when i was around 14-16, i had a section of wall next to my bed that i drew on with markers and wrote snippets of favorite poetry and quotes and lyrics and a few random phrases i thought up. after i moved out right after i turned 18, my mom repainted and took off the wallpaper. fortunately, she copied down and typed up everything i'd written for posterity. my mom is cool like that. i was just doing some spring cleaning of the files on my computer and i came across it. i still love many of these, and it all evokes nostalgia for me... remembering where my head was at back then. (perhaps whoever else reads this entry will enjoy some of them, too...)

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The shadows dance upon the wall

By the still dancing fireflames made;

And now they slumber, moveless all

And now they melt to one deep shade!

But not from me shall this silent darkness steal thee;

I dream thee with mine eyes, and at my heart I feel thee!

(Coleridge)

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Elevation

Above the lake in the valley and the grove

Along the hills high over the sea

The hanging clouds and past enchanted suns!

To the farthest reaches of this starry vault.

Fly, my spirit, wander at your ease

And float exultant through transparent space

Like a swimmer lucid through the waves

with a silent delight.

Ascend beyond the closing atmosphere

To a higher plane, and purify yourself

Drinking in it as if it were ambrosia

That fire that fills and fuels emptiness.

Free from the aching reach and the cares

That dim existence to a realm of mist

Happy is he who wings an upward way

On mighty pinions to the fields of light,

Whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise

Into the morning sky I whose flight, unchecked

Outreaches life and swift comprehends

The language of flowers and of all silent things.

(Baudelaire)

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This world was once

A fluid haze of light

Till toward the center

Set the starry tides,

And eddied into suns

That wheeling cast

The planets;

Then the monster

Then the man�.

(Wordsworth)

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We rose up slowly as if we didn't belong to the outside world any longer�

Like swimmers in a shadowy dream�.

Who didn't need to breathe�

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A mirror somber in its distances

Where charming angels with mysterious gentle smiles appear

Beneath the shade of pines and

Glaciers which enclose their realm

(Baudelaire)

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We're flying high

Watching the world

Pass us by�

Never want to come down

Never want to put

My feet back

Down on the

Ground.

(Depeche Mode)

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Recognize

That which you are

Reflect

Resurrect

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Closer to heaven than to

ever feel whole again

(The Cure)

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Only when the doors of perception

are cleansed will man see

things as they truly are:

Infinite.

(Aldous Huxley)

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Chaos is the future

And beyond it is freedom

Confusion is next

And after that is the truth.

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And when the stars threw

Down their spears and watered

Heaven with their tears

Did he smile his world to see

Did he who made the lamb

Make thee?

(Blake)

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Child of the pure unclouded brow

And dreaming eyes of wonder!

Though time be fleet and I and thou

Are half a life asunder,

Thy loving smile will surely hail

The love gift of a fairy-tale.

(Lewis Carroll)

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The wind bloweth where it listeth

And thou hearest the sound thereof

But canst not tell where it cometh and whither it goeth

(John 3.8, bible)

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Smaller than we think we are, but bigger after that

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"You shall see stars and moons mirrored in your being"

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The Gust

the wind whistles within me

i am naked

master of nothing

master of no one

not even master of my own convictions

i am my face in the wind

against the wind

and i am the wind that strikes my face

(Eduardo Galeano)

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