Zoom, just one look and then my heart went boom Suddenly and we were on the moon Flyin’ high in a neon sky, oh oh Bang, just one touch and all the church bells rang Heaven called and all the angels sang Sunrise shine in the midnight sky, oh oh Oh zoom, you chased the Read more about Zoom[…]
A poem by Pablo Neruda which is very appropriate for this time Keeping Quiet Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. It would be Read more about Keep Quiet[…]
“The Theme, briefly, is the antique story, which falls into thirteen chapters and an epilogue, of the birth, life, death and resurrection of the God of the Waxing Year; the central chapters concern the God’s losing battle with the God of the Waning Year for love of the capricious and all-powerful Threefold Goddess, their mother, Read more about The White Goddess[…]
https://makinglearning.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/poetry-is-not-a-luxury-audre-lorde.pdf Poetry Is Not a Luxury (1985) Audre LordeThe quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our Read more about Poetry is not a Luxury[…]
Arvo Part tabular rasa silencio with four bars of written silence at the end leaving you waiting without resolution . He doesn’t give in and stays in the liminal space between it’s not trying to make everything better it tells us a very difficult truth that we do not know! The mystery Mysticism Is not Read more about Mysticism and Optimism[…]
http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_wildgeese.html
Three minute epiphany https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0727fg2 “Fire is the story that has to be told time and time again.” “One of the lessons I have learnt from music is to Respect time, and in other ways to disregard it. Everything has its own time and place. These things also have their own movements and patterns and you Read more about Yugen Blakrok[…]
The hymn as printed in Songs of Praise (1925) consisted only of the two verses of the 1918 version, credited “Words: Cecil Spring-Rice, 1918; Music: Thaxted”, I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love;The love that asks no questions, the love that stands the test,That lays Read more about A Hymn[…]