Poetry and Lyrics

It is the poet who goes further than any human scientist. The poet who with her dredging net must haul up difficult things and return them to the present. As she does this, the reader will begin to recognise parts of herself so neatly buried that they seem to have been buried since birth. She will be able to hear clearly the voices that have whispered at her for so many years. Some of those voices will prove false, she will perhaps learn to fear her own fears. The attendant personalities that are clinicly labelled as schizophrenia can be brought into harmonious balance.

Jeanette Winterson Art Objects

A collection of song lyrics and poetry that have struck my fancy, for one reason or another, words which other people have been arranged by other people are noted by those persons names. They're also known as authors. If I were to create a poetry anthology, these would be the poems I chose. They run the gamut of style, subject and era, chosen with little regard for current tastes or, in some instances, "literary" merit. Though every one has been chosen for a reason. Those of you curious about the reason should e-mail me.

But Wise Men Perceive Approaching Things -- C.P. Cavafy

Desires -- C.P. Cavafy

Aemilianus Monae, Alexandrian, 628 - 655 A.D. -- C.P. Cavafy

If I Were Brave -- Shawn Colvin

Stuart -- The Deadmilkmen

I Reason Earth is Short -- Emily Dickinson

Fly -- Nick Drake

I Will Never Be the Same -- Melissa Etheridge

Southbound Train -- Nanci Griffith

Don't Get Your Back Up -- Sarah Harmer

Cold Missouri Waters -- James Keelaghan

Landslide -- Stevie Knicks