Category Archives: Books & Poetry

The power of the word

Silent friend of many distances

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Michaela

Silent friend of many distances, feel how your breath enlarges all your space. Let your presence rung out like a bell into the night. What feeds upon your face grows mighty from the nourishment thus offered. Move through transformation, out … Continue reading →

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All who seek you

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Michaela

All who seek you test you. And those who find you bind you to image and gesture. I would rather sense you as the earth senses you. In my ripening ripens what you are. I need from you no tricks … Continue reading →

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The Wind not of Air

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Michaela

THE WIND NOT OF AIR by Justme ‘Go away oh wind so cold, your stabbing knives Of force are not welcome here’ ‘Who could create such a vile and unwanted thing?’ Oxygen, my food, so very near. Yet, you force … Continue reading →

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How shall I hold my soul…

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Michaela

  Love-Song How shall I hold my soul so it does not touch on yours. How shall I lift it over you to other things? Ah, willingly I’d store it away with some lost thing in the dark, in some … Continue reading →

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Oh come and go

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Michaela

Oh come and go. You, almost a child still, complete for a moment the dance-move into the pure constellation of those dances in which dull orderly nature’s transiently overcome. Since she was stirred to total hearing only when Orpheus sang. … Continue reading →

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O long for the flame…

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Michaela

Will transformation. O long for the flame, where a Thing escapes you, splendid in change: that designing spirit, master of what is earth, loves only the turning-point in the form’s curve, What closes itself, to endure, already freezes: does it … Continue reading →

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Irhal ! Irhal !*

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Michaela

Some interesting reads on Egypt. The first one is a commentary on the bigger picture of  Egypt’t revolution, the US, Israel and Palestinians. The second one a reflection on the fate of a group that may become the collateral damage … Continue reading →

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The Second Coming

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Michaela

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; … Continue reading →

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Everything

Posted on January 29, 2011 by aralannow

I want to make poems that say right out, plainly, what I mean, that don’t go looking for the laces of elaboration, puffed sleeves. I want to keep close and use often words like heavy, heart, joy, soon, and to … Continue reading →

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The dark night

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Michaela

Stanzas of the Soul 1. One dark night, fired with love’s urgent longings – ah, the sheer grace! – I went out unseen, my house being now all stilled. 2. In darkness, and secure, by the secret ladder, disguised, – … Continue reading →

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