Been reorganising & tidying the house (well, the latter is mostly theoretical at this stage, since I keep making ever more mess in my attempts to get Really Truly Honest-To-God Actually Bloody ORGANISED This Time). And doing last financial year’s taxes. I hate doing taxes, I’m always scared I’ll do something wrong, so I invariably put it off as long as I can and then get all panicky when it absolutely positively has to be done by X. ANYWAY. So accounting, housework, and both the small person and myself being ill has been my lot lately. Hopefully we’re on the mend now that we’re on the dreaded antibiotics.
I did find, in amongst all the stuff I’ve been sorting out, the torn envelope with all the quotes I’d garnered to quilt into the background of the dragons wallhanging. So, this is what the background is whispering:
- Set me as a seal upon your heart, a seal upon your arm
- many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods [drown?] it
- may you rest & travel wrapped deeply within the wings of love
- I have found the one whom my soul loves
- A heaven full of stars over my head … myriads with beating hearts of fire
- the sea’s blue splendour of coloured nights & days
- the great look of love, long hidden, found at last in meeting eyes
- the moon in her phases and the tides of the sea
the movement of the earth & the seasons that will be
are the rhythm for the dancing & a promise through the years
that the dance goes on through all our joy and tears
- oh perfect love all human thought transcending
illuming sense & sight with radiance bright
that theirs may be the love that knows no ending
joining two lives forevermore as one
- now, shielded in his wings, our faces yearn together
- oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower
this close-companioned inarticulate hour
when twofold silence was the song of love
CHITCHAT