Thursday, May 8, 2008
9:20 PM ● Poems

Music is silenced, the dark descending slowly
Has stripped unending skies of all companions.
Weariness grips your limbs and within the locked horizons
Dumbly ring the bells of hugely gathering fears.
Still, O bird, O sightless bird,
Not yet, not yet the time to furl your wings.

It's not melodious woodlands but the leaps and falls
Of an ocean's drowsy booming,
Not a grove bedecked with flowers but a tumult flecked with foam.
Where is the shore that stored your buds and leaves?
Where the nest and the branch's hold?
Still, O bird, my sightless bird,
Not yet, not yet the time to furl your wings.

Stretching in front of you the night's immensity
Hides the western hill where sleeps the distant sun;
Still with bated breath the world is counting time and swimming
Across the shoreless dark a crescent moon
Has thinly just appeared upon the dim horizon.
--But O my bird, O sightless bird,
Not yet, not yet the time to furl your wings.

From upper skies the stars with pointing fingers
Intently watch your course and death's impatience
Lashes at you from the deeps in swirling waves ;
And sad entreaties line the farthest shore
With hands outstretched and crooning ' Come, O come ! '
Still, O bird, O sightless bird,
Not yet, not yet the time to furl your wings.

All that is past: your fears and loves and hopes ;
All that is lost: your words and lamentation ;
No longer yours a home nor a bed composed of flowers.
For wings are all you have, and the sky's broadening countryard,
And the dawn steeped in darkness, lacking all direction.
Dear bird, my sightless bird,
Not yet, not yet the time to furl your wings!
-Rabindranath Tagore

omg..i love this poeM!!!
okok...i want to post pics...just dunno how to do....lazing around at home...my sis and bro go YEC meeting...left me at home:(...my hand is healing..but dunno whether can play archery tmw...sigh..
my mum ask me to read the whole stack of newspaper...sigh...cos i gave excuse say i no time must revise...so that whole week of exam...got SO MANY newspapers...chinese and english...so i decided to read the eng one..ha... wrote newspaper reviews...on my hp...so cool...since having my new hp...I LOVE IT...but my dad says if my results become worse...he's gonna give my hp to my bro...UNFAIR:(...like this der haha...
reading some rabindranath tagore's poems...later i read (falling leaves)-adeline yen mah....yesterday before i rest for maths paper...i cried cos the story so poor thing...the last child was "bullied"...sad la...cos i last child so feel that i very fortunate...haha...i got FEELING der...haha

tmw doing archery....jyjy....the whole class want archery except 1 person so it's ok der. then got PESA...woots...JACK JIA YOU:)...then got gym...zhang zhao's grp got chosen..pro ...jyjy...

the MYE papers are up to standard la...but then i feel so stress....but i love studying...i hate reading last time and LOVE doing assessments...without assessments i like totally loss everything...

miss phpps...hope can go back...sms ms loh...said HI...and 林老师 ...wah...my 3 yrs teacher...my sis der also...haha...reading my primary school's autographs....so nice lo...i wanna cry..

got one newspaper report talk about lowering the voting age from 21 to 18...cool...that's super cool...i gotta support...but adults say 18 quite immature...WHO SAY SO...haha..okok...no offence der...just my own opinion..

i'm going hols soon...yeah...then got cross country...JIA YOU centaur;)人马一出脚， 你们死翘翘。haha..only line i can remember

my mum scolding le..haha...listening to SPOP songs....bb
A word of advice;)
don't feel disheartened if u got bad results...think about the bright side( unlike me)...haha...
i always say this to other ppl..yet i didn't do that lo...think i super lousy etc.etc..haha

xxxxxx

( Run to the city. )