Tag: unity
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A Three Part, Famous Poem by Seamus Heaney, and On Interpretation
Triptych— three poems within one (my own photo of clover and pine last summer) by Seamus Heaney Field Work (1979). This poem makes use of many metaphors, or maybe more accurately figurative language; it historically refers to a tragic event known as “Bloody Sunday,” Seamus writing this poem just after a more recent event that…
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On the Pulse of the Morning by Maya Angelou
On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou (1928-2014) A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But…
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Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew
After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂…
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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…
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Oct. 27, 2022 I am very sad today, I spotted this flower, a little green arch above it. If I would’ve been there longer, it would have been watered by my tears… * Dear Mayy, I know of a place you may like, you may already know, I haven’t been there in awhile; let’s go…
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May Ziadeh’s ‘Green Hut’ in the Wood, Her Preface to a Favorite Book I Came Across
* These words just held me…I didn’t realize the book, translated as Smiles and Tears by May Ziadeh that I was reading in PDF form today was the book titled Memories or German Love, by F. Max Muller that I’d seen cited as a book she’d translated; I’ve read the book in English. And I…
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A Pair of Leaves in the Rain
back inside, the lamplight showed the page in a warm light I wasn’t planning to sketch or even paint today, but the fire-alarms were going to be tested today, and began, so I grabbed my purse, pocket sketchbook, a book to read, pencil, and sharpener that were on my side table. I was going outside…
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Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm by Luther Hughes
by Luther Hughes Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm planted in front of the train station; or the yellow-black dance of the tiger swallowtail’s wings as it flees; or the echoes that follow after I thunder loud against the kitchen cabinets; or the summer fire hitched to the air we breathe—the…
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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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“Without Question”
roses, high noon (a quatrain) I used to fear the night, but ’round your head, there was a glow. I liked it better than the sun, It was love, I was yet to know. —Jade
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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…
Blush of Dawn 