Hackers and Painters [2] by listener002, literature
Literature
Hackers and Painters [2]
How we danced through the night,
with the hackers and painters,
Physicists and sculptors,
whose_
minds and our bodies, for brief moments one
speaking, then laughing,
growing together
testing and probing, pushing our limits..
Pinoy and Caribe, Indian, Catalan.
We danced and we drank and we dreamed of the future
When all now inside us,
might aging memory be
So we opened our hearts
and we spun one another
and danced through the night,
we the hackers and painters.
To live, is one more breath,
drunk deep
to love, is one short moment,
shared, true
to serve, is a new lesson,
in sacrifice
to die, releasing all once more,
humility.
So I take a deep breath,
for litany:
To live, to love, to serve, to die?
Perhaps,
but first, in the wake will I lie,
and watch
as the morning's first wave,
crashes by my side ...
Dum spiro, spero
While I breathe, I hope
warm me
touch me
grow me
fill me
no
at my limit
i cry to the winds
take me
when hope is gone
and love is lost
there must be another path
a way off this cliff
a move back from the edge
but if we must rest here
a while
touch me
warm me
take me
To live, to love, to serve, to die ?
Perhaps,
but first, in the wake will I lie,
and watch
as the morning's first wave,
crashes by my side ...
Dum spiro, spero
While I breathe, I hope
To feel adrift, and yet anchored to eternity,
by some link as yet unseen;
To see in the rain,
gently rolling off the curve of spring's new green,
a drop so perfect as to stop time entirely;
And in the course of its fall,
yourself to melt_ into eternity,
wakened from the dream only by the splash as it disintegrates into;
the moment come full circle: in You
Waken or dreaming, (and does it really matter)?
Is time a line, or just an ocean's ebb and flow?
Riding waves we'd be, and straining to see over crests,
whitecaps crowning the darkest blue of night,
and in the chaos, we in this life set adrift,
as witnesses, but yet straini
A Musing on Meaninglessness by listener002, literature
Literature
A Musing on Meaninglessness
All life is meaningless, and empty, and struggle;
tooth and nail, day by day,
with ourselves, with those we claim to love, and with those we do
And the struggle seems pointless, but it builds something truly nontrivial, if we let it:
Through struggle knowledge, through knowledge understanding, through understanding wisdom.
If "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," then truly the end is understanding that you have truly understood nothing.
In that moment the soul empties,
of everything,
of all the ballast of knowing,
and we can be reborn,
encountering God now for the second time.
In this landscape, where I now dream,
and who knows if I will wake ...
But while I dream,
the light of this world still shines on my face
And there it is: so many answers I do not know.
But this:
inside me there is a meal,
and with it,
a sense of being,
sated.
And I am filled ...
with the hope,
and the light.
And I dream again; this day near Ottignie ...
Hackers and Painters [1] by listener002, literature
Literature
Hackers and Painters [1]
How we danced through the night, with the hackers and painters
Physicists, sculptors, minds and bodies were one
Speaking, then laughing and pushing our limits
Pinoy and Caribe,
Indian, Catalan...
We danced and we drank and we dreamed of the future
When all inside us
might well memories be
So we opened our hearts and we spun one another
and we danced through the night, we the hackers and painters
Hackers and Painters [2] by listener002, literature
Literature
Hackers and Painters [2]
How we danced through the night,
with the hackers and painters,
Physicists and sculptors,
whose_
minds and our bodies, for brief moments one
speaking, then laughing,
growing together
testing and probing, pushing our limits..
Pinoy and Caribe, Indian, Catalan.
We danced and we drank and we dreamed of the future
When all now inside us,
might aging memory be
So we opened our hearts
and we spun one another
and danced through the night,
we the hackers and painters.
To live, is one more breath,
drunk deep
to love, is one short moment,
shared, true
to serve, is a new lesson,
in sacrifice
to die, releasing all once more,
humility.
So I take a deep breath,
for litany:
To live, to love, to serve, to die?
Perhaps,
but first, in the wake will I lie,
and watch
as the morning's first wave,
crashes by my side ...
