by Danny Ballan | Mar 4, 2015 | Archive
And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a...
by Danny Ballan | Mar 4, 2015 | Archive
“Out, out brief candle,life’s but a walking shadow,a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more;it is a tale told by an idiot,full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”from Macbeth by William ShakespeareOur Life’s Brief...
by Danny Ballan | Mar 4, 2015 | Poetry
I belong to nothing…I belong to no countryYou may war against,And tomorrow’s placeI find, for my head,Under your military boots,And the roaring thunderOf your steel shaking my ground.I belong to no race,Where a color mismatchCan take your reason away,And all your eyes...
by Danny Ballan | Mar 4, 2015 | Poetry
A bird came flutteringOn my windowsill,Cold it wasOr hungry, stillIt strongly lookedInside, into my eyes.I knew it was the momentTo let it in.Yet I waitedAnd left it out;But a rainbow from hell,My desire burnt me out—That I live inside that bird,And he live inside my...
by Danny Ballan | Mar 4, 2015 | Poetry
Fight …One more day—The end of the line is near,Soon the poem will unfoldThe stretching lost meaningOf a vague existence,Faraway—Meshing aroundTo move the hands of a clock,Or stop the passage of time.Fight …Maybe this is the last night,Enjoy it all,For all things...
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