Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail. Salman Rushdie

Certain verses, fragments, from poems that stayed with me... A Celan, a Tsvetaeva, a Mandelstam, a Montale - I love you like poppies and memory - A kiss in the forehead erases memory, I give you a kiss - I am trained in the sciences of goodbyes - I am going to lose you again. And I can't

Louise Glück

two poplars in the aipilles near saint-rémy vincent van gogh

o sweet spontaneous – e.e. cummings's love poem to spring www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/20/o...

"Half of me is water and clay, half is heart and breath Half is the sandy shore, half the pearl defying death" ~ Rûmî ~

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.” Dashiell Hammett, “The Thin Man” 1933

Ils sont privilégiés ceux que le soleil et le vent suffisent à rendre fous. ~René Char, Les Matinaux

Tom Hammick Konstanze at the Window, 2020

But because she was not a girl now, she was not awed, but only wondered at how men ordered their world into this dance of masks, and how easily a woman might learn to dance it.

“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its chance occurrences and paradoxes.” —MMP

For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away.

“I think we all have the power / to do what we must to survive.” — Tamiko Beyer . . . This poem appeared in Split This Rock, 2021. Shared here with deep gratitude.

ㅤ Faerie Calendar — Bernard Sleigh, 1920 ㅤ

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo

Night Falls on Hoboken And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000) Yo La Tengo album cover from Gregory Grewdson's photographic series Twilight: untitled, 1998 youtu.be/6kQaghZZEzI?si=J9HGoaQStGuHkcjo

𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨

Centre St,/Black Lives Matter Boulevard - downtown Manhattan

the tales of the woods kept alive in warbler’s lungs little forest bard #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (In German, the warbler is called „Waldsänger“, which means forest singer) #photography Pat Shaw / Jeff Brooks

What gravity holds me, thy soaring doth break, Thou fascinate the soul from its clod of clay; As hawk to heaven, so my spirit’s tethered gaze Finds Love the higher air through which all things make way.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #vss365

in the quiet hours fill your mind with my love inner tempest stilled #vss365 #inkMine #haiku

Un cœur en hiver, Claude Sautet (1992)

Me pregunto qué izarán a media asta cuando mi voz caiga en la orilla y mi sombra muera olvidada. ¿Habrá nombre para lo que ya no duele? Nadie responde. Ni siquiera yo. Cris Fles ✍️

the stork flies on wings beating against heaven #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

À contre-courant.. 📸

"How dull it is to pause,to make an end, To rust unburnish'd,not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little,and of one to me Little remains;but every hour is saved" ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson (Ulysses) Tamino -The World Is Not Enough youtu.be/JZ2g7tgJ-EY?...

"Now, making a work is not thinking thoughts but accomplishing an actual journey." --David Jones, preface to 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑎

...they had already poured the sum total of their knowledge into his waiting vessel; and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. - Hermann Hesse, c. 1922

I can think of no people more fragmented... Craftsmen you see, but no humans, thinkers, but no humans, priests, but no humans, lords and servants, boys and established peoples but no humans-

I have found beauty in the whimsically ordinary. © Elissa Gregoire

„DORNEN in den Weg geschleudert Werden uns von frommen Händen; Lasset uns dafür die Rosen Allgemeiner Liebe spenden!“ HAFIS übertragen von G. Fr. Daumer Buchausstattung von F.H.E. Schneidler

Blanco White - Colder Heavens youtu.be/mFFr3IXZs4k?...

Kate Bush - Gaelic Song youtu.be/VpMGWOAAKs4?...

Goodnight🌟 Ann Craven ~ Moon Crazy 8, 2023

Layers #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers #Photography #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #ClassicMono #ECK #Lumix

🖼️ Lucy Grossmith

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

they see the endless sea of steel and glass and concrete, lifeless mountains, reaching for the sky, swallowing the stars, the clouds, blinding the moon - I see a tiny blue flower blooming in the cracks #haibun #haiku #poetry

Oddly poetic the ceaseless loud rhetoric magpies chattering. #weirdmicro #oddlypoetic #haiku #senryu

#04vogels Marjan Jaspers (1949) - Haiku [blauwe vogel], 2013 oil/canvas

cosmic river— I step in and become plural #haiku #poetry

spring storm the daffodils lean in #HaikuChallenge #haiku

if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game

Romul Nuțiu Dynamic Universe I

Avez-vous déjà dit "oui" alors que vous vouliez dire "non" ? Kant dirait que le mensonge, même pour protéger l’autre ou éviter un conflit, ne fait que renforcer l’idée que la vérité n’a pas de valeur. Et pourtant, elle est la clé de nos relations humaines. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6QT

Oblique Strategy of the Day… #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt

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