What greatness did we experience?
(after John Donne)
What greatness did we experience,
what joys did we know
when we were raised in great convenience,
until the sparks of love between us did glow?
If ever sheer loveliness I did see
it was on that great summer’s day
when you first smiled at me,
when every though to you did stray.
Like explorers we had discovered a new continent,
an unknown hemisphere where none had ever been
and we may have seemed impertinent,
about each other overly keen
when we were in love and wandered eye in eye
like Adam and Eve under God’s cobalt-blue sky.
[Reference: “The Good-morrow” by John Donne.]
poem by Gert Strydom
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The ecstasy
(after John Donne)
From the start although it had been
great ecstasy and our loving
had been better than anything and we were keen,
we had a deep understanding
and although it were at times gentle and powerfully severe,
the fun and joy and moment’s bliss was unperplex
while nothing did with the loving interfere,
we both knew that it had been much greater than just sex
while our hands, fingers and bodies did intertwine
and for long moments
in all things, in intimacy you were mine;
there were some elements
of a different thing
of a principle, of love a greater understanding.
[Reference: “The ecstasy” by John Donne.]
poem by Gert Strydom
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Thoughts of you and me at Langebaan
(after John Donne)
Let us live in love
for a time at the blue lagoon
and to each other pleasures prove,
under a white hot sun and golden moon
where the river to the sea twisting run
and let us there kiss and play
have an own summer season in the sun,
enjoy each other day after day.
When in the crystal waters you swim
like a mermaid you will be to me
lovely, kind and supple and slim
and beautiful fish we will see
and there one another we will adore
with feelings, intensity not being able to be more.
[Reference: “The bait” by John Donne.]
poem by Gert Strydom
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No winter will destroy the coming spring
(after John Donne)
No winter will destroy the coming spring,
between you and me
and the feelings that are rising
come with raging passion and with dignity
and gently flowers unfold on every branch,
while birds are singing,
there is something deep in every glance
in every small token that you are bringing
and those who laugh at love poetry,
do not dwell deeper still,
in the words see only you and me,
do not know love as we do and will:
To me you are the one that love affords
the one I have to praise in all my words.
[Reference: “Love’s Growth” by John Donne.]
poem by Gert Strydom
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Loving Kindness Lingers Deep In Your Soul (Stave Stanza Sestets)
I am glad that I have met you on my way,
as you bring something lovely to any day,
loving kindness lingers deep in your soul
makes everywhere a place it does control,
discoverers have gone to worlds unknown
but with you, we have a world of our own.
Both our lives are different hemispheres
that completes a whole without any fears,
the way to truth in your lovely eyes rest
where the course set, is always true and best
others me to different ways have shown
but with you, we have a world of our own.
[Reference: 'The Good-morrow' by John Donne.]
poem by Gert Strydom
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Sonnet: On Greatness
Greatness is not a thing, much like an art;
Some man turns great if on it he stumbles;
His greatness ceases, if he thinks, he's great;
Great is he truly who tho' great, humbles.
Greatness is not true greatness, self-proclaimed;
Greatness is not what world showers on us;
Greatness is neither got by being claimed.
Greatness is not achieved by making fuss.
Greatness could come if world decides to give;
Greatness will stay if God blesses our work;
Such greatness, God-destined comes while men live;
Greatness can grow even without much luck.
Greatness doesn't come to everyone on earth;
Some men are made great; some are great by birth.
poem by John Celes
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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
quote by John Donne
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
quote by John Donne
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No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
quote by John Donne
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Donne
donne
Zucchero
Donne du du du in cerca di guai
donne al telefono che non suona mai
Donne du du du in mezzo a una via
donne allo sbando senza compagnia
Negli occhi hanno dei consigli e tanta voglia di avventure e se han fatto molti sbagli sono piene di paure
Le vedi camminare insieme
nella pioggia o sotto il sole
dentro pomeriggi opachi senza gioia ne dolore
Donne du du du
pianeti dispersi ,
per tutti gli uomini cos diversi
Donne du du du amiche di sempre
donne alla moda donne contro corrente
Negli occhi hanno gli areoplani
per volare ad alta quota
dove si respira l'aria e la vita non vuota
Le vedi camminare insieme nella pioggia o sotto il sole
dentro pomeriggi opachi
senza gioia ne dolore
Donne ,ooh
Donne ,
Donne
Donne ,
Donne
Donne du du du in cerca di guai
Donne al telefono che non suona mai
Donne du du du in mezzo a una via
donne allo sbando senza compagnia
song performed by by Zucchero
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Elegy X: The Dream
Image of her whom I love, more than she,
Whose fair impression in my faithful heart
Makes me her medal, and makes her love me,
As Kings do coins, to which their stamps impart
The value: go, and take my heart from hence,
Which now is grown too great and good for me:
Honours oppress weak spirits, and our sense
Strong objects dull; the more, the less we see.
