January  16, 2023

Quote for Today

"Ten years after your death

I meet on a page of your journal, as never before,

The shock of your joy."

Ted Hughes [1930-1998]

Visit   [1998]

January 15, 2023

 

SCRATCH,  SCRATCH

 

Trying to find understanding in a hurt,

in something that happened to me – in

something that stopped my going down

the highway 73 miles per hour in a 65

mile per hour zone – a pot hole,

a broken chunk of tire in the middle of

the lane I’m in. “Uh oh! Oh no! Whoa!”

Switching lanes in my brain – now where

was I back there, back then, back when

I moved forward to where I was before

I slowed down?  Scratch, scratch ….

What was under what just happened?

When in the horror of it all, in the

crowning with thorns, with the falls

on the way to the cross, in the pounding

of the nails into hands and feet,

when did Jesus figure out why he said,

“Father forgive them, they don’t know

what they are doing?” Scratch. Scratch.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 January 15, 2023

Quote for Today

"To know all is to forgive all."

Proverb

January 14, 2023

 

IT  SEEMS 

 

It seems that when I’m with you, I wonder.

It seems I don’t feel you’re really hearing me.

It seems you make me a voice over.

It seems I am not me to you.

It seems you have no clue who I am.

It seems you don't know where I'm from.

It seems you’d be surprised who I am.

It seems you need an eye opener.

It seems I do a lot of inner talking about this.

It seems I spend a lot of energy on this.

It seems a lot of people do this.

It seems maybe you should too – if you don’t.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 January 14, 2023

Quote of the Day

"Young, gifted and black."

Weldon J. Irving 

American Songwriter

Title of song 1969

 January 13, 2023

Quote for the Day

"When they call you articulate, that's another way of saying 'He talks good for a black guy.'"

Ice-T [1958-}

In Independent, December 30, 1995

"Interview of the Year"

 January 13,  2023

DOES EVERYBODY  

HAVE  A  SONG  WITHIN THEM?

 

Does everybody have a song within them?

Do they? I don't  know - but I wonder, "Did

I try to sing some song I heard as a little kid 

and someone shushed me into silence?"

I've heard someone in our family say more

than once, "Nobody in our family can sing."

So when nobody's listening and I'm all alone,

I like to sing a song or two that I like. Who

knows? Maybe one of these days, there I am

getting up to sing and nobody knows I can't.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello