Umm...er....well....so...
I guess I'd better go with someones else's 'cos mine be's not so pretty.


"Alone I sit in Dawns early light
As the shadows start to fade
The stillness of my surroundings
As in to my memories I wade.

My soul accepts the music
Of the trees as they whisper
An ancient timeless melody
That I am always to remember."
(Freida Martinez )

Awake, for morning in the bowl of night
Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight
And lo, the hunter from the east has caught
The sultan's turret in a noose of light.

Edward Fitzgerald - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


And because it is night time here i'll also post the penultimate quatrain:

Ah, moon of my delight that knows no wane,
The moon of Heaven is rising once again.
How oft, hereafter rising, shall she look
Through this same garden after me in vain.

minnie the pink

I just got up. Those are cool poems.

*When sleep has crusted your eyes through,
Reach for a bottle of Mountain Dew.*




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Sleepy eyes gaze at starry skies
Dreamer of dreams tells dark lies

The fact that those words came to me from out of nowhere..lol..scares me a little!

Have you read the rhyming couplets which Rhonda and I did a couple of years ago?? They are on my web page.

Bradamante - Warrior Maiden

I have read them and enjoyed them!

I also like your recipe section.

Last night I tweaked the recipe section - I should make sure that the links still work.

I'm trying to write up my Malta trip - not easy. I just hope that no Maltese stumble on it.

minnie the pink

hi guys! Aw, what great poetry! Especially Luke's!

I found this on a website:

Morning Joy

AT night the wide and level stretch of wold,
Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold,
Far as the eye could see was ghostly white;
Dark was the night save for the snow's weird light.

I drew the shades far down, crept into bed;
Hearing the cold wind moaning overhead
Through the sad pines, my soul, catching its pain,
Went sorrowing with it across the plain.

At dawn, behold! the pall of night was gone,
Save where a few shrubs melancholy, lone,
Detained a fragile shadow. Golden-lipped
The laughing grasses heaven's sweet wine sipped.

The sun rose smiling o'er the river's breast,
And my soul, by his happy spirit blest,
Soared like a bird to greet him in the sky,
And drew out of his heart Eternity.

Claude McKay

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/mckay02.html

“There is a Treason at Sea”

I am solo in this world of water
Only the tip of a sunrise visible
Like the morning light in a little girl’s eyes
I crave this freedom
I find it only in this little ship
But there is a treason at sea
Is it me?
It is a wonder, supernatural cover of war
The dark ones who eternal in
Damnation grow
Set about me now
How they whine and crow
I am solo
in this world of wet
And bitter is my temperament
I close the door to sentiment
And I relish all my youth
I realize that I am doomed
Fear of love and fear of you
But you give me the keys to paradise
It is you who sympathize
You and your perfection grow
I am cradled in your ocean’s throw
I crave your freedom in this little ship
For you alone can chart my trip
And like these waves I lose my grip
And I sink into your arms

-Kevin Max Smith



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