[fiction] 52 flavours ~ 2009
1 ) - Beginning?
- Beginnings.
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~ No One Was Turned Away ~
2 ) The universe is my country
3 ) Let me go to the window,
Watch there the day-shapes of dusk
And wait and know the coming
Of a little love.
4 ) Secret city of people
5 ) The house of the butterflies
6 ) Like the dew
That clings for life
On hare's foot fern
So I, too, rely on you
Though I may vanish
7 ) Who is dancing with these
rainbow colours in the sky?
8 ) And turn and go up to the open door boldly,
And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses.
9 ) from which tree's blossom
it comes, I do not know
this fragrance
10 ) Your house is your larger body.
It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless.
11 ) Perhaps one at last will be left to grow in peace.
~ Could It Be Magic? ~
12 ) Move through smoke and mirrors
13 ) I’m a wanderer trapped in a maze
14 ) Ride the wind and rise to the moon
15 ) Bitter to taste, sweet in imagining
16 ) The scent of a soul
17 ) Our star is fading
18 ) Strange as a dreamer's mad imaginings
19 ) Of the four elements that frame the heart
20 ) By the enchantment of thy strain
21 ) The moonbeams kiss the sea
~ ... Stealing Your Hubcapz ~
22 ) Charisma: a form of voodoo
23 ) Liebes-Attacke
24 ) But why are the worthless multitudes taking you away?
25 ) The swagger of a champion
26 ) Red for the devil, black to inspire fear
27 ) Tales of manly perseverance.
Or the lack thereof.
28 ) "I'm not sure my parents will approve! And they run a bar!"
29 ) But first, I'd like to find out who did it.
30 ) I have all these thoughts, and I'm pretty sure they all contradict each other.
31 ) It's about creeds and deeds
but words, chivalry seldom needs
Habibi
32 ) And from
The profound courage to never relinquish love.
33 ) I am full of love tonight
Come look into my eyes, and let's go off
Sailing, my dear, on a long ocean ride.
34 ) Duong jai
[ translation: one who climbs inside the heart ]
35 ) Love which is simply free
36 ) Who is so safe as we, where none can do
Treason to us, except one of us two?
37 ) For one crowded hour you were the only one in the room
38 ) Your soul is my soul clenched in my fist
39 ) For their two hearts in life were single-hearted
40 ) A joy was erstwhile, In thy voice and thy smile
41 ) I want both of us to start singing like two
Traveling minstrels
About this extraordinary existence
We share
The Four Horsemen
42 ) ... and when they come they bring an army.
43 ) A trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour.
44 ) No opportunity for glory or avarice.
45 ) Stained by martyred blood
46 ) Ere we were disunited?
47 ) Cease, cease - for such wild lessons madmen learn
48 ) The isolated, the dispossessed, the incommunicado
49 ) disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises.
50 ) The second-hand victims of loneliness
51 ) We build worlds that destroy us.
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52 ) But a life built on memories is not much of a life.