Writings by McKayla

Lands Beyond Me, Fights of Duality 2024

My latest post is “What happens when you miss someone?”

Some of my favorite poems through the year

O Youth, sweet comrade Youth, wouldst thou be gone?

Long have we dwelt together; thou and I;

Together drunk of many an alien dawn,

And plucked the fruit of many an alien sky.

Wouldst thou be gone?

Ah, fickle friend, must I, who yesterday

Dreamed forward to long undimmed ecstasy,

Henceforward dream,

Because thou will not stay,

Backward to transient pleasures and to thee?

I give thee back thy false, ephemeral vow;

But, O beloved comrade, ‘ere we part,

Kiss me, kiss me,

Who hold thine image in my heart.

— Sarojini Naidu

Into my heart an air that kills

For yon far country blow:

What are those blue remembered hills,

What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,

I see it shining plain,

The happy highways where I went

And cannot come again

— A. E. Houseman

Finish each day and be done with it.

You have done what you could.

Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;

Forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day.

You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

— R. W. Emerson

Be you still, be you still, trembling heart;

Remember the wisdom out of the old days:

He who trembles before the flame and the flood,

And the winds that blow through the starry ways,

Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood

Cover over and hide, for he has no part

With the lonely, majestical multitude.

-W. B. Yeats