Tag: edmund spenser

• The Faerie Queene, Book 2: A Reflection that includes What the Author Could Have Been Thinking

  

  I finished Faerie Queene, Book 2 this evening! It is a medieval era epic poem in early modern English, which is the period of English language that Shakespeare was writing and also known as Elizabethan English, spanning a few hundred years. Faerie Queene would’ve been written just a little earlier than Shakespeare’s writing—in the mid-1500s.…

  03/10/2023 4:08 pm

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• My Paintings at Home

  

  I have moved my paintings around for enjoyment and for my growth as an artist, and to picture where certain sizes and types of paintings may look best in a room. “Sun Shower” (Jan. 2023) by the window, right, and on the other side, left is “Growing Upward.” (2021) The two square in center are…

  03/09/2023 1:28 pm

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• A Day of Full Body Relaxation, Begin with Poetry

  

  morning sencha tea in forget-me-not antique mug 🤗, writing by hand a new piece in my new Celtic journal I’d found at a bookstore in February, and papers if I want to continue revising a poem. It is such a simple rich green design with a pleasant texture that my hands love to touch, and…

  03/09/2023 8:25 am

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• A Way to Unwind Before An Art Show or Event, and a Way to Motivate

  

  (photos included of the event) A quickly snapped self-portrait on the way to the event, and then another… Lately I’ve been wishing to read poetry, and my Seamus Heaney’s are delayed. Or, in terms of a New York minute, they are delayed. Earlier, I found a new winter coat I really love, the only one…

  03/04/2023 12:07 pm

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• Midnight Christmas Eve, A True Tale of Poetry

  

  light from one candle lights another, how Love makes you happier, has you love more…~Jade “Yes, I am a lady of incendiary destiny,” writes May Ziadeh in her own words in a letter of her lifetime. One day I said quietly in reply in my living room, ”I like you fiery, May; I like you…

  12/25/2021 12:00 am

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• Little Stories from My Week: Black Book Untold, Your New Project Manager, and a Dream Unremembered…

  

  Black Book Untold You might’ve seen a solid black book appear in some photos in a post. That book was not intentionally kept secret, but I completed the book and here’s a quick review with plenty of suspense for anyone who may want to read a new novel or even hear about one I just…

  12/08/2021 8:39 pm

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• All Day Library Day

  

  After lunch, I packed a bag, my purse, and canteen, and camped out at the library all day (it was a great time!) while construction was being done admirably at the apartment. 🙏💕Peeko’s been having the best time himself at home as he enjoys hands on projects and broadening his skillset. 🐱 I checked on…

  11/27/2021 7:43 pm

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• The Queen’s Full Moon…From a Fairy of the East Coast to Bring Some Fun When a Storm’s A’Coming

  

  August 22, 2022 Science Experiment Conclusion: My hypothesis was wrong; it actually is harder to hold a strength pose while someone’s yelling obscene insults, even if it’s just Nicki Minaj artistically in a song. (Glad for the wall 😊)But I can still practice seated poses and relaxation in the meanwhile, ‘tho other songs of hers…

  08/22/2021 11:37 am

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• Off and On Its Way, The Faery Queene With Two Hemingways

  

  Notes added on 8/17 Along with The Faery Queene Book I by Edmund Spenser I’d fully read, I decided to return For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway partly read because it is a great book with depth I’d found most noticeably, but I’d also veered off events and newly introduced characters awhile. I…

  08/16/2021 1:27 pm

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• Coming Right Up After The Faery Queene I, One Cup of A Surprisingly Good Hemingway

  

  The little green one hundred year old book on the right is the book I’ve just read last and reviewed recently on this blog, The Faery Queene I by Edmund Spenser. I read his apologetic humble note about the book in the introduction after I’d completed my review and it made me feel that maybe…

  07/29/2021 6:42 pm

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• The Faery Queene Book I, My Reflective Review

  

  It’s been a nice afternoon moment of rest with a cup of rose tea & reaching the end of this book today… An epic poem written in the 1500s by the English author Edmund Spenser which contains a nice blend of sometimes ‘opposing’ beliefs or folk cultures. It’s written in Early Modern English and reading…

  07/28/2021 9:44 pm

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• A Very Small Adventure of a Different Type

  The neighbor’s apartment construction sounds suddenly getting loud today in my apartment as I’d sat down to read had me spontaneously remember that I could come to this place in the office building at my apartment complex anytime but hadn’t thought to until now. I am just a fairy peasant…harlot breaking into a palace to…

  07/27/2021 10:15 pm

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• A Sea-Air Song for the Morning

  

  Both cups are for me. I like these cute little cups at times with about this amount of tea. I am much closer now to the end of the epic poem The Faery Queene (Book I) by Edmund Spenser and wrote something a very different sort of epic myself in yesterday’s post ‘Pop Music Face-Off.’…

  07/27/2021 8:19 am

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• Was That The Sound of Fairy Bells?

  

  Found a shady pine to sit beneath and am reading The Faery Queene, passed by with my keys around my wrist with that pale green band chiming like bells, past the neighbor sitting on her front patio drinking coffee, smiled at the tiny old green book in my hands. I had a little bit of…

  07/15/2021 8:43 am

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