looking ahead, into each others eyes,
we face each other
passing by to what is unknown,
my eyes follow you and
i forget to keep walking
fingers itch to tough your lips, your smile
it feels like i’m deceiving myself
you are a flame i cannot hold
i lie and say hello
when i want to say
i need you close to me

a gentle flame burns before me

encircled by brass and glass

it is Sunday night in the city

the moon is a lemon crescent

outside my window in the arms

of the black oak branches

while inside the clock ticks

and the water drips

I sit in the kitchen

he in the living room

we do not speak

13 candles and an itty bitty cupcake.  1 giant Happy Birthday!  Someone else celebrates soon.  Make room for 35 more candles.  He’ll need a bigger cake! – photo copyright MyOpus

A might chilled at the moment.  It will take more than this small flame to warm fingers and toes.  Missing the decked out days of summer already.  – photo copyright MyOpus

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In yesterday’s meeting, we used THIS site to teach you panning. Please use this site for more practice if you can and collect good photos for our PhotC ‘10 ‘Yarbook’.

PhotC is meeting next Tuesday on November 24th, but you can leave early at 4:30 p.m. We might be doing macro-box photography on that day, and the Council will probably bring some baked goods to share. For this next meeting, please bring a small, visually interesting object to macro.

Meanwhile, Council members must stay behind next Tuesday, as we’ll be heading to the H/White Windmill/Mozart right after we let out to plan for the rest of the semester and the next, ESPECIALLY THE PHOTOSHOW. Council MUST show up. We’ll most likely be taking the meeting to 5:30pm.

• Also, if possible, try to make a light tent over the weekend using THIS site.

And, of course: FLICKR, FLICKR, FLICKR! We’re only getting participation from maybe four members. We want to see more!

If you’re new, please email the club (nhsphotc@gmail.com) with ‘PHOTC NEWBIE’ in the subject, so we can add you.

Smoke curls shiver through
The frost-tinted air.
Mnemosyne waits, her
Fingers curled into
The thick fur of her
Dark, panting foxes.
Their breath melts the ice,
Brings warmth to her cheeks,
White and smooth as bone.

Time falls around her;
Ribbons of flame that
Dance to the music
Of her thumping heart.
She catches it in
Her hands, and blows the
Streams of yesterday
Into the air, bright
As twilight shadows.

Her free hand rests on
The bronze gate of time,
Of fluttering life;
Memory, pulsing
Beneath her pale skin,
Trapped in the abyss.
She looks ahead, then,
And smiles with too
Many, jagged teeth.

They are the vultures, sent from the harvester of souls
Born of the flame down below, infernal
Destroy the righteous and the kind
I welcome them to take my life, this night
Come demons, feed upon my soul
Summon the darkness make me whole, evil
I am your instrument of death, the reaper
Horrid blasphemies now take control, becoming more creature than man
Spewing forth from the hell below, possessed by demonic legions
I offer no resistance, the demons now inside
Seduced by the fire, for veil is my….Rock
Drowning beneath the tide of chaos
Tempt and corrupt me to the bone
Savage, infected, a life of darkness
Twisted, unholy, abomination
Slave to the demons
Disciple, horrifying creation
Gorge upon my soul
Become the demon

As I stoked a dying fire,
A warmth set to soon expire,
I added more fuel: dried wood.
Gave coals space to breathe, good.

And as I watched pine
Smoldering there,
Wood slowly warming,
Yearning for air,

It gave me pause;
Made me wonder why
Women look for passions’ cause
And ask for “sparks to fly”.

Sparks flying mean only
The flame’s been disturbed, goaded,
Kicked, poked, prodded, turned,
Or that super-heated sap exploded.

Instead shouldn’t they look for
The smoky, slowly-warming feat
That finally gasps air, and with a roar
Throws off constant, strong, radiant heat?

No sparks there
Kicked, thrust, thrown at random
Into the night air
With sudden, reckless abandon!

But rather glowing, red,
Steady, comforting heat.
Passions’ flame which, carefully fed,
Gives warmth that will repeat.

The three kinds of love. Don’t settle for less than all. ♥

God bless.

