“Αnd I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
– Franz Kafka, The Castle, 1926
Art – Edvard Munch – Dancing on the Shore, 1902.
“No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance, 1852
Art by Denis Sarazhin.
“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
– Seán O’Casey
Art by William Degouve De Nuncques.
The Voice of Time
Our mortality and vulnerability have caught up with us.
Written by Doug Vidlas.
When we press a seashell to our ears, we hear the wise ancient voices, plus sounds of a restless sea and the creatures dwelling there within.
These were implanted there long ago, before man began to interfere.
View the full article at Medium.com/Resistance Poetry.
Photo by Gregory Culmer on Unsplash.
Doug Vidlas
Word slinger and sometimes poet. Ex stand-up. Polyglot. Technologist. Non-conformist who experiments a lot.
“I don’t want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
Art by Vincent van Gogh.
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just begins
to live that day.
– Emily Dickinson
Art by Andre Marchand.
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“And then the dry earth begins to anticipate, and then I fall to my knees, and then the flowers cry out, and then the wind breaks open its silver countries of rain.”
– Mary Oliver
Art by Vincent Van Gogh.
“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.”
– Audrey Hepburn, 1953
If I Cut A Word In Two at Medium.com
by Iulia Halatz
….
I wouldn’t have lusted
for your shiny dark eyes
like the sea
lit by two moons…
We could wake up
to what we were…
You
breathing the air of
another planet…
basking in an estranged sun…
When winds
herald the evening
the stirs are in the
dunes
and the communal
place of storms.
I
braved a lackless sea
for naught
My kisses tell you
of another small
and drifting planet
where water
falls from the sky
and blows away
the ink of dusky clouds.
The sands tug
at my feet
and quarrel like ghosts
dervishing
blindly in the whirlwinds….
There is a hole
in the world
where you stood
brazenly stealing
the burnishing silver
of two Moons.
Yet you continue
to hurtle constellations at me.
You fumbled for Orion
and you stumbled
as I inhabit
my spell-forged star
to enhance
blandly
the clear lights of greener planets.
Oh, how I miss my autumn roses!
They carry the pungent smell
of sea and decay
to your world of
liquid sands
and honey torpors.
My finitude and fragility
are yours
The heart you melted
drips down with
dews of late
that put the sands
forever in my soul.
I have a sieve
that sifts
grains from dusts.
They heat and burn
my skin
like thousand cerulean touches
that freed me
from the toils
of lingering moons.
I will love you
for a hundred years of Blue
and for the handsomest years
of Grey and sand Yellow
that will follow.
Art — Caroline Trentini by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello
Iulia Halatz: “Be the one who cares, make words so disruptive that they create new worlds, hopes and dreams. Even if we are unhappy dinosaurs and find shelter in an Iron Tale or ruminate about feeling too much, whilst declaring colorless apparel, we should take power and strength from our stories.”
Her published poems can be found in The Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I.