When you are gone, and Reason gone with you,
Then Fantasy is queen and soul, and all;
She can present joys meaner than you do;
Convenient, and more proportional.
So, if I dream I have you, I have you,
For, all our joys are but fantastical.
And so I 'scape the pain, for pain is true;
And sleep which locks up sense, doth lock out all.
After a such fruition I shall wake,
And, but the waking, nothing shall repent;
And shall to love more thankful sonnets make
Than if more honour, tears, and pains were spent.
But dearest heart, and dearer image, stay;
Alas, true joys at best are dream enough;
Though you stay here you pass too fast away:
For even at first life's taper is a snuff.
Filied with her love, may I be rather grown
Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.
poem by John Donne
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Feels Like A Woman
Donne
in cerca di guai
donne a un telefono che non suona mai.
Donne
in mezzo a una via
donne allo sbando senza compagnia.
Negli occhi hanno dei consigli
e tanta voglia di avventure
e se hanno fatto molti sbagli
sono piene di paura.
Le vedi camminare insieme
nella pioggia o sotto il sole
dentro pomeriggi opachi
senza gioia ne' dolore.
Donne
pianeti dispersi
per tutti gli uomini cosi' diversi.
Donne
amiche di sempre
donne alla moda, donne contro corrente...
Negli occhi hanno gli aeroplani
per volare ad alta quota
dove si respira l'aria
e la vita non e' vuota.
Le vedi camminare insieme
nella pioggia o sotto il sole
dentro pomeriggi opachi
senza gioie ne' dolore.
Donne
in cerca di guai
donne a un telefono che non suona mai.
Donne
in mezzo a una via
donne allo sbando senza compagnia.
Donne
du du
du du
du du.
song performed by by Zucchero
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
quote by John Donne
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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
quote by John Donne
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If no man is an island?
If no man is an island
and if every human being
has an impact on all others,
then why can man not find peace
and are the warhorses
still thundering by
and does the bell at the cemetery
keep on tolling?
[Reference: No man is an island by John Donne]
poem by Gert Strydom
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Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
quote by John Donne
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To England
There are no postage stamps that send letters
back to England three centuries ago,
no postage stamps that make letters
travel back until the grave hasn't been dug yet,
and John Donne stands looking out the window,
it is just beginning to rain this April morning,
and the birds are falling into the trees
like chess pieces into an unplayed game,
and John Donne sees the postman coming up the street,
the postman walks very carefully because his cane
is made of glass.
poem by Richard Brautigan
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Pyramus and Thisbe
Two, by themselves, each other, love and fear,
Slain, cruel friends, by parting have join'd here.
poem by John Donne
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For Godsake Hold Your Tongue and Let Me Love
Please be quiet, little friend,
You're driving me right round the bend!
I'm sick and tired of your whining voice,
You're giving me no other choice
But to slam the door and go outside
Which really hurts my foolish pride.
You're keen to voice your point of view
But for Heaven's sake I have feelings too!
When will you ever give me peace?
When will your petty grumblings cease?
Don't you remember there was a time
We loved each other very much,
We trembled at each other's touch
And quarrelling just seemed a crime?
I've really had enough of this!
Let's banish anger with a kiss,
Either that or go to bed -
Shut up, my love, enough's been said! !
The title of this verse is a quotation from a famous poem by John Donne.
poem by John Thorkild Ellison
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No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.
quote by John Donne
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
quote by John Donne
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