Inner manifests outer
Epigraph
The Outer from the Inner
Derives its magnitude —
by Emily Dickinson
walked the green grass
yesterday
piqued by
deer scat-
tip-toed
through
what nature
needed
and dropped
for me
the long winter long
April 7, 2015
Definition# 174 Magnitude
07 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
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Definition #173 Buoyancy
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: buoyancy, flamboyant ants, flimflam, floating beyond lonliness, Jamshid AfsharJr, lonliness cannot catch me, roller skate, skating partnered, skating solo, the RollerSkating Ant
The flimflam (flamboyant ants) from” the Roller Skating Ant” by Jeanne Poland
When I roller-skate
I feel that loneliness
cannot catch me.
Jamshid Afshar, Jr (child poet)
skating solo
skating partnered
floating
beyond
loneliness
Jeanne Poland
Prayer (A Silence in which another voice may speak…)
05 Apr 2015 3 Comments
in Family Tags: a doorway into thanks, not a contest, patch a few words together, prayer, silence in which another voice may speak, weeds in a vacant lot
A field of weeds
Praying
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones: just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.
Mary Oliver
Definition #172 Up
05 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: decorated eggs, Easter, eggs, fertility, Kavi, rabbit, spring, sun, symbol, up
Kavi celebrates Spring
Sun
up
Kavi
up
Easter
up
Footnotes
The word “Easter” and most of the secular celebrations of the holiday come from pagan traditions. Anglo Saxons worshipped Eostre, the goddess of springtime and the return of the sun after the long winter. According to legend, Eostre once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by turning it into a rabbit. Because the rabbit had once been a bird, it could still lay eggs, and that rabbit became our Easter Bunny. Eggs were a symbol of fertility in part because they used to be so scarce during the winter. There are records of people giving each other decorated eggs at Easter as far back as the 11th century.
Painting Rainbows
04 Apr 2015 1 Comment
in Family Tags: Alice Walker, Expect nothing, lightning, live frugally, overcast, Painting Rainbows, Quote between Title and Poem, shadows, surprise
April 4, 2015: A Poem Based on a Quote Between Title and Poem
Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
Alice Walker
Each day
I paint
rainbows.
Some
get struck
by lightning
others
overcast
light
shadows
surprise
rainbows
and
me.
Definition #171 Very Fond of Men
04 Apr 2015 2 Comments
in Family Tags: best-seller, Indochina, lover, Margaret Duras, poverty, simply unbearable, very fond of men
“My tsatske”
It’s the birthday of Marguerite Duras, born near in a small village in French Indochina near what is now Saigon, Vietnam (1914). Her parents had left France to teach in Indochina, her dad died, and Duras grew up in poverty.
When she was a teenager, she became lovers with a wealthy, older Chinese man, whom she met on a ferry between Sa Dec and Saigon. She would write about him for the rest of her life, in autobiographical works like The Lover (1984), which was an international best-seller.
Marguerite Duras said, “You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable.”
Song for Three Voices
03 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: Bach's well tempered Clavier, Don Jeanne Clavier, field stones, Gulda, meadow, Prelude and fugue, progresses, rolls on and on, song for three voices
Oliver dances with the skeleton
April 3,2015
Song for Three Voices
http://youtu.be/0KQW2YnCUrE
Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C Major, BWV 846, from Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier, Gulda pianist
Don:
This music
rolls on and on.
No beginning.
No end.
Jeanne:
It discovers;
progresses
constantly.
Clavier:
tempered keys:
field stones
through the meadow.
Definition #170 Washington Irving’s Words That Stick to Me
03 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
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Goat Town
My Address is 21 Van Winkle Road.
And so I have an affinity to Washington Irving and his made-up pseudo names:
Words from Washington Irving:
(Bells that ring in my Life)
lifelong love of travel
Jonathan Oldstyle
William Wizard
Launcelot Langstaff
Geoffrey Crayon
Deitrich Knickerbocker
satire
Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent
“the almighty dollar”
Gotham: Goat Town
Knickerbockers
WOM Poem for April: Renew
02 Apr 2015 4 Comments
in Family Tags: dew drops, from toe prints, left rainbow toeprints, palette ready, renew, renew the day, skipped outside, to paint the dew
dew drops
from toe print
I
skipped
outside
palette
ready
to paint
the
dew:
renew
the
day!
then
fell:
left
rainbow
toe prints
everywhere:
dew-drops!
Definition #169 Dharma
02 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: and cherubs dance, combined with spiritual discipline, dharma, guides one's life, moral law, our pants fall down, shooting arrows, sometimes when we fly, virtue is the practice of primordial wisdom
Winged Dharma:
the moral law combined with spiritual discipline that guides one’s life.
sometimes when we fly
our pants fall down and cherubs
dance, shooting arrows!
Footnote
Cloud of dharma emphasizes virtue is the practice of primordial wisdom
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 