Tag: poetic

• A Book Comes in, written by the Literary Host, Miss May Ziadeh

  

  For speakers or readers of French, in came this email from an author who has translated May Ziadeh’s book into French, the title is Tenebres et lueurs. The subtitle is Rêveries d’une promeneuse au Levant, by May Ziadé. This title translates as Darkness and Rays: Daydreams of a Stroller in the Levant (in literal English); […]

  01/31/2023 8:57 am

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• Servant of Love by Patty Griffin, with One Favorite Thing About Monday

  One Favorite Thing About Monday Finding 2 new favorite poems, by W.B. Yeats, instead of one (I am practicing them for your listen), and how he’d once said (paraphrased): “You give a poem its fine machinery, and that is all you do,” with his poems of lakes and isles and clover and honey…My favorite poems […]

  01/31/2023 7:59 am

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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 […]

  01/29/2023 6:53 pm

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• “The Doll House”

  As I am focusing on my novel right now, I am also inspired to send any new poems or short stories I may write to magazines. This story has a little story itself behind why I wrote it: I wrote it for my sister Jenna as a gift (a custom story surprise win someone would […]

  01/26/2023 4:58 pm

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• Aromatherapy Night Sky Surprise

  

  January 25, 2023 People may respond differently to different herbs; this cat was loving it. 💕💕 —Peeko says, “But don’t take my Jane.” He enjoys classic books of literary style, often with portraits on the cover. This afternoon after yoga, I tried glueing the square of fabric I’d kept, which I’d been saving, when I […]

  01/25/2023 1:30 pm

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• Self Portrait Reclining in the Sun

  

  01/24/2023 12:05 pm

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• Love Me Like…Wind Down Slow Flow Yoga and Written Meditation

  

  I wasn’t too glad with the video and the song particularly; I realized there are more videos I could do on my yoga channel @jadenicoleyoga. The wisdom part of the post that came after was not restoring, but I could see the full thoughts in draft. A tech issue that makes me realize what I […]

  01/23/2023 12:11 pm

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• Yoga Night

  

  January 19, 2023 with my painting and books

  01/21/2023 1:34 pm

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• As if Within a Blush of Dawn Rose Champagne Upon Awakening

  

  I woke up in this.💕😊 Peeko saying, Do you see this? 😊💕 * And I feel well-rested after a full day as if from the year 1600, re-reading a favorite paper book called Memories by F. Muller (a book club read coming up from the library (if a book needs refreshment, just place it in […]

  01/20/2023 4:52 pm

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• Sunbathing at the Library with Poetry

  

  It’s Wednesday, it has been a week of busyness and creations that I cherish, and I slow down midway, read poetry in the sun, have a few small books to share, but for now it’s just sun, sit the other way, sun against my neck, a drink of water, rest, stretch, read, listen, associate, smile, […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 pm

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• Snowfall during Morning Tea with Handwritten Letters

  

  Morning tea during snowfall, fluffy, twirling snowflakes; my cat Peeko is smiling at his reflection in the tv screen before he reclines for a nap. I sometimes sit in bound angle pose or butterfly pose in yoga, perfect size in this spacious chair, soles of the feet touching together, feels good for the hips, lower […]

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• Dream of You Dancing on the Beach

  I found myself stressing little decisions of normalcy and possible ways I was annoying people just before bed, and instead of a proverb or a chastisement came…You…dancing on the beach, and it was summer there. 😊☀️🏝. I realized your identity was not perfectly defined, and my view of you was a little blurry as you […]

  01/15/2023 8:27 pm

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• Two Debut Novelists of Today whose Novels I’ve Recently Read

  

  Sue Lynn Tann wrote the debut fiction bestseller, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, and Heart of the Sun Warrior, the sequel, was just released this November 2022. I had read the first book and remembered about the sequel this month and that it would have been already released. I read this book most recently, a […]

  01/15/2023 8:03 pm

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• Vacation

  

  Peeko listening to a naptime story rest, sit, meditate, paint a little, walk. look at the sky, draw, notice scenery, sketch a scene, yoga stretch, continue to eat tangerines, tomatoes, drink green tea, make scrambled eggs with baby spinach, dinner meals. See how many cups of water I am actually drinking in the day, dawned […]

  01/12/2023 10:43 am

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• “Acknowledgment”

  “Acknowledgment” by Jade Nicole Beals (poem read) Because I wanted to surprise you with my contrast to the idea that not everyone you meet in the day wants to give you something—make you a cup of coffee, or tea with a teaspoon of fresh tea leaves, show you my art originals. I have a ton […]

  01/11/2023 6:03 am

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• The Dream of Your Ex

  The dreams I’ve had with your ex, you are not in them, and he’s floated in…And he is unusually still, like a potato on my counter-type of presence, does not speak—any conversation already begun, stops. He seems to operate by a different law of gravity. I never met the man or spoke to him either. […]

  01/05/2023 6:56 pm

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• Forgiveness by Patty Griffin, listening to a live performance

  I have been offline mostly continuing a few days. I’ve been listening to music today for the comfort and healing, on shuffle, and this singer came on first. I haven’t really listened to her closely in many years, and she was one of the first singer-songwriters I’d found and loved, and my favorite one for […]

  01/04/2023 8:01 pm

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• …with a Love Poem

  …wrote a new poem today, starting off January :), it is a tanka poem, and I submitted the poem to a Journal that specifically publishes the tanka form, which is a 5 line poem very much like a haiku. I will let you know if it is published in a few months from now, next […]

