I was sittin’ in my apartment and feeling kind of low.
I had a lot to do and no particular place to go.
Reading about the election between Obama and McCain,
Was bringing my thoughts down and starting a pain in my brain.
Then I checked my funds online and my funds were running low.
That just brought me lower, [...]
Well, Day 1 and Day 2 slipped by without much fan fare and now I am HOME! No more office job til January! :) It’s raining and I have a cold, but I am drunk with the freedom of the day! :) I’m going to go see Juno, which Ebert says is good and looked great [...]
Tagged drawrings/art, poem, quotes, reviews, Roger Ebert, writingDropping Keys…I love this poem
This is the poem for the “Dropping Keys” painting. – Mollie
original painting by Mollie Kellogg
inspired by a poem by Hafiz
DROPPING KEYS
The small man
Builds cages for everyone
He
Knows.
While the sage,
Who has to duck his head while the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long
For the
Beautiful
Rowdy
Prisoners.
translation by Daniel Ladinsk
Check out Mollie’s painting at: [...]
My thankfulness is a circle of thanks
With outer edges extending
My blue skies touch
Another’s pain
My bed of flowers
Touches the same earth
They huddle near
In terror
As bombs drop
And lives change
And families
And fragile bodies
Are torn apart.
Without our help, life itself, can part us
Ripping
Strands pulled and wearing at every corner
Do we need to add to the fray?
I’m [...]
You are rare and precious to me,
My sorrow is like a deep blue stone.
I open my hands to set you free
The white bird of our love flies on.
I put the stone gently into my belly
And like a woman in her village, waiting for her lover
I carry water like I always did
Silently heavy inside.
But our love [...]