Friday, February 20, 2015

Vacancy

A  L  O  H  A !

“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”
                                      Wordsworth









"All my life, 
as down an abyss 
without a bottom. 
I have been pouring 
van loads of information 
into that vacancy 
of oblivion 
I call my mind." 
                                Logan Pearsall Smith 









“We become aware of the void as we fill it.” 
 Antonio Porchia














" Then, 
from the black storm 
through which we seem
 to have passed. . . 
 we emerge prostrate, 
without a thought, 
a we that is void 
of content.” 
 Marcel Proust







“Youth always tries 

to fill the void, 

an old man learns

 to live with it.” 

        Mark Z. Danielewski




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If you put
your ear to mine
you'll hear the ocean;
I'm hollow
but fine.

Ever feel vacant
in a not-bad way?

Is this
what they call
"Re - lax - ation"
?

Wandering-Pondering,
                                           cloudia