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space   I have always loved bad girls, those wild women whose sugardark ways seemed so beyond my reach, beyond repair, whose delights so seared my imagination as to torch all good commands, those ways in which mother, world and … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space There would be a pause—-archly lush, enveloping the noisy bar’s party mash as if a mouth had sucked it in—-and then one of Spit Night’s anthems would blast forth, igniting the whole boozed-up, sweaty crowd with The Psychedelic Furs … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space When a whale dies in the deepest of seas her fall is the song that angels us all. No longer buoyant with air from above, her bulk is down- ballast for great depths. Falling slow—weeks, sometimes months— sharks and crabs … Continue reading ͛... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space I spent years in booze’s blackest forest, blundering every night from road to bar to road to bed like some hunter-gatherer of the Abyssal Age, so deep and lost inside the wild of uncorked spirits that blackout was the only … Continue reading U... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space   Australian aborigines use songlines to walk the vast outback. They come down from the Ancestors and can go on for hundreds of miles without anything more than melody for a path. The route forms in the song’s notation, … Continue reading ͛... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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  In the last year of high school in my broken heart’s Chicago I took a course in music theory learning how wings sweep. Who knows why, it wasn’t going to help me play the solo to “Reelin’ In the … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space You sing about loss: I am lament. Comb your blues with my black throat, in meters that have no feet to wind the moody shade. Your songs are suitors: you lured Persephone from her loom, Cerberus bawled for his … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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   ace   In the still place I seek truth is beauty but beauty isn’t poetry. It’s more. Sleek meters and curved sound, tapestries of tale, description’s torc of rolled gold: All of that just gets me up to the … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space   Slowing down is not enough. The last outrageous well was drilled a hundred years ago. Benevolence went extinct with zoos. Even your laboring breath is more than we can bear. Yet here you still persist, pouring dreadful concrete … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space Shouting world behind, back here again, I walk with my father in his field, talking to tall stones in moonlight, their true faces in lucence revealed. My father links his arm in mine both to steady and embrace as … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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 ace In the still place I seek truth is beauty but beauty isn’t poetry. It’s more. Sleek meters and curved sound, tapestries of tale, description’s torc of rolled gold: All of that just gets me up to the rough oak … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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  If you’re wondering where your God went, ask yourself: Who moved? —AA Oldtimer This land was lost before I came here, settled by farmers and fleeing slaves and opportunists who even a hundred years ago knew where to hawk … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space I’m learning to write the way I always yearned to play piano. Not the upright in the family parlor that I banged on trying to read sheet music for a year.  Nor the spinet in a college rehearsal room when … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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Die australische Indie-/Dreampop-Band Devotions hat am 9. September ihr Debütalbum Pusher über Somewherecold Records veröffentlicht. Hier ist das aktuelle Video zur tollen Single Excess mit einer Menge Adrenalin und ein wenig Bluescreen 🙂... mehr auf nicorola.de

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space I spent years in booze’s black forest, blundering every night from road to bar to road to bed like some hunter-gatherer of the Abyssal Age, so deep and lost inside the wild of uncorked spirits that blackout was the only … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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By the loving miracle of God’s grace, unclean hearts are made new and pure. February 4 Devotional pg 42 Everyday Gospel, A Daily Devotional Connecting Scripture to All of Life Paul David Tripp One way to be made new and pure is to do your daily devotionals and/or Bible reading outside – no matter the… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com

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  You’re still on that island, I know, your t-shirt still sweaty from your last bright springtime run, your eyes still blue as the sky which no longer oceanned you. You are that sunny rock because Salem by the time … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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  Tonight, thank Heaven, Your hand is close,even heavy on my brow. Has it been that long?Like a mineshaft is History, deep and cold; all our past lives labor somewhere in it, hearingthrough the wall the voices of distant singersfrom … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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  Losing everything is least like falling in love yet most akin to it: Different waterfall, same cascade. Remember that flush of that first kiss, the wild tremor of anticipation as you passed through the sacred portal, all of your … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space She came up from the sea of night to teach me her wet druidry. “Here is Womb,” she rasped through a larynx of gale, pointing to the sea inside her scales. “The water of birth and firstness, blue glitters … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space They float across the pond in boats of folded poems. Occasionally one dips the clef of her neck beneath the ripples, chasing depth and gripping down. When her head returns it shakes her entire body free of water as … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space   Slowing down is not enough. The last outrageous well was drilled a hundred years ago. Benevolence went extinct with zoos. Even your laboring breath is more than we can bear. Yet here you still persist, pouring dreadful concrete … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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space Blue is not an image to indicate the sense of the holy. Blueness itself is the holy, in virtue of its gathering depth which shines forth only as it veils itself. — Martin Heidegger   On mornings like this … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

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On Tuesday I wrote about doing devotional reading outside in winter. It felt good. Combined with the fact that I’ve been feeling better than I have since April 2021, when Mom fell and weekly trips to her house began, I was feeling great! However, with all the housework done on Tuesday, I discovered on Wednesday… ... mehr auf joyreturns.com