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Looking back...

2011-01-03T07:33:00.000-08:00

PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE

by Jay O'Toole

The Past, the Present, and What Comes,

have fans of each their own,

For those who live in other times,

seem odd near what is known!

The past seems great to those who love,

the simple, fresh-air life,

The present trudges and it moves,

through joys and many strifes!

The future is the way that glows,

with Hope's potential grace,

It carries blessings that should grow...

we think, "A wondrous place!"

I've heard it said that "Future Shocks"

so much that human minds,

Pull back to cherish...daily "Box,"

and the left behind!

We see that terms of time are verbal,

when they are expressed,

"The Future's tense, the Present's stable,

The Past is Perfect and best!"

Yet backward looks will cause defeat,

for those who fail to see,

That Time will never call, "Retreat!"

Thus forward it will be!

(Thank you Sans for supplying the poem!)

the end

2010-09-11T06:26:00.000-07:00

KAUST*

2010-04-26T06:59:00.000-07:00

* King Abdulazziz University for Science and Technology
A postgraduate university developed specifically for research.

BMW 502

2010-02-19T01:36:00.000-08:00

Lamborghini

2010-02-18T20:38:00.000-08:00

F40

2010-02-18T05:22:00.000-08:00

1/18th scale CARS

A project I am doing with my son, Xander.

Coupe de Ville

2010-02-14T06:55:00.000-08:00

Alien landscape

2010-02-07T08:55:00.000-08:00

Proof of Life

2010-02-06T08:53:00.000-08:00

Standing tall

2010-02-05T08:47:00.000-08:00

Going Nowhere

2010-02-04T08:42:00.000-08:00

Only footprints

2010-02-03T08:40:00.000-08:00

You can run...

2010-02-01T19:15:00.000-08:00

Breaking

2010-02-01T04:23:00.000-08:00

Disconnected

2010-01-31T03:59:00.000-08:00

Oh, great ball of fire!

2010-01-30T08:30:00.000-08:00

A happy feeling came this way

2010-01-16T05:48:00.000-08:00

Thou art sick!

2010-01-15T03:01:00.000-08:00

The Sick Rose

O Rose, thou art sick!

The Invisible worm,

That flies in the night,

In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed

Of Crimson joy;

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

Robert Blake

A rose!

2010-01-15T01:57:00.000-08:00

A sepal, petal and a thorn,

Upon a common summer's morn,

A flash of dew, a bee or two,

A breeze

A caper in the trees,

And I'm a rose!

Emily Dickinson

Déjà vu

2009-12-20T00:51:00.000-08:00

Que sera sera

2009-12-18T09:06:00.000-08:00

Childhood

by George William Russell

HOW I could see through and through you!

So unconscious, tender, kind,

More than ever was known to you

Of the pure ways of your mind.

We who long to rest from strife

Labour sternly as a duty;

But a magic in your life

Charms, unknowing of its beauty.

We are pools whose depths are told;

You are like a mystic fountain,

Issuing ever pure and cold

From the hollows of the mountain.

We are men by anguish taught

To distinguish false from true;

Higher wisdom we have not;

But a joy within guides you.

Masalama

2009-12-17T08:24:00.000-08:00

Sand Dunes

Robert Frost

Sea waves are green and wet,

But up from where they die,

Rise others vaster yet,

And those are brown and dry.

They are the sea made land

To come at the fisher town,

And bury in solid sand

The men she could not drown.

She may know cove and cape,

But she does not know mankind

If by any change of shape,

She hopes to cut off mind.

Men left her a ship to sink:

They can leave her a hut as well;

And be but more free to think

For the one more cast-off shell.

The Great Outdoors

2009-12-14T08:15:00.000-08:00

Come watch the Shadow Play

2009-12-01T18:55:00.000-08:00

Three friends

2009-12-01T12:03:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Rosanna! You left kind comments and made me very happy! Thank you.