Dum spiro, spero
While I breathe, I hope
warm me
touch me
grow me
fill me
no
at my limit
i cry to the winds
take me
when hope is gone
and love is lost
there must be another path
a way off this cliff
a move back from the edge
but if we must rest here
a while
touch me
warm me
take me
To live, to love, to serve, to die ?
Perhaps,
but first, in the wake will I lie,
and watch
as the morning's first wave,
crashes by my side ...
Dum spiro, spero
While I breathe, I hope
To feel adrift, and yet anchored to eternity,
by some link as yet unseen;
To see in the rain,
gently rolling off the curve of spring's new green,
a drop so perfect as to stop time entirely;
And in the course of its fall,
yourself to melt_ into eternity,
wakened from the dream only by the splash as it disintegrates into;
the moment come full circle: in You
Waken or dreaming, (and does it really matter)?
Is time a line, or just an ocean's ebb and flow?
Riding waves we'd be, and straining to see over crests,
whitecaps crowning the darkest blue of night,
and in the chaos, we in this life set adrift,
as witnesses, but yet straini
A Musing on Meaninglessness by listener002, literature
Literature
A Musing on Meaninglessness
All life is meaningless, and empty, and struggle;
tooth and nail, day by day,
with ourselves, with those we claim to love, and with those we do
And the struggle seems pointless, but it builds something truly nontrivial, if we let it:
Through struggle knowledge, through knowledge understanding, through understanding wisdom.
If "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," then truly the end is understanding that you have truly understood nothing.
In that moment the soul empties,
of everything,
of all the ballast of knowing,
and we can be reborn,
encountering God now for the second time.
In this landscape, where I now dream,
and who knows if I will wake ...
But while I dream,
the light of this world still shines on my face
And there it is: so many answers I do not know.
But this:
inside me there is a meal,
and with it,
a sense of being,
sated.
And I am filled ...
with the hope,
and the light.
And I dream again; this day near Ottignie ...
Hackers and Painters [1] by listener002, literature
Literature
Hackers and Painters [1]
How we danced through the night, with the hackers and painters
Physicists, sculptors, minds and bodies were one
Speaking, then laughing and pushing our limits
Pinoy and Caribe,
Indian, Catalan...
We danced and we drank and we dreamed of the future
When all inside us
might well memories be
So we opened our hearts and we spun one another
and we danced through the night, we the hackers and painters
Those lines drawn,
forever between us,
like separating tracks,
amok in our lives
Divergent now,
and in twilight joining again
every memory we share
knit one to another
Such our story,
Such was our song,
And in that final moment;
that separation;
They close in on us again,
and we lay down,
in acceptance,
in release.
To live, to love, to serve, to die ?
Perhaps,
but first, in the wake will I lie,
and watch
as the morning's first wave,
crashes by my side ...
Dum spiro, spero
While I breathe, I hope
Current Residence: Netherlands Favourite genre of music: Deep Favourite style of art: Photography, Poetry MP3 player of choice: Banshee Shell of choice: Unity Skin of choice: Balanzan Favourite cartoon character: Spike Spiegel
Interesting to work out things felt in writing again, since I took a break from that for a few years. Weird part is massaging raw emotion into something that might mean something to someone else, which sometimes means letting go of the clichés most natural to me ..
dang ... I miss DA ...
... really do ... used to love hanging around here all night ... writing, reading and experiencing all the stuff everyone freely shares ...
but for some reason I need an education, or so they say ... so for the last year and a half, and half year to come, I've been working double-time on the uni-related stuff...
this year is particularly heavy, and by the end of it all, I'll probly be back on DA enough to scare people, just to work off the stress...
But till then ... just saying 'hi' to anyone watching me ;-) Cheers people, and take care ...
the tree site is v.nice, if you need any help in php (stuff that ISN'T listed in the manual - and there is lots!) gimme a msg, I'm a much better coder than designer
Thank you for commenting my church photograph. You can check out the pic right out of the cam here [link]
and it's also print available now here at devart [link]