‘Come live with me, and be my love,
And we wil all the pleasures prove
That hils and vallies, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.’ ~ Thomas Percy’s Reliques.
For Thomas Percy’s birthday tomorrow, bring us the ballads of poetry for #BookWormSat
🖼️ Charles Jacque

#Rome #Pompeii #frescoes #HelenOfTroy
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Snowdrop’s trembling bell
Tolls to free Persephone
From her six-month hell.
I love the way my snowdrop blossoms tremble in the wind like little bells. “ #Blanzifiore ” or “ #Snowdrops ” by Dante Gabriel #Rossetti (1873), showing model #JaneMorris as #Persephone or #Proserpine . #haiku

From its bleeding seams,
Winter’s red-grained apple drips
Burdens born of dreams.
Back in October, I dreamed that I found a #pomegranate tree, picked one of the fruit and ate it. Is it spring yet? #haiku “Six Seeds for #Persephone ” by #LanaZerkalnaya 🎨 saatchiart.com/art/Painting-S…

Not for all your gold
In the rapture of the lark
Shall my heart be sold.
#Apollo bares all in attempting to seduce a glum-looking #Cassandra in this #fresco from the elegant black-walled dining room recently found at #Pompeii . #haiku #Rome #archaeology dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

Not for all your gold
In the rapture of the lark
Shall my heart be sold.
#Apollo bares all in attempting to seduce a glum-looking #Cassandra in this #fresco from the elegant black-walled dining room recently found at #Pompeii . #haiku #Rome #archaeology dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

From its bleeding seams,
Winter’s red-grained apple drips
Burdens born of dreams.
Back in October, I dreamed that I found a #pomegranate tree, picked one of the fruit and ate it. Is it spring yet? #haiku “Six Seeds for #Persephone ” by #LanaZerkalnaya 🎨 saatchiart.com/art/Painting-S…

Snowdrop’s trembling bell
Tolls to free Persephone
From her six-month hell.
I love the way my snowdrop blossoms tremble in the wind like little bells. “ #Blanzifiore ” or “ #Snowdrops ” by Dante Gabriel #Rossetti (1873), showing model #JaneMorris as #Persephone or #Proserpine . #haiku

That was the most beautiful experience I’ve ever had. We watched from an uncrowded cliffside in the Thousand Islands. Spot the planet!

#Rome #Pompeii #frescoes #HelenOfTroy
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“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” #WendellBerry #StellaEhrich 🎨 #painter #painting #LandscapePainting #AmericanPainting #Vermont #artist #NewEngland
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“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” #WendellBerry #StellaEhrich 🎨 #painter #painting #LandscapePainting #AmericanPainting #Vermont #artist #NewEngland
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Ellin Anderson Tom Jardine I find that too. The form lets the thought take shape. Or it gives thought a path to think.
It's a very fine sonnet. It has clear, delicate thinking

'It’s not the harvest, but the hate
That makes me wonder, was I right,
Mechanical of limbs and gait,
In leaving waters Cambrian
To joust with nearly legless Man?'
#Spider #poetry and an illustration by #ArthurRackham . #BookologyThursday #poems #poets #PoetryLovers #PoetryTwitter

I can never forget this favorite childhood book: #TheBatPoet by #RandallJarrell . All about a little #bat who won’t act like the others but would rather compose #poems . Beautiful illustrations by #MauriceSendak and some bat #poetry for #BookologyThursday :
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Tolkien’s illustrations for #TheHobbit don't include any large #spider s , but the tiny symbols on this map were always enough to stand my hair on end. By #AlanLee : #Bilbo watches the butterflies of #Mirkwood . #spider #BookologyThursday #Tolkien and spiders: tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Spiders#:…

The Lost Belt of Metacom is a #NativeAmerican treasure that belonged to the legendary #Wampanoag chief: “curiously woven of #wampum nine inches broad in black and white figures and flowers, and many pictures of birds and bears.” Discover beaded #jewelry at etsy.com/shop/SummerStr…

'The dandelion reaching for the sun,

Doesn’t know it’s millions of miles away.

I like to think it thinks it will touch it someday.'

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#poetry community #writing #poetry #amwriting #writerslift #blog #WritingCommunity #poem

One Needs Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted - Emily Dickinson

Dickinson startles me, grips me, time and time again - a woman who barely left her town, her state - and yet... She knew humanity, she knew the internal world like no other. Her meticulous diction, I can drown in it