Michelangelo's Poetry (dA)

Fri May 29, 2009, 11:29 PM

* Mood: Wow!
* Listening to: The Death Song - Marilyn Manson
* Reading: The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
* Watching: Faerie Tale Theatre
* Playing: Hexic
* Eating: Arby's
* Drinking: Soda (again)

Okay, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the great and magnifico Michelangelo actually wrote POETRY too!! So here are four poems by him (of the ones that I've read so far) that I thought everyone would enjoy, or at least not barf at...
ps. Had a dream that Gackt said that I was the whinyest and most ugly human being he had ever met... it made me sad.

Michelangelo Poetry

11
How shall I dare, my love,
Without your presence keep myself alive,
If, when I leave you, my lips do not dare
Utter a word to tell you my despair?
Those sobs, those sighs, those tears,
With which, my lady, I brought you my heart, ---
Did they not tell you how my death was near,
And all my bitter smart?
But lest you should forget, when I am far,
That I am still your servant, --- as a sign
Of love --- O keep my heart no longer mine.

12
Your heart is only merciless deceit,
Though well it hides its inner bitterness.
Your word, a thing of time, can last far less
Than a fair blossom when the spring is sweet.
Time in its speed assigns the hours that fleet, ---
The most effective poisonous distress
Of life (a sickle for the hay, unless

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A human word is empty, beauty brief,
And they seem destined to fade out together,
Just as your sin together with my fears

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It would have to be so, through our years.

41
I feed on my own death, and yet I feel
Quite happy in my own unhappiness.
Let those who want to shun death or distress
Learn from this fervor I cannot conceal.

42
Who makes me die, he also makes me live:
The more a flame is fed by wood or breath,
The more, while killing me, he spares me death,
And the greater the joy that I receive.

Librarians dig this shit... (dA)

Fri May 29, 2009, 5:23 PM

* Mood: Stuck
* Listening to: Christian Humber Reloaded Audio Book
* Reading: The Pillars of the World
* Watching: Faerie Tale Theatre
* Playing: Hexic
* Drinking: Lemonade

Hello Everyone!!

Not that you really care, but I'm going to provide you all with a list of books that I borrowed from the most beautiful of buildings in the world, The LIBRARY!!! I mentioned a journal back or so, that I was rediscovering the joys of having a library card and I am still am. So here is what I am reading currently. :XD:

Sebastian (Anne Bishop; 437 pages)
The Pillars of the World (Anne Bishop; 420 pages)
Shadows and Light (Anne Bishop; 420 pages)
The House of Gaian (Anne Bishop; 420 pages)
Five Complete Novels of Dashiel Hammett (Dashiel Hammett; 946 pages)
A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest J. Gaines; 256 pages)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien; 315 pages)
Dante in Love (Harriet Rubin; 237 pages)
Purgatorio (Dante Aligheri; 215 pages)
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo (Michelangelo; 166 pages)
The House without a Key (Earl Derr Biggers; 286 pages)
Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler; 614 pages)
The Complete Works of Machiavelli (Machiavelli; 516 pages)
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fennimore Cooper; 430 pages)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott; 467 pages)
Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini; 331 pages)

Yes, I know. WAY TO MANY BOOKS TO READ IN 21 DAYS!!! Donnie has already scolded me for borrowing more than I can actually read in 21 days... And, yes, I am reading A LOT of Anne Bishop right now. :shrug: I like her style. :D I was ever so pleasantly surprised when I discovered that Michelangelo also wrote POETRY!! WOW! What a great discovery. Or at least, I thought it was.

Anyway, now that you have been bored to death with my reading choices, i thought i would tell you all that i am currently chasing after my muse. More poetry may be appearing in this thing soon... :D I LOVE YOU ALL!!

How are you?

Welcome Back, would you like a kick in the pants?

Hey everybody... thought I would stop by and say hello to the wonderful people that for some unknown reason love me enough to subscribe to this worthless piece of crap that I call a blog.

I am decent enough. I am my lover's and he is mine. We be happy folk in my area.

I am alive. I will NOT be moving back to OK until late July or early August. Get as much of the Sarai as you can before then (well, those of you that live in my general vicinity).

I am trying my damndest to enjoy this thing called life before it disappears on me. How quickly life flies by. It has been almost a year since Donnie and I started dating and I can hardly believe it. At times it feels like a few weeks and sometimes it feels like years. Good thing.

Have been reading a lot recently... Hoping to continue that good habit.

Found a Marilyn Manson song I acutally like *shocked look*. It is called Fight Song. You should listen to it sometime.

Well I'm outie for this moment. Love you all... Will hopefully have some poetry for you all soon... Not that it is worth the reading anymore... Sorry, I'm happy, but am discontent. Happens sometimes. Later Loves!!

Welcome Back, would you like a kick in the pants? (dA)

Wed May 20, 2009, 4:11 PM

* Mood: Lazy
* Listening to: Hanging On Too Long - Duffy
* Reading: Hangman Blind
* Watching: Sweeney Todd
* Playing: Hexic
* Eating: Ramen
* Drinking: Soda

Hey everybody... thought I would stop by and say hello to the wonderful people that for some unknown reason love me enough to subscribe to this worthless piece of crap that I call a journal.

I am decent enough. I am my lover's and he is mine. We be happy folk in my area.

I am alive. I will NOT be moving back to OK until late July or early August. Get as much of the Sarai as you can before then (well, those of you that live in my general vicinity).

I am trying my damndest to enjoy this thing called life before it disappears on me. How quickly life flies by. It has been almost a year since Donnie and I started dating and I can hardly believe it. At times it feels like a few weeks and sometimes it feels like years. Good thing.

Have been reading a lot recently... Hoping to continue that good habit.

Found a Marilyn Manson song I acutally like *shocked look*. It is called Fight Song. You should listen to it sometime.

Well I'm outie for this moment. Love you all... Will hopefully have some poetry for you all soon... Not that it is worth the reading anymore... Sorry, I'm happy, but am discontent. Happens sometimes. Later Loves!!

Hi! (dA)

Mon May 18, 2009, 7:46 PM

* Mood: Neutral
* Listening to: Fight Song - Marilyn Manson
* Reading: The Great Gatsby
* Watching: Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
* Playing: Hexic
* Eating: Ramen
* Drinking: Soda

Hi! I LIVE!! :D