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For 7/22: sculpture called "Rubato" in front of Malmö Live (music hall complex) -- one is allowed to climb in it...
For 7/29
Too many pictures of marvels to know which to be able to share... so a glimpse of a rainbow will have to do. Here in the Faroes, natives think nothing of the constant shift from blustery wind, pelting rain to a a blue sky and sun shining on a waterfall dance. We saw many "rainbow opportunities" but yesterday was the first real one
for Aug. 12 -- a picture of the Quiraing
We are about to leave the magic of the Scottish Highlands, and now starts the friends and family part of the trip. I will look forward to seeing you on Aug. 19 and 21
For Aug. 19
picture of modern market and St. Nicolas Church in Ghent!
July 15 A Dream of the Future by Joyce Sutphen;
The House With Nobody In It by Alfred Joyce Kilmer;
July 22 (poems on beauty)
Poems are not going to dramatically change your life. Do not approach them as if they do.
Poems ask you to pay attention — that's all. A poem cannot be paraphrased. In fact, a
poem's greatest potential lies in the opposite of paraphrase: ambiguity.
Life is Beautiful, by Dorianne Laux; No Images by Waring Cuney; Scarf by Rita Dove; Quilt by Nikki Giovanni; The Word by Tony Hoagland; Retired by Faith Shearin
Judith's take: That first one was a lulu after one got through the sly presentation of it as just a mass of sentences squished together. And like so much poetry it made a much greater impression when read aloud. The other poem which was SO impressive was the No Images—especially when we heard it sung by Nina Simone—o my o my o my. The only thing I can compare it to was Kathleen Ferrier singing Ben Jonson’s “Have You Seen But the White Lily Blow.” And what warmed the cockles (and muscles) of my heart was Simone’s gorgeous pronunciation! No mumble and she pronounced her “t” which nobody in America does anymore—just as I cringe when I hear “bewdy” for “beauty”…
So the Rita Dove poem presented after just could not hold its place—because ANYTHING would have been a let down after that prior experience. We liked it very much but it had to suffer in that lineup. Quilts was much appreciated also. Neil spoke of having all his late wife’s slogan T shirts laid out like a quilt, which went over well as he was wearing a Gorey sweatshirt about books…Kathy thought that the kings and queens in the penultimate stanza sort of did not fit the poem’s style—I agreed with her. Lots of people liked the lines about the coffee grinder and the spare tire.
It was a rousing session!
July 29
This selection in the Year of the Horse, (2026) is from Poem-a-Day selections 10 years ago.
Galway Races by W. B. Yeats 1865 –1939; Tender Buttons [Nothing Elegant] by Gertrude Stein; Letters by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Electrons by Ruth Madievsky; Any Common Desolation by Ellen Bass;
Accepting Heaven at Great Basin by Nathalie Handal; Eros by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jack-in-the-Pulpit by Kimiko Hahn (side by side w/ poem that inspired it) Queen-Anne's-Lace by William Carlos Williams
Horses by Witter Bynner
August. 5 poems related to food; You might enjoy more here: "Feast on this smorgasbord of poems about eating and cooking, exploring our relationships with food.
We Eat Out Together by Bernadette Mayer; Eating Alone by Li-Young Lee 1957; Churning Day by Seamus Heaney; The Rambutan Notebooks by Aimee Nezhukumatathil; Butter by Elizabeth Alexander One thing is easy / to keep, your old language I use for poems / and pillow talk.”-- from New Tradition/新传统 by Evan Wang https://poets.org/poem/new-traditionxinchuantong;
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