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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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• Pride and Prejudice at the Library and Two Poetry Re-Finds

  

  Quickly snapped in a pleasantly secluded spot.🧚‍♂️I think the Non-Fiction sign signifies that I’m real (maybe.) 😊 This time the bus came, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice also made it to the library (with a Jane character inside, and a mistakenly named-Jane, myself, who often wouldn’t correct people who seemed confused with the name […]

  01/27/2023 4:11 pm

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• “If the Stars Were Not Out”

  by Jade Nicole Beals A whispered line overheard in the night as I slept from through the open window that overlooks mostly unpopulated woods: I considered, half-dreaming, The line has been spoken protectively, ‘though I am safe, and I fell back to sleep. I think, in any case, you would still have come. A surgeon […]

  01/24/2023 6:03 am

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• Mon Amour May: A Photo Mystery, Solved!

  

  —Thank you, Mr. Francesco Medici for writing to me (from Italy) about this Mystery photo post, and also clearing up who is who! From left to right: Ameen Rihani, May Ziadeh (the one I originally recognized as May by her gaze), and Samia Baroody’s husband Charles Corm, and the woman in the front holding the […]

  01/23/2023 7:44 am

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• The Vices of the Evening by Charles Simic

  I’d enjoyed so very soon the concise, often comedic poetry of the author Charles Simic, a poet who recently passed away last week; many prayers and blessings and poetry readings: here is one… The Vices of the Evening by Charles Simic The way the light and shadow Go on with their tug-of-war While the night […]

  01/20/2023 1:32 pm

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• Pedestrian Bridge Over the Train Tracks in Brčko, Bih by Milica Mijatovic

  PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE TRAIN TRACKS IN BRČKO, BIH —By Milica Mijatović I don’t know when the bridge was built, or when the trains stopped running, or which side of the tracks was ours & which theirs, or why they painted the bridge turquoise, or why war is obsessed with lines, or who graffitied one […]

  01/20/2023 1:31 pm

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• Why All the Sagittarius Birthday Wishes?: A Reflection on Self and Soul

  There is something I found last year, and although I am not serious about astrology as if it were a religion to me, I enjoy the patterns it suggests in life as a kind of artwork. I find it very accurate in many ways. I had found in my life great, deep healing in the […]

  01/20/2023 1:31 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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• Author Artist Kahlil Gibran Celebrates a Birthday

  

  January 6, 2023 Well, I am going next weekend to celebrate Christmas with my family in New York. I was sick with COVID on Christmas, and so was my husband—he got it first and is over it, as for testing: I am not yet but almost fully healed! We will go bearing gifts, including a […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 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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• Peeko’s Paws Pressed Together, a Prayerful Expression with Compassion for a Fellow Rhyme-Loving Cat across the Country

  

  Peeko loves praying with me, and he was interested in the rosary prayer today as he napped. Peeko has been rested now in a more private, less time on camera living, as one of my new year’s resolutions is to take fewer photos of Peeko, as he prefers more time relaxed in the moment. He […]

  01/02/2023 6:39 pm

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• About the Lines You May Edit out of Your Poems

  

  —💕your very own, Peeko Part of revising a poem is often taking out lines that seem like they don’t belong. In a recent poem I’d completed, I’d taken out a whole stanza that involved wrapping the recipient or subject of the poem in a blanket…It was a comfy idea, but really felt out of place, […]

  12/29/2022 7:11 pm

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• A Handmade Gift: Poetry and Preserved Flowers for May Ziadeh

  

  (in the Christmas morning sun) complete Dec. 24th Christmas Eve 2022 I wrote the poem originally by hand on paper at the end of May 2021 on that month’s Full Flower Moon. The poem was published in March 2022 in Indelible’s The Feminine, and I’d read it live on video. I’d been collecting flowers and […]

  12/25/2022 5:00 pm

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• A Poem from Long Ago Set to Music and Sung

  

  my teddybears just held hands like that 🙂 on the bookshelf right side zoom in. And this teddybear Peeko 🧸🐱is napping on this blanket but also feels sad when his Mama is not feeling well and sleeping the day and night. 💕 See his puffy pouty kitten face as I say I love him. He […]

  12/23/2022 6:17 pm

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• Angel

  December 23, 2022 It is a great storm of rain and winds, and I am resting fully, often sleeping, being healed gradually, with a calm, glowing expression I feel, ‘though little voice. And then the sun brightens, so brightly, I let my eyes open; it is so luxurious. It does not look like I will […]

  12/23/2022 2:47 pm

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• Poet Keith Waldrop, Postmodern poems, Fantasy and Modern Art

  

  (this photo is from last year around this time; ‘my poetry cat’ Peeko was very pleased with this book.) Like poet Christina Rossetti, I found poet Keith Waldrop’s latest poetry book, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy last year just discovered by me on the poetry shelf at the Foxboro Library; I was delighted to find out […]

  12/12/2022 3:07 pm

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• Christina Rossetti, A Classic Poet Not Often Heard, Celebrates a Birthday

  

  A poet whose writings meant a lot to me this year is Christina Rossetti. Born in London the same year as Emily Dickinson in 1830, she was of British and Italian heritage, wrote just a few questioning, romantic, sassy poems, along with her better known childrens’ rhyme in a book called Goblin Market, and was […]

  12/12/2022 9:00 am

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• A Poem by Emily Dickinson for Her Birthday

  

