Tag Archives: Poetry

The Prophet’s Children | Khalil Gibran

26/05/2012

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Happy Children Playing on Brazilian Beach, Photo by Pic Hunting

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house […]

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Queen’s Pawn

20/02/2012

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Queen Chess Piece

“Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.” ~ Italian Proverb

Obvious ways breed obvious opposition. Noisy preparation is the armament of the hubristic man.
To defeat an opponent thus self-inflated, a wise combatant, sublimates all hint of power beneath the veneer of the demeaned.

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Lost in the Machine | Metropolis

18/02/2012

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Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" 1927

We must not define ourselves by freedom from religion, from abuse, from rape, from derision. From societal norms, from conformance, from acceptable compliance. From race, from the accident of geographical happenstance of birth or of life whether lived extraordinarily or pedestrian, with unsung aplomb, or within the rarefied strata of the new minted pantheon of ‘celebrity’ deities.

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