“since feeling is first,”
by e.e. cummings
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchohare longamby Ernest Dowson"The brevity of life forbids us to entertain hopes of long duration" —HoraceThey are not long, the weeping and the laughter,Love and desire and hate:I think they have no portion in us afterWe pass the gate.They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for a while, then closesWithin a dream.
Songby John Donne
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devils foot;
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou be'st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights
Till Age snow white hairs on thee;
Thou, when thou return'st wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear
No where
Lives a woman true and fair.
If thou find'st one let me know;
Such a pilgrimage were sweet.
Yet do not; I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet.
Though she were true when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two or three.
Lullaby
by W. H. Auden
Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm:
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's carnal ecstacy.
Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost.
All the dreaded cards foretell.
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought.
Not a kiss nor look be lost.
Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find our mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness find you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.
La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl)
by T. S. Eliot
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair —
Lean on a garden urn —
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair —
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise —
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive resentment in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
So I would have had him leave,
So I would have had her stand and grieve,
So he would have left
As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised,
As the mind deserts the body it has used.
I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and faithless as a smile and a shake of the hand.
She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
And I wonder how they should have been together!
I should have lost a gesture and a pose.
Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight, and the noon's repose.
I, Being Born a Woman, and Distressedby Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman, and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body's weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again undone, possessed.
Think not for this, however, this poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity — let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again.
Looking For Your Face
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for
Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did
I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes
My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold
I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine
Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow
My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you
Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
for me
the earth and sky
My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer.
~Anon.
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.— Anonymous (The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB)
Love is always patient- regardless of time, distance, highs and lows, as well as kind of people one's dealing with.
Love is always kind- everlastingly giving and never asking for favour.
Love is never boastful and conceited- it's not proud of and self-satisfied in one's achievement, possession and abilities.
Love is NEVER rude and selfish- It never harms. It's graceful and merciful and forgiving. It prioritises the other person. It prioritises God the most.
Love does not take offense and is not resentful- Love does not seek for revenge, nor does it keep an avenge. Madly, in love, does not mean to be out of control. Love is being in control of our emotions.
Love takes no pleasure in other people's sin- It seeks to build people up, not to bring people down. Love hates sin but is kind to the sinner. After all, Love has redeemed all sinners if only they believe.
Love delights in the truth- Love takes pleasure in digging and living His words. There are of countless amounts of truth but love cares about and is able to distinguish the true Truth from made-up ones. Even if one is being rejected, shamed and persecuted by the world for doing so, one never holds love back.
Love is always ready to excuse- regardless of how ugly situations get, it thrives.
Love is always ready to trust- Love does not dwell in the past nor does it fear the future.
Love is always ready to hope- That the best is yet to come. And everything works for one's good anyway.
Love is always ready to endure whatever comes- Love is always faithful in small things, and also big things. Love treats both the same- with great care. Eyes, mind and heart are always ready to conquer and be victorious.
De liefde (Love) Dutch gospel song
Even though I would speak all the languages,
From Chinese to Sanskrit.
And I could understand everyone,
But hadn't love.
What else would I be?
Than words in the wind.
A dreamer who is lost,
And cannot find his dreams anymore.
Even though I knew,
All the rules and laws.
And I had the faith,
To move mountains.
But I did not live my life with love,
Why would I still exist?
If the most beautiful theories,
In a matter of time will fall apart.
Love, love,
This word is too big.
But love, that is life,
Even life through death.
Love, love,
Tell me the secret,
Of a God who is always love.
I want to force,
But love is patient.
And when I want to punish,
Love forgives the debt.
Even when I am egoistic,
Love will share everything.
Sometimes I kick a lot,
But love kneels down on the floor.
And soon, when everything is finished,
People had expected the least.
God will teach us the glory of the light.
In love I recognize His Face.
Break my heart for what break Yours, Lord. Teach me the way You love me. <3
Don’t spend yourself in the small copper coins
of complaint and accusation.
Don’t answer those in authority, those who fancy
themselves all-powerful,
with grubby, fingered words
for which you’ll be picked up at three in the morning.
Answer with pictures that no one has ever painted,
answer with thoughts which no one has ever thought,
answer with verses which no one has ever fashioned,
answer with a language which no one has ever uttered.
Not with the sword, poet, will you sly tyranny
but with the freshness of spring and autumn’s maturity.
Beaten and blood-stained, strike your gold coins,
heavy with the destiny of your age,
heavy with your own destiny,
golden coins bearing your own likeness,
reflecting mankind’s suffering
against the background
of man’s two million years upon our planet.
Such coins
shall stay in circulation even after ten thousand years,
valid like life’s rebellious spring,
like life repeating itself, ever-youthful—
while the coins
with the theatrical, proud and imperial gestures—
the measure of pride reflecting stupidity—
will long have lain dead in the museum show-cases
under artificial light,
shunning the sun,
dead for a thousand years.
— Ondra Lysohorsky
shalom.
think i'm self absorbed? well, everyone is, someway somehow. :p
so,
1. i love being dependent. to Him. people say i'm very strong but i hate it that they think so.
2. i am super clumsy. always knock over stuffs even in my room. cost me loads of scars and bruises. yuck.
3. i LA-HUV eating. i don't take meals. i just eat all day long. which explains my weight and stretchmarks. yuck yuck yuck. :(
4. i was once fair. now i am dark because i play sports. i love sports but really despise my sunburnt, dark and dull skin.
5. i am secretly romantic.
6. i'd rather keep my opinion to myself than being honest. i hate the idea of hurting others.
7. i love books. i must have books or at least a book on my bed, study table, table in teacher's office, bag & going-out bag. basically i must have one at reach. Current craze are Love & Misadventure and The Cinderella Rule. been rereading them again and again cause they're very good! and cause i am broke. hahaha.
8. i am always secretly wanting to become a novelist. i wrote some half-way piece but yeah, i have issues in having the commitment to finish them. so i write here. hahaha.
9. i am very terrible in handling horror movie.
10. i adore Cristiano Ronaldo, Remy Ishak, David Archuleta, Lee Seung Gi, Brooke Fraser and Amy Lee. i do not fall into the bandwagon of becoming celebrity's die-hard-fans but i like them because they have this charming attitude and smile. and also they are very good in what they are doing.
11. i am very terrified of big dogs. i had Suri once but she died. one day i was chased by a larggge dog and thus, i'll be all panicking and sometimes crying when i see one. huh.
12. i love watching hardcore comedy like Munahhirzi and New Girl and Hot Cleveland.
13. when i feel extremely, i am capable of writing philosophical pieces. hahhahahaha!
14. i will always be socially awkward. i feel hard to fit in or belong to some group.
15. no matter what people do to me, i am always able to forgive them. i will feel very very very sad but life is for loving, is it not?
16. imma proud self-proclaimed sweet tooth.
17. imma tea person.
18. i was awarded state's best debater. this is my biggest pride so far. but don't expect me to go around acting all diva. i just am not a fighter anymore. i don't understand why people would hurt other people. does it make them feel better about themselves? i believe in loving my enemy because they play crucial roles in my life. they note us our mistakes and make us want to do and be better.
19. i was not really close with my family. my siblings and i fought all the time and my parents were very strict with me. now, i wish mom would talk with me all day & we'd bake cakes every day, i wish dad would be around more and be healthier than he is now and my siblings are my biggest supporters.
20. i love shopping for books, food and dresses.
the end.