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Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments by William Shakespeare
Took another look at Shakespeare’s sonnets. (internal link) Number 55 is very good, outlining the hope of all poets to live beyond the grave. Maxwell Nurnberg (A Gathering of Poems, Washington Square Press, 1969) says that the first two lines … Continue reading
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Tagged david calder, Poetry, shakespeare, sonnets, YouTube
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If you Don’t Know Who Ann Margret Was, Now You Do
She was a force of nature when dancing as this screen test hints at. She supported the troops during the Vietnam War while on many Bob Hope / USO tours. She considered Elvis Presley her soulmate and never wrote a … Continue reading
Gerad Manley Hopkins and the Beauty and Power of Descriptive Writing
Hopkins (internal link) was lucky to have falcons around. In my home town of Pahrump, Nevada, we do have something winged that looks like a little falcon. It may be a Cooper’s Hawk, however, and not a Peregrine Falcon. Whatever … Continue reading
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Original Photographs and the Impossibility of Everything Connected to Them
After your article proposal has been accepted your next challenge will be providing photographs to accompany the text. I hope you can take them yourself. The world of Nat Geo doesn’t exist anymore for freelancers. You will not have a … Continue reading
Spring Wind In London by Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand born Katherine Mansfield was as much a free spirit as the wind she describes in this poem. She mentions the wattle, a tree now grown in temperate climes around the world. The West or northern hemisphere knows it … Continue reading
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The Wright Room at the Doubletree Hotel in Tempe, Arizona
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) Difficult to arrange a tour since the room must be sanitized by a cleaning crew after every visit.
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Tagged architecture, design, doubletree hotel, fiesta hotel, frank lloyd wright, tempe
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That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection by Gerad Manly Hopkins (1844–1889) https://hopkinspoetry.com (external link) Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows | flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- Built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs | … Continue reading
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Tagged gerad manly hopkins, Patrick Kavanagh, Poetry, victorian poets, word play
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My Bad. And my Bad Guy Moment.
I thought the neighborhood in Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” video was in Palm Springs. Had to be. Turns out the location was Balboa Heights which is a part of the greater San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. The most featured … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, bad, bad guy, balboa highlands, billie eilish, mid-century modern, palm springs, san fernando valley, video
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To the Ladies By Lady Mary Chudleigh
17th Century poet Mary Chudleigh fought the feminist battle three hundred years before most people thought that fight started. Read by the incomparable Ghizela Rowe. To The Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710) Wife and servant are the same, But … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th century, female poetry, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Poetry, to the ladies
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Keats and Proust and Lennon and McCartney
This poem, this prose, and this song, all remind me of each other. Ben Whishaw beautifully reads Keats. La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats (1795 -1821) O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge … Continue reading
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Tagged comparisons, critical review, Keats, lennon, mccartney, Poetry, proust, PRROSE, songwriting, The Beatles, verse
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