Kings and Queens

Long ago in days I'm told
Were ruled by Lords of greed
Maidens fared with gold
They dared to bare their wombs that bleed


Kings and queens and guillotines
Taking lives denied
Starch and parchment laid the laws
When bishops took the ride
Only to deceive


Oh I know I lived this life a'fore
Somehow know now truths I must be sure
Tossing turning, nightmares burning, dreams of swords in hand
Sailing ships the Viking spits the blood of father's land
Only to deceive


Living times of knights and mares
Raising swords for maidens fair
Sneer at death, fear only loss of pride


Living other centuries
Deja vu or what you please
Follows true to all who do or die

Screams of no reply they died
Screams of no reply and died
Lordy lordy and then then they died
Lordy no then they died

Live and do or die
Long ago were days I told...Lord they died
Kings and queens and guillotines...
Live and no reply they died
Long ago were days I told...
Kings and queens and guillotines...

Since I have nothing of my own to say right now

EPILOGUE

by D.H. Lawrence

Patience, little Heart.
One day a heavy, June-hot woman
Will enter and shut the door to stay.

And when your stifling heart would summon
Cool, lonely night, her roused breasts will keep the night at bay,
Sitting in your room like two tiger-lilies
Flaming on after sunset,
Destroying the cool, lonely night with the glow of their hot twilight;
There in the morning, still, while the fierce strange scent comes yet
Stronger, hot and red; till you thirst for the daffodillies
With an anguished, husky thirst that you cannot assuage,
When the daffodillies are dead, and a woman of the dog-days holds you in gage.
Patience, little Heart.

I suffer from Sometimers

I had the first sputtering, smoking ember of an idea for a blog post earlier today. I even had an idea of the images to accompany it...

...I forgot what it was going to be about. :(



Le sigh!

So I thought I'd write about forgetting, and I came across this lovely quotation:

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is someone today."

~ Stacia Tauscher

I thought that was simply marvelous. Of course I have no idea who Stacia Tauscher is, so I googled her and found THIS. So it seems I'm not the first to head down this path.


I'm OK with that.

So, the book cover (I think it's a clicker, but I've never tried to make an image in a blog clickable before, so I'm hoping) led me to explore (via the interweb) more about what the innards of the book might consist of, and I found a chapter titled: "Life is Tough - But Then Again, Compared to What?" And I thought THAT was amazingly clever and insightful.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, “To talk of many things”

Of shoes...


...and ships...


...and sealing-wax


Of cabbages...


...and kings


And why the sea is boiling hot


And whether pigs have wings.

-Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)