Mambo Cinema |
Mambo CinemaLast night at the mambo cinema, with its wide screen diamond sheen, my medulla oblongatawas knocked back to the Stone Age, primal scream &nbs...
Posted by Eoliano on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:58:00 PST |
Unbeaten by Rain |
Unbeaten by rainUnbeaten by windNeither by the snow nor the summer heatHaving a healthy bodyFreed from greedNever getting angryAlways smiling quietlyHaving four cups of brown rice a dayWith miso and a...
Posted by Eoliano on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:31:00 PST |
Remembering Orson Welles |
Remembering Orson WellesHad he lived, Orson Welles, one of my favorite directors (and certainly one of my favorite human beings), would have celebrated his 93rd birthday today. It's hard to believe th...
Posted by Eoliano on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:37:00 PST |
Shinto |
Shinto When sorrow lays us lowfor a second we are savedby humble windfallsof the mindfulness or memory:the taste of a fruit, the taste of water,that face given back to us by a...
Posted by Eoliano on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:30:00 PST |
Diary |
DiaryGrown up? Nevernever!Like existence itselfwhich never maturesstaying always greenfrom splendid day to splendid dayI can only stay trueto the stupendous monotonyof the mystery.That's why I've n...
Posted by Eoliano on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:34:00 PST |
Dove sta amore |
Dove sta amoreDove sta amoreWhere lies loveDove sta amoreHere lies loveThe ring dove loveIn lyrical delightHear love's hillsongLove's true willsongLove's low plainsongToo sweet painsongIn passages of ...
Posted by Eoliano on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:41:00 PST |
Buddha at Kamakura (For Yasujiro Ozu) |
Buddha at Kamakura"And there is a Japanese idol at Kamakura"Oh ye who tread the Narrow WayBy Tophet-flare to Judgment Day,Be gentle when the "heathen" pray To Buddha at Kamakura!To h...
Posted by Eoliano on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:08:00 PST |
Leda (for Colette) |
LedaWhere the slow rivermeets the tide,a red swan lifts red wingsand darker beak,and underneath the purple downof his soft breastuncurls his coral feet.Through the deep purpleof the dying heatof sun a...
Posted by Eoliano on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:05:00 PST |
Poems About Cinema (and remembrances) |
Addio MaestroAs sad as I was to learnthat you are gone,as happy I was to hearthat you went in peace,the way you wanted to,conscious and clear.Awareness and clarity,perception and rigourwere your stren...
Posted by Eoliano on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:02:00 PST |
Venice (for Kenji Mizoguchi) |
Kinuyo Tanaka & Kenji Mizoguchi, Piazza San Marco, Venezia, 1953May DayOnce more it is early summer,Like an opal, in Venice.I listen to the monks singVespers in San Giorgio Maggiore.Ten years have...
Posted by Eoliano on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:41:00 PST |
