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Rose by =Gygrazok on deviantART: Jul 25, 8:42pm 1 review art, digital
http://gygrazok.deviantart.com/art/Rose-44402021; "Rose"
by =Gygrazok
on deviantART

The Extreme Assignation

The smallest thing is invisible.
The largest thing is invisible.
Where we are
This must always be.

We are in between
The invisible.

I can say on what I have proposed
That,
In between
The smallest thing and
The largest thing,
We are together.

Please forgive my presumption...
But
How shall we meet?

Will you wear something?
Something we'll both know--
In your hair?
Like a rose.
Yes, a rose.

What color shall the rose be?
Let it be red.
Let it be white.
You decide.
The reddest rose and
The whitest rose
Shall guide you.

Where will you find your rose?
Not in a florist.
Not the prettiest rose.
Though it will be for me.
Not the rose most withered.
Though a rose never dies.
Pray that I don't get tied in nots.

Just choose a rose that you cut
With kindness.
Not the kindest cut.
Just enough.
Then you'll have
A rose that you will know--
Your rose.

I feel better now.
I will recognize you
Because you are wearing your rose.

Please do not move.
I don't wish to miss you.
I will cover
All the space in between
The largest and smallest things.

We are so lucky to have this time
In between what no one sees.
Dearest...
You are the only permissible superlative
That this conceit will bear,
For my mind to apprehend,
And my heart to love.

The moment we meet...
How do we begin?
What a question.
You have already given me the answer.
We'll begin again.

--Dr.M

http://artist01.com/images/slideshow/ss_TheLoversKiss.jpg: Jun 29, 1:37pm 1 review art
http://artist01.com/images/slideshow/ss_TheLoversKiss.jpg; Kissing is good for you!

"The Lovers Kiss" by R.W. Hickox

Google Image Result for http://www.jimctaylor.com/PURPLE-HAZE-16X16-PENTEL-MA.j…: Jun 17, 7:19pm 0 review art
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jimctaylor.com/PURPLE-HAZE-...

Letters by ~adrianneamadeus on deviantART: Apr 27, 9:25am 1 review art
http://adrianneamadeus.deviantart.com/art/Letters-63149704; "Letters"
by ~adrianneamadeus
on deviantART

Sometimes I read your letters backwards,
Starting from the period, working my way back to the
Capital letter.
My mind floundered for meaning - then your words floated,
This way and that, fracturing the syntax - thinking this was revenge
For I thought you would say my syntax was sinful.

As your words kept floating I gained other meanings
Until I knew what you meant
Like your kisses, their meaning without a word.
You were a wizard with words, floating words like those
In Chinese poems you read to me as though I were
A priceless jade figure, though it was I who was jaded.
Knowing not Wang Wei, Tu Fu, Li Po, until you were them.

My thoughts often mistook what you said,
Or what you read, or what you would write
But you never judged me I never knew this because
I never let your words float through the fog of syntax --
Beware of technique you said -- in anything, especially words
They'll know soon enough the perfectly frilled sentence
Has no meaning - in this lucid dream you say
There is no syntax for love, either.

--Dr.M

&The Lovers& Wall Art by Thomas Dodd - RedBubble: Apr 26, 12:02pm 1 review art
http://www.redbubble.com/people/imageshifter/art/666384-4-the-lovers; "The Lovers"
by Thomas Dodd

"All romantic love is based on self-love, for it is in the eyes of our beloved that we see
our ideal self reflected.... and THAT is what utterly captivates us..."
--Thomas Dodd

&Where the Fireflies Come From& Wall Art by Thomas Dodd - RedBubble: Apr 26, 11:59am 1 review art
http://www.redbubble.com/people/imageshifter/art/690127-4-where-the-fireflies...; "Where the Fireflies Come From"
by Thomas Dodd

This image brought me back a little. I remember summers when I was a boy collecting fireflies in glass jars. I punched holes in the metal screw cap so they could breathe. They seemed like little twinkling stars, so gentle with their silent beating lights. I never kept them for long. They were so easy to catch. Sometimes I could cup one inside my two hands. Now that I am surrounded by almost everything "artifactual", living in Manhattan, I miss those magical little creatures. I remember wondering how in heaven did they light up. I never bothered to look it up then, nor have I googled it even now. I think I'd rather think that the fantasy image, "Where the Fireflies Come From", is the light of truth. --Dr.M

