Found mine

I just saw a girl,
she looked just like you
Made me wonder
just where you're going to

Ten years gone
gone down the line
and you're with him
but I found mine

I found mine
in good time
It took a while
but I found mine

I found mine
and now the sun can shine
She's my baby
and I'm going to make her mine


ADE

What the Romans did - Peace? Shut up!

"The instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace."

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(Obama - receiving the Nobel peace prize)

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"When we're talking about war, what we're really talking about is peace."

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(Bush - justifying the first 'surge' - Obama's is greater, despite being elected on a promise of 'change'.)

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More from Obama's peace prize acceptance speech:

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'Obama affirmed that "no Holy War can ever be a just war. For if you truly believe that you are carrying out divine will, then there is no need for restraint." Then shortly afterward stated

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"Let us reach for the world that ought to be - that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls."

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An adversary's invocation of the divine is false, heretical, sacrilegious; Washington's is true, unerring, sufficient to justify any action, however violent and deadly.'

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16503

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso

Wonder why

(draft!)

I wonder why beginnings seem trouble free
The good old days, the way things used to be
with blinded eyes on a high hindsighted spree

I wonder why
I wonder why

Our first six weeks in the womb, in our mother
All female, all the same, the same cover
till half of us, hormoned, become other

I wonder why
I wonder why

All out of Africa, black. Fated.
Some drifted north, mutated,
followed the ice, turned white, faded

I wonder why
I wonder why

CGD

George

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysw_0NgumjU

The Ringing Bell

I keep a cheap Russian pocket watch in my top drawer -
she kept herself there, unwound,
a 1917 replica, from a Norfolk country fair -

- A lunar sunset walk across a coastal stubbled field,
the windmill still, the marsh reeds rustle,
the salt sea air rumbles and thrums -

A battleship on her flip-up cover lid,
a Commie call to prayer -
"All power to the Soviets!"
stamped on a red flag - but the red paint's gone,
thumbed, rubbed away, pocketed too quick

I found her the other day and wound her,
and now she ticks these silent years undone.

Remembered Home Alone Tone - hid away
the long ten weeks of our long work-stay,
self-deserted,

he'd phone, not speak, to his empty UK home
just to hear the ringing bell,
to loosen the dust from his hall handset -
the distant sea whispering from her shell

Birthday songs

She

She understands
She reads between the lines

Voltaire

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.'By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.'

'All murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and are accompanied by the sound of trumpets.'

'Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.'

'Every man is guilty of the good he did not do.'

'God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.'

'In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens and giving it to another.'

'It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent.'

'It is not sufficient to see and know the beauty of a work; we must feel and be affected by it.'

'Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.'

etc.

Voltaire.
(1694 - 1778)

Desert Islands

I'd be hard pushed to pick just one - but this is a strong contender:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBmhvpiTSAU

Photo by Plisson