POETRY – LYRICS – SHORT STORIES – SCRIPTS – QUOTES
Poetry
From Dublin to Dahab
1- Leaving Eire
kissing amanda
on her way to mass
she loved me
& i knew
i was blessed today
with the sun & rain
in dublin
on my way to israel
singing
of the tribes
with you on the horizon
blue dawn rising
inside my soul
freedom
remembering the traveler children
on grafton street
the buskers, beggars,
kegs of beer,
the refugees,
my friends
leaving you
the urban decay
at victoria station
on the gatwick express
passing me
london from the night sky
full of americans and jews
on the subject of history
these lies & paris
is below us
talking now to you
the blarney stone
on my lips
liquid poetry
revealing the moments
we share tonight
in the promised land
they steal from everyone
the first day it was my eyes an ears
& so to the sinai i will go
you have driven me away
for now
2 – Dahab
the first time in dahab
meteors falling from heaven to earth
across arabia
& the bedoiun
stole the costumes
i was sending home
with leons first uv poi
an my ponamu lost to the desert
like everything else
danish kristina
angel of my dreams
you saved me that night
later taken prisoner
by the egyptian police
for questioning
allah said
i will bring you closer through this
an a fat detective asks me to leave town
with these tears
the women in my heart
surrounding me with their songs
showing me the way forward
my brother morgan standing close
the music in his eyes
sundancing
moonchild rising
now i write for you
fran & clare
fallen angels
the children at eel garden
the drugs we took together
the dives we made
love
only for you
sweet travelers
soaring
3 – Escape
on the road
with mauritio heading for costa rica
with the crew close behind
in the sunshine
heading for israel
today
do you understand
the gift of silence
alone in the desert
the circles drawn
beyond the gates of jerusalem
jesus full of sorrow
blood red
red dawn red dusk red eyes
blackred death
the wall
the rock her tomb
his grotto
in my soul
the spirit stirring with a view of the old city
from petra hostel
then to tel avivi
to swim in the mediterranean
& i meet stuart that night by the hand of god
4 – Tatoos
on the inside
my guides like a dream
arriving in their own time
uris wedding on the equinox
sunset lady on ben yehuda st
watching me walking by
& my heart falling every time
like this chant a spell in my prayers
these words
with the jewish girls
seducing me tonight
the silver moon shining
on the red earth blue tears falling
an my sister gerry emailing me
turning
blue women orange
in her eyes love
wisdom
& its time to go to sea
to leave all these words
behind me
learning from our mistakes
raindancing with you
at last
5 – Autumn
I spent rosh hashana
inside a jewish settlement of palistine
with lihi & shai year 5760
now in judgement
a new tribe runs on the streets
at yom kipur
with the magic in our souls
the tide that will take us
from here
to india
the americas
mother africa with her drum
aotearoa
calling me
home
to write
like a dream
the things you desire
golden apples
in my heart stolen hamsa
with the stories
from ireland
hidden sorrows
tantra like a shield
6 – Danger
drugs & sex possessed
teaching you a year has passed
since i wrote last
turning now to you my friends
gidi juggling on the beach
an its time to leave
this war zone
shalom shalom
may jehovah bring you peace
in my eyes seeking
courage strength
mastery
to guide you
through the wilderness
if you wish
gifts to share
bringing
bliss
does god will to rain fire
on these people
for their sins
i watch in sorrow an fear
at the insanity of our earth and her children
may i find the faith to follow truth
with compassion
my brothers & sisters
at last
7 – Rebirth
yenni
i weep as i leave you this boxing day
for the uk
an by new years
at the brixton academy
with the legend simon posford
on stage
swinging blue ledlight poi
playing with the energy
by train to the brighton coast
to sit with truffle an karen
that afternoon
dublin to dahab by liam kumar
QUOTES
LOVE
A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it – Frank Howard Clark
A hug is like a boomerang you get it back right away – Bil Keane
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous – Ingrid Bergman
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years – Rupert Brooke
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge – Thomas Carlyle
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven – Boethius
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy – George Jean Nathan
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love – Henri B. Stendhal
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea – Honore de Balzac
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time – Julie Andrews
All mankind loves a lover – Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words – William Shakespeare
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet – Plato
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times – Rita Rudner
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage – Lao Tzu
Can miles truly separate you from friends, if you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there – Richard Bach
Do all things with love – Og Mandino
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity – George Bernard Shaw
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed – Alexander Chase
ANGER
He who angers you conquers you – Elizabeth Kenny
Anger is a short madness – Horace
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts – Ovid
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools – Albert Einstein
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind – Robert Green Ingersoll
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding – Mohandas Gandhi
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind – Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it – Marcus Aurelius
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured – Mark Twain
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned – Buddha
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before, it takes something from him – Louis L’Amour
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean – Maya Angelou
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned – William Congreve
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love – George Eliot
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size – Sydney J. Harris
Expressing anger is a form of public littering – Willard GaylinAnger is one of the sinews of the soul – Thomas Fuller
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them – James Fallows
FORGIVENESS
God will forgive me. It’s his job – Heinrich Heine
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave – Indira Gandhi
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself – Ausonius
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names – John F. Kennedy
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much – Oscar Wild
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting – William A. Ward
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance – Adlai E. Stevenson
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself – Suzanne Somers
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits – Hannah More
Forgiveness is the final form of love – Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it – Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life – George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom – Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness means letting go of the past – Gerald Jampolsky
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven – Thomas Fuller
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another – Jean Paul
MISCELANIOUS QUOTES
“The mark of an educated mind is the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it” -Aristotle.
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources”
“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” -Gandhi
“all that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wonder are lost” – JRR Tolkien
“última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela” – “the last flower of Latium, wild and beautiful”- Olavo Bilac
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations -?
“I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic – J. G. Ballard
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – J Krishnamurti
“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert
“It is hope, not despair, what makes a revolution successful.” – Chinese fortune cookie
Presence always trumps presents.” – Joe Kelly, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
We’re running an uncontrolled experiment on the only home we have.” – Bill Collins from Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
Become the change you want to see in the world – Mahatma Gandhi