Friday, 16 May 2025

They Are Not Long - Ernest Dowson


Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam.


They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,

Love and desire and hate;

I think they have no portion in us after

We pass the gate.


They are not long, the days of wine and roses,

Out of a misty dream

Our path emerges for a while, then closes

Within a dream.

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Some Kiss We Want - Rumi


There is some kiss we want with 

our whole lives, the touch of 

spirit on the body. Seawater

begs the pearl to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately

it needs some wild darling! At

night, I open the window and ask

the moon to come and press its

face against mine. Breathe into

me. Close the language- door and

open the love window. The moon

won't use the door, only the window.


Flowers by Wendy Cope

  Some men never think of it. You did. You’d come along And say you’d nearly brought me flowers But something had gone wrong. The shop was c...