The heart that loathes
the world thinks lovingly
of a thistle. ~ Masaoko Shiki
Onto a charcoal kiln
a vine keeps climbing, while
being burnt to death. ~ Natsume Soseki
Seeds of some sort -
grasping them, I feel the jostle
of lives against my palm. ~ Hino Sojo
Winter Rain
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Falling upon the frozen world last night,
I heard the slow beat of the Winter rain-
Poor foolish drops, down-dripping all in vain;
The ice-bound Earth but mocked their puny might,
Far better had the fixedness of white
And uncomplaining snows-which make no sign,
But coldly smile, when pitying moonbeams shine-
Concealed its sorrow from all human sight.
Long, long ago, in blurred and burdened years,
I learned the uselessness of uttered woe.
Though sinewy Fate deals her most skilful blow,
I do not waste the gall now of my tears,
But feed my pride upon its bitter, while
I look straight in the world's bold eyes, and smile.
The next poem is quite long so...
The Great Lover
Rupert Brooke
I have been so great a lover: filled my days
So proudly with the splendor of Love's praise,
The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,
Desire illimitable, and still content,
And all dear names men use, to cheat despair,
For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear
Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
Now, ere the unthinking silence on that strife
Steals down, I would cheat drowsy Death so far,
My night shall be remembered for a star
That outshone all the suns of all men's days.
Shall I not crown them with immortal praise
Whom I have loved, who have given me, dared with me
High secrets, and in darkness knelt to see
The inenarrable godhead of delight?
Love is a flame: -we have beaconed the world's night.
A city: - and we have built it, these and I.
An emperor: -we have taught the world to die.
So, for their sakes I loved, ere I go hence,
And the high cause of Love's magnificence,
And to keep loyalties young, I'll write those names
Golden forever, eagles, crying flames,
And set them as a banner, that men may know,
To dare the generations, burn, and blow
Out on the wind of Time, shining and streaming....
These I have loved:
White plates and cups, clean-gleaming,
Ringed with blue lines; and feathery, fairy dust;
Wet roofs, beneath the lamp-light; the strong crust
Of friendly bread; and many-tasting food;
Rainbows; and the blue bitter smoke of wood;
And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers;
And flowers themselves, that sway through sunny hours,
Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon;
Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon
Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss
Of blankets; grainy wood; live hair that is
Shining and free; blue-massing clouds; the keen
Unpassioned beauty of a great machine;
The benison of hot water; furs to touch;
The good smell of old clothes; and other such-
The comfortable smell of friendly fingers,
Hair's fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
About dead leaves and last year's ferns....
Dear names,
And thousand others throng to me! Royal flames;
Sweet water's dimpling laugh from tap or spring;
Holes in the ground; and voices that do sing:
Voices in laughter, too; and body's pain,
Soon turned to peace; and the deep-panting train;
Firm sands; the little dulling edge of foam
That browns and dwindles as the wave goes home;
And washen stones, gay for an hour; the cold
Graveness of iron; moist black earthen mold;
Sleep; and high places; footprints in the dew;
And oaks; and brown horse-chestnuts, glossy-new;
And new-peeled sticks; and shining pools on grass; -
All these have been my loves. And these shall pass,
Whatever passes not, in the great hour,
Nor all my passion, all my prayers, have power
To hold them with me through the gate of Death.
They'll play deserter, turn with the traitor breath,
Break the high bond we made, and sell Love's trust
And sacramental covenant to the dust.
Oh, never a doubt but, somewhere, I shall wake,
And give what's left of love again, and make
New friends now strangers . . . .
But the best I've known
Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown
About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
Of living men, and dies.
Nothing remains.
O dear my loves, O faithless, once again
This one last gift I give: that after men
Shall know, and later lovers, far-removed
Praise you, " All these were lovely"; say, "He loved."
Hello. Bonjour. Aloha. Hola. Ciao. Ne Hao. Konnichi ha.
I'm Celestial Dragon as you may have noticed. I am just one of many female high schools students that like manga and anime. What makes me different? Well I love animals, traveling, dragons, being outside, soccer, horseback riding, jiu jitsu, reading just about anything I can get my hands on, listening to music, and many other things. I like chatting with people about anything really, so feel free to message me, I won't bite (but may do other things o.O) Just mentioning, I am pretty sporadic with my responses. Sometimes I may respond same day, other times it may be a week before you hear back from me. Sorry in advance, don't think that I am ignoring you ^_^ Anyway, Thanks for stopping by!! :D
I am...