  01/02/2023 7:37 pm

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• A Special Gift I’ve Given to Myself: My Rosary and Embroidered Pouch

  

  I knew this year when I visited the gift-shop at La Salette around Christmastime and was too sick to visit my family in Brooklyn, New York at the time, to be postponed, that we would wait to exchange gifts. I still knew of a gift I wanted to give myself this year… The first night […]

  01/02/2023 1:04 pm

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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, […]

  01/01/2023 8:29 pm

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• Lounging in My Library, Listening to the Rain…

  

  —A butterscotch creme brulee hair tie. Happy New Year! —💕Jade

  12/31/2022 3:05 pm

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• Wild Sumac: Look, Don’t Touch, and Definitely Don’t Eat

  

  This is a sketch of the wild sumac growing outside my window. In North America, this plant is poisonous, but in the Middle East you can eat them and may find the berries made into dressing in certain classic dishes. I sketched the sumac quickly as an art lesson I’d found that looking at shapes […]

  12/29/2022 7:49 am

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• “Note”

  poem read aloud for your listen Note by Jade Nicole Beals The dark does not hide what I would like to see A still star is still prettier than a shooting star, despite the rarities in science. Fireworks in the sky as a display are not a thing I’ve sought out after, but there is […]

  12/20/2022 6:03 am

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• Get the Party Started and then Welcome Relaxation

  

  Besides sketching with pencils at the library, yoga arm balance against the wall is great fun, for an evening lift you up and then an eventual release of energy from the whole day—a quick hold, come down slowly, just a few, and then to relax, and to recline. 🙂 💕Jade

  12/13/2022 7:16 pm

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• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  

  (my own photo) The most moving novel I’ve read this year, and the most recent one I’ve added to my own home library. Song of Solomon (1977) had been a favorite of mine around the year 2004, and somehow I could not remember anything about it at all but that I had read it and […]

  12/12/2022 6:57 pm

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• One Question

  

  —What do you enjoy besides painting or writing or the fine arts? One thing: I really like fashion; I will need to find an outfit for a “Glam Christmas party” I received an invite to, and casual fashion is fashion too; I’d not heard of an event like that. But I like it. I got […]

  12/11/2022 5:53 pm

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• A Glimpse, in Red

  

  December 10, 2022 This picture I just got to see tonight. It features my cousin in laws’ wedding in Western MA I’d written a little about on the blog. You will also see me, from the back in a red dress, with black heeled strap shoes, my hair up, and I am on the dance […]

  12/11/2022 4:54 pm

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• [vision]

  a dream vignette prose poem A turning comes within my chest within within my chest the heart within the heart within: closed eyes comes a vision: a child, a little girl wearing a straight white neat dress she looks about seven, her features ring familiar; but whose child is this? I know her face, whose […]

  12/06/2022 3:51 pm

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• Live on Camera!: ‘Dreams’ Session with PsychCreative Salon

  

  December 6, 2022 …I stepped into the livingroom to find this blushing rose pink champagne and red wine sunrise sky today I attended this informative and interactive dreaming session and poetry reading last week on video. Tuesday. Next time I will put into practice not being so disruptive with moving my camera around the whole […]

  12/06/2022 2:57 pm

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• My Pick from the List, and My Complaint

  November 31, 2022 I picked from my list: I wanted to paint; it was looking beautiful; I had no concept beforehand, and I saw a look I liked from the start. But then I kept adding and adding and I found a concept at that point, with a tone of a color I’d added but […]

  12/01/2022 6:43 am

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• Re: Deleted Posts, Dear Reader

  I was reading after dark last night by my library window, lamplight, I started with this nursery rhyme of my own… ‘I sit quietly in this chair, I will comb through my hair, and I will read Jane Eyre.’ I am sorry for these pretty hastily deleted posts; I remind myself writing is free, and in […]

  11/24/2022 8:11 am

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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 […]

  11/21/2022 7:08 am

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• A Very Cute Blue Cookie

  

  A poetic line came to mind just before I met the NaNoWriMo writers tonight…It brought me to the more center place in my story’s theme, as I was getting myself thrown into a corner before that in my draft. I told a little visual from my own draft to relate to the other writers’ stories. […]

  11/18/2022 8:47 pm

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• NaNo More

  I just got in from a walk a little while ago before I had lunch. It’s literary salon Tuesday :), I wrote more of my novel draft this morning; I find the Word Count actually is very helpful for pacing. In a long work of fiction, events can happen more slowly than one may be […]

  11/15/2022 1:27 pm

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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 […]

  11/14/2022 8:07 am

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• My Books

  

  November 12, 2022 I arranged them nicely and now I actually wish to read a book when I go in. And I have 2 books I gifted to myself on the way, soon…:) 💕Jade P.S. Oops 🙂 I have a couple of things to fix…The angel has no bookend next to her on one side […]

  11/12/2022 11:41 am

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• Re: Body and Mind

  …If your mind is boring you, enter the physical body and atmosphere: put on an outfit you feel like wearing, adjust the clothes comfortably, moisturize, tie a soft hair tie around your hair, notice it didn’t come as a finished ring, and position the tie around your hair, tightly and loosely, comb loose strands with […]

  11/11/2022 7:27 pm

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