"Bannú: Or Our Afghan Frontier"
Mayest thou (God) preserve me from cloudy sunshine.
Category Archives: SKIES ABOVE
The kingfisher came darting out of his crannied nest, And the bulrushes and reed-beds put off their sallow grey And burnt with cloudy crimson at dawning of the day. James Lister Cuthbertson
The Australian Sunrise
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-australian-sunrise/
Waking up in the morning, I vow with all beings
to be ready for sparks of the Dharma
from flowers or children or birds.
Robert Aitken
http://www.gardendigest.com/morning.htm
foto – sunrise at raleigh 2010
"Above the clouds, the sky is always blue." Danish
I REACH FOR THE BLUE SKY Black earth is in my hands The blueness is blinding Black earth covers my hands The sky is beyond my reach Black earth is in my hands
Lidija Šimkutė
(born 1942)
http://www.efn.org/~valdas/simkute.html
foto – ulmarra skies 2010 jan
Oh, may the showers in torrents fall, And all the tanks run over; And may the grass grow green and tall In pathways of the drover; And may good angels send the rain On desert stretches sandy; And when the summer comes again God grant ’twill bring us Andy.
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14168338
" Yes, my love ! " he exclaimed, pressing the feverish hand of the child; "yes, my love! Santa Claus knows how to play the violin. He can play it charmingly, too ; and if you will only sleep, there, on your little pillow, your Angel will have him play for you
"Christmas in French Canada"
foto – grey crane in bilambil 2008 december
The answer to the question, lies in the eyes of the beholder. Because their perspective on life, colours the solution. Rosemary Winters
Plant not a palm tree in a house
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf05.iii.iii.iv.xxiii.html
foto – palm trees in bilambil ‘09
One mountain does not go to aid another, but man does go to the aid of another man. Pashito.
FOTO – VIEW FROM BEECHMONT TO THE SOUTH. 2009.
“Bann or, Our Afghan frontier“
Tall and stately as a pine, the daughter of the mountains stands at the tent-door in her indigo-dyed petticoat and hood, smiling on the gambols of her naked brats, or else sits down and rubs out corn for her lord who is a-field.
BANNU UNDER NATIVE RULE
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun. Chinese Proverb
For in your cosy cradle
The golden coloured me
Want to become again
A sleeping baby
With golden dreams
Sheung Wai Chan (Sherry)
FOTO –KINGSCLIFF MARINE PARADE 2004
Lhig y crottag ve boght ny roauyr, t’eh curlesh groat er e ghreeym. Let the curlew be poor or fat, he carries a groat on his back. There is a mark on a curlew’s back like the figure four, and fourpence equals a groat.
The mists are curled o’er a dark-faced world,
And the shadows sleep around,
Where the clear lagoon reflects the moon
In her hazy glory crowned;
While dingoes howl, and wake the growl
Of the watchdog brave and true;
Whose loud, rough bark shoots up in the dark,
With the song of the lone Curlew!
Whose loud, rough bark
Shoots up in the dark,
With the song of the lone Curlew!
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The devil is an angel too. Miguel de Unamuno
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
Saint Theresa of Avila
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!Philip James Bailey, Festus ( A Library and Balcony)
There is no sun that rose before a sunset.
Ndebele Tribe Proverb, Zimbabwe
foto – SUNSET AT LINDEN LEA BILAMBIL 2008
All worn and wasted by the storms, All gapped and fractured by the storms, All split and splintered by the storms. HENRY KENDALL.
Roads are wet where’er one wendeth,
And with rain the thistle bendeth,
And the brook cries like a child!
Not a rainbow shines to cheer us;
Ah! the sun comes never near us,
And the heavens look dark and wile.
Mary Howitt, The Wet Summer, from the German
FOTO – KALANG 2008
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. Martin Luther (1483-1546) German priest.
The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it’s more like a tired feeling, really. Paula Poundstone
FOTO – COOLANGATTA CATHOLIC CHURCH
But calm, white calm, was born into a swan. Elizabeth Coatsworth
Swans sing before they die
t’were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
When I was young, we always had mornings like this. A.A. Milne
Morning makes the day. Sicilian Proverb
FOTO – THE COTTAGE AT DAWN BILAMBIL 2007
"Like our dawn, merely a sob of light." Victor Hugo.
Koel near window,
wakes me up calling his friends;
welcome, dawn herald.
http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~apert/poems.html
FOTO – BILAMBIL DAWN 2005
ÔÝÊå ãä ÇáÌãá ÚÑÌ. Choose the neighbours before the house. ARABIC.
Whenever our neighbour’s house is on FIRE, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. Edmund Burke. 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
foto – BILAMBIL HEIGHTS 2007
Twi proverb: okoto nwo anoma :From ghana meaning: Birds give birth but not to crabs
“As the old bird sings, the young ones twitter.”
FOTO – BUTCHER BIRD IN BILAMBIL 2009
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water. Chinese Proverb.
I don’t understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
Ava Gardner
FOTO – BUBBLES ON AN ARMIDALE XMAS DAY
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. Meister Eckhart.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
– Imannuel Kant
FOTO – YAMBA LIGHTHOUSE 2008
The morning hour has gold in its mouth. Proverb (Danish, Dutch, German)
The darkness of night cannot stop the light of morning.
Cameroonian
FOTO – BILAMBIL 2006 SUNRISE
