If you can't be (sent in by Tuulia)

If you can't be a pine

on the top of the hill,

be a scrub in the valley -

but be the best little scrub

by the side of the rill.

If you can't be a highway

then just be a trail,

if you can't be the sun be a star.

It isn't by size that you win or you fail

be the best of whatever you are!

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Es war nur ein Ententeich, ein Stück weit unterhalb des Bauernhofs. Und er war nicht besonders groß. Lettie Hempstock behauptete, es sei ein Ozean, aber ich wusste, das war Quatsch. Sie behauptete, man könne durch ihn in eine andere Welt gelangen. Und was dann geschah, hätte sich eigentlich niemals ereignen dürfen.

It was just a duck pond a little way down from the farm. And it wasn't very big. Lettie Hempstock said it was an ocean, but I knew that was bullshit. She claimed that one could go to another world through it. And what happened next should never have happened.

I want to fly away by thepoetryofwaves

Ich möchte hinwegfliegen

über das, was sie sagen

und doch kann ich nicht aufhören 

zuzuhören

dazugehören zu wollen

auch mit Flügeln

auch mit dir

vor allem damit

was ich möchte 

ich kann nicht sehen

nur spüren

wie ein Wind mich dahin trägt

wo alle Münder ein Lied singen

I want to fly away

about what they say

and yet I can't stop listening

to want to belong

also with wings

also with you

especially with it

what I want

I cannot see

only feel

like a wind carries me there

where all mouths sing a song

Listen to the wind by Karin

Listen to the wind,

it talks

Listen to the silence,

it speaks

Listen to your heart,

it knows.

Forget Me Not by La Belle Dame (sent in by Ashley)

My little one 

You have left us too soon.

Though my body 

can no longer hold you,

I hold you forever in my heart.

As precious and beautiful

as this flower caught in time.

A mother's love

does not forget.