WILLIAM-ADOLPHE BOUGUERAU (1825) 1905), FRENCH PAINTER: Romanticism and neo-realism, in a painting style perfect
HALLUCINATION: Poetry of Bai Yuchan
HALLUCINATION He invaded my house, passed the gate of the courtyard, went through the cracks destination. Then, standing, alive, in the middle of the courtyard, he explains the truth of this beautiful cock I chuckled, she has much still to be clarified. This newborn piglet is wonderful, I giggled as before. She still takes me back: these flowers are really …
Read More »MEXICO, THE PACIFIC COAST: Endless beaches, embraced by a mild climate, even in winter
Not only tourists coming from the United States, but from all over the world. The sport of sailing and surfing, underwater fishing and comfort, not only have the name of Acapulco, but also to Puerto Vallarta and any place of Baja California. Arid deserts with cacti and steppe accompany your path, but you never forget that you are surrounded by …
Read More »CLAUDE MONET (1840/1926), FRENCH PAINTER: Eyes open to nature, the colors and the heart to love it
LAND OF SPARROWS: Poetry of Nazih Abu ‘Afash
LAND OF SPARROWS Maybe you think: this is a dark red flower flowing on the rock, these forms aggregates at the edges of the trenches are shepherds doze. The earth, as he depicted the brush of God, it is a field ready for plowing, for wheat, the walks, the songs. Maybe you think, does not know, how could he know …
Read More »HEART: Poetry of Margaret Atwood
HEART Some sell their blood. You will sell the heart. Either that or the soul. The hard part is to pull out the damn thing. A kind of spiral movement, like an oyster shell, your spine a pulse, and then, hey presto! It is in your mouth. Nearly you put yourself in turmoil, like un’attinia ejecting a stone. There is …
Read More »EDVARD MUNCH (1864/1944), NORWEGIAN PAINTER: The Impressionist who painted the nuances of love and fear, death, melancholy and anxiety
MATTHIAS GRÃœNEWALD (1480/1528), GERMAN PAINTER: Shades of expression, walking on asymmetries chromatic paintings
ROSE FLOWER: Poetry Hai Zi
ROSE FLOWER Rose flower, body like honey. He rose garden, hair like night, hold the white snow of her swollen breasts. It brings snow, outside the door of snow two glasses of wine covered with white snow. Window of snow, in the window of white snow two valleys rose flaming, or two candles flaming two candles burning burning himself, to …
Read More »FROM A NOTEBOOK: Poetry, by James Merrill
FROM A NOTEBOOK The whiteness near and far. The cold, the hush. A first word stops the blizzard, steps out into fresh candor. You ask no more. Each never taken stride leads onward, though in circles ever smaller, smaller. The vertigo upholds you. And now to glide, across the frozen pond, steelshod, to chase its dreamless oval, with loop and …
Read More »PAOLO VERONESE (1528/1588), ITALIAN PAINTER: A painting accurate, with clear and iridescent shades of color
POETRY IS A BOMB ATTACK CELESTIAL: Poetry, by Vicente Huidobro
POETRY IS A BOMB ATTACK CELESTIAL I’m absent, but the bottom of this there is no expectation of myself, and this expectation is another form of presence, waiting for my return. I live in the other objects, giving a little trip of my life in certain trees and certain stones, which I have waited many years. They are tired of …
Read More »VASILIJ VASILYEVICH KANDINSKY (1866/1944), RUSSIAN PAINTER – The father of abstract art, without distinction between figure and background, giving birth to abstract compositions
VISITING THE ISLANDS IONIAN: Greece, starting from Corfu
They are many, they are far apart, but well reached by comfortable ferries. The advice is to arrive in the island of Corfu (if you want to visit the northern part of the archipelago), or from Kefalonia, to the southern islands. You find – even now – many tourists, but also many fishing villages and many beaches. If you want …
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