http://slow.writerscafe.org/allnightallday The original writings of author Ruairidh en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776047212 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 For all the world’s external grace, My ways are set within �" Experience and loneliness Balanced on a pin. Life’s only deference is that I need not think to breathe; But its demand is that my thought Defines what I perceive. But I rejoice in every chance To fee.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1306448/ Pablo Picasso painted GuernicaAnd made real the Spanish Civil WarIn unique and terrible beauty,With genius strokes of paint brush. And he looked like he could captivate,Just by looking out of that window. But nobody, not anyoneWould turn a camera here... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1292632/ I posted this a couple of weeks ago but removed it shortly after to make some changes. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1291404/ For all the world’s external grace,My ways are set within:Experience and lonelinessBalanced on a pin. Life’s only deference is thatI need not think to breathe;Its demand is that my thoughtDefines all that I perceive. But I rejoice for every c.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1290608/ We can never know the terror of the First World War,Where men died in labyrinthine fields of France,Where soldiers of every ilk were gassed,Their flesh dying before they had the chance. All we know is that no concrete lessonWas learnt from instruction in that .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1288481/ In wind-consumingQuiet twilightStanding stillWe moved the worldWith time forgottenStaring onwardI told her onlyAll I knowAnd it was more than All the othersThought to think ofThought to knowBehind the nightHer eyes were glowingShe moved them on.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1287560/ Her eyes contain multitudesOf hidden splendour,Locked in a veiled threat -The guise of a sinner.Yet see them shine And see life undimmed -The gentle rhythmOf an elemental hymn.Human fabric freely shinesThrough the veils they placeBetween her inner beautyAnd their outer space. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1287260/  I wish thatRobert BurnsWould walkinto a lecture, Say: 'Yerspeculation's nonsense, lads, At best justbad conjecture.'  Shakespearewould follow him,Filled withawesome rage,Proclaim:'These plays are not for youBut forplayers on the stage.'.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1286176/ Some things last forever, Or seem to do at least, Like sunlight setting in the westAnd rising in the east; The rocks that lie beneath us, Mountains topped with snow; The Aurora BorealisThe ocean and its flow. But our lives are much quicker, Not so long for the eart.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1285656/ In spinning Earth,and blazing stars,in shifting plates,and Moons of Mars,Activity sings loud its song:"Living idle's, living wrong." And in the nighttimestars' brigade(Man beholden,Heaven-made)a silken ladywhispers low"Always quicken;never slow." http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1282628/ With your mercury mouth from the changing times,And your eyes like shades, and your cares in rhymes,And your silver cross, and your freedom chimes,Oh, who, do they think, could bury you?With your legend long protected at last,And the Visions of Johanna your engine cast,And your hidden .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/allnightallday/1282352/