Tag Archives: Friendship

DIVIDED WE STAND

Posted on December 24, 2019 by David Scanlon

Divided we stand together, Unable and unwilling to breach Our walls and bring to life All that is – all that we are.

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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE – XLI

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I thank you all, who have loved me so right with your hearts entwined in mine. Thank-you each, who have remained: in her voices-view when my prison-walls appeared so tight;

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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE – XLIII

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love you? Let me count how I do. I love you deeply, so highly, with a certainty, as my soul blindly extends, when with you our existence touches and we make eternity.

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ECHOES OF MEMORY

Posted on November 4, 2018 by David Scanlon

“To speak the truth, I think that people ought to be upset, …; I think that life is so important and, in its workings, so upsetting that nobody should be spared.” J.R. Ackerley to Stephen Spender – 1955 When the … Continue reading →

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ON THAT DAY

Posted on November 2, 2018 by David Scanlon

It is my deepest wish That I will some day Again find her peace And in love stay Among the friends Who were always true And in living knew Of her loves play.

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