  Oh no, I did not realize poet Emily Dickinson’s birthday was on December 10, Happy Belated Birthday, Emily! 192 years. And she was born nearby in Amherst, Massachusetts. a poem by Emily Dickinson Birthday of but a single pang That there are less to come — Afflictive is the Adjective But affluent the doom — […]

  12/12/2022 8:47 am

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• Mary Haskell, author, art patron, and school principal celebrates a Birthday Today

  

  “People are always longing for someone to help them realize their best selves,” – Mary Haskell (portrait drawn by artist Kahlil Gibran) Today is writer, art patron (b. in South Carolina, 1873) Boston school principal, Mary Haskell’s birthday…that is, the big 149 yrs! Can you handle it? (This is probably the most biased birthday greeting […]

  12/11/2022 7:02 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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• “Dream Catcher”

  “Dream Catcher” by Jade Nicole Beals –for Kira hear me read the poem: You are a few years younger than me, and you’d already felt much wiser. I remember when you sent me a poem; I thought, is this by William Shakespeare? It can’t be for me? It is so good. It was in the […]

  12/09/2022 4:25 pm

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• “Your Name”

  (a prose poem) by Jade Nicole Beals I’d loved your name as soon as I’d seen it, like I knew it would be yours. One night I dreamed you, it was finally you, I see you were pretty envied for how beautiful you are, I wanted to be your friend, and let the jealous have […]

  12/07/2022 4:25 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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• A Book of Essays on My Bookshelf for Years Unread—Read Today

  Reading Collected Essays by George Orwell, a book I’ve had on my shelf for many years, it was a gift from my sister one year, that I’d not wanted to read each time I’d picked it up over many years, but also did not give it away, it had felt like ‘for another time’, and […]

  12/05/2022 3:35 pm

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• My Art Projects in Progress and Ones I’ve Noted for the Future

  

  Wednesday, November 30th, ‘22 Yesterday, there were about 4 writer and book events happening. I went to 3 events :), and my cat Peeko attended 0 of them by his choice. (…He just made this expression like me, as if with humor, mid-groom and bathing himself for a long while; I tried to get a […]

  12/05/2022 10:10 am

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• “Resonance”

  by Jade Nicole Beals How do I word this: I want to enjoy a dessert that has not yet existed. I want to kiss as a practice. If you wish to. How did I find this video again? I practice the dance; I must try it again. I go to the mall to buy a […]

  12/02/2022 10:55 pm

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• Peeko’s Backpack?

  

  …A poetry backpack for my cat Peeko whom I am currently schooling in subjects of his choice, but no, I didn’t get it. 😊 💞📚😊🐱Put in an Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry volume: her lighter and more silly sarcastic rhymes and sonnets, a William Shakespeare play, Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady, and any metered […]

  12/02/2022 9:54 pm

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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 […]

  11/29/2022 5:32 pm

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• A Day in Pictures: A Creative Literary Morning

  

  morning sencha tea, dreaming eyes, letting light into my eyes and face, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847) for later on. after tea, may read Jane Eyre: I partly lived inside this book in my current life and did not remember that?😅 my novel printed draft so far, first 6 pgs, 3000 words, and handwritten […]

  11/29/2022 10:42 am

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• My Novel’s Progress Today, A Place to Pause for Now

  

  Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 (blushing night skies receive my kisses) I consider what we may think others might expect from us and that we may be happier to surprise everyone naturally and pleasurably in writing or doing something, such as a novel, as you yourself find most interesting to write and read… …I’ve started writing […]

  11/23/2022 10:07 am

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• Tuesday, Just after Teatime, Morning Sun

  Tuesday, just after teatime, literary salon beginning and plum village meditation next… Welcome to the literary salon; I am not the host though 😀 ‘…? :)’ Note: I wanted to delete all these esp. this accidental crazed look one 😅 but the literary host, Miss May says, no, not to delete 😊💞(a journalistic word of […]

  11/22/2022 10:13 pm

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• A Teacup for Me, A Notebook Seen and Soon to Write

  

  I’d learned a lot about antiques, spec. teacups these months, and what to look for…I had a few small mistakes and I wanted just one more… This one showed up on Etsy and I thought, “That looks like a teacup just for me.” It has no cracks, which is necessary to check if you want […]

  11/10/2022 7:36 am

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• Words Arranged, Well, These…

  

  night and almost morningtime (continues) What if this book I am reading could be done and I can close it and move onto a new one? Is it fair I judge the book by the author’s name and opening sentence, if it’s a pen-name too? Only teasing a little, but the novel is just a […]

  11/10/2022 5:48 am

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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

  11/06/2022 10:07 am

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• Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi

  

  Featured Poetry I’ve just read through this week this very new, just released poetry collection Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet living in California. I recommend this poetry book to anyone who enjoys a poetry style that feels almost to be part on the page and partly recited, with poems that approach […]

  11/03/2022 1:27 pm

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• Bringing Calm with Arranging Books with Honeybear…A Milk and Honey Moisturizer

  

  November 2, 2022 My books were greatly out of order, book 2 showing before book 1 of a series, poetry, non-fiction, novel in a row…But I found that a little fun. I wanted to bring some calm and beauty and simplicity to the bookcase and my mind this afternoon…I also spaced the books a little […]

  11/03/2022 9:27 am

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• It Was Sweet, It All Renewed Me, Pt. 2

  Everyone has trials, but not everyone has these, and coming through them, I am not afraid at all to be deep; it is necessary…You hear my deep thoughts and you believe in me; you see me floating on the water and you know I am not drowning us…You smile often, my face is warmer because […]

  10/30/2022 2:45 pm

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