Marina

As promised yesterday, below is Part 2. Can you relate? Again the lyrics are below

INTRO
Give us the truth…part 2 (part 2, part 2, part2)
Give us the truth
For every email, for every phone call
For everybody that came up to me at a show, Here’s part 2…listen yo

VERSE 1
After the platinum show the two I did with cross movement
I said my goodbyes ’cause I had to fly back to St. Louis
I left there to early for my first semester in school
I was exposed to so much truth that I had to choose
between what I had learned and what I was taught to do
at my church on my zone I was so confused
the first sunday morning back it was a culture shock
watching the shepherd and sheep explode like a soda pop
they’re heads was shaking, they shaking over these chintzy sermons
people spitting and shouting but nobody’s discerning
I left the building
my feeling were crushed I felt forsakin’
the one place I was supposed to come for restoration.
and worship of a Holy God and exalt Him in praises
spent the whole prayer time rubuking the satan
spent the whole sermon time just talking ’bout money
while I was dying inside and spiritually hungry.

CHORUS
Give us the truth
That’s what we need if we’re gon’ properly teach
If we gon’ seek and we gon’ properly reach.
Give us the truth
That’s what we need if we gon’ carry our cross
and if we gon’ affectively disciple tha lost.
Give us the truth
That’s what we need if we gon’ walk up in holiness and boldness and meek and lowliness.
Give us the truth
That’s what we need in this race we running
proper lessons as we wait for his second coming (for real)
Give us the truth

VERSE 2
I left tha crib
moved into the dorms
so depressed that I ventured in porn (it was a crazy thing)
I felt the disconnect from Jesus’ arms
so I ceased to write these rhythms in palms to disobey the King
I told my teachers that I was living in sin
and my bible I’ll never read it again and threw it in the closet
and anything that had to do with God
Marcus T. he was going the opposite into lifestyle
I called Phanatik and turn to the cell
And said for ministry I would go to jail ’cause I was in no position
to minister to anybody at all
cause I wasnt sure if I was a christian at that moment dog
I was skipping classes
hanging with the masses
and my days were black and grey like cigarette ashes
all I know is that I wanted to die
but suicide met me into God
then I felt Him shook me.

REPEAT CHORUS

VERSE 3
But it was obvious
God in his providence
put me with people to guide me and got me outta this
during the chapel service
a cat named Paul Washer
preached the gospel and drove me up to the Lord’s alter
and I confessed my sin
and he presed reset again
I started ova and felt like a solider for Jehovah
I called my old pastor and apologized for how I behaved
as of that day we agreed to go our seperate ways.
I met this girl named Beth who told me about a church home
first I visit, became a member, and then it was on
then the pastor gave me a stack of books
now Im back with raps and hooks
took a summer and spent three hundred dollars on tapes and books and learned from these biblical scholars
now Im back and Im walking in light
living my life
Glorifying Jesus Christ

CHORUS

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Give us the Truth

In the floods of these moment’s

is a relationship so pure

like a prayer of  love the angels recite

the earth is silent the sky is stunned

there is light shining from earth to sky

songs fill the stillness

there is beauty in your gesture

there is love floating in the air

what love is this?

what dream is this?

what flood of feeling is this?

the days have changed an night’s too

the meaning of life has changed

what has time done to me?

changed my very being

you have won me  i found you

melting like two gentle melodies a rhythm not slow not fast

in the flame of fire our bodies and souls burn in the flame of  love

Como previamente se había anunciado, se hará un drama basado en el manga PEACE MAKER Kurogane. Esta vez se ha revelado cuál será el reparto para dicho drama. El joven actor Suga Kenta ha sido seleccionado para protagonizar por primera vez un drama. Anteriormente había protagonizado dos películas, Hanada Shonenshi Yurei to Himitsu no Tunnel y Tsurikichi Sanpei, respectivamente. En esta oportunidad interpretará a un joven integrante de los Shinsengumi a de nombre Ichimura Testsunosuke finales del periodo Edo.

