Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Poetry

  • Gagarin

    Gagarin says, in ecstasy, he could have gone on forever he floated ate and sang and when he emerged from that one hundred eight minutes…

  • A Harder Thing Than Triumph

    Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one…

  • Our Fathers Also

    Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings, Are changing ‘neath our hand. Our fathers also see these things But they do not understand. All Profit, all Device,…

  • Love and Friendship

    Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree – The holly is dark when the rose-briar  blooms But which will bloom most constantly?…

  • Hope and History

    History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up,…

  • All the Magic

    Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins’ gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied…