the world
still i'll kiss you gently on your forehead
then whisper to you of our romance
so that it echoes throughout your
sweet breath of life, dear lover
it's crazy how easily someone so blameless,
so soothing, and fragile
could be lured into unhappy shadows
why didn't you tell me?
i couldn't have possibly
read your mind
but i watched as the blue devils
that haunted your thoughts
prodded through
then found the flaws which adorned
the nakedness of your secret self
i miss you and still
see us dancing in the rain,
my heart was more restless then
you became the voice that resonated in me...
do you remember?
but now as i sit here wondering if you hear me
i ponder whether or not
to expel my red essence
and if that could save me from this
hurt... the blade looks so, so friendly now
and while i quietly trace along the verge
of these mangled veins
my eyes let loose my teary spirit
and gift me with absolutely no previous comfort
'i love you...' is all i sense i can utter
as my fingers tangle violently
in my oily raven hair
and so, i do through the intensities of it all...
i love you and
that is all there is.
Robert Anderson
Daily Quote: A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Linguist Corner-ITALIAN: tremare: to tremble / verb
Example sentence: Le foglie della quercia tremano al vento.
Translation: The leaves of the oak tremble in the wind.
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By: Robert Anderson
undying angel, my sweetest gift,
there are no shadows that can veil you away from me
for how easily you have ever,
ever reduced me softly to my secret self
through tears of joy and of no sweeter sorrow
than how my lips remain ungifted
to touch your very own
i have vowed to love you... secretly;
you, my beautiful Moira...
and i truly, truly do.
Robert Anderson
Daily Quote: Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
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By: Charles A. Louis, Jr.
She sat on the bench across the way,
The sun shining upon her face;
The wind caressing her hair as it sways.
Looking voluptuous and precious, she was full of grace.
She stole my breath, as she turned and looked my way,
She smiled at me, her lips so graciously full with radiance.
I felt hypnotized by her beauty, seduced by her angelic fragrance.
With one look in her eyes, she stole my heart as, to her sweet temptation, I fell prey.
I found myself dreaming, as if it was night.
The sweetest dream, from which I wish I would never wake.
I fell paralyzed by her defined curves, such a wonderful sight.
I wish I could hold her in my arms, until my last breath, I take.
In my mind, quietly to her, I whisper:
“I would love to shower you with many sweet words,
Worship the ground you walk on,
Fill your heart with a love that’s everlasting;
I’d give anything to just spend one second of a minute of an hour with you...
To fall asleep lost in your eyes,
To wake up in the morning, to your smile.
A glorious day, a glorious dream,
A fantasy in dire need of reality;
As I look at you from afar, as the birds chirp in the distance,
With you, to just one song, I would love to dance.”
But then he came to you and embraced you.
I suddenly realized, a princess as precious as you, surely already had her knight.
Yet, you still found a way to look at me, and smiled.
He held your hand, as you walked away in perfect stride.
As I reminisce on that warm summer day,
On my mind and in my heart you’ll always stay.
As I dream of you once more,
In my heart, you will always remain;
As I will never let go of the sweet memory of you.
For, an angel like you comes only once in a lifetime...
For your kiss, I will always long
Your touch I will always crave.
But reality sets in, and I realized, once more, as close as you seem to be,
Your love I’ll never have.
And just like the northern star in the sky,
You are my unreachable star.
Copyright © 2010 - The Promise by Charles Antoine Louis, Jr. All rights reserved
Charles A. Louis,Jr.
Daily Quote: Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Linguist Corner-SPANISH: collar, noun / necklace; collar
Example:
- Llevaba un collar de rubíes imponente.
She was wearing an impressive ruby necklace.
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By: Charles A. Louis, Jr.
Softly with discretion, one night,
A kiss had been given unto me.
A kiss from a fantasy, a kiss from my love.
And every time I close my eyes,
I wonder what it would be like to love you again.
Thereafter, on some lonely night,
Suffering from the delights of memories,
I think about the one whom, at the lost hours,
Made love to me; a time so far gone.
I reminisce those empty nights,
Where love had just been a fantasy,
Fantasy of wonders, wonders of passion.
I reminisce that empty night,
When, obsessively, you made love to me.
Tonight, let’s make it a night to remember.
Let’s make tonight, a night filled with passion, filled with love.
A love that will be the testimony of a lover’s fantasy,
A fantasy so long gone with the wind of emotions.
Charles A. Louis, Jr.
Copyright © 2009 - Love Notes from the Heart by Charles Antoine Louis, Jr. All rights reserved
Daily Quote:
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
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By: Charles A. Louis, Jr.
If today was the last time I'd have to look into your eyes,
I would gaze into the windows to your soul, forevermore;
As I engrave my name with everlasting ink onto your heart.
If today was the last time I'd have to hug you,
I would take all the time I'd have to hold you near;
As I wish time never ends, to forever hold and cherish your warm embrace.
If today was the last time I'd have to kiss you,
I would take all the time I'd have to press my lips against yours,
So I can savor your divine ecstasy for more than an eternity.
If today was the last time I'd get to see your smiling face,
I would take all the time I'd have to enjoy every second of it,
As I would cherish that moment forevermore deep within my restless heart.
If today was the last time I'd get to talk to you,
I would take all the time I'd have to say all the words always gone unspoken,
As I would hold your hand, feeling your touch, so soft and tender.
If today was the last time I'd get to be with you,
I would take all the time I'd have to do all the things ever gone undone,
As I would express in them how much I love and cherish you.
If today was the last time I'd get to see you cry,
I would take all the time I'd have to wipe your tears away,
As I would promise to love you forevermore with a love that's here to stay.
If today was the last day of my mere existence,
I would want to spend all the time I'd have with no one else but you;
So that, as I take my last breath, I can rest in your warm embrace just one more time.
Charles A. Louis, Jr.
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Daily Quote: The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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