“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.”
–Salman Rushdie
Art – Christian Schloe
A Poem
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No Half-Hearted Spring
“It was no half-hearted spring, this: the whole island vibrated with it as though a great, ringing chord had been struck. Everyone and everything heard it and responded.”
— Gerald Durrell
Photo by the author.
Winter
The days are short,
The sun a spark
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.
– John Updike
Art: Kiyomizudo in Snow – Kawase Hasui
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20 Days Of Christmas
🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥”Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
🎄Art – Katsuda Tetsuzo, 1896 – 1980).
“Woman Standing Next to Christmas Tree”
Early Showa era, circa 1930 – 1936.
Fairy tales
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein
Art – Frog Prince by Annie Stegg
October
“October is the month of painted leaves.” – Henry David Thoreau
Photo by the author.
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Night
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
– Vincent Van Gogh
Art – Kaoru Yamada (Japanese, 1975) Night
I chose the artwork because I believe it draws inspiration from Vincent, which does not make it less enticing and vibrant.
How do you complete a poem in any subject matter you are interested in?
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I love answering questions on Quora. It is like gymnastics of the mind.
Imagination is a tricky thing. It does not breathe words all the time. Sometimes it is alive, and sometimes it is barely breathing.
When I have ideas, I write in a notebook or on my phone. After that, I transferred my thoughts to my blog.
You do not just sit at your desk and start writing a poem.
I love writing. For me, it is like living in a parallel world of my own making. Nevertheless, the walls of this new realm may sometimes appear blurry.
The idea for the following poem hit me when I looked out the window and felt the mellow shine of autumn glistening into the threes.
I don’t want the summer to end
I don’t want the summer to end
That is why I try to suspend
My thoughts of winters and grey
Garnering drops of snow and dismay.
I don’t want the summer to end
That is why I am hand in hand
With clouds and planets blue,
Roses and treasures that have no clue
Of corrupt winds and misty reign
In the apocalypse of rain.
I don’t want the summer to end…
Art – Daniel F. Gerhartz. Fair use
Trees
“You look at trees and called them “trees,” and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a “star,” and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, “tree,” “star,” were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views from yours. To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism, and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of “trees” and “stars” saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was “myth-woven and elf patterned.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Art by Ian Miller.
Life is amazing
“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.” – L.R. Knost
Art – Tsuchiya Koitsu, Yanagibashi, Woodblock print, Japan, 1934
