Tears, Idle Tears a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more. Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

Day 6 ~Massive Attack~ Teardrop

Day 4~ Massive Attack~Black Milk

~Eerie,dark song....video is footage from the 1965 British Film The Man Who Came in From the Cold ~

~Lady Mermaid~ A Haiku ~~

 Lady Mermaid,lost
Dive,dive! Into the waters....
One....with the Abyss


~Dark Ali~

On Mermaids...William Shakespeare

OBERON:

My gentle Puck, come hither.
Thou rememberest since
Once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music?

From.....A Midsummer Night's Dream 

ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE:

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears.
Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote;
Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
And as a bed I'll take them and there lie,
And in that glorious supposition think
He gains by death that hath such means to die;
Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink!

From...Comedy of Errors 

~Embrace~ David Delamare

Day 3 - ~Massive Attack~ Angel

Angel is the first Massive Attack song I ever heard....eerie, sensual,dark...it was featured on the soundtrack for the 2000 film Snatch. This video features footage from the 1932 film Vampyr.

~Massive Attack~

Massive Attack is a very eclectic, diverse group of artists. They have an amazing collection of albums and songs....I love the deep, dark, sultry,sensual songs they produce. This week I pay homage to them and present some of my faves xxx

Day 2 ~Dissolved Girl~ Massive Attack

There's a feeling I get

When I look to the West.....

and my spirit is crying for leaving.

-Led Zeppelin

~ Sunset in Copper ~

Taken at sunset at the beach in Monterey...

Summer 2009

Day 1~Massive Attack~Paradise Circus