Friday, February 27, 2009

van morrison & f. garcia lorca


photo from flickr

If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dreams
Where the mobile steel rims crack
And the ditch and the backroads stop
Could you find me
Would you kiss my eyes
And lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again

- Van Morrison

My heart of silk
is filled with lights,
with lost bells,
with lilies and bees.
I will go very far,
farther than those hills,
farther than the seas,
close to the stars,
to beg Christ the Lord
to give back the soul I had
of old, when I was a child,
ripened with legends,
with a feathered cap
and a wooden sword.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

*found in lester bangs' article on the seminal album, astral weeks

1 comment:

Elwood said...

hello---

ain't google great? a few key search words and i'm on your page. check it out...i wrote a van/lorca blog a few months ago. hope you enjoy!

http://mike-elwood.blogspot.com/2008/12/lets-poeticize.html