To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
 

I wanted to say something on my birthday as I usually do but nothing sums up my nostalgic mood quite so well as this poem… not in relation to any person but in general… strangely I remember writing a verse with the same key line ‘I/We have been here before’ but I don’t remember reading this poem before…

 

Sudden Light 

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti 


I have been here before,

But when or how I cannot tell:

I know the grass beyond the door,

The sweet keen smell,

The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

 

You have been mine before,—

How long ago I may not know:

But just when at that swallow's soar

Your neck turn'd so,

Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.

 

Has this been thus before?

And shall not thus time's eddying flight

Still with our lives our love restore

In death's despite,

And day and night yield one delight once more?


posted by Sylvia D'souza at 2:54 am 0 comments
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