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Hedges

the swerving dark high hedges winding down narrow roads bramble nettle ivy high hedges dotted houses, high gates divided by high hedges a lonely lamp post by the curve half swallowed by the hedge night quiet all dark a clear night, billion star sight clear night still water still night all still chimney smoke rising […]

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Misty Donostia

San Sebastian – País Vasco / DONOSTIA – EUSKAL HERRIA After the hot sun had faded and melted beyond the horizon, a cool breeze swept in, and with it, mist. The smell of the air changed as I walked back from the city and suddenly my shirt felt very thin.

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Thinking of blue

Blue:A colour. Snoozing on a warm afternoon, looking up at the clear blue sky,My mind wanders … Perfect blue. It feels right to see this blue. A colour, nothing more than a vibrationAtoms and energy, playing a colour.Light from the sun bouncing around our atmosphere. Early man must’ve noticed this unique colour.He looked at the blue dome […]

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We can’t imagine

  It’s all too much to imagine.All this time … Gently flowing through time like a flower in a brookbecause I might as well be. There’s a universe out there. Stars and galaxies. They say we can see about 30 billion stars in the skywhich, coincidentally,corresponds to the number of men who have walked this Earth. So, over […]

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Miracle plays: Ozu, Pound, Herzog

The importance of an unknown Japanese art and its influence. In the eighth contrary of our era the dilettante of the Japanese court established the tea cult and the play of ‘listening to incense’. In the fourteenth century they produced a drama scarcely less subtle: the Noh. I like a lot of Werner Herzog’s works, […]

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SYSTEM:URGE:POWER

The attraction: The city, the system, the rhythmic beat, drunken buzz, job status and respect. The urge: drawing you closer with desire. And gripping you with a jealousy: A deep jealousy you haven’t felt since that school yard hearing of others doing things that you have never experienced And too inexperienced to deal with what […]

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Trapped

Caught up by complications and memories and fear. Unable to move. Trapped and locked. Visions gone. No confidence. Escaping into hell and dark thoughts. I tried to help him. From Russian mythology. A bogatyr vainly attempts to break the coffin in which his companion has imprudently shut himself.

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A moment on Naval Hill

Man Tough times, look at the gods, no love Bad weather and bad crops, Hungry children and a sad wife Working harder than I can. Watching the horizon every night, Watching for clouds or night attacks, Waiting for life or death, i pray – My heart, it’s sinking every night King Is that so? Now […]

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Istanbul, 4am

I got into Istanbul airport at about 4am. I was stopping there before continuing my flight to the Gulf. I timed the flights so that I had ten hours to go round Istanbul. I booked the flight a week ago and simply didn’t have time to plan anything. So decided to go as the wind […]

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Finding the path with Joseph Campbell

I read “Hero of a Thousand Faces” three times in a row. I could tell, from reading just a few sentences and from gauging the rhythm and word-choice that this writer knew. Knew what he was talking about – or he was tapping into something – but what? Like a musician grooving. Or like my […]