Author: L.E. Hansen

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Dragonflies & Others

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The kids below, from the nursery, look more like Canga dancers waiting for the music to start up. Then they’ll come alive with the dance, to begin.damselDFnurseryMfloss“Damselfly nursery. Some plants are very popular with egg-laying damselflies.”

Mental Floss magazine is promoting the book by Pieter van Dokkum. I think the photos by Mark Berkery shown here before, in Others, are better. They are certainly stunning and gorgeous. At least much more up close and personal. Maybe it’s a matter of personal preference. In any case, here’s The Joker, from

   Mark, Nature’s Place     I hope he has a book too, tho I don’t see one promoted on his blog pages. Maybe I’ve just missed it, mesmerized as I am by the photos themselves. (This is a katydid.)

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World Poetry Day

There isn’t much to say about some poems. They speak for themselves and echo into the world.

Photo From BrainPickings Dylan Thomas—One of the best. Here’s a recording of Dylan reading his own poem. Posted on YouTube.

 

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The Feminine

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Fabulous moon, wherein we draw in the feminine, this—this gives us life. Oh to be born during the night. To yowl first screams before the dawn. To sing of the hoof traces left panting and bloody in the snow.

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Derek Walcott

LOVE AFTER LOVE

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,derekwalcott
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott—January 23, 1930—March 17, 2017

 

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Here we go again…

My MacBook has been returned to me all safe and sound. Now I have only to get caught up. Hummm. That could take awhile. Especially since I’ve added piano work and exercise to my dailies. This is what drives people to naps.

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