Category: Songs
Yugen Blakrok
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[…]
Of Mere Being
The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, risesIn the bronze distance. A gold-feathered bird Sings in the park, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song. You know then that it is not the reason. That makes us happy or unhappy. The bird sings. It’s feathers shine The palm Read more about Of Mere Being[…]
ThevoiceofGaia
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Winter solstice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000qhdp. BBC Radio 3 Night tracks Winter Solstice Evening Soundscape Light in the Darknes.radio 3 words and music.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000qb46
Winter Apple
WINTER APPLE By David Whyte Let the apple ripen on the branch beyond your need to take it down. Let the coolness of autumn and the breathing, blowing wind test its adherence to endurance, let the others fall. Wait longer than you would, go against yourself, find the pale nobility of quiet that ripening demands… Read more about Winter Apple[…]
Stolen child – W B Yeats
The Stolen Child W. B. Yeats – 1865-1939 Where dips the rocky highlandOf Sleuth Wood in the lake,There lies a leafy islandWhere flapping herons wakeThe drowsy water rats;There we’ve hid our faery vats,Full of berrysAnd of reddest stolen cherries.Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more Read more about Stolen child – W B Yeats[…]
Island songs – Ólafur Arnalds
Coloured fishing vessels are often moored in the tiny harbour of Hvammstangi, a town that sits in the eastern shore of the Miðfjörður. The name is derived from ‘hvammur’, which means a green space in a mountain and is now home to Einar, a poet and teacher in Icelandic and literature. He moved to this Read more about Island songs – Ólafur Arnalds[…]
My sister is a serial killer
“When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It’s a subtle kind of murder … the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.” ― Jim Morrison People are afraid of themselves They should stand up Read more about My sister is a serial killer[…]
Love, Trust and Kindness
“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our Read more about Love, Trust and Kindness[…]