Tag Archives: life

For cherry blossoms, new life

For cherry blos­soms, new life, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. The trist of win­ter Has the drag­on­fly in its grip My heart is aching Pray­ing for spring mir­a­cle For cherry blos­soms, new life © Thorsten Becker   I’ve devi­ated from my Wednesday/Sunday post­ing cycle as I sim­ply couldn’t find my words. Any cat­a­stro­phe touches me but …

18. March 2011 – 11:52 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (10)

If I had three wishes…

If I had three wishes…, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. If I had three wishes What would they be? What should they be? World peace An end to poverty And hap­pi­ness for all? Wishes grand and tall? Or would they some­thing self­ish be Give me a sack of gold Make me famous Now make me bold, make …

6. February 2011 – 10:32 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Memories of Autumn — Goodbye my butterfly

Mem­o­ries of Autumn — Good­bye my But­ter­fly, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Good­bye my but­ter­fly Your life lasted only sum­mer long But even in your fad­ing hour Your col­ors still shine brightly Your wings inscribed with a mes­sage For those who bow their heads A sub­tle note, a reminder That noth­ing fades unno­ticed For even …

2. February 2011 – 13:47 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

What remains

What remains, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. What, then, will remain If not the seeds of our deeds To find fer­tile soil? © Thorsten Becker

19. September 2010 – 11:37 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

The curious case of a little old book — Part 2

The curi­ous case of a lit­tle old book — Part 2, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Last year I related the story of an unusual find in a post titled “The curi­ous case of a lit­tle old book”. I’ve had pur­chased a copy of the Roycrofter’s edi­tion of Aucassin & Nico­lette which also, unex­pect­edly so, …

18. February 2010 – 11:13 | By Thorsten | Posted in Musings | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (4)

Woodland creatures features – Conclusion

Wood­land crea­tures fea­tures – Con­clu­sion, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. And so, as the prince of deers set­tled down in the after­noon sun, right beside me, my thoughts trav­eled with his, across the plains of fra­grant coun­try flow­ers, over the mead­ows and streams flow­ing in the dis­tance. And there was peace. What sim­pler joy could …

26. January 2010 – 08:39 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Two strangers

Two strangers, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Two strangers, on that path ahead Two strangers, hand in hand Walk beneath Two strangers, tall and grand Who also hold each oth­ers hand, And on that path ahead My love, we shall now tread Two strangers, hand in hand To walk beneath Two strangers, tall and grand © …

7. January 2010 – 07:36 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)