A WASTED LIFE BY MELINDA KENDALL

A WASTED LIFE A wasted life! This sad refrain Comes surging through my ears again; There’s no escape from thee, though fiend; Thou art borne to me on every wind – A wasted life! A wasted life! By day or night, no peace for me; Still, still before me I can see The fragments of [...]

THE DRUNKARD

With Christmas approaching I present you with this January Poem.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2202164

The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 9 January 1836,
ORIGINAL POETRY
THE DRUNKARD
”WHY Edward dids’t thou last night so late stay
While cold and comfortlesss time pass’d awayWith me,poor me ! deserted and forgot ;Cast like a noxious weed upon the spot
Where it had grown, to perish and to rot.
Tell [...]

YOU’RE DRUNK! By T. A. CUSACK

When you want to put the clock out and
you try to wind the cat;
When the pavement comes to meet you and
the lamp post lifts its hat;
When you can’t jusht findsher key hole
landing home at 1 half past three
You may take the wife’s word for it that
you’re drunk as you can be.
When a purple snake [...]

RUMI

Don’t laugh like children! You do not understand my state.Read a chapter from me, unfold a secret from her [the creative Force]:I am drunk of that wine forbidden by the lawgivers;I am drunk of the wine of oneness; I am free of color and smell.I am oblivious to this place; my mind is elsewhere;

http://www.onelittleangel.com/wisdom/quotes/saint.asp?mc=167