The Muse Of Turfing

 

Ace Of Cups

 

 

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep. - Rumi

Ring Of Bone…

We don’t care how crazy that man is, we want exact transmission of that crazed Mind. We are crazed ourselves. It would help to know we are not alone. We are delighted by the calmness of this other one. We are sent to the woods to see, really see, what we’d so often looked at [...]

Gayle Nybakken

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

I first met Gayle the year she moved to Portland, back I think in 2004. She had a most amazing laugh, and presence. She passed recently, and we went to her [...]

Street Sweeper Social Club

A great bit of music…. I hope you enjoy! My friend Morgan turned me on to them. Fits my mood to a tee…..
More Turfing on the way…
Gwyllm

Street Sweeper Social Club – 100 Little Curses

Wo ohohoh
Wo ohohoh
Wo ohohoh oh
100 little curses
Now you tumble and fall
Down your grand marble stairway
May the caviar, pate you were eating
Block [...]

For Jim Carroll…

“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us” – Jim Carroll

“I’ll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.”
A wee bit of homage for Jim Carroll. I never knew him, I read his poetry on occasion, and I certainly enjoyed his musical adventures…
Don’t try to look up his poetry on [...]

Just Because….

Just because I like these poems, just because they exist and have survived….
Bright Blessings,
Gwyllm
Wave after wave, each mightier than the last,
Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep
And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged
Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame….
- Tennyson, “The Ninth Wave”
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Just Because – Ancient Irish Poems…
How Curious The Light [...]