El resto del reparto incluye al integrante de los D-BOYS, Yanagishita Tomo que estará interpretando a un comandante llamado Okita Souji. Izaki Yuusuke del grupo musical FLAME será Harada Sanosuke, un décimo capitán. Furukawa Yuta hará del hermano mayor de Tetsunosuke. Araki Hirofumi de los D-BOYS será un samurai del dominio Choshu.

Además, integrante de Shinsengumi Lien, Sakakibara Tetsuji, interpretará un soldado y saldrá regularmente en drama. Los demás integrantes del grupo saldrán como invitados.

If you have read the ‘About me’ section of my blog, you would have known how I came about to the place where I am now and why I have decided not to go along with the tide of ‘christianity’ that is portrayed on TV and in so many churches today. It actually pains me to see so many christians  not read the scriptures for themselves and therefore swallow every spiritual junk that is fed to them on a daily basis.

Well Flame’s song ‘Give us the Truth’ mirrors a lot of the experiences that I have gone through in my christian life. Have a listen. I have provided the lyrics below. Look out for part 2 tomorrow

[Chorus]
Give us the truth that’s what we need
Lying leaders been deceivin’ us since we were seeds
Give us the truth that’s what we need
Teachers and preachers teach us the things that set us free
Give us the truth that’s what we need
Parents teach us bout Jesus before we get older
Give us the truth that’s what we need
Sin is spreading and the world is getting colder

[Verse One]
All I ever wanted was to know the truth
Seeking Jesus at 16 meaning my middle youth
Man I really hungered and had this inner thirst
Absurd the thought of me even missin’ a day of church
Man it felt like heaven, especially Bible study
I had my Bible pen and pad sittin’ next to my buddies
The Word had us open especially certain verses
Spendin’ hours in worship man it just felt so perfect
And then after the service out on the parking lot
Laughin’ and rappin’ for hours afterwards we talked a lot
Felt like your second family for me felt like my first
We lost our ties when my grandmother died I kept in hurt
Remember certain ministers inspired you to learn
You had anxiety inside and just waitin’ your turn
People announce they callin’ jumpin’ and shoutin’
That dun dunt dun dunt it was so arousin’

[Chorus]

[Verse Two]
Then that first year progressed and turned into five
Learning so much and I’m comin’ in touch closer with God
Some things were gettin’ sticky I mean real sticky
I’m trippin’ I’m wonderin’ was Jesus even really with me
Man I felt numb meanin’ I lost my feelin’
People standin’, dancin’, liftin’ hands while I was chillin’
No longer loved the sermons felt like I wasn’t learnin’
The topics taught on weren’t touchin’ my inner yearnings
And then some behavior seemed like counterfeit revival
I looked for Scriptures that supported this off in the Bible
Yet I couldn’t find it I felt blinded
I thought it was a demon in error I tried to bind it
But nothin’ happened here comes depression
Maybe when they threw the Holy Spirit that I didn’t catch Him
Did I miss my blessin’? Felt unprotected
In the midst of a war scarred without my weapon

[Chorus]

[Verse Three]
Then I left St. Louis on a tour with Cross Movement
And who would have knew it these dudes have also been through it
I shared my brokenness feelings of hopelessness
For so long faked my emotions no one even noticed it
Yet it was obvious God in His providence
Put me with people to guide me and got me outta this
And then my other brother T.R.U.T.H. began to share the same
I almost wept I saw the steps it took to bear the name
Without truth left me in utter confusion
Without truth left me with subtle delusions
Without truth no longer fought to win
Without truth drove me back into sin
The depth of this journey can’t be described in words
This is just the tip of the iceberg
But from now until my death this is what I’ll do
I’m learning standing and I’ll fight for truth

[Chorus]

Torch Relay Reporter Chris Wheeler follows the Olympic flame to St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador where he loses himself in a vibrant storytelling culture and finds himself traveling to the most eastern point in North America!

The new single, Show Off, from the upcoming Entermission album by DJ Official is now available on itunes.   The song, featuring Lecrae and Flame, is the first release from the upcoming album featuring over 20 emcees on 16 tracks.  Entermission is the debut release from DJ Official and is set to release on December 26th.  While you wait, download Show Off from itunes and prepare for the rest of the tracks the day after Christmas.

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