Out of rock

2009-11-28T02:14:00.002-08:00

Pointe Claire

2009-11-28T02:14:00.001-08:00

Freezing Day

2009-11-28T02:14:00.000-08:00

One mountain, many faces

2009-11-27T06:34:00.001-08:00

The Prodigal 'Sun' of Africa

2009-11-26T23:26:00.000-08:00

Giving in abundance, lavishly or profusely

Need space?

2009-11-25T04:40:00.000-08:00

Perfect Day

2009-11-08T09:08:00.000-08:00

Beyond Lonely Beach

2009-11-08T09:02:00.000-08:00

Tea?

2009-10-11T05:41:00.000-07:00

Respite

2009-10-11T05:24:00.000-07:00

Lean to

2009-10-04T00:05:00.000-07:00

To Tara's

2009-10-03T09:18:00.000-07:00

Just another door

2009-09-30T22:16:00.000-07:00

Pretty maids all in a row

2009-09-30T00:30:00.000-07:00

Ugly fella

2009-09-29T11:15:00.000-07:00

Tucked in

2009-09-29T11:07:00.000-07:00

Requiem

2009-09-26T06:00:00.000-07:00

Life through orange glasses

2009-09-26T05:36:00.000-07:00

Purple Rain

2009-09-25T00:20:00.000-07:00

Celebrations...

2009-09-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

Shaken

2009-09-22T00:05:00.000-07:00

Jours d'autrefois

2009-09-21T21:53:00.000-07:00

For sale, for sale

2009-09-20T22:59:00.000-07:00

T'wards the light

2009-09-20T10:41:00.000-07:00

When I cross the bar

2009-09-16T01:20:00.000-07:00

Crossing the Bar

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sunset and evening star,

And one clear call for me!

And may there be no moaning of the bar,

When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,

Too full for sound and foam,

When that which drew from out the boundless deep

Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,

And after that the dark!

And may there be no sadness of farewell,

When I embark;

For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place

The flood may bear me far,

I hope to see my Pilot face to face

When I have crost the bar.

After the storm

2009-09-14T21:13:00.000-07:00

'And the door stood open at our feast'

2009-09-13T22:47:00.000-07:00

UNWELCOME

Mary Coleridge

We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,

And the door stood open at our feast,

When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,

And a man with his back to the East.

O, still grew the hearts that were beating so fast,

The loudest voice was still.

The jest died away on our lips as they passed,

And the rays of July struck chill.

The cups of red wine turned pale on the board,

The white bread black as soot.

The hound forgot the hand of her lord,

She fell down at his foot.

Low let me lie, where the dead dog lies,

Ere I sit me down again at a feast,

When there passes a woman with the West in her eyes,

And a man with his back to the East.

Final Performance

2009-09-13T12:45:00.001-07:00

Who Has Seen the Wind?

by Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.

Hark! Who goes there?

2009-09-13T12:45:00.000-07:00

UPHILL

by: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

DOES the road wind up-hill all the way?

Yes, to the very end.

Will the day's journey take the whole long day?

From morn to night, my friend.

But is there for the night a resting-place?

A roof for when the slow dark hours begin.

May not the darkness hide it from my face?

You cannot miss that inn.

Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?

Those who have gone before.

Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?

They will not keep you standing at that door.

Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?

Of labour you shall find the sum.

Will there be beds for me and all who seek?

Yea, beds for all who come.

May the friends never fall out...

2009-09-13T12:37:00.000-07:00

Take me home

2009-09-13T09:31:00.000-07:00

May the roof never cave in...

2009-09-12T09:03:00.000-07:00

Flame

2009-09-10T07:42:00.000-07:00

Secret Garden

2009-09-01T21:51:00.000-07:00

One way out

2009-09-01T21:42:00.000-07:00

Elephant Gossip

2009-09-01T05:43:00.000-07:00

Where they meet...

2009-08-31T01:20:00.000-07:00

I Thought of You

by Sara Teasdale

I thought of you and how you love this beauty,

And walking up the long beach all alone

I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder

As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me

The cold and sparkling silver of the sea,

We two will pass through death and ages lengthen

Before you hear that sound again with me.

C'EST LA VIE

2009-08-30T23:48:00.000-07:00

GOODNIGHT DAY

2009-08-30T05:26:00.001-07:00