COMMENT HERE even if you never comment or are too cool for memes or whatever. If you can't upload a song all you have to do is tell me what it is and I can probably get it off the hub. :P Only like 10 of y'all have answered and 71 people list me as a friend... ;)

yeah, that was pretty much pointless whoring. Um... look at my icon! It is pretteh. deutscheami ( Read more... )

Lest we forget.

"Those heroes that shed their blood ( Read more... )

Glenn Colquhoun

The Trick of Standing Upright Here

Not I, some child, born in a marvellous year
will learn the trick of standing upright here.
-- Allen Curnow
The skeleton of the great moa in the
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch

The trick of standing upright here
is the trick of using both feet.

( Being born is... )

I felt like the Olde Englishe today, sort of.

William Shakespeare
( Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments )

For two days!! Hehe. You'll be sorry by the end of the month, I know.

e e cummings

( i like my body when it is with your )

You guessed it: this means I am going to poetry spam you every day until the end of the month. FEAR ME.

Todays' featured artist: Langston Hughes, 1902-1967. Awesome dude. Black poet who wrote at the beginning of last century, part of the Harlem Renaissance, I own Selected Poems.

( I, too, Sing America )

Because I just FELT LIKE IT.

The Hollow Men by TS Eliot ( Read more... )

On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month...

It's Armistice Day. On this day 1918, the Armistice was signed.

I don't know why Armistice day appeals to me so much more than ANZAC day. But it does. So... lest we forget the 8 millions dead, the trenches, blood and death and loss.

They shall grow not old ( Read more... )

Gacked from copperbadge. When you see this, post a piece of poetry in your own LJ. :)

Seven MysteriesNow write down ( Read more... )

I'm reading The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir. It's definitely not a breeze, but I'm certainly enjoying the introduction very much! Wanted to quote from it somewhat for you all, but the bit I want is fairly long, so...

( What is a woman? )