Adrian D'Ambra
@iamkomombo.bsky.social
Poet
Author of the self-published volume of poetry 'The Flowers of Impotence' (1983), 'Cavafy's Room' (Nosukumo, 1987), and numerous unpublished manuscripts. A long time between drinks...
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Author of the self-published volume of poetry 'The Flowers of Impotence' (1983), 'Cavafy's Room' (Nosukumo, 1987), and numerous unpublished manuscripts. A long time between drinks...
https://englishliteratureteacher.wordpress.com/
From a dying planet, this message encrypted in a handful of sand
That you might read its galactic alphabet beneath the net of stars
- from 'Fragment 17'
That you might read its galactic alphabet beneath the net of stars
- from 'Fragment 17'
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
From a dying planet, this message encrypted in a handful of sand
That you might read its galactic alphabet beneath the net of stars
- from 'Fragment 17'
That you might read its galactic alphabet beneath the net of stars
- from 'Fragment 17'
Of space and time, of lives and deaths, of history and time
The great mirrors of the reckoning, the ceiling full of stars
The scales and the eviscerated heart; what weight, what density
The mass and volume of this remorse? I send you out, this envoy
The great mirrors of the reckoning, the ceiling full of stars
The scales and the eviscerated heart; what weight, what density
The mass and volume of this remorse? I send you out, this envoy
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Of space and time, of lives and deaths, of history and time
The great mirrors of the reckoning, the ceiling full of stars
The scales and the eviscerated heart; what weight, what density
The mass and volume of this remorse? I send you out, this envoy
The great mirrors of the reckoning, the ceiling full of stars
The scales and the eviscerated heart; what weight, what density
The mass and volume of this remorse? I send you out, this envoy
- John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison meeting at Apple on Tuesday 9 September 1969, from Ian Leslie, 'John & Paul: a love story in songs', Faber, 2025, p. 303 (The meeting was recorded for Ringo Starr who was unable to attend because he was in hospital.)
October 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
- John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison meeting at Apple on Tuesday 9 September 1969, from Ian Leslie, 'John & Paul: a love story in songs', Faber, 2025, p. 303 (The meeting was recorded for Ringo Starr who was unable to attend because he was in hospital.)
'... who discovered drugs together, and who played to sixty thousand screaming fans, wonder what on earth is happening to them. Slowly, very quietly, Paul says, "When we get in a studio, even on the worst day, I’m still playing bass, Ringo’s still drumming, and we’re still there, you know."’
October 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
'... who discovered drugs together, and who played to sixty thousand screaming fans, wonder what on earth is happening to them. Slowly, very quietly, Paul says, "When we get in a studio, even on the worst day, I’m still playing bass, Ringo’s still drumming, and we’re still there, you know."’