I am silver and exact

I have no preconceptions

Whatever I see, I swallow immediately

Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike

I am not cruel, only truthful –The eye of a little god, four-cornered

Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall

It is pink, with speckles

I have looked at it so long

I think it is a part of my heart

But it flickers

Faces and darkness separate us over and over

Now I am a lake

A woman bends over me

Searching my reaches for what she really is

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon

I see her back, and reflect it faithfully

She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands

I am important to her

She comes and goes

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Disgust

What have I become?
Something soft and really quite dumb.
Because I've fallen, oh,
Because I've fall-fallen, oh
Because I've fall-fall-fallen
So far away from the place where I started from.

Die Alone

I never thought I could love anyone but myself.
Now I know I can't love anyone but you.
You make me think that maybe I won't die alone.
Maybe I won't die alone.

Pip's Reflection

"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."

The story of my life!

I am UNWRITTEN,
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning
The pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten, yeah

I break tradition
Sometimes my tries
Are outside the lines,
We've been conditioned
To not make mistakes
But I can't live that way

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Farm Life

Truth in Kenny

When I’m a bullet shot out of a gun
When I’m a firecracker comin’ undone
When I’m a fugitive ready to run
All wild-eyed and crazy
No matter where my reckless soul takes me
YOU save me

Kenny Chesney

Lifeboat

"What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don't worry about death, about our hair thinning, about other drivers pulling in front of us on the road, about whether people are poor or rich, good-looking or ugly, about whether we feel lonely or about whether or not we are wearing clothes. We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dreams, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator."

Searching For God Knows What
Donald Miller

Incomplete

"Without you, within me, I can find no rest."

yesterday...tomorrow

"Today a new sun rises for me."

Josh Garrels

Jacaranda Album
http://www.joshgarrels.com/

Get Away

"I want to get away
I want to fly away
yeah, yeah, yeah!"

Her Prayer

"God I prayed

for

absolute brokeness.

Well,

You broke me."

Times by Tenth Avenue North

I know i need you
I need to love you
I love to see you, and its been so long
i long to feel you
i feel this need for you'
and i need to hear you
is that so wrong?
oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh
now you pulled me near you
when we're close i fear you
still im afraid to tell you
all that i've done
are you done forgiving?
or can you pass my pretending?
Lord, i'm so tired of defending
what i've become
what have i become?
oh oh, oh oh, oh oh.
i hear you say
"my love is over, its underneath, its inside, its in between
the times you doubt me, when you can't feel
the times that you've questioned 'is this for real?
'the times you've broken, the times that you mend
the times you hate me and the times that you bend
well my love is over, its underneath
its inside, its in between,
these times you're healing
and when your heart breaks
the times that you feel like you've fallen from grace
the times you're hurting
the times that you heal
the times you go hungry and attempted to steal
in times of confusion and chaos and pain
im there in your sorrow under the weight of your shame
im there through your heartache
im there in the storm
my love i will keep you by my power alone
i dont care where you've fallen, where you have been
i'll never forsake you
my love never ends, it never ends
mmm, mmm
oh oh, oh oh, oh oh

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves besides them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed – and gazed – but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when I my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Prufrock, my love!

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not hink that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US, AND WE DROWN.

Psalm 93

The Lord reigns, he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is robed in majesty
and is armed with strength.
The world is firmly established;
it cannot be moved.
Your throne was established long ago;
you are from all eternity.

The seas have lifted up, O LORD,
the seas have lifted up their voice;
the seas have lifted uptheir pounding waves.
Mightier than the thunder of the great
waters,
mighter than the breakers of the sea --
the LORD on high is mighty.

Your statutes stand firm;
holiness adorns your house
for endless days, O LORD.

Jacaranda Tree

Sitting on porches
Since Friday while the sky
Tilts like a watery glass
We wait for downpours
A drenching joy
A carnival sky
But what I don’t say
What I can’t say
Is that with this joy
Comes a mourning
Something left behind
Blue lined, teary
Mingled
I move on
All things will change
We wait for the rain
And the promise remains
Live life fully
Peeking through fingers
Slung in our hammocks
Cocooned
Skimming the water
Trapezed above time
We glide like slingshot angels
Belly up and
Floating we see
The promise in the sky
Up to Orion’s ribs
We climb this tree
And listen
For our pulse
All things will change
We wait for the rain
And the promise remains
I flung loosely
Into that world
I stayed heavily
I’ll be a Jacaranda Tree
In Indiana
I say
Greenhoused and sung to
I pray light will
Leak from out pockets
We’ll be drenched, overcome
At night the fireflies
Streamers at our sides
Silent flaming arcs of hope
All things will change
We wait for the rain
And the promise remains

Metamorphosis

"a change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means."

Colossians 2:5

"For even though I am absent in
body, yet I am with you in spirit,
and I am glad as I see the
resolute firmness with which you
stand together in your faith in Christ."

Relentless

"I can't outrun it
Just keeps coming
Your love is RELENTLESS.
Just like the waves
against the sand
over and over and
time and time again
your love keeps on reaching out to me."

(THANK GOD)

YOU are who YOU are no matter where I am

"I will praise YOU in this storm."

You and Me

"...in our nothingness, we have everything..."

Honest Iago?

"Men should be as they seem / Or those that be not, would they might seem none"

Oda al Otoño

It's a great day to be alive

...Sometimes I'm falling, desperately calling, howling at the moon...

Darrell Scott

Today...

"...self control became not just having restraint, grace, and determination enough to NOT do something, but having commitment, perseverance, and loyalty TO do something."

-Me

Sideways Station

"poems, other noises and thoughts that walk through my brain without knocking."

http://www.sidewaysstation.com/

I'll keep saying...

how lucky we are
oh oh ohh
how lucky we are
oh oh ohh
how lucky we are
oh oh ohh
how lucky we are

crudissimo

Hanging By A Moment

Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you

Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me now...

Lifehouse

AA

"God's grace is just like rain, falling on the just and the unjust."

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling--

Ode to a Title

You dream of colors that have never been made

You imagine the songs that have never been played

They will try to buy you and your mind

Only the curious have something to find

...

Nickel Creek - This Side

Regretfully Honest

"I am a danger I guess

I should have did something about my anger

But I never learn, real things I don't concern

I pour kerosene on everything I love and watch it burn"

T.I. - At The Bar

The Ultimate Rivalry

This is perhaps one of the best, most well-crafted army vs. navy spirit spot videos ever produced... and it's for the wrong side! GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!

Watch and enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K78zNtO_EFQ&feature=related

Nature's Course

And the trees about me,

Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks

Groan with continual surges; and behind me

Make all a desolation. Look, look wenches!

-- The Maides Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

There's got to be a first...

Hi! So basically this is my first blog! As if I do not have enough to do already, this is dedicated to the word melange, and it is just that.