Tag: mythology

• My Dream of a Paper I Didn’t Request but Read Anyway

  I dreamed last night I had a few printed pages given to me by an unspecified fortune teller, predictions I did not ask for, but ‘here it is!’ I see. On the front page, it predicts that I am most fond of the Full Moon…and there’s an illustration of a very big round and bright […]

  09/22/2022 2:48 pm

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• New Fantasy Novel Found at the Bookshop, A New Poem Sent In, The Fun of a Giveaway I Had Not Won

  

  This is the new book I found Uprooted by Naomi Novik at the bookshop last time, by an author of our time, fantasy genre. I picked it based on the cover first and then the line on the cover: ‘enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic.’ I am currently reading the book (Aug. […]

  08/17/2022 2:28 pm

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• From Love Sonnets of Proteus, poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

  I am reading through poetry in a pair of anthologies I’d found at the library…here’s one, the first in the book. * From Love Sonnets of Proteus by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt I see you, Juliet, still, with your straw hat Loaded with vines, and with your dear pale face, On which those thirty years so […]

  05/13/2022 2:06 pm

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• “Who Knew”

  Calm, I knew well, interlocked, entwined with mine. Superior, yet open always…first, that certain pale blue, the expansiveness that is close, contentment…Trust, feel safe with my soul-friend; I’d heard from others you looking down often, none of your little news, and mostly I’ve been looking up since I would look, meet both places, eyes meet […]

  05/10/2022 9:18 pm

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• “A Villanelle for the Times”

  

  You might remember when I was writing a villanelle poem, wanting to try another traditional form, as I’d written my first ghazal at the time and a sonnet, but I didn’t like the draft or that particular form for the idea. I transformed that villanelle into a ghazal, and I was happy with that latest […]

  04/05/2022 3:04 pm

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• An Island Novel I’d Read And My 1 Minute Impromptu Play About Writing Poetry

  

  my cat Peeko was sure to get to it first This is the first novel I’d read (titled The House at the Edge of Night), which combined mainly southern Italian characters with some British ones, as in a British man gets swept up onto the coast of this remote Italian island, Castellamare, during wartime. I’d […]

  03/17/2022 8:42 am

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• How about you, Orpheus? ;)

  

  I was careful not to drop Rumi, my shadow soft upon the wall. 🧚‍♂️🌹🕊☺️📕🙏 .~* From Sky to Earth and Earth to Sky, So Little Difference * Previously: Rumi’s Moon

  08/12/2021 1:12 pm

  catholic, dreams, fairies, faith, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, moon, my photography, mythology, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, rumi, spirituality

• From Sky to Earth and Earth to Sky, So Little Distance

  “When the world tore my heart with its evil and littleness, my bird sang and made me forget the ugliness of folly and think of the beauty of everything splendid.”—May Ziadeh * June 10, 2021: Afternoon moment of rest, I took out the poems of hers I’d handwritten and read one; I saw then in […]

  06/10/2021 2:33 pm

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