Tag: literature
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* translation 3/3 on the friday influence
(from Proverbios y Cantares - Antonio Machado) * XXXII. Oh faith of meditation! Oh faith after deep thought! When a heart returns to earth, the human cup overflows, and the sea swells. *** This week, The Friday Influence presents the work of the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado. I first ran across the above poem […]
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* Goethe
(Roman Elegy V - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) * I find myself on Classic soil; the past and present speak to me. As I was told to, I leaf through the works of Ancients and find joy. Through the nights, love keeps me busy at other things; even though I am half-educated, I am twice […]
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* translation 2/3 on the friday influence
(from Greguerias - Ramon Gomez de la Serna) * Curious about the earth, the sky keeps opening and closing the clouds. * The hour differs throughout the stars. In some it is yesterday, in others today, and in others centuries have passed. * He had a keyring so dusty, he looked like a fisherman of […]
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* translation 1/3 on the friday influence
(from The Book of Questions - Pablo Neruda) * IV. How many churches in Heaven? Why does the shark not attack the indifferent sirens? Does smoke chat with the clouds? Is it true that all hopes should be watered with dew? XXIV. Is 4 the same 4 for all? […]
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* thistleburrs & the friday influence
Song of the Barren Orange Tree – Federico Garcia Lorca * Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of seeing myself without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? The day walks in circles around me, and the night copies me in all its stars. I want to live […]
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* travel update & some life sketches
Hello y’all! Since I am moving this week back to Oregon and am on the road as I write this, I decided I would forgo the usual Friday Influence post and share some life sketches. I will resume the usual astrologically-centered good times next week. Enjoy! *** walking in Flagstaff the folds of her […]
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* pennies, memory, & the friday influence
Brown Penny - WB Yeats I whispered, ‘I am too young,’ And then, ‘I am old enough’; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. ‘Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.’ Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the […]
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* the friday influence & some news
What Any Lover Learns - Archibald MacLeish Water is heavy silver over stone. Water is heavy silver over stone’s Refusal. It does not fall. It fills. It flows Every crevice, every fault of the stone, Every hollow. River does not run. River presses its heavy silver self Down into stone, and stone refuses. What runs, […]
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* life sketches from the road
she kills a spider on my shirt the stain the orange of fresh rust she says sorry and in the morning sun I do not know to who *** on the track I run in circles the birds get out of my way *** Happy running! J
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