Book of Light and Shadows

It's all because I have a puckish side that will not be denied...

Most Like an Arch
this Marriage
-by John Ciardi

Most like an arch - an entrance which upholds
And shores the stone-crush up the air like lace.
Mass made idea, and idea held in place.
A lock in time. Inside half-heaven unfolds.

Most like an arch - two weaknesses that lean
Into a strength. Two fallings become firm.
Two joined abeyances become a term
Naming the fact that teaches fact to mean.

Not quite that? Not much less. World as it is,
What's strong and separate falters. All I do
At piling stone on stone apart from you
Is roofless around nothing. Till we kiss

I am no more than upright and unset.
It is by falling in and in we make
The all-bearing point, for one another's sake,
In faultless failing, raised by our own weight.

~You are not the first to take my breath away, but you are the first to give it back~

Looking for Your Face
-by Rumi

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it.

Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for.

Today I have found you
and those that laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did.

I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you with a hundred eyes.

My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold.

I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine.

Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow.

My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you

Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant
for me
the earth and sky.

My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light
and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts
mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

So Are You to Me
-by Eastmountainsouth

As the music at the banquet
As the wine before the meal
As the firelight in the night
So are you to me

As the ruby in the setting
As the fruit upon the tree
As the wind blows over the plains
So are you to me

As the wind blows over the plains
So are you to me
So are you to me

Gathering the Petals

Other Places to Be

May 2025

09 April 2025 @ 02:19 am

Graphics: Archived Icons, Wallpapers, and Images

Icons:
( Links to Icons )

Wallpapers:
( Links to Wallpapers )

Various Images:
( Links to Various Images )

If there are any images missing that you are interested in seeing, but have broken links, comment and I will upload it. *grin*

Tags: fanart: graphics, fanart: icons, fanart: picspams, fanart: wallpapers, misc: link post

Voices in the Darkness: Broken - Lifehouse

Here be Dragons: The Jeffersonian

Dreams on the Wind:

awake

Pages in the Wind

14 December 2011 @ 11:27 pm

Castle Wallpapers

Tags: character: kate beckett, character: richard castle, fanart: graphics, fanart: wallpapers, pairing: kate & richard castle

xpost: http://hr-musings.livejournal.com/112604.html

Pages in the Wind

14 December 2011 @ 10:50 pm

Castle Wallpapers and one graphic

Disclaimer: Castle is owned by Andrew W. Marlowe and all the grand high mucky mucks of ABC. No copyright infringement is intended and no money was made from this of course. Any similarity to any other wallpaper not my own is coincidence.

Quotes are from the show and "Kiss Me" by Ed Sheeran

Notes: These are my very first attempts at "live" wallpapers. The full size version is the link below each "thumbnail" for the wallpapers and then the graphic (actual size) is the last one.

Example: "Thumbnail" example of the wallpapers.

( My first attempts at live wallpapers )

Tags: character: kate beckett, character: richard castle, fanart: graphics, fanart: wallpapers, fandom: castle, pairing: kate & richard castle

xpost: http://hr-musings.livejournal.com/112129.html

Dreams on the Wind:

tired

Here be Dragons: neither here nor there

Voices in the Darkness: radio on in the background

Pages in the Wind

14 December 2011 @ 12:25 am

Fringe Wallpapers

Tags: character: olivia dunham, character: peter bishop, fanart: graphics, fanart: wallpapers, fandom: fringe, misc: challenges

Voices in the Darkness: radio on in the background

Here be Dragons: Red Universe

Dreams on the Wind:

awake

Pages in the Wind

12 December 2011 @ 08:38 pm

Firefly Graphic - River and Kaylee

Disclaimer: Joss is Boss. No copyright infringement is intended and no money was made from this of course. Any similarity to any other story but my own is a coincidence.

The quote is from Albert Camus

Tags: character: kaylee frye, character: river tam, fanart: graphics, fanart: wallpapers, fandom: firefly, misc: scifi challenge

Voices in the Darkness: radio on in the background

Here be Dragons: Serenity

Dreams on the Wind:

tired

xpost: http://hr-musings.livejournal.com/111667.html

Pages in the Wind

28 November 2011 @ 10:40 pm

Fringe Fanfiction - "The Parenthesis of Love-Making" (R)

Disclaimer: Fringe is owned by JJ Abrams and all the grand high mucky mucks of Bad Robot and Fox. No copyright infringement is intended and no money was made from this of course. Any similarity to any other story not my own is coincidence.

Credit: The title comes from ancientbonesthatcreak’s prose piece

Title: The Parenthesis of Love-Making
Fandom: Fringe
Genre: Peter/Olivia; romance
Rating: R; rated for sexual situations
Timeline: Sometime between "6B" and "6:02 AM EST;" spoilers for the time period in regards to Peter and Olivia's relationship

( Okay here goes... )

Tags: character: olivia dunham, fanart: fanfiction, fanart: graphics, fandom: fringe, genre: ficlit, pairing: olivia & peter, rating: r

Here be Dragons: Blue Universe

Dreams on the Wind:

okay

Voices in the Darkness: Castle

Pages in the Wind

13 June 2011 @ 10:35 pm

Bones Fanfiction - "One Sweet Love" (PG-13)

Disclaimer: There are many things I own, but Bones is not one of them. All characters belong to Kathy Reichs, Hart Hanson and FOX. No copyright infringement is intended and no money was made from this. Any similarity to any story not my own is coincidence.

Title: One Sweet Love
Genre: AU/General/Romance; Temperance Brennan/Seeley Booth
Rating: PG-13; rated for general adult concepts
Timeline: Sometime at the end of season 4 or into season 5
Summary: Perfect, candlelit sex only happens in the movies and romance fiction...
Author's Notes: See above *grin* Seriously, I got to thinking about what it would be like if things didn't start out quite the way a hopeful romantic may like...

( One Sweet Love ----> )

Tags: fanart: fanfiction, fanart: graphics, fandom: bones, genre: au, genre: ficlit, pairing: brennan & booth, rating: pg-13

Here be Dragons: The Jeffersonian

Dreams on the Wind:

tired

Voices in the Darkness: Steven Wright

Pages in the Wind

28 May 2011 @ 02:06 pm

Farscape Walls - "Unbound" (John/Aeryn)

Here in the land of Egypt is Denial...

Seriously, instead of other things, I played around... here's the result:

Disclaimer: Don't own Farscape of course and no copyright infringement is intended. No money was made from these and any similarity to any pictures not my own is coincidence.(And yes they are very similar to my last wall... but I think that they're different enough to be interesting on their own *grin*)

The pictures are promo pics and a screen cap from Farscape. The song lyrics are from "Unbound" by Robbie Robertson.

Title: Unbound
Fandom: Farscape(John/Aeryn)

Tags: fanart: graphics, fanart: wallpapers, fandom: farscape, misc: song inspired, pairing: aeryn & john

Voices in the Darkness: Comedy

Dreams on the Wind:

cold

Here be Dragons: Moya

Pages in the Wind

28 May 2011 @ 02:00 pm

"Surrender" - More John/Aeryn Walls

So, I think that I like my "warm" walls better maybe. But I really like this song and I think it fits so well with John/Aeryn... so...

Disclaimer: Don't sue, 'cause we all know I don't own any of it and am making no money from it. No copyright infringement is intended and any similarity to any pictures not my own is coincidence.

Title: Surrender
Credits: Farscape caps used from "Prefect Murder," "Season of Death," and the Series finale, as well as promo pics.
The text are lyrics and adaptations of lyrics from "Surrender to Me" sung by Lara Fabian and Richard Marx.