Category: What has been left

Things that can been found in all kind of situations where beings have been gone

January 22, 2012 What has been left Post a Comment

Demolition

"Was sich ins Bleiben verschließt, schon ists das Erstarrte;
wähnt es sich sicher im Schutz des unscheinbaren Grau's? 
Warte, ein Härtestes warnt aus der Ferne das Harte. 
Wehe -: abwesender Hammer holt aus!"

(R.M. Rilke in Wolle, die Wandlung)
Huy (B)
January 4, 2012 Culture of Industry, What has been left Post a Comment

Industrial desolation

"There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might --
Who kept an open palace, where music charmed the night --

Since he was Lord of Liang a thousand years have flown,
And of the towers he builded yon ruin stands alone.

There reigns a heavy silence; gaunt weeds through windows pry,
And down the streets of Liang old echoes, wailing, die."

(L.A. Cranmer-Byng in Desolation)
Herstal (B)
December 23, 2011 Still Life, What has been left Post a Comment

The fairy boat

"Sometime a-down a magic stream a little boat comes sailing,
A sailing in the ev'ning just before the shadows fall;
It pauses in the meadows by the bank where I stand waiting,
Then sweet and clear upon the air I hear the fairies call.
I step into the tiny craft, and gently we go drifting ..."

(A. Horey in The fairy boat)
Liège (B)

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