Laura Veirs – Magnetized
Laura Veirs – Magnetized video youtube
Music video for the song Magnetized from the album Year of Meteors by Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs – Magnetized lyrics
Slain, by your zirconium smileI was slain by your olivine eyes,Slain, I was lying in piles, hoping shovels would cast me in.Furnaces burn everlasting, black tattoos of you on to me.Furnaces [...]
Korf invents some jokes – Christian Morgenstern
A fine short verse relating to words that are well removed from the land of Cliche … and take time to settle
Korf invents some jokes of a new sortThat only many hours later work.Everybody listens to them, bored.
Yet, like some still fuse glowing in the dark,You wake up suddenly that night in bedBeaming [...]
‘At Grass’ by Philip Larkin
‘At Grass’ by Philip Larkin
The eye can hardly pick them outFrom the cold shade they shelter in,Till wind distresses tail and main;Then one crops grass, and moves about- The other seeming to look on -And stands anonymous again
Yet fifteen years ago, perhapsTwo dozen distances surficedTo fable them: faint afternoonsOf Cups and Stakes and Handicaps,Whereby their [...]
if i might be an ox – Galla tribe song
An anonymous translation of a song from Ethiopia (the Galla tribe)
If I might be an ox,An ox, a beautiful ox,Beautiful but stubborn:The merchant would buy me,Would buy me and slaughter me,Would spread my skin,Would bring me to the market,The coarse woman would bargain for me,The beautiful girl would buy me,She would crush perfumes for me,I [...]
solar eclipse photos
Photos of the solar eclipse:
In India, millions gathered in open spaces from the west coast to the northern plains, with clouds parting in some cities at dawn – just before the total eclipse.
story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8161578.stm