Questions I Never Asked My Grandfather by ragnaice, literature
Literature
Questions I Never Asked My Grandfather
My grandfather sits in a wheelchair by the window in the old people's home with his chin leaned into his chest, mumbling incessantly and unintelligibly to himself and drooling a little from the right corner of his mouth. Mom can't come here anymore. She just breaks down at the sight of him so I sometimes come by myself and sit with him in silence for a while.
It's a sad end to a long and hard life, and I morbidly think to myself that if a political party stepped forth now with the legalization of euthanasia on its agenda, I'd vote for it. After two strokes and a hemorrhage, topped with severe senile dementia, what is the point of letting peo
I want to capture the glittering snow,
the sunbeams streaming into the sea below.
I want to freeze the snows on the mountains
In time, along with the flow of the fountains.
I want to trace the dance of the northern lights
and other wondrous natural sights.
I want to still the tigress' prowl,
the wings of the bee in her flowery bowl.
I want to catch children while they're playing,
people in the various roles they're portraying.
I want to see things in a different way,
either in color, sepia or gray.
I want to watch the world for a while
and then, I want to immortalize your smile.
Jólasveinafjöskyldan og Nútíminn
Stekkjastaur:
Það er orðið agalega lítið eftir af mjólkandi rollum á þessu landi á þessum tíma árs miðað við það sem áður var. Hins vegar er orðið allt annað að ná því sem til er því ég fjárfesti í þessum ægilega fínu karbon fíber fótum og þarf ekki að staulast þetta á tréfótunum lengur. Þvílíkur munur!
Giljagaur:
Mér finnst bera á því a
The memories retreat, teasingly, like the girls from his youth
but the Past, a pregnant mistress, awaits her chance
to reveal the by-blows of their juvenile romance,
unacknowledged by him, who so carefully concealed the truth.
He has lived in self-deception for so long,
he barely remembers, but knows he was wrong.
Now the time has come for his swansong,
he must perform an overdue penance
and pay the Past her child maintenance.
The Secrets are Bastards, the consequences of the crime.
They've grown restless and prepared to gather,
to seek out and to terrorize their father,
who will only accept them when he is running out
Well, since I was feeling down today,
I decided to find some songs to play
to cheer me up a little bit
and this is what came out of it.
I warmed up to good, old memories
of childhood dreams and drying tears,
and friends and games and parents proud
and things that made me laugh out loud.
Like when playing with my Barbie dolls,
I had Spice Girls posters on the walls
and I dressed the dolls up just like them
but I really disliked Eminem.
Obsessed with The Bold and Beautiful
but even more I enjoyed the magical,
like Disney movies and Buffy and co.
Oh boy, how I totally loved that show!
I grew up in a town of a tiny size,
North-We
Ég horfi óþreyjufull á dökkgrænan hafflötinn þar til ég sé ljósan blett í djúpinu sem lýsist og stækkar eftir því sem rafknúin rúllan hífir slóðan ofar. Brátt sé ég útlínur tveggja fiska sem berjast um á krókunum.
Þegar rúllan stoppar handhífi ég slóðan með fiskunum inn fyrir borðstokk bátsins. Þetta eru tveir góðir og gulleitir þorskar. Annar hefur bitið á og krókurinn hefur farið í gegn um tunguna og neð
Það byrjaði allt þegar einhverjir ónafngreindir rugludallar gerðust afbrýðisamir út í fuglana, þá fór fólk að langa til að fljúga rétt eins og þrestirnir fyrir utan gluggana þeirra. Þessir "furðufuglar" hafa líklega spunnið upp sögur um fljúgandi fólk til þess að kynda undir löngun manna til að fá vængi. Ein slík saga er um hinn gríska Dedalus og son hans, Íkarus. Þeir festu semsagt fjaðrir á handleggina á s
(D)You are my pride
the (G)sunshine that no (A)cloud can hide
you (D)are to me
what (G)will come and (A)what will be
(D)and you're a star
(G)shining in the (A)sky afar
(D)you are my
(F)child (G)of e(D)ternity
F G D
I (D)have to say
(G)no words can de(A)scribe the way
(D)that I feel inside
these (G)feelings, oh, I (A)cannot hide
(D)and I am alive
when I (G)know that together (A)we will thrive
(D)I am your
(F)child (G)of e(D)ternity
F G D
(D)We are we
to(-G-)gether, for (-A-)always we will be
(D)we will go
to(-G-)gether, (-A-)forever, on and on
(D)and we are we
(F)children (G)of e(D)ternity
F G D
(F)Children
(G)of e(D)