Moonbeam Cafe: for the night owls. We are not afraid of the dark. Pour a drink and stay a while.
Mid-afternoon poetry!

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Moonbeam Cafe: for the night owls. We are not afraid of the dark. Pour a drink and stay a while.

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Moonbeam Cafe: for the night owls. We are not afraid of the dark. Pour a drink and stay a while.
He seems to me to be equal to a god,
he, if it is permissible, seems to surpass the gods,
who sitting opposite again and again
watches and hears you
sweetly laughing, which rips out all senses
from miserable me: for at the same moment I looked upon you,
Lesbia, nothing is left for me.
* * * *
But the tongue grows thick, a thin flame
Runs down beneath our limbs, with their own sound
our ears ring, our twin lights (eyes)
are covered by night.
--Catullus 51, just the part that's obviously translated Sappho
Therefore I bring these rhymes to you
Who brought the cross to me,
Since on you flaming without flaw
I saw the sign that Guthrum saw
When he let break his ships of awe,
And laid peace on the sea.
Do you remember when we went
Under a dragon moon,
And 'mid volcanic tints of night
Walked where they fought the unknown fight
And saw black trees on the battle-height,
Black thorn on Ethandune?
And I thought, "I will go with you,
As man with God has gone,
And wander with a wandering star,
The wandering heart of things that are,
The fiery cross of love and war
That like yourself, goes on."
O go you onward; where you are
Shall honour and laughter be,
Past purpled forest and pearled foam,
God's winged pavilion free to roam,
Your face, that is a wandering home,
A flying home for me.
Ride through the silent earthquake lands,
Wide as a waste is wide,
Across these days like deserts, when
Pride and a little scratching pen
Have dried and split the hearts of men,
Heart of the heroes, ride.
Up through an empty house of stars,
Being what heart you are,
Up the inhuman steeps of space
As on a staircase go in grace,
Carrying the firelight on your face
Beyond the loneliest star.
~ Excerpt from G.K. Chesterton's "The Ballad of the White Horse"