&Mnemosyne, Goddess of Memory& Wall Art by Thomas Dodd - RedBubble: Apr 26, 11:43am 1 review art
http://www.redbubble.com/people/imageshifter/art/971855-3-mnemosyne-goddess-o...; "Mnemosyne, Goddess of Memory"
by Thomas Dodd

From the Greek Mythology Link http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Mnemosyne.html:

"If someone is successful in his deeds, he casts a cause for sweet thoughts into the streams of the Muses. For those great acts of prowess dwell in deep darkness, if they lack songs, and we know of only one way to hold a mirror up to fine deeds: if, by the grace of Mnemosyne with her splendid headdress, one finds a recompense for toils in glorious song." [Pindar, Nemean Odes 7.11]

"... and in addition to the gods you mentioned I must call upon all the rest and especially upon Mnemosyne. For practically all the most important part of our speech depends upon this goddess ..." [Critias to Hermocrates. Plato, Critias 108d]

"Please assume ... that there is in our souls a block of wax, in one case larger, in another smaller, in one case the wax is purer, in another more impure and harder, in some cases softer, and in some of proper quality...Let us, then, say that this is the gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses, and that whenever we wish to remember anything we see or hear or think of in our own minds, we hold this wax under the perceptions and thoughts and imprint them upon it, just as we make impressions from seal rings; and whatever is imprinted we remember and know as long as its image lasts, but whatever is rubbed out or cannot be imprinted we forget and do not know."
[Socrates to Theaetetus. Plato, Theaetetus 191d]

"... If you had no memory you could not even remember that you ever did enjoy pleasure, and no recollection whatever of present pleasure could remain with you ..." [Socrates to Protarchus. Plato, Philebus 21c]

http://images.woodblock.com.s3.amazonaws.com/hi/800/09.jpg

Apr 13, 11:33pm

1 review

japan, art, print
http://images.woodblock.com.s3.amazonaws.com/hi/800/09.jpg

Ono no Komachi

The cherry blossoms
Have passed away, their color lost,
While to no avail
Age takes my beauty as it falls
In the long rain of my regret.

--Ono No Kamachi
--Translated by Earl Miner

So many translations of a beautiful poem.
In some ways one comes to
know the anguish that each translator has over how
her or his translation of golden verses will be received.

Incidentally, another writer prefers this translation by Donald Keene:

The flowers withered
Their color faded away
While meaninglessly
I spent my days in the world
And the long rains were falling.

With this in mind, the following interesting item was gleaned from this
web page: http://woodblock.com/poets/frame_index.php?year=1&print=2

"Ono no Komachi

Here is the second in this year's Hyaku-nin Isshu series, 'Ono noKomachi'.
I suppose that if there was a survey to find the best-known and most-loved of all old Japanese poems, this would be the undisputed winner:

See how the blossoms
That are falling about me
Fade after long rain
While, quietly as in prayer,
I have gazed my life away.

In a recent book in English discussing the Hyaku-nin Isshu, as a demonstration of just how wide a variety of interpretations of the poem were possible, the author introduced no less than 23 translations of this poem. Which one was the 'right' one? I suppose such a question has no meaning.
Japanese poetry of this type is noted for its lack of explicitness.
You take the images, and the suggestive hints, and make of them what you will ...
This picture is one of those that attracted me when I first saw the Shunsho book. Although the old volume that I saw in the museum was very faded, with the original colours being practically invisible,it was nonetheless a fabulous design, and I couldn't wait to make it into a full-sized print. I think that most of the colours I have used are quite close to the original
(although I think that they will not ade quite so much!).
I used 11 colour blocks in making this print,with some of them being applied twice to give a deeper colour.The hair alone uses three different blocks.
I very much enjoyed making this print, and I hope you enjoy studying it. We've had two quite dramatic poses now, and next month we'll 'quieten' things down a bit, with the print of Dainagon Tsunenobu.
Spring 1989
Translation - Tom Galt 1982"