tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44243881865083232052012-01-14T15:47:35.807-08:00Naushonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4424388186508323205.post-15098927523719401032010-11-17T14:52:00.000-08:002010-11-17T15:05:39.506-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: nowrap; font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="lineheight" style="line-height: 18pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(75, 93, 103); font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; white-space: nowrap; font-size:16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(75, 93, 103); font-size:13px;"></span></b></span></p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(75, 93, 103); font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; display: inline !important; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Love After Love</span></span></p></span></b><p></p><p style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; white-space: nowrap; font-size:16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(75, 93, 103); font-size:13px;"></span></b></span></p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(75, 93, 103); font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; display: inline !important; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">The time will come</span></span></p></span></b></span></b></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: nowrap; font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="lineheight" style="line-height: 18pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(75, 93, 103); font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(75, 93, 103); font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; display: inline !important; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"></span></span></p></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px; white-space: nowrap; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(75, 93, 103); font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; display: inline !important; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">When, with elation,</span></span></p></span></b></span><p style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">You will greet yourself arriving<br />At your own door, in your own mirror,<br />And each will smile at the other’s welcome.</span></span></p><p style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And say, sit here, eat.<br />You will love again the stranger who was your self.<br />Give wine. Give bread.</span></span></p><p style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Give back your heart<br />To itself, to the stranger who has loved you</span></span></p><p style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">All your life, whom you ignored<br />For another, who knows you by heart.<br />Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,</span></span></p><p style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">The photographs, the desperate notes, Peel your image from the mirror.<br />Sit. Feast on your life.</span></span></p><p style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">~Derek Walcott</span></span></p></span></b></span> </span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4424388186508323205-1509892752371940103?l=naushonyoga.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Naushonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4424388186508323205.post-4945279937844818162008-11-21T10:23:00.000-08:002010-08-06T04:08:32.465-07:00<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fZMutrcJs0g/SSoBY4wqa6I/AAAAAAAAAIo/K9tsTnu9ijM/s1600-h/sunrise04.jpg"></a><span><span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Guest House</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This being human is a guest house</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Every morning is a new arrival.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">A joy, a depression, a meanness,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">some momentary awareness comes </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">as an unexpected visitor.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Welcome and entertain them all!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">who violently sweep your house</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">empty of its furniture,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">still treat each guest honorably.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">He may be clearing you out for some new delight.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The dark thought, the shame, the malice,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">meet them at the door laughing,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">and invite them in.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Be grateful for whoever comes,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">because each has been sent</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">as a guide from beyond.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">~Rumi</span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4424388186508323205-494527993784481816?l=naushonyoga.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Naushonnoreply@blogger.com