Friday, April 22, 2011

First Whispers of Spring



Survivor of the frost of winter
One who had the wilderness
For a pillow
Come spring a great singer


On tiny wings
Over branches, brambles & bushes
Tilts his head & begins to sing
The first whispers of spring
Blue sky sailing 
& green grass cities
Teaming with dragon flies,
Snakes & creepy crawly things.

Epilogue
& Thankful most of all

for God’s promise of spring.
Fin


Many birds 
 lost 
theirs lives in this last harsh winter 
across most of Europe & USA

photo's :  2nd ffffound, 3rd tumblr,  6th ffffound,  7th frozen bird UK Google

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Cosmic Kismet

The winding black crack
 
Rising out of cosmic dust
 
Set flame with new stars 




Fin 

Recently, astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer
infrared telescope shooting 
  a “funny cosmic black crack” photo
at a distance of 11,000 light years from 
Earth in the constellation Sagittarius.
The serpentine“black crack” is
formed by dust in the universe,
but this meandering “black crack” covers 
as large as dozens of the solar system. 
Not only that, It is very likely pregnant 
with new stars in the cracks.
We can see from the photos, 
orange and yellow spots in those cracks
which will be forming new stars. 
The spots will launch red light star embryos,
its mass will be approximately about 20 to 50 times the sun.


photo credits: NASA Goolge

Friday, April 15, 2011

Nouvelle 55 -Friday Flash 55


Lady of the Lake
dwells in the vast, 
cool fragrant rooms 
of a translucent palace

Surrounded by earthy
and watery companions’
leaves her robe behind


and goes swimming
in the well of inspiration;
bringing the light of spring
to the dark of winter



her reflection shimmers
in every leaf and lingers 
on every cool breeze.
Fin



 nouvelle 55 
Friday Flash 
hosted by Galen
Friday flash is a mime written in 55 words and Nouvelle 55 is writing about a painting. 
my poem is based on  the first (photo) Painting of Jane Morris (1839-1914),
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Rossetti captures Jane’s beauty as well as her character; she was,
according to contemporary accounts,
an unusually silent woman.


In the 1860s, while painting his first pictures of single female figures, Rossetti fell under the spell of Titian, Palma Vecchio, and the great Venetian masters of voluptuous female flesh. His brushstrokes broadened, replacing what he had described as the “stipple in the flesh” of his earlier, painstakingly detailed Pre-Raphaelite compositions. His head-and-shoulders portraits sold well, and by 1870 he was devoting himself almost entirely to representations of the ideal woman, often in the form of Jane Morris. Rossetti’s later works were embraced by the Symbolist painters, who shared his interest in painting dreamy, introspective women lost in silent meditation and mystical inwardness.



Lady of the Lake
dwells in the vast, 
cool fragrant rooms 
of a translucent palace
Surrounded by earthy
and watery companions’
leaves her robe behind
her reflection shimmers
in every leaf and lingers 
on every cool breeze.
Fin

photo credits: Painting of Jane Morris (1839-1914), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882):;
2 & 3rd Rodney Smith;tumblr
 

Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Artist Muse


The Lady of the Willows
imbued with sensuality 
wild and mysterious 
as the moonlit groves 
of an ancient forest 
in wordless rapture 
basks in unity
with nature. 
Fin 

challenge in 160 text characters 
Black chalk on paper, dated 1865, 31.5 x 34.5cm, Private collection



'Water Willow', of Jane Morris (1839-1914), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
O il on canvas, dated 1871, 33 x 26.7cm, Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R Bancroft Memorial, 1935.  This painting documents the first period Rossetti and Jane Morris spent together at Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire. Rossetti made it to fit a beautiful old frame.

Jane Burden Morris (1839-1914), inspired numerous works by Rossetti and his friends, among them the painter-poet William Morris whom she would marry in 1859. Jane was a remarkable beauty, destined to play a major role in Rossetti’s idealized and symbolic portraits of “stunners”—beautiful women shown at close range in often exotic settings. 
 

 Pencil on paper, dated 1857, 47.6 x 33cm,
The Society of Antiquaries of London (Kelmscott Manor) 
 
In 1869, the American writer Henry James described her as having “a thin pale face, a pair of strange, sad, deep, dark Swinburnish eyes [a reference to the poems of the late Victorian writer Algernon Charles Swinburne], with great thick black oblique brows, joined in the middle and tucking themselves away under her hair.” Jane, the daughter of a humble stableman, was discovered by Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones in an Oxford theater. Thanks to her captivating looks, she was spared a life of poverty and a future in domestic service. Through Morris she was educated privately, mastering French and Italian as well as the piano.

Pencil on paper, dated Aug. 12 1870, 24.1 x 45.1cm, 
The Society of Antiquaries of London (Kelmscott Manor)


Friday, April 8, 2011

Capricious Love ---

 
Two hearts get entangled
At Café  De Flore
Enchanting in an understated way

 Small acts of friendly mischief.
                  Engaging in an innocently
                              Flirtatious way



Slyly charismatic
                 The lust of eyes 
                                     in stolen glances







Affectionately unpredictable 

The passing of love





Like last summer’s sun
gone to quickly


Blown away
By the  wind of change

FIN

hosted by G-man

 The Café de Flore, at the corner of the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Rue St. Benoit, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, has long been celebrated for its intellectual clientele.

The classic Art Deco interior of all red seating, mahogany and mirrors has changed little since World War II. Like its celebrated rival, Les Deux Magots, it has hosted most of the French intellectuals during the post-war years. It is said that Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Camus & other writer, poets, & artists, would meet here and discuss their philosophy of existentialism over a drink.


written in 55 words by joanny
Capricious love ---
Two hearts get entangled
At Cafe De Flore
Enchanting
in an understated way

Small acts of friendly mischief.
Engaging in an innocently
Flirtatious way
Slyly charismatic
The lust of eyes
in stolen glances
Affectionately unpredictable
The passing of love
Like last summer’s sun
gone to quickly
Blown away
By the wind of change
FIN
 
photos tumblr & rodney smith 3-6

Sunday, April 3, 2011

East of the Sun-West of the Moon


A sudden rain shower


Makes the streets look
like mirrored strips

glittering in
the dawning sky

it takes your
breath away

just to start
the day.

Fin

poem written in 160 text form 
for rules to play click on Sunday 160

East of the sun,
West of the moon
A sudden rain shower
Makes the streets look
like mirrored strips
glittering in
the dawning sky
it takes your
breath away
just to start
the day.
fin

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