Venice masks

Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Monday, 30 December 2024

Every day - Tsogdorjin Bavuudorj

How every day can the bright sun dawn  
without growing weary of us? 

Saturday, 28 December 2024

There is a way - L-Ness

Unity is strength,
disunity is weakness,
we know one finger can’t kill a louse,
one will get there but,
together we will succeed,
when shit is hard, we are hardcore,
it is important to finish,
what we started,
to differentiate between
development and buildings,
an aim and derailment,
to the level of achieving an objective
whatever you do,
give it all your best,
when a lot of people move in masses,
you will sense there is something
motivating them and it is not sativa,

Friday, 27 December 2024

Lyric Poetry - Bertel Gripenberg

Mosaic made from fragments of emotion —
A tiny drop of elixir, gold tear
Pressed from life’s dark and obscure potion —
A whole from what true wholeness cannot near —

Thursday, 26 December 2024

Boxing Day - Kenward Elmslie

Today is Boxing Day
in an isle parts of us hail from
surely not homage to Sugar Ray
or container congloms

Wednesday, 25 December 2024

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity - John Milton

This is the month, and this the happy morn, 
Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, 
Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, 

Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Hymn for the Nativity - Notker Balbulus

Before the ages and the stars of morn
The ever-living Son of God was born;
Whom, as their Maker, heaven and earth adore,
- And the wide ocean sings from shore to shore,

Monday, 23 December 2024

A Christmas hymn - Alfred Domett

It was the calm and silent night!
Seven hundred years and fifty-three 
Had Rome been growing up to might,
And now was Queen of land and sea. 

Sunday, 22 December 2024

O Saviour of the nations - Otloh of St Emmeram

O Saviour of the nations,
Creator of the skies, 
Our single hope, our glory, 
To thee our song shall rise.

Saturday, 21 December 2024

It's Christmas day - Roland L. Gayle

I just woke up and it’s Christmas Day
Christ is born, Hip, Hip Hooray!

Friday, 20 December 2024

The bliss of Heaven - Anonymous

The bliss of Heaven,
I will worship you a thousandfold,
Revered fruit of a mature tree,
Long awaited by your people,
Protection of spiritual strength,
Heed my call.

Thursday, 19 December 2024

Giddy-up, bull - Anonymous

Giddy-up, bull, little bull,
Little bull from the little pen.

Wednesday, 18 December 2024

You come down from the stars - Alfonso Maria de' Liguori

You come down from the stars
Oh, King of Heavens,
And You come in a cave in the cold, in the frost.
Oh, my Divine Baby
I see you trembling here,
Oh, Blessed God
Ah, how much it costs You, your loving me.

Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Longing (Garod) - Hagop Norashkharian

The years have passed and still pass…
Yet you seem to me only
Illusive and a far dream,
Like invincible mountain.

Monday, 16 December 2024

More than Anyone Else - Vagif Bayatly Oner

I can neither be the strongest man in the world,
Nor do I want to be.
I don't want anyone to be afraid of me.

Sunday, 15 December 2024

Day by day, God’s gracious love surrounds me - Lina Sandell

Day by day, God’s gracious love surrounds me
As a balm to soothe my troubled heart.
Countless cares and worries that confound me
Fade away or quietly depart,
For His heart is kind beyond all measure,
And He comforts us as He knows best.

Saturday, 14 December 2024

Know'st Thou The Way - Theodor Kjerulf

O littel bird! know'st thou the way
Which is unknown to me?
How swift thou flewest at break of day,
With heart all full of glee!

Friday, 13 December 2024

Flying Kites - Cicely Fox Smith

"It was them there flyin' kites of 'ers done it," said he,
"Runnin' down the Tropics a sight she was to see,
A pictur' to see with 'er sails both large and small,
An' 'er pretty skysails atop of 'em all."

Thursday, 12 December 2024

No Pain Like Our Pain - Rabbi Tamara Cohen

Dear God, help us look,
look closer so that we may see
our children in their children,
their children in our own. 

Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

Who is Innocent? - Yahia Lababidi

If one were hard of heart
they might ask
is any Israeli innocent

Monday, 9 December 2024

Sleeping Porter (Nidrit Bhariya) - Laxmi Prasad Devkota

On his back a fifty-pound load,
his spine bent double,
six miles sheer in the winter snows;
naked bones;
with two rupees of life in his body
to challenge the mountain.

Sunday, 8 December 2024

from: My Silent Confidant - Søren Kierkegaard

Where am I? 
What does it mean to say: the world?
What is the meaning of that word? 
Who tricked me into this whole thing and leaves me standing here?

Saturday, 7 December 2024

The Colour of Life - Ssu-K’ung T’u

Would that we might for ever stay
The rainbow glories of the world,
The blue of the unfathomed sea,
The rare azalea late unfurled,

Thursday, 5 December 2024

The Beira Malaria - Thomas Craig

When you rise to greet old Phœbus with a booming in your head,
    And your temples throb and threaten straight to burst;
When your tongue feels like a doormat and your eyelids feel like lead,
    And your throat is dry and parched with burning thirst;
        When your eyeballs shun the light;
        And the sunshine seems a blight,
You may moan your luck, and wish you'd ne'er been weaned,

Wednesday, 4 December 2024

The Liberal says - Morris Winchevsky

The Liberal says, Jack must help him 
Because he is his friend. 
The Conservative says: My heart 
Opens to Jack today.