I read this poem often. Once a month at least. In the madness and mayhem of modern life, where every man seems committed to an endless search for approval and esteem of his fellows and peers, no matter what the cost, this poem reminds me of a basic truth: that we are, as we are, “enough.”  Most of us are motivated deep down by a sense of insufficiency, a need to be better, stronger, faster; to work harder; to be more committed, more kind, more self-sufficient, more successful. We are driven be a sense that we are not, as we are, ‘enough.’ But this short poem by Derek Walcott is like a declaration of unconditional love. It’s like the embrace of an old friend. We are each of us whole, perfectly imperfect, enough.  (T.H.)

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart  to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

He can be sexy without be vulgar. This is rare.

That's a chillstep remix of the song "Skelling" originally composed by David Arkenstone. (Celtic Cirlce Album)
Vocals: Loreena Mckennitt

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'One Cigarette' - Tom Hiddleston

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare (Tom Hiddleston)

Tom Hiddleston - Love After Love - By Derek Walcott

Jocelyn Pook - The Last Phone Call (Storm Over Everest)

Taken from album "Jardins Migrateurs" (by Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko - to be released 13rd of nov 2015)

Fleuve - Ablaye Cissoko & Constantinople - Jardins Migrateurs - 2015

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides.
figures dance around and around
to drums that pulse out echoes of darkness;
moving to the pagan sound.

Somewhere in a hidden memory
images float before my eyes
of fragrant nights of straw and of bonfires,
dancing till the next sunrise.

Chorus:

i can see the lights in the distance
trembling in the dark cloak of night.
candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing
a waltz on all souls night.

Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows
held up tall as the flames leap high.
the green knight holds the holly bush
to mark where the old year passes by.

Chorus

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides.
figures dance around and around
to drums that pulse out echoes of darkness;
moving to the pagan sound.

Standing on the bridge that crosses 
the river that goes out to the sea.
the wind is full of a thousand voices;
they pass by the bridge and me.

Chorus

Chorus again

Triddana - All Souls Night (Loreena Mckennitt cover)

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Tom Hiddleston - Love After Love - By Derek Walcott

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