Category Archives: Death

Octavio Paz

Posted on February 15, 2023 by niebla

We are condemned to kill time: this is how we die, little by little. – Octavio Paz Source: Cuento de dos jardínes, in Octavio Paz, Ladera Este, 1969. English translation by Johannes Beilharz.

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Alexander Lernet-Holenia, from Mars in Aries

Posted on January 16, 2022 by niebla

A quote from the novel Mars in Aries by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Austria, 1897-1976): He did not have the impression of losing consciousness; but rather, before he came around again, he dreamed for a while, and the dream continued exactly where … Continue reading →

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A world ends

Posted on August 6, 2021 by niebla

Slowly slowly theworld slowly slowly slowlyends (evanesces) – Niebla (© 2021)

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Far Eastern Teachings I

Posted on October 20, 2017 by niebla

You shall all have eternal life, like it or not. – Swami Vaporananda

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Rebuttal

Posted on February 10, 2016 by niebla

“So you believe in reincarnation? – What if you’re wrong?” “It won’t matter. I’ll only find out when I’m dead.” – Niebla

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The tip of the anthill

Posted on July 12, 2015 by niebla

(thinking of Srebrenica and two late 20th century monsters – Karadžić and Mladić) The worst are always at the tip but the tip is nothing without the masses below the faithful and fanatic executioners reaching down into the ugly subterranean subconscious … Continue reading →

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A calvary variation

Posted on March 16, 2014 by niebla

A calvary variation, by Johannes Beilharz Digitally modified version of a photo taken near Divino Amore, Lazio, Italy.

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The blood haiku

Posted on November 22, 2013 by niebla

Wars run in blood down palace walls, in blood do wars run down palace walls. – Niebla (© 2013) Written for blood at Haiku Heights. A rather somber one inspired by William Blake’s poem London and by the thought that … Continue reading →

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Somewhere

Posted on September 26, 2013 by niebla

Somewhere there’s got to be an end to it, this Allah says and this Jehovah says and this scripture says and therefore I am right and you are wrong and I eat the right things and you eat the wrong … Continue reading →

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August 1914

Posted on August 29, 2011 by niebla

Hot, hot summer, dry golden fields of wheat, harvested Hot, hot summer, thunder of a thousand boots on dry golden fields of wheat Fire and death on scorched fields of wheat, blood harvest – Niebla (© 2011) Written and posted … Continue reading →

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