Joni Mitchell- Coyote
The Band- The Last Waltz
“You just picked up a hitcher/ prisoner of the white lines on the freeway…”
No Quarter
The papers came today.
This time it was easy, this time it was clean. We had a map. We had enough sense to separate business from pleasure.
Society imposes its guidelines. We could have re-written them, gone rogue, but we chose to follow the boilerplate. That’s what we signed- that was the contract.
Now it’s broken. No quarter was asked. No quarter was given.
Led Zeppelin- No Quarter
Freedom
Superstition
Us poets use lots of metaphor. It’s our language. It doesn’t always mean it’s directed at you in particular, or that you should take it literally.
Jack Johnson ‘Sitting Waiting Wishing’
Equinox
Our world’s shell is cracking, still we shelter
from its sharp wet teeth. I’m not ready for walking
in spring’s scorching sun.
Your fingers linger. Traced along my meridians,
I run wild like fire.
Night’s blue darkness fades yellow, bruised tender,
she grieves the morning. His bright wide sky abjures
my merciless molting:
this skin you touched last shed hollow,
an emptied fugitive dream.
© 2013 Laura Levesque
NaPoWriMo 2013 #18- Valkyrie
#18
Valkyrie
My turn to choose. To question is to meddle
with the fabric of the universe, and we might spill the stars.
Why send men to the moon? Why does there need to be a man
in that space balloon? Why launch the rockets, why burn
the skies, for dust we shall perish, within which
no answers lie.
My time to comfort you is gone. I’m astride my own horse now.
I’ve already flown.
Your head I’ve kissed one last time- marked you
for battle on the morrow. In the starfield you’ll lie slain,
separate forever from pain, from sorrow.
© 2013 Laura Levesque
April 26- and I’ve only made it to 18. This is a draft, and it won’t stay here long. But you get the gist of my thread, such as it is, this spring.
A Year on the Sun
Image Credit: NASA, Solar Dynamics Observatory
Explanation: Our solar system’s miasma of incandescent plasma, the Sun may look a little scary here. The picture is a composite of 25 images recorded in extreme ultraviolet light by the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory between April 16, 2012 and April 15, 2013. The particular wavelength of light, 171 angstroms, shows emission from highly ionized iron atoms in the solar corona at a characteristic temperatures of about 600,000 kelvins (about 1 million degrees F). Girdling both sides of the equator during approach to maximum in the 11-year solar cycle, the solar active regions are laced with bright loops and arcs along magnetic field lines. Of course, a more familiar visible light view would show the bright active regions as groups of dark sunspots. Three years of Solar Dynamics Observatory images are compressed into this short video.
Operation Unicorn
Carpe diem.
