I met Monet in his princely demeanor, among the manicured lawn and the secret garden grows its verdant sprigs and tresses, wild and free in the prairie. Butterfly flutters paint palette hovering bloom after bloom. Solitude drips in cadmium and ochre sun sitting prominently, potted and composed, regal and undisturbed. A gentle touch of [...]
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An Afternoon With Monet
Posted in Art Scene, Current Affairs, Film, Literature, Memoirs, Music, Nature, Philosophy, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Society, Travel, tagged bird, bloom, blue, boat, bob, book, brush, butterfly, cadmium, cloud, composition, creation, dance, demeanor, drank, dream, drip, easiness, enthusiasm, esteem, eyes, face, feather, flag, flight, flutter, free, garden, gaze, gentle, glide, grow, guest, heavy, horizon, hover, how, human, immortal, lake, landscape, lawn, live, loveliness, manicure, memoir, mirror, Monet, mountain, ochre, paint, palette, peace, picture, poem, poetry, pool, pot, prairee, prince, prominence, quiet, quite, reflection, regal, remembrance, reverie, ripple, sashay, sea, secret, see, seem, shiver, show, silence, silver, sit, small, soft, solitary, solitude, soul, spirit, sprig, still, stroke, sun, sweet, take, together, torment, touch, tress, undisturbed, usher, verdant, walk, way, welcome, wild, wind, wood, wve on February 23, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The Fortune Teller
Posted in Art Scene, Books, Film, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science, Society, Uncategorized, tagged acceptance, across, afraid, air, amulet, animal, another, ball, belief, better, beware, blood, book, bottle, brittle, by, card, caress, child, closet, cloth, come, creep, crystal, customer, death, dip, find, fold, fortune teller, future, get, go, gratitude, grey, hair, harm, holy, human, husband, ignorance, incense, invisible, keep, leaf, leave, light, line, love candle, magic, match, money, night, old, palm, people, piece, poem, poetry, power, prayer, prevail, questions, read, reverb, rich, sanctum, signs, slow, smell, someone, space, speak, spell, start, stone, strange, summon, sweat, symbol, table, thief, thin, time, token, true, verse, way, whisper, wife, wisdom on February 11, 2011 | 18 Comments »
The sanctum smelled of incense and human sweat. An airless space reverberating whispers of prayer. She folded a piece of cloth with the holy verse dipped in animal blood. This is an amulet. For someone who is afraid of thieves. She knelt across the table ready with her questions “Do you need a husband? [...]







Walking Along
Posted in Current Affairs, Literature, Memoirs, Politics, Religion, Society, Travel, Poetry, Social Commentary, Philosophy, Relationships, tagged along, alongside, ants, back, behind, bob, brush, catch, chase, crossing, crowd, cycle, existence, familiar, fast, hurry, imaginary, just, left, legs, life, machine, man, mission, notice, One, other, pavement, pedestrian, people, poetry, right, sea, second, shoulders, slow, squeeze, steps, strangers, time, train, turn, two, walk, waste, way, while, without, witness, woman, talk, poem, memoir, mobile, mute, make, ahead, girl, social commentary, tourist, halt, busy, phone, coming, navigate, urgent, to, from, heads, appointment, guy, working, mom, onward, destinations, directions, precise, peg-marked, milestones, past signals, collide, ones, walking on April 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here, walks people wasting not a second navigating urgent missions. Without halt, in cycles coming to and from, fast and slow. We walk alongside the bobbing sea of heads and shoulders. There goes a man who is in a hurry to catch his train. While the woman will just be in time to make [...]
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