Day: October 17, 2021

Wash of Cold River by Hilda Doolittle

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Wash of Cold River

Wash of cold river
in a glacial land,
Ionian water,
chill, snow-ribbed sand,
drift of rare flowers,
clear, with delicate shell-
like leaf enclosing
frozen lily-leaf,
camellia texture,
colder than a rose;

wind-flower
that keeps the breath
of the north-wind —
these and none other;

intimate thoughts and kind
reach out to share
the treasure of my mind,
intimate hands and dear
drawn garden-ward and sea-ward
all the sheer rapture
that I would take
to mould a clear
and frigid statue;

rare, of pure texture,
beautiful space and line,
marble to grace
your inaccessible shrine

Hilda Doolittle

Hilda Doolittle
Born: 10 September 1886, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 27 September 1961, Zurich, Switzerland

Doolittle was a novelist, poet, and memoirist associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde imagist poets, including Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound. Doolittle published under the pen name H.D. She grew up just outside Philadelphia, moving to London in 1911. Married once, Doolittle had several relationships with both men and women and unapologetic about her sexuality became an icon for both the LGBT and feminist movements when her poems , plays and essays reappeared in the 1970s and 1980s

Peace and War

~ JezzieG

Peace and War
Form: Pathya Vat
Theme: Art
Subject: Peace and War by Peter Paul Rubens

Hey little girl
With big wide eyes
Why are you scared
Of those dark skies
Call me in sighs
Tell me your thoughts
Why you’re feeling
So out of sorts
In sacred courts
They fight for peace
And you’ll be safe
The war will cease
And wealth increase
Oh little girl
Let go of fear
Gods can be churl
Peace and War by Peter Paul Rubens, 1629-30. Oil on canvas: National Gallery, London, UK

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Walking on the Moon by The Police

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The Police

The Police

An English rock band formed in London in 1977, The Police consisted of Sting (songwriter, lead vocals and bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar), and Stewart Copeland (drums and percussion. The band was globally popular during the British new wave scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s and played a style of rock influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz

Walking on the Moon
Album: Regatta de Blanc
Date: 1979
Genre: New Wave

Lyrics by Sting

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don’t break
Walking on the moon

We could walk forever
Walking on the moon
We could be together
Walking on, walking on the moon

Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon
Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon

Feet they hardly touch the ground
Walking on the moon
My feet don’t hardly make no sound
Walking on, walking on the moon

Some may say
I’m wishing my days away
No way
And if it’s the price I pay
Some say
Tomorrow’s another day
You stay
I may as well play

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don’t break
Walking on the moon

We could walk forever
Walking on the moon
We could be together
Walking on, walking on the moon

Some may say
I’m wishing my days away
No way
And if it’s the price I pay
Some say
Tomorrow’s another day
You stay
I may as well play

Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up

Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up

Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up

Keep it up, keep it up
Keep it up, keep it up