back into cold like – winter haiku

back into cold like lazarus called back from bliss; indian winter __________ -metaphor somewhat after Lewis

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Between Fall and Winter, Springtime’s an Eternity Away

Fall has pungency 
 Like nard. Summer’s fullness crushed
 Anoints the late year. Winter has the scent 
 Of absence. Nothing. Death. Life.
 Shrouded under snow. Spring is memory.
 Fragrance from a walled garden
 Calls to the lover. Summer will not end.
 Here at this wedding: wine, bower
 Evermore and more. ________ Please permit another [...]

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Coriakin

“What did he do, Sire” asked Caspian. “My son,” said Ramandu, “it is not for you, a son of Adam, to know what faults a star can commit.”

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The Tulips Join the Dance!

-that would be the Great Dance.

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“Always Winter and Never Christmas” – Imagining Aslan

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No Bacchus? Let’s Get Raucous!

Groan. And so it begins, the list of revisions and omissions and additions that the second Narnia movie prepetrates on C. S. Lewis’ story Prince Caspian. I once, perhaps rather rashly, said that they should not make a movie of this chronicle at all, and perhaps that would have been better than some of the [...]

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A Blog on Jack!

Here is a newish blog on Clive Staples, known to his close friends as Jack, Lewis, which I heard about courtesy of Jeffrey Overstreet. There are some pretty well known, and published, C. S. Lewis scholars blogging here and the whole enterprise is connected to the publisher Harper. I have not had the chance to [...]

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C. S. Lewis Film Online

This is not the the Lewis biography I referenced in a recent blog entry. That one is in the latest box set of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie from Disney. It has an interesting style, with a group of children reading from the books in various places. It is really quite good, [...]

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Love’s As Warm as Tears

Love’s as warm as tears,     Love is tears: Pressure within the brain, Tension at the throat, Deluge, weeks of rain, Haystacks afloat, Featureless seas between Hedges, where once was green. Love’s as fierce as fire,     Love is fire: All sorts—infernal heat Clinkered with greed and pride, Lyric desire, sharp-sweet, Laughing, even when denied, And that [...]

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Late Night Yearnings…

…after watching a biography on Jack. longing :: pining :: aching :: groaning    :::    beauty :: truth :: peace :: love _____________________ working :: watching :: waiting   :::    wedding :: feasting :: consummation

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