You've ripped my heart out

Sounds like a cliché, but you've just done that
unscrupulously

I look into your eyes and I see something you are trying to disguise You try to run away, you try and still you stay You are confused I am amused You are amused I am confused Time goes by And nothing ever happens Everything's exactly as it was 4 years ago

Christmas in Killarney - GREAT SONG

The holly green, the ivy green
The prettiest picture you've ever seen
Is Christmas in Killarney
With all of the folks at home
It's nice, you know, to kiss your beau
While cuddling under the mistletoe
And Santa Claus you know, of course
Is one of the boys from home
The door is always open
The neighbors pay a call
And Father John before he's gone
Will bless the house and all
How grand it feels to click your heels
And join in the fun of the jigs and reels
I'm handing you no blarney
The likes you've never known
Is Christmas in Killarney
With all of the folks at home

Black Cloud - Morrissey

The one I love

is standing near

the one I love

is everywhere

I can woo you

I can amuse you

but there is nothing I can do

to make you mine

black cloud, black cloud

The one I love

roosts in the mind

can snap this spell

or, increase hell

I can chase you

and I can catch you

but there is nothing I can do

to make you mine

black cloud, black cloud

oh, black cloud

oh, black cloud

I play the game

of Favorites now

I can I must I will I do

I can please you

or, I can freeze you out

but there is nothing I can do

to make you mine

Black cloud, black cloud, black cloud

I can choke myself to please you

and I can sink much lower than usual

but there's nothing I can do

to make you mine

Dormant Intimacy

It's a poem in the making - a draft - I know what feelings I need to express but it's not the best of days...see it evolve the next few days...does it exist the live writing of poetry (if so it may be called) on the net?

A long gone sundry afternoon

The utterance of heart-felt words

Regret amounted very soon

A sentiment denied hurts

This vessel on the verge of an emotional sail

Your words typical were of no avail

Your eyes clearly embodied lies

Your kindness at war with regret

Regret at war with fear

Occasionally you would be very near

More often you would steer clear

Unexpectedly I would find you avoiding me

Hope against hope

At war with each other

But more so with ourselves

Today we steer clear

We avoid coming near

Life's delicacies are denied to us by ourselves

Sympathies have been boxed and

Put on shelves

An intimacy cursed to lie dormant ever more

The chance for it to waken

Lies in our hands only, like before

But the boxes are covered in dust

As is the long-gone feeling of trust

Perchance the chance for it to waken

Needs now truly be forsaken?

Dr. Rachendra Pachauri: Less meat, less heat

Now more than ever am I proud to be a vegetarian. People have scorned, laughed, misunderstood, made stupid remarks from day 1 I decided to give up meat. Even more so when we decided to raise our children on a meat-free diet ('surely we weren't good parents, denying our children vital nutrients'...the nerve of some (uninformed = ignorant) people.

I went to a lecture this evening of Dr. Rachendra Pachauri, nobel prize winner of peace for his work on climate change together with Al Gore in 2007. I knew there was a connection between meat-production, world hunger and climate problems, but I did not realise the impact of the meat-industry to be that big. There were eye opening comparisons, like when everyone in Flanders would eat no meat on only one day a week, we would reduce greenhouse gasses by one milion ton - which is the same as taking 500 000 cars off the road!!!
It seems that if we would all seriously reduce our amount of meat, we would be contributing greatly to the sollution of the climate problem...if...and if politics would include it in their policy...but ignorance as I said...still so proud to be a vegetarian ever more.

More info on www.vegetarisme.be

I Will Stay Restless

A very old song I once wrote a very long time ago to a very old friend who disappeared out of my life...I can't even remember the chords anymore...
She'll know who she is - she's the only real friend I ever had - I was 17 and we were soulmates, minds alike...you chose the bumpy, arty road and I became stuck due to circumstances...this is a song of regret...


I will stay restless
Untill the day that I hear
That you still care
I will not sleep tight
Until you, my friend
Prove you are still there

I won't breathe
I won't eat until I am sure
That there is a good reason
For this scaring silence
Until you, my friend,
Prove you are still there

Isn't it strange
How much people can change
Are you the same or
Has there come a world
Between us?

I will stay restless
Until the moment I hear
That you still care
Until you, my friend
Prove you are still there