Tag: may ziadeh
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Drawing and Portraits, What Artists Might Like to Draw with
I love to paint, and I also found that I love to sketch on the go, and draw. Drawing, sketching, and painting all enhance each other and develop different artist skills, while each creates a different artwork or result. I drew May Ziadeh with pencil in my pocket sketchbook…I loved to do that, and I […]
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Miss May Ziadeh ii, My First Time with Charcoal
Miss May Ziadeh ii, charcoal on paper, by Jade Nicole Beals, Sept. 25, 2022. I found a set of pencils I liked at the store. I’d used charcoal sticks many years ago in a school art class, but never after that, had I drawn with charcoal pencils. After trying these, I completed my set with […]
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Miss May Ziadeh
“Miss May Ziadeh.” A pencil drawing portrait in my pocketbook. September 2022, by Jade Nicole Beals. Born Feb. 11, 1886, May was a well-renowned poet, writer, and literary salon host who greatly valued art, beauty, kindness; equality, freedom, and education for women; nature, books, individuality and diversity, attention, deep friendship, and romantic love. (Click her […]
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The Mansion Where May Ziadeh Lived and Her Refrain I’d Heard in My Heart Answered
November 26, 2021 (up to date: September 9, 2022) This is the Ziade Palace where poet and author May Ziadeh lived (b. 11 Feb 1886, d. 17 Oct. 1941) in Lebanon. The green gate lead up to the upper floor of the palace and it was said May had lived on the first floor with […]
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La Salette Shrine and Retreat Center: Talk…—and Sketch
…And now it’s tomorrow, and I have two little true life stories to tell. But first, this is the setting where I am now as I tell them: I’ve just finished all of my green tea this morning from this little mug that I was going to rinse in the kitchen when I noticed how […]
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Good Morning! : Miss May’s Flower Art
I completed this flower art today I’d made for author and poet, Miss May Ziadeh. I’d collected flowers over the seasons, a couple fallen onto my path outside, and pressed them in a book for her… and then I’d made her a celebration memorium at my home where I’d read Miss May (as she was […]
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May Ziadeh in MainGate Magazine, a short biography with titles of speeches she gave—and her poetry
My poet friend Hagop Kazazian sent me this article in a magazine from recent times: End Note Comments by me: —I wonder what she said about Columbus discovering America in her first speech at this college; I’d mention him myself often mostly metaphorically… —I believe her brother mentioned here died as a young child and […]
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From the Prose Poetry of Miss May Ziadeh, Chapter “Intimate Pages”
I have an idea for the blog to share my own little lines of literary critique of May’s writings (besides my book review of her poetry book, Fleurs de Reve Flowers of a Dream, 1911), the kind of attentiveness she valued in her own reviews and critiques, ’tho would’ve rarely in her time and place […]
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From the Prose Poetry of Miss May Ziadeh, Chapter “Intimate Pages”
I am starting to write my new short story after a walk in the sun now; take me out of the spotlight, I ask myself, and so I share someone else’s writing that’s amused and inspired me, with a note of mine on a little idea to come.
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To Pauline by May Ziadeh
May wrote many free verse poems; many of her first poems were written in French. TO PAULINE by May Ziadeh But what do you become my sweet black-eyed friend? Why this long, this too long, overwhelming silence? So many days without color and so many sad evenings— Did your dear heart erase my presence? You […]
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May Ziadeh, a Brief Biography
(featuring a photo of May) A brief biography I wrote about the author, May Ziadeh you may have seen written of often on this blog, beginning in May 2021. Author, poet, speaker, literary salon host was b. Feb 11, 1886 as Mary Elias Ziadeh in Nazareth. She later shortened her name to “May” as suggested […]
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From Songs for Strangers and Pilgrims, Sealed, Signed, Love, Christina Rossetti
by Christina Rossetti … This poem may have been written sadly, but I read it warmly…I read it as my love has both the key and my heart kept safely in heaven, in her own, brings a little heaven in when she comes in; the key recalls to me with whom and how I share […]
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Eyes by May Ziadeh
(complete July 5, 2022) I came across this poem in Italian I’d originally found in Spanish as an excerpt. The poem “Eyes” (or “Occhi”) was written by May Ziadeh (in Italian or Spanish) most likely in the 1900s before 1941 (author b. 1886). May also wrote and published in French, Arabic, English, and German, and […]
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‘Victorians’ Learning, Peeko’s Window Throne, and Calming Things
*reading from a poem video now included* My cat Peeko was very impressed with the cover of this book Victorians as I learn a little with historical research, and I think I know which topic I’ll look for next, but I will browse the books next in person. (I’m in the ’collecting and gathering’ stage […]
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With My Hands: Flowers Found, Pressed, and Preserved, and A Little Ink Design from My Pen
Update: See it complete (Aug. 19th ‘22.) That is my reflection appearing in glass and this art is now up to date, just complete Jun, 2022, photo today. Little changes made by clarifying the text in black ink, clear glue, background white, card pasted onto it with the little gathered pressed flowers, this way to […]
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Capricious by May Ziadeh
A poem written by May Ziadeh under her pen-name I. Copia from her first book of poetry, Flowers of a Dream, Fleurs de Reve (1911), translated by me from the French into English. When I’d come upon this book of poetry of hers online by surprise last May, I’d decided to read just one poem before bed and […]
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Books and Art: Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi, Kahlil Gibran Scare, and My Creative Plan for the Day
I do this too…(I liked finding this illustrated at The Boston Fine Arts Museum, my own photo of this artwork I saw there)…with my silver aluminum water canteen and poetry book, and a rock to sit on. Friday, May 27th, 2022 Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi I think I’d really confused and worked […]
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A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show
I found this bookmark in a library book I’d taken out and read yesterday, a slim blue copy of literary insight with a little biography of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. From that book, these lines of a poem by Edna I’d not heard of spoke to me most poignantly: The stone the angel rolled […]
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May 7th… Mother’s Day…Bedroom Retreat
library corner this afternoon by the window This morning I was very excited to take out the newest flower that had been pressed for a month in a closed book on the shelf (without me intentionally looking; one day I opened the book to read and happened to see it; placed it back.) 🤫It’s a […]
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A New Pansy Flower, Creative Days, and a Pair of Literary Salon Tuesdays
This purple and yellow pansy flower on my balcony was born just today, and I kissed it gently this morning when I woke and saw it there…😘 and again this afternoon. Welcome to the world. 😊💕🍃 And this ‘Birds’ print chair made me smile when I saw it at the furniture store last week! I […]
Blush of Dawn 