Here's the poem I'm bringing to discuss tonight. If everyone involved would be up for posting their "found art" as well, either before or after, that would be fantastic. Thanks guys.
-Laura
Aftershock
by Michael Rumley-Wells
Flames leaped into the sky
and music roared and burst
and a thousand ideas for making
Life just what we want
crashed through my head
like the waterfall
where we sat quietly and listened
to its roaring; now it roared
inside and I knew
I knew I knew
I had what I wanted
and we would
never go back
there.
The serpent scratched
its ear with its hind leg
and I looked at the fruit
in my bare hand,
and I tried to pick one
out of the thousand.
They were fading now
along with the flames
and I wanted more;
another bite.
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ReplyDeleteThe planets in their stations listening stood,
ReplyDeleteWhile the bright pomp ascended jubilant.
“Open, ye everlasting gates,” they sung;
“Open, ye heavens, your living doors; let in
The great Creator, from his work return’d
Magnificent, his six days’ work, a World."
-Milton, Paradise Lost, VII.563
We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread,
And long to feast upon Thee still;
We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead,
And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
-Bernard of Clairvaux
How the mighty have fallen
in the midst of battle!
Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
I am distressed for you, my brother
Jonathan;
very pleasant have you been to me;
your love to me was extraordinary,
surpassing the love of women.
How the mighty have fallen,
and the weapons of war perished!
-2 Samuel 1:25-27
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/02/a-year-of-volcanic-activity/4/
ReplyDeleteMy geology professor is having us research volcanoes and gave us this link. There are some awesome pictures that are intense & powerful, yet beautiful. And something I've never even heard of before but looks pretty friggen sweet: VOLCANIC LIGHTNING!
Thought I would share.