Guest author: N. A. Granger – These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
31 de Janeiro de 2017, 15:12
I always liked this song from The Sound of Music, probably because I like kittens and brown paper packages wrapped up in string. When Sue asked me to do a guest post, I waffled – should it be profound and full of wisdom (unlikely!), funny (like Barb Taub’s posts – nah, I can’t measure up to her humor), a travelogue (Sue’s, Jo’s, and many others are so much better) or something about writing (but I’m very far from an expert on that) – what to do? Then I heard that song and thought maybe I could reveal a few things about myself that may or may not have trickled through in my posts.
So here are a few of my favorite things, in no particular order:
CATS
We used to have five of them (Ruckus, Tarby, Lucy and Ezekial), but our feline population has dwindled to one, Elijah Moon…
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Curso intensivo de espanhol em Buenos Aires na UBA
31 de Janeiro de 2017, 13:03[Curso intensivo de espanhol em Buenos Aires na UBA] é bom. Dê uma olhada! http://umaturistanasnuvens.com/2017/01/31/curso-espanhol-em-buenos-aires/
WHERE AMERICA BLEEDS
31 de Janeiro de 2017, 13:01
A step forward
Ten steps lost
What time has been slow to wash
Now sit in filth
Filth worse than it had seen
Being fanned by flies
Oh knives of division cuts through humanity
And like a melting cake
It gives way to wailing wishes
Guarded by suppressing bombs
II
Tales are told upon tales
Tails of humanity now fan flames of hatred
Crowns meant for smiles
Now sit to cut deep into flesh
Sucking blood of hosts
Turning vampires to scatter bodies
II(b)
My ma told me teeth know better
To bite into fingers which feed
Troubling Rivers
Usurping Mercy
Pinching peace
Ah!
III
Fingers will now point at eachother
Asking in rhetoric whose fault fled here the misfortune train
Who mistook the metallic bird for a flexible eagle?
Who killed sanity and woke insanity?
Who mandated the hand that draws these lines?
Lines of unfairness
Lines calling for…
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Stronger Than You Believe
31 de Janeiro de 2017, 12:51
Circle, little hands spin
Keeps close watch
Talks every now and then
Reminds me of effort
And where life remains
So little are we
Upon this earth
Words still cut, cause pain
Hurt
Our investment required
The outcome
After experience, noteworthy
Exhale shame
Inhale wisdom
Keep time as your guide
And be proud of your name
