[[*---Virtu contro al Furore---*]]

Saturday, April 30, 2005

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Victory
-dedicated to AC db8 team 2

The banner flying high
Hear the jubilant cry
From the barren ash they rose
Triumphed mighty over their foes

Remember that day well
Of the amazing journey will they tell
When by their mouths and with their hands
They raised the red, blue, and

Gold

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|9:59 PM|

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

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Muse

Counting as the days pass
Counting as the iron rusts
Counting down to our last
Counting down into dust

Watching as kingdoms fall
Watching as wisdom fails
Watching oblivion call
Watching cavalcades assail

Walking towards the light
Walking towards our end
Walking from our plight
Walking in confused strands

Thinking

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|9:18 PM|

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

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Song of Surrender

Just did some thinking, and well after I came back from my uncle's place, and saw how God was working in the lives of the Kazaks (for those of you who don't know, Kazakhstan is a large country on the southwest border of Russia), I just felt like, especially after God rescued me again from the depths of depression again, that I should just pen down how I felt, and well, why not try composing something?

So here it is...

The Song of Surrender (oh btw the chords are not in time. Ask me if you want to know how to play this.)

Verse 1

Am Em
Oh Lord, I'm broken again,

Dm Am
A poor lost fool under sin's stain;

C G
And Lord, I'm falling on my knees,

F C D E
I'm blinded, Lord, and I can't see...

Chorus

G D A
So Lord, I surrender all!

C G D Dsus A
I lay my life down at your feet.

G F Am
Oh Lord, You've rescued me again!

C Dsus D Dsus D E
I lift my voice and I sing forevermore...

G D Dsus D E
Lord, I surrender all!

Verse 2
Oh Lord, will you hear my cry?
It's raining on me but my soul is dry...
Betrayed once more, I've lost my way,
Nothing left but to plead and say,

Chorus

Verse 3
And now, You've picked me up,
Held me close and filled my cup,
Now Lord, I'll reign with you,
Anchored steadfast, to your word so true!

Chorus

Chorus (slow)

Ending line:

C/G Dsus D E
Lord, I surrender all...

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|9:23 PM|

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

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Distancing...

Just was thinking about some things.. and thought this poem was very accurate.

Where the Mind is Without Fear - Rabindranath Tagore

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

Indeed...

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|7:53 PM|

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The Fallen 09

Drink from the sepulchre cup
That is with yellow and black stained
In voracious greed we sup
Wait for the eviscerating rain

And it is blissful and cool
Washing away our strife
Yet it is we who are the fools
Who see not the flashing knife...

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|4:29 PM|

Sunday, April 17, 2005

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Choices

Forswearing it all,
Loss shall supervene-
Yet to parse this hall
Of intermingled scenes...

Libra tilting to the right
Strong arm takes the bowstring
Turning your face to the light
And hearing the arrow ring

Libra tilting to the left
Weak arm flapping behind
Breaking away from the bereft
Waving farewell to the unkind

Libra balancing straight
Two arms thus conjoin
Pointing forth to berate
Clasping a golden coin

Forswearing again
Seeking Fortune's toss
Heads or tails, it remains
None shall be fake gloss

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|3:40 PM|

Thursday, April 14, 2005

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The Fallen 08

A fiery cry
An ashen sky
Ask yourself why
Yet no reply

The well's run dry
Gaze and descry
An ashen sky
A fiery cry

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|2:27 AM|

Sunday, April 10, 2005

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Shades of Purple 01

The stygian night's ambuscade
A fey maudlin complement
To the Panglossian rising red
That supervenes the diffident

And that copacetic perspicacity
What, that luculent oblation
Given over to purblind temerity
This pestiferous tintinnabulation

So rises this circumambient corpuscle
Flowing forth, a mellifluous cavalcade
As we wade through this incongruous treacle
Around us perforce evinces a shade

Light Purple

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|2:04 PM|

Saturday, April 09, 2005

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Polarity

We are demised and we are arisen
An utter bizarre superposition
We are remembered and we are forgot
That is our ever oscillating lot

Ever reaching out yet still holding back
Think it nobler to torture on the rack
Melancholy or bright vivacity
Not a bare matter of simplicity

We have won the battle and lost the war
Crawling onward, wounds festering and raw

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|1:20 PM|

Friday, April 08, 2005

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The Fallen 07
- dedicated to AC db8 team 1

Two went to battle
Only one returned
And that single word
That painfully burned

Drunk on victory
Reaching that great cup
In stupor they fell
Now their time is up

Pour the worth of four
Now ever with haste
Moiling even more
Let none go to waste

Two went to battle
Only one returned
So then time will tell
Was the lesson learnt

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|11:50 PM|

Thursday, April 07, 2005

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The Fallen 06

You see us coming
And you altogether run for cover

Arising hubris
Scattered debris
Eddy and swirl
Hands ever whirl

You see us coming
And you altogether run

Fear the coming storm
Disaster's temperament reborn
A gnawing grinding pain
With no soothing rain

You see us coming
And you

What might have been
Interminable question
Chance of being unseen
Ephemeral regression

You see us coming

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|5:09 AM|

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

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Balance

Tipping the scales
Shift to one side
Keeping it all real
Take you for a ride

Leading them on
Or a genuine smile
Go, going, now gone
Down that whitewashed aisle

Holding all back
A reticence so cold
Come, come, in a stack
Shut away till gray and old

Judge jury executioner
Torrential redoubler

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|7:02 PM|

Monday, April 04, 2005

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The Fallen 05

Waiting for your death
Anticipation
Watching for the rest
No satisfaction

No blaze of glory
No bed of roses
Gather your army
Victory's yet reverse

Sometimes it seems like
It only rains on me...

[[ Sagacious Musings ]]*|7:37 PM|