Unity Behind Diversity » poetry http://blaise.ca/blog Searching for beauty in the dissonance Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:45:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Love is desire for the beautiful http://blaise.ca/blog/2009/12/10/love-is-desire-for-the-beautiful/ http://blaise.ca/blog/2009/12/10/love-is-desire-for-the-beautiful/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:18:47 +0000 Blaise Alleyne http://blaise.ca/blog/?p=1237 This may be over the top, but it’s the kind of crazy I’m feeling right now.

This is as close to pregnant as I’ll ever get.

I am teeming with desire, overflowing with a yearning to release this energy, to create something beautiful. So overwhelmingly fertile, I strive for that moment of giving birth in beauty. Overcome by the potential for real unity, I move forward with purpose and resolve, with being and intention, in search of the complete, of an expression of a truly generative love.

This is creativity. This is sex. This is beauty.

More to come…

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It’s tentatively titled Anaximander, but I’m sure someone will tell me that’s way too geeky or inaccessible or something. Lyrics are below. It’s all CC BY-SA, as always.

Download here.

Stay where you are, eastward from here.
I will find you, even if it takes years.
I can see you ’til I open my eyes;
There was a time when we stood side by side…

And all the stars aligned when you stepped outside
And I could see for miles into the past.
Who knows which stars still shine?
All we have are signs they’ve left us, their protests against the night.

In a garden, at the edge of the town,
Ancient trees know the secrets around.
In your image, the likeness of light;
Anaximander had something right.

And all the holes aligned on the firmament’s divide
And I could catch a glimpse into the fire,
To see the other side…
Holes to Heaven guide us through the night;
I’m focused on your eyes.

And all the stars aligned as you stepped outside
And I could see for miles into the past.
Who knows which stars still shine?
All we have are signs they’ve left us, their protests against the night.

Amidst all these stars, I see what you are…

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Stay with me until the hour
When I no longer can recall
If I’m awake or into sleep have fallen…

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Gentle touch and starlit eyes,
Recognized beauty, contagious smile;
Let me stand beside your light.

Somewhere else.

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