A Coat


I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.

By William Butler Yeats

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

William Butler Yeats


When You Are Old

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Quoted from

PASSION

"....I'd die when all the foam is up,
The bright wine sparkling high;
Nor wait till in the exhausted cup
Life's dull dregs only lie.

Then Love thus crowned with sweet reward,
Hope blest with fulness large,
I'd mount the saddle, draw the sword,
And perish in the charge! ..."

Charlotte Bronte

On 2022-04-02 13:29:21 Claudia Gentlemens Delight said:

The Invitation - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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One of my favourites.

Also love Maya Angelou

And this...

I never saw a Wild Thing
Sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen
Dead from a bough,
Without ever having felt
Sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence

Arizona

My favourite poem is over 40 pages long - The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.

Always thought that was a song by Iron Maiden.
Maybe they were inspired by the poem mentioned above.

Anyone just fucking want freedom from bondage,& I don't mean the fun kind?

Or am I alone in feeling this way?

I identified with the words below,maybe someone else will too-Forsyth P Jones.


"Running outta ways to run away
I cover it up,but I can't escape.

Heavy are the words I fail to say
I'm free of love but I'm still in chains.

Living in the light of someone else,
Bury all the lies I tell myself.

Stood at the golden gates of hell,
Climbed too high & I fell.

Hit rock bottom,my doubts won,
But I'm not done.

I'm free of love but I'm still in chains":Kaskade.