Daily Poetics

Between living and dreaming is a third thing. Guess it.

Juliana Santacruz Herrera celebrates the