December 23, 2024 5:11 pm

PAINTING BAZAAR AND HAREM – John Frederick Lewis, oils and watercolour, painting oriental themes

JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS 1/4 – He was a student of his father Frederick Christian (a landscape painter), and to the age of 15 he sold his first painting (a work that represented the animals). This English, who paints in the nineteenth century (during the Romantic period), is known for his paintings oriental, exotic scenes with a Mediterranean flavor, a sea …

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WEARING JOY AT HOME – Underwear and family, a mix between a hotel and the home of a friend: Bed and Breakfast Casa Portagioia

http://www.tuscanbreaks.com/Italian/index_italian.htm If you are looking for the place to relax and meditate, maybe you need a refreshing place, perhaps a beautiful place in the center of Italy. Of course, you can also taste the cheese pecorino cheese (along with a good wine), move between beautiful cities (Arezzo, Cortona, Montepulciano, Siena and Assisi), give you a full day in the cradle …

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SHOULD LANTERNS SHINE – Poetry by Dylan Thomas

SHOULD LANTERNS SHINE Should lanterns shine, the holy face, Caught in an octagon of unaccustomed light, would wither up, and any boy of love look twice before he fell from grace. The features in their private dark are formed of flesh, but let the false day come and from her lips the faded pigments fall, The mummy cloths expose an …

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SOFTLY – Poetry by FrantiÅ¡ek Halas

SOFTLY Lean spike is your body, from which the grain is dropped and will not return to sprout as a lean spike is lean your body. Skein of silk is your body, penned by the lust to the last wrinkle, like a skein of silk is your body. Sky burned is your body, in death fabric dreams ambushes, as a …

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WELCOME TO PASCUA FLORIDA – Fishing perch, smoking a cigar, including swamps and mangroves

http://www.stateofflorida.com/travel-information.aspx Its western coastline is dotted with famous beaches (Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Key West and Fort Myers), all with a pleasant climate even in winter. Yes, it is a good place to catch the sun and embrace the fun. The climate of Florida is semi-tropical, so when you arrive you find mild winters, hot and humid summers. When …

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HE SAW HER ONLY ONCE – Poetry by Vladimír Holan

HE SAW HER ONLY ONCE He saw her only once. But from that moment he was surprised, and sang a song but do not know to whom, and intoned a chorus but no one followed him. He dared to worship her like that for a whole year, present to the future, as now knew where unsuspecting heavily it back, the …

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PAVILION ON THE LAKE – Poetry by Wang Wei

PAVILION ON THE LAKE Light the boat I met nice guest door, which is the distance from much of the lake. Then, in the loggia, in front of a cup of wine, each side lotus flowers will open. In front of the balcony, as more ripples the expanse of water, the solitary moon goes wandering ceaselessly. From the bottom of …

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THOSE TWO, EMBRACED – Poetry by Izet Sarajlić

THOSE TWO, EMBRACED Those two embraced on the bank of the Rhine in Gottlieben, could also be you and me, but the two of us never will walk most of any hugged the shore. Come on, we walk at least in this poem (Izet Sarajlić) http://www.amazon.com/fatto-Collezione-poesia-Italian-Edition-ebook/dp/B016NKFHZI

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ASK THE HORIZON, ENRICHED WITH BLOOM OF STARS – Ibn Zamrak Poetry

ASK THE HORIZON, ENRICHED WITH BLOOM OF STARS Ask the horizon, adorned the flourishing of stars. In Him I trust, that you know who I am. The breeze I entrusted the burden, with which crosses time wandering hope. Whoever obeys his eyes to the laws of love, knows that it is usually break the veto imposed by the censor, avoiding …

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PATAGONIA – Poetry by Kate Clanchy

PATAGONIA I said perhaps Patagonia, and pictured a peninsula, wide enough for a couple of ladderback chairs, to wobble on at high tide. I thought of us in breathless cold, facing an horizon round as a coin, looped in a cat’s cradle strung by gulls from sea to sun. I planned to wait, till the waves had bored themselves to …

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WRECK & PIRATES – The Golden Boa Vista and the beaches of Cape Verde

If you walk up just north of Sal Rei – going beyond Praia da Cruz – you can observe the sea the peninsula of Ponta do Sol (the southernmost point of the island), but do not forget to photograph the lighthouse. Step by step, you will understand that the north coast is a single beach (the magnificent “Boa Esperanca”), the …

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