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Poetry

Wonderful World

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by Viktoria Vidali on February 22, 2010

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Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast ~
World, you are beautifully drest.

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By The Same Door

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by Viktoria Vidali on February 2, 2010

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Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door where in I went.

~ From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald

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Always Present

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by Viktoria Vidali on January 18, 2010

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Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past …
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The Beauty Of Things

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by Viktoria Vidali on January 10, 2010

in Poetry,Quotations

–to feel
Greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural
Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. ~ Robinson Jeffers

[Photo: Laguna La Restinga National Park, Isla Margarita, Venezuela]

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Sacred Space

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by Viktoria Vidali on December 28, 2009

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Consecration of Place
of Now –
in Silence
in Listening
in Seeing with Open Heart Time’s passing.
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December Figs

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by Viktoria Vidali on December 21, 2009

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Who would have imagined
winter figs, sweet, rain-laden,
outside my window on a magic
mountain in Big Sur?
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The Sun Never Says

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by Viktoria Vidali on December 15, 2009

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Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe
Me.”
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Before The Fire

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by Viktoria Vidali on December 14, 2009

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Two at a Fireside

I built a chimney for a comrade old;
I did the service not for hope or hire:
And then I traveled on in winter’s cold,
Yet all the day I glowed before the fire.

~ Edwin Markham (1852-1940)

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Like The Hush

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by Viktoria Vidali on December 7, 2009

in Poetry,Quotations

Poetry

She comes like the hush and beauty of the night
And sees too deep for laughter;
Her touch is a vibration and a light
From worlds before and after.

~ Edwin Markham (1852-1940)

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The Grammar Of Relationships

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by Kevin Brown on November 1, 2009

in General,Guest Writers,Poetry,Weekly Post

Diagramming Won’t Help This Situation

by Kevin Brown

Grammatical rules have always baffled
me, leaving me wondering whether my
life is transitive or intransitive, if I am the
subject or object of my life, and no one
has been able to provide words to describe
my actions, even if they do end in –ly.
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