Poem "kairos"

In a minute

I shall run through the doors 
with my hair flowing behind me
as the sun sets over the the horizon and bleeds into the sea

I shall run with my breath
no longer reaching my lungs
and the taste of copper filling my mouth 

but I will be too late
too late

as the sun bleeds
and vanishes

In a minute

we shall be surrounded by blinding lights
and winds that rip our tears from us
as the sea crashes brutally on poor defenseless creatures

but deep in this ocean there is a place
untouched
where lives are born and lost without ever feeling the wind
where dimmed eyes never see the sun bleeding
but the taste of copper lingers in their mouths

In a minute

The door shall close
when the final light of their world diminishes and dies

and then it will be too late
too late

to crash and bleed

like the setting sun
over the ocean


*kairos  (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment). It signifies a time lapse, a moment of indeterminate time in which everything happens. Wikipedia

I got the inspiration for this poem from other-wordly

Pillow Book "phrases that touches my heart"

"I wish you can forgive your Yesterdays,

I wish you can love your Tomorrows."
quote from Love Mode manga

"Don’t bow your head to anyone. Don’t kneel for anyone. It will become a habit. Once it becomes a habit, it will be hard to fix.

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quote from Moon Jae Shin, Sungkyunkwan Scandal series

"The opposite of love is not hate,

its indifference."

quote from Mother Teresa

Pillow Book: "phrases that touches my heart"

"who will drive my soul"
lyrics from Lights - Drive my soul

"I will see you again, in the place where no shadows fall."
quote from Delenn in Babylon 5 series

"Lift me up, let me go"
lyrics from Linkin Park - Jornada del Muerto

"everybody is starry eyed"
lyrics from Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed

"I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
poem by W. E. Henley - Invictus

"here we exist as it is"
lyrics from L'arc en Ciel- Kasou

“and yet it still moves”
quote by Galileo Galilei

what in the name of all toasted frogs is a Pillow Book?

So I just realised that there are probably some people out there who doesn't know what a pillow book is. Since this is something I very often post maybe I should explain it.

The pillow book started with Sei Shonagon a court lady in Japan in the Heian era. She wrote about daily things that caught her eyes or ears, such as gossip, events or just things she noted or ranted about.
In short a pillow book is a literary work that is not a novel or poetry. A sort of diary.

I personally use it when I have something to say that doesnt fit the category of fanfiction, novellas or poetry.

It just so happens that there is a movie called "The Pillow Book" - its an amazing movie, very poetic and sensual.

Poem "flan"

my beloved,
as a flan in a cupboard,
slowly, slowly collapsing in a river of sweetness,
ready to be languorously licked of a spoon

Comment: For those of you who don't know what a flan is see: Flan