love's memory

Mar 04 2008 ∞

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering…

Feb 10 2008 ∞

Now what would You have me do
I ask you please
I wait to hear
your voice
the word you say
I await
to see your sign
would I obey?

Feb 05 2008 ∞

“The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don’t know…How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what’s its own and what’s alien.”

— Plato

Jan 28 2008 ∞

Somehow I need to love you

more than I need to breathe

I can feel you leaving the ground

I will follow down

you and I will drown…

Jan 26 2008 ∞

From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

~Mabel Louise Robinson

Jan 16 2008 ∞

He blinks upon the hearth-rug,
and yawns in deep content,
accepting all the comforts
that Providence has sent.

Louder he purrs, and louder,
in one glad hymn of praise
for all the night’s adventures,
for quiet, restful days.

Life will go on for ever,
with all that cat can wish:
warmth and the glad procession
of fish and milk and fish.

Only-the thought disturbs him-
he’s noticed once or twice,
the times are somehow breeding
a nimbler race of mice.

Alexander Gray

Dec 22 2007 ∞

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December’s bareness everywhere!

Dec 02 2007 ∞