Tag: meditation
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Intermission: Poetry by W.B Yeats
Pride and Prejudice reached a point of intermission for me to enjoy a night hour of poetry from Selected Poems by W.B.Yeats. Instead of writing a review, I will read to you my favorite poem from the collection that you may listen. I liked the cover photoed in this when I found the book at […]
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My Personal Healing Story
“Lighthouse” painting by me (2013) Originally Posted: November 23, 2020 If you’ve been reading this blog this year, you might have seen me mention my own healing early spring this year and might have wondered from what I had found healing and what had helped me heal. I want to share this story because maybe […]
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A Poetry Reading: Four Recent Poems I Wrote and Read Aloud
For relaxation and winding down before bed or anytime, or just to listen to poetry spoken, I have read aloud a few prose poems I wrote over the span of a few months. You can listen to me read them, the links show the text of each poem, and the third I’d reread is a […]
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New Year’s Night: Prayer Candles Lighting Up All through the Week
I got to see the candles at La Salette shrine lit with my messages this time. I found the side wall with a written paper in the Chapel of Light is where they print the dedications.I lit these candles for the full week, including the message I wrote for my grandma with her full name, […]
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“This Ring”
(my own photo of the moon in a blushing morning sky in Massachusetts) This was my first poem I’d written and published online in 2022: The first of form poems I tried to write this year is a ghazal, and it’s fit well with that form having originated in the Middle East during the medieval […]
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A Future Poetry Project: Verse
First, I would like to slow down; I realize if I tell about something that the person listening cannot follow, and I often feel sorry to see others overwhelmed with the quickness and excitability of my telling, asking me to retell. I will practice this when I speak with the next person I talk to. […]
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“The Law”
November 21, 2022 A new poem in a style of summary or hypothetical; you may notice the style (somewhat inspired by the allegorical humor of artist and poet Kahlil Gibran). This poem was inspired but the subject of “law” and is about a real incident in the recent past recalled of leaving a book of […]
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A List of Art and Writing, Plans, Dreams, and Hopes while Currently Sitting
* I hope my hair will continue to grow a little longer; I am mindful of the ends now, and gentle detangling, comb and brush. * I am content sitting now, my feet don’t touch the floor but freely I swing them up, can stretch and flex them well like this, posture is great with […]
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Morningtime My New Place to Pray, to be Shown
I sit bedside to pray on my cushion this Sunday morning; it’s I love you if you want it transcribed; the rest, a caress of my body and mind. Jade
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Leaving the Literary Salon Unattended…
Peeko grooming himself Peeko really never sleeps in this chair I usually sit in during the day, and I hadn’t even remembered that I’d placed this teddybear here…I guess there’s another literary salon going on inside, with Peeko. 🙂 I went out for a walk with music, the sun is bright and soft, the air […]
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A Pocketbook, A Teddybear, A Cup of Tea, An Old Book of Stories, A Paper…
Sept. 21, 2022 (I had a hard time photoing this as she sits more comfortably higher as usual & camera would be too close, but this photo was my best at time) I opened up my pocket sketchbook and viewed my pencil portrait of poet May Ziadeh; this teddybear sitting with me is very sweet; […]
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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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My Replenish and Restore Index Cards—for when things are very exciting & stimulating—even if good
I wrote this for Artists or Authors or anyone designing a schedule, and if not doing that daily, some ideas for relaxation are here for anyone. I thought of this idea today, as I can be very excited by creativity…information…ideas…comments to and from…on my screen, and then become stimulated (‘tho often starts in a good […]
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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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“Beside the Little Tray of Strawberries”
Beside the Little Tray of Strawberries The bath is ready, the lavender soap block rinsed into the water, and on the ledge, I’d placed a little tray of fresh strawberries also water rinsed, two slices of cucumber pairs to place upon my very tired closed eyes—My host and wiser editor reminds me of the beauty […]
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Stepping Into a Novel Set in 1000 AD Like I’m In It Already
June 13, 2022 A beautifully unfolding novel I find myself at ease in the place and am amused to find myself sharing so many interests with the characters in this historical novel (set in Scotland about 1000 years earlier than our current time): Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King. I share with the characters interests […]
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“Love Exists” by Amy Lee (Guy Sigsworth Remix) Began with Italian Lyrics
Since I’d first heard Amy Lee (well-known as the lead singer of Evanescence), I always hoped she would someday do a solo album because I’d loved her voice and enjoyed it much more than the band’s music personally at the time, and then many years later I‘d found she had done a solo album with […]
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‘Please Forgive Me’—Rumi
I found the book I must’ve opened some months ago that wasn’t at the store last week; it wasn’t there but I see it in my above photo, so I know what to look for…I think it was Rumi: The Book of Love. 🙏💕📖 —Jade …from another book, a poem by Rumi …The miracle-signs: you […]