Is one of the most influential poets in all history. He established the dominance of the ten and eleven syllable line in Renaissance European poetry.
If constancy in love, if a brave heart,the honeys of longing and courteousdesire, if passion built a gentle firesomewhere in its winding labyrinth;if my every thought was etched uponmy face, understood in broken wordsor shattered by fear and shame, or if a pallor, like a violet's, stained by love...if love is to be altruistic,if repeated sighs and weeping tears feed equally on sorrow and rage:if to burn at a distance or freezenearby, if love should dismantle me,the blame is yours, Love, the loss with me--(1304-1374)
A young professor of theology in Turkey. He was a prolific poet whose highly rhythmical verses became dances for whirling dervishes.
If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual -wanting will look, life your face and say Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulness of the nightsky, climb up on the roof and dance and say Like this? If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is, or what "God's fragrance" means, lean your head toward him or her. Keep your face there close. Like this. When someone quotes the old poetic image about clouds gradually uncovering the moon, slowly loosen knot by knot the strings of your robe. Like this? If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead, don't try to explain the miracle. kiss me on the lips. Like this, like this. When someone asks what is means to "die for love", point: here. The soul sometimes leaves the body, then returns when someone doesn't believe that, walk back into my house. Like this When lovers moan, they're telling our story Like this. I am a sky where spirit live. Stare into this deepening blue, while the breeze says a secret. Like this. (1207-1273)
There is a new blog... I am the administrator so therefore I do most of the advertising. It is a group blog, everyone that I live with at present in Santiago, Chile. It is just getting started, but since there are a lot of changes right now, there is a fair bit of things to post, and there will be almost 10 authors if everyone decides to put in their part. Here is the link EnvisageHome and a permanent link will be placed under my 'them' list. And while I am talking about links, I will let you know that I changed my personal photography from shutterchance to eyefetch, and the GeminiSide link will now take you there.
Oh the pain! The pain of wanting what you cannot have. In many ways people experience this type of pain, pain for love... I am in pain, for the love of a child. I see all my friends both younger and older coming into the joys of motherhood. How their lives have changed as they found the love of their child. How long I have waited, hoped for and prayed that soon would come the day where I too could fell the imensity of it. So strongly is the love that I feel for the children of my friends and family that I could not even fathom feelings of a stronger intensity. Oh, the day that motherhood finds me... that day I will be speachless
Spring after spring, I sat before my mirror. I've gone another year without you,shuddering with each letter--since you're gone,even wine has lost its flavor.I wept until it was autumn,my thoughts are going south beside you.Even the gates of Heaven are nearer to me now than you.
Often called the Empress of Song. She was one of the most brilliant and innovative poets of the Sung dynasty. Her courage, her sharp tongued literary criticism, and her passionate poems portray a remarkably liberated woman for her time.
There is the book, the inkstone, the table. But he who was in my life has disappeared. It is hard to speak through tears. I've heard it's always spring at Wu Ling, and beautiful. I'd take a little boat and drift. alone on the water, but I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.
