Yule is when the dark half of the year cedes to the light half.
Known as Solstice Night,
Awaiting the rebirth of the Sun God.
Bonfires, wassailing crops with toasts of spiced cider
a time of madness and awesomeness…
— Anujj Elviis
- I Can’t Just Speak About SufferingIf there is to be any truth in beauty I can’t just speak about suffering as if there isn’t some good in suffering too. — Todd Dillard from poem Arts and Crafts with the Addict’s Son
- I Remember My Watery NatureI remember my watery nature, pour my liquid body to wash away the pain of the shorter years, to wash away the pain of a hollow embrace, the feeling that we all will slide, not into the clear pool, but into the murk of a place that should not be settled. — Petra Kuppers from… Read more: I Remember My Watery Nature
- Don’t Remember Lighting This Cigarettedon’t remember lighting this cigarette and I don’t remember if I’m here alone or waiting for someone. — Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
- You Fit Into Meyou fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye — Margaret Atwood from poem [you fit into me]
- I Live Alone In A Kind Of LuxuryI live alone in a kind of luxury. I wake when I feel like it… I fell in love. I believed people. And even now I love the yellow light shining down on the dirty brick wall. — Linda Gregg from poem Staying After