We are each an eternal flame, placed within a lamp whose oil will never run dry.

Answer me this: If all that you have is taken away from you, all possessions and all relationships and all knowledge and all intelligence and all achievement (and they can be taken away, and they will be taken away, for they are transient), what will you have left? When your mind and body fail you and your wealth and comfort are taken away, what ( Read more... )

 I'm supposed to be illustrating a book of poetry for a friend. This goes with her poem titled "Design".


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Mother of All Living


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 I so often find myself confronted and frustrated by this mentality that religious myth is all a fairy-tale invented by something inferior to the rational mind. Why has the word "myth" been taken, in our culture, to indicate a lie? On the contrary, myth is the truth. It is not truth in the literal sense (as in, it is true that I am writing a ( Read more... )

( Can this movie set please be my bedroom? )

 "Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."

I chose some of my favourites from the past year. Snakes will be next, so watch out.


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she
who dares to capture grand helios' eye
as he throws his royal reins, pale and bright across the sky
with courage binds her heartstrings tight
before the god's receding light is swallowed
by the dark horizon and cast down into the mouth of night

as those who sing by dawn are silenced by the dusk
surrendering their living hearts into artermis' trust
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