Memoirs on the Passions of Lifethey abound in every moment
Chaotic_Passions
read my profile
sign my guestbook

Name: Nick N
Birthday: 4/9/1986
Gender: Male


Interests: Music (violin and viola), Reading, Drawing, being with friends, swimming, skating.
Expertise: seeing all of life with joy...i hope.


Message: message me


Member Since: 7/2/2004

SubscriptionsSites I Read
PaliFighter
Mountain_Bandie

Blogrings
ThE ZiONiSt bLOGRiNG
previous - random - next

Peace between Jews and Arabs
previous - random - next

ZION FREEDOM FIGHTERZ
previous - random - next


Posting Calendar

|<< oldest | newest >>|
view all weblog archives

Get Involved!

Suggest a link

Recommend to friend

Create a site

Friday, September 15, 2006

Late Summer Blues

There's a time, not a long one, everyday

When you're very much alone.

Only lasts ten, twenty minutes, everyday

When you're very much alone.

 

And your heart slows down to a subtle hiss,

And you focus on a certain place in the ground

With dry brown leaves, from early fall

And the wind whistles by with barely a sound

 

There's a time, not a long one, everyday

When you're very much alone.

Only lasts ten, twenty minutes, everyday

When you're very much alone.

 

And it doesn't matter if a friend is a half a foot away

Doesn't matter if a larger crowd is near,

Doesn't matter if he goes, wouldn't matter if he stays

The grass is rustling too hard to hear.

 

There's a time, not a long one, everyday

When you're very much alone.

Only lasts ten, twenty minutes, everyday

When you're very much alone.

 

And you love that time, even if its just a moment,

And miss every moment that its gone

It's the funny time o' day, when the yellow grass is grey

And nothin's right, but thank God, nothin's wrong.

 

There's a time, not a long one, everyday

When you're very much alone.

Only lasts ten, twenty minutes, everyday

When you're very much alone.


Monday, August 14, 2006

Haifa, July 26, 2006

My friend took a bowl today,
with soapy loving hands he washed
his white shoes, didn't hear the warplanes
flying overhead, roaring overhead.

His shoes were as white as the fluffy clouds
That hid the rockets falling on the city
Just a half an hour's walk from wher eI sleep.
People slept and died, as I awoke, afraid.

His shoes ran him to the shelters each time
The sirens tore into our lives ... he was
Proud to scrub at dusty laces that may yet
Save his life, and take him underground.

He's lucky, my friend, his shoes as cruelly
White as the sky ... sneakers, like clouds
That take him far away. He's lucky because
for his work, he earns the right to fly.

But I must look to the clouds for hope,
As I was taught to all my life
And I must look in fear as I was taught
by just two weeks of war.

And I will ponder the strange sameness
Of a bomb shelter and a grave,
And think of my war, the sirens, the clouds,
The fear, beautiful Haifa,

And my friend, squatting on the floor
of our balcony, polishing his dusty wings.


Friday, April 14, 2006

It's hard to write in your head, walking
under steel bridges, the dog pulling, listless,
to his own poetic endeavors ... your eyes
dribbling with tears ... forgetting the lines.

Not so easy, either, sitting in a train watching
Girls who watch other men, over the margins
of books, whose pages never turn, whose lonely
word remain unread and idle.

What should a poem say, after all, when
the greatest poets are the cruelest liars?
When will a poem earn the distinction, the honor,
the right to be shot and killed in the streets?

No, not easy to write at home, unless your hand sobs
in ink, only when it should be doing something productive.
A true poet will be read by everyone, when he dies,
But understood only by strangers and lovers ...

Because they are also lonely, and all so useless.


Wednesday, March 15, 2006

I started to cook my pasta that day at 5, knowing that with my penchant for causing trouble, i'd be done by 6 ... I'd boiled the water, watched the simmering foam boil up from the inside of a black pot, pushing aside the lid as the water comes up inside and pours over and makes the gas fire sputter in indignation.

Of course, the pasta is overcooked ... I don't stir it at all, and I'm watching TV instead of watching the damned cooking ... so the pasta's so soft it follows apart on the fork ... which is just a little gross.  But it's okay ... the pasta sauce is good after I cut up a few tomatoes into them, since I'm a crazy tomato fiend ... so I cut up tomatoes and dump it into my canned pasta sauce


Ode to Misplaced Love, the edited version

 

Her eyes are closed, her breathing ragged, harsh

And if they open they are glazed and can’t

Look further than the neck, her eyebrow arched

Her fingers dancing as she groans and pants.

 

Your mind, though, won’t be fooled and grabs your ear,

And whispers softly, trembling with a grief,

It’s frightened, knows that you’ll transform a leer

Of concentration into love’s gold leaves.

 

Her fingers may cause magic, may cause sounds

That titillate the soul and heal the heart,

But don’t permit sweet music’s tones to wound

Your love with one who loves only her art.

 

Your mind must stop your passions, give you peace,

Your love for music keep, for her release.



Next 5 >>