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What We Can Learn From The 2014 FIFA World Cup Teams
Originally posted on Desperate Pursuit in Venice:
The 2014 World Cup is over and I am proud of my home country team Germany which won the Cup yesterday. As I watched the game, I could feel the pressure both teams were under. Blood, sweat and tears were all part of this suspenseful match. Both teams…
Day’s End #photography #poetry
Originally posted on penned in moon dust:
? Rain drops collide with mid afternoon heat thunder’s timpani roll in loud rumbles the conductor excitedly increases the tempo light flashes as the cymbals strike leaves clap their hands trees bow in deference the moon’s light brightens the sky nature hushes waiting for a silvery banquet fire…
MUSIC OF SILK AND FLUTES AT THE TRANSITION STORM
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Swift wind, heaven high, summer’s cry of grief The Golden sky’s water has fallen, autumn clouds Approach, like a morning scene good and fine The pear tree on the hill has little fed flowers Seasons stir an endless shed of leaves Summer frustrating into Autumn, whitening temples Etched into temporary…
WHEN WILL I be able to RETURN?
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
After the long escort, now we part What mixes all the days together Gifted us this human world of togetherness Green mountains: sweet fragrance In each region, you are eulogised and cherished Divinity happy in the heart, in a world Of water and crystal and tranquil space Nature walked with…
Writing is About Living
Originally posted on Melissa Muhlenkamp:
Decisions, like most things in life, come down to priorities. I remember reading a post by Nathan Bransford a long time ago where he said something along the lines of, no project or goal is worth pushing aside the most important people in your life. Nathan, please forgive me for…
NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
(Ode to Nandine Gordimer) Nadine Gordimer #RIP [She was called one of the great “guerrillas of the imagination” by the poet Seamus Heaney] Dear poet, who said: ‘There is no moral authority Like that of Sacrifice’ It was you, people give One another things that can’t be Gift-wrapped, how many…
Love Hurts
Originally posted on Christa Wojciechowski:
? I chose this quote as the theme of my third novel in The Sculptor series. It’s from Franz Kafka’s Letters to Milena, which is a posthumously published collection of his love letters sent to Milena Jesenská, a married Czech journalist with whom he had a long distance love affair. The relationship…
Reading Michael Keevak on George Psalmanazar
Originally posted on The New Psalmanazar:
It’s either a ridiculous oversight of mine or else part of some grand plan which I have yet to form that I’ve never published anything about George Psalmanazar on a website ostensibly named for him. I’ll remedy that today by posting some of my reading notes for Michael Keevak’s…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 