Thinking about: Start of second semester. Writer's Craft + Physics + Biology + Advanced Functions = Interesting but exhausting.
Craving: more time with my gf
Reading: Nothing, surprisingly
Listening to: Soil and Pimp Sessions, The Xx
Wishing for: superpowers
Sorry about the late reply, stopped using MAL for little while since I was preoccupied with work. How you been?
ToG is just epic...all the chars of Season 1 are going to appear now it seems. Should be some good fights at the battle workshop. Those hired for Violes team by F.U.G are probably gonna get slaughtered lol.
I highly recommend Noblesse, it's just as good as ToG.
Atm not reading any books, been too busy for that. Hopefully I'll pick something up though that will pique my interest. Though I should be reading Hunger Games books if anything since I promised some one I would but...I hated the movie so I'm dreading the book lol.
As for music I listen to almost anything Rap, Rock, Reggae, Classical, but right now I'm listening to Emeli Sande, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Bon Jovi, Linkin Park, Rihanna...and some other random artists. I usually come across older songs on my iPod so I'll listening whatever artist it's from continuously for awhile lol.
Helloo, I'm doing fine, how about you ? :) Hmm, I didn't have any holiday actually. Our holiday is starting next week, so I'm looking forward to it :) But I hope you had a nice holiday ^^ So, how was it ? :)
Yes, my exams are over, like finally. x)
It's okay, you can reply me whenever you want :) I'm a bit lazy too and that's why I'm not online on MAL often :/
Hmm, there is nothing different going on, next Friday holiday is starting so I'm just excited about that. After a long time, I went outside with my friends, so I was happy. :) How's your life ? Anything different going on ? Take care till' we talk again. :)
I see, so you are more oriented towards Biology , that's good. oh good luck then. btw I see that you have Sakamichi no Apollon on your PTW list ,it was an amazing anime , gave it a 10 , I don't give a 10 to many anime so I guess that explains a lot about it.
hey , my holidays were good thx , and no I still have this week free , gotta make the most of it :P
well it started snowing a bit over here (finally) and it seems the weather is going to get colder and colder , by the end of the week it will be almost -12C degrees , so I'm the same as you XD
lol same here , didn't do much for school , only a little but I want to do more these upcoming days , so I'll feel more productive , btw when are you exams taking place? mine at the beginning of the summer
well not much at the moment , this year I'll enter university , which is the next big step , so you could say that :P hbu?
oh well I hope it snows where you live ^^ it will snow here again on Sunday just before Christmas :D
well yes they do , but now I'm no break :)
hmm nothing much , just enjoying my free time , I also go swimming everyday and I plan to play a lot of video games and watch a lot of anime this holiday :P you?
Thanks for understanding. :)
Yup, I did. And I have still 11 exams to take. --' Ikr, it is crazy. I feel very exhausted after I take 10 exams xD Oh, 4 exams ? Well you are lucky, but they must be hard too. I hope you will get good marks. :) We have 30 exams for one semester. Since we have 2 semester, we take 60 exams. But it changes from department to department. We have 4 departments in total, and the department I'm in has lots of exams. :/
I see. Maybe I'll try watching Zetsuen. Winter holiday is coming anyways. Well, you should watch it when you time. I really like it, it has 11 episodes so far. :)
ToG has been good. A lot of new developments. I want to know where that Emile will fit in.
The regular Quant and Ro will be investigating will be Baam most likely. Probably won't see Urek again for a while though.
Devil Hand and the live Ignition weapons..we'll find out about Baam's lobster as well finally~
Workshop battles will start soon, how long till Baam reunites with his former team I wonder.
Still need o find out about the Red Light district and the significance of the ring that Wangnan and Karaka has.
Just gets better lol, still the unanswered questions go on lol.
I do read other web toons, but I'm way behind on them all except Noblesse right now.
Well in my free time I'm usually watching Football or F1 when it's on, out shopping or with friends or family, playing games, watching movies. I do go to a lot of shows and concerts provided I can get the tickets as well. Otherwise listening to music and chillin at home, or reading (not manga books).
Hello there. :] How have you been ?
I'm very sorry for the late reply. I have been very busy with my exams as I told you, and I didn't do anything but study all these time ._.
Thank you :] Hm, I'm a bit exhausted since I took 17 exams. x) Well, there is biology , physics, chemistry, math, geometry, history etc. xD
Oh I see. I didn't watch them. So, what do you think of them so far ? Well, I'm watching Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun from time to time, and I really like it. It's sweet. I started watching Girls und Panzer, but I can't say something about it for now. It's interesting, I'll see how it goes. And I'm watching Kamisama Hajimemashita. Do you watch any of them ? :)
lol that happens here as well , especially during February , last year the entire winter season was warm and then in February we got like -10 C degrees and snow for a hole month...must be the global warming lol
hmm besides manga , I read about computer programming (beginner) and some leadership books about success , also I might try to read about psychology but I doubt I'll have the time
math , biology , english , literature (hate it) and psychs I think.
I know , the autumn usually passes fast , I think that winter is the longest season (in my mind)
yeah but there are those who stay true to the book until the end and those who don't , usually those who don't are bashed by critics. You can think of A clockwork orange as a movie that only takes the "paint" from the book but the artist draws the picture how he wants. I'm curious to hear what you have to say about the movie and sure I will , the videos aren't longer than 30 minutes but the whole written analysis is pretty long.
hmm well I used to read a lot of books when I was younger but after a certain age I started to loose interest mainly because of the internet and other stuff , but I do consider reading more books , but I doubt they will be stories.
what type of clothes did you get? is there much you can get in america that isnt in canada? i loved the first season of xxxholic, however the second ruined the show for me. whats el cazador about? of course they are exciting!
hahaha, maybe. i got sick recently so my throat is killing me. thanksgiving might be fun, it might not, i have no idea, lol.
aw, thank you. it means a lot more to me than you might think.
hahahhaha, i guess thats a reason! what did you guys purchase?
lol, i hardly spend money in college, however i never have any money. i dont understand it at all!
well, i would say to not rush anything. you have plenty of time before you have to commit yourself to a relationship. I like to think of love like pots and pans. Everyone is a certain 'size', a type, right? Each has a purpose. As you interact with people, you test the 'lids'. Love is like the lids, you can either smother the pot with too much love, or be too small to fit properly. The important thing to understand is that your lid cant fit on everyone's pot and, in the process of sizing up lids, you try to force your lid onto the pot without really noticing it. Keeping an open pot allows for others to come in an try to fit their lids onto your pot. Sometimes, in the process of fitting lids, we forget to look at our pot and all the lids that may have attempted to fit us, or have already connected with us. we both failed in that aspect though, neither of us try to fit lids.
ah, well thank you. on wednesday ill try to tell you because im going to a national social justice conference from friday to sunday in D.C. tueday is my last day of classes for thanksgiving break, so ill be going home then. i hope i can make time for you.
im glad! keep trying your best! it's better to fail after trying your best than it is to never try!
Hello there. You are welcome, thanks for the accept too. :]
It's nice to meet you too, I'm fine. Kinda tired, because I'm dealing with exams. D; Beside that I'm okay. How about you ? :)
And nope, I didn't, because we don't have a Halloween day. x) But, how about you ? Did you do something ?
Slr by the way, like I said, I'm busy with my exams, so I can't be online much. So, what's up ? Watching anything ? :)
I see , well same here kinda , just school and stuff , I'm looking forward to the Winter Break even if it's a month away :P
Yes the movie it's totally worth watching even if you red the book , now when or if you are going to watch the movie don't try to stay 100% by the book and what I mean by that is if the movie doesn't stay true to the book at some point or just doesn't follow the book regarding some details don't bash the movie or look down on it , since I haven't red the book I don't know what parts it doesn't follow but I know it ends differently . The movie itself it's very complex and has hidden narrations , there is a lot of symbolism. I hope that those things won't discourage you from watching the movie , the movie it's one of my all time favorites also after you're done watching to movie tell me so I can send you some videos/articles where a person analyzes the movie , the videos doesn't analyze it completely just in some areas , but the written articles cover pretty much all the movie.
Also the director of the movie directed other masterpieces such as The Shining , Eyes Wide Shut , Full metal Jacket , Dr.Strangelove etc I highly recommend all of his movies.
