dj strang: September 2008

9.28.2008

lila

I love you, Lila Lou.
• • •

You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a think sack of blood.

What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive?

-Rumi

healing

• • •

Let a teacher wave away the flies
and put a plaster on your wound.

Don't turn your head. Keep looking
at the bandaged place.

That is where the light enters you.
And don't believe for a moment
you are healing yourself.

- Rumi

9.27.2008

leaves 3

Acrylic Painting by DJStrang
• • •

I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.

- Walt Whitman

9.26.2008

leaves 2

Acrylic Painting by D J Strang
• • •

I know I am august,
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be
understood,
I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant
my house by after all.

- Walt Whitman

leaves

Acrylic Painting by DJStrang
• • •

And I know I am solid and sound,
To me the converging objects of the universe
perpetually flow,
All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.

- Walt Whitman

9.17.2008

angel

I am an old woman named after my mother
My old man is another child that's grown old
If dreams were lightning, thunder was desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago

When I was a young girl well, I had me a cowboy
He weren't much to look at, just a free rambling man
But that was a long time and no matter how I try
The years just flow by like a broken down dam.

There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzing
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today.
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
- John Prine