It should be hard to let go...

"Man and a Woman Dancing in a Close Embrace," by Vincenzo Balocchi

Every song you should fall in love a little bit
Otherwise why are you in the arms of a stranger?

Every song, you should learn to leave your self behind
Your vanity, your sadness, your anger...

Every song you should embrace more deeply
A weary chest resting on another, arms now longer,

Every song, you should fall in love a little bit
If your heart's not in it, your body will wonder...

It should be hard to let go, like all beautiful things in life...
Otherwise why are you in the arms of a stranger?

The Blue Thistle

Claire McAllister with blue thistles, Patrick Swift, 1950-51 (Dublin), Signed, Inscribed, oil on canvas; 76 x 61 cm 

The Blue Thistle 

The blue thistle,

The prickly thorn,

 Adorn the windy days forlorn.

 The soldier flower that affronts

 The wind that cuts, the rain that scorns,

 For sake of all the seeds unborn.

 Rising above all that is green,

 A blue and prickly flower keen

 To see the fertile sun forsworn... 

Danzarin (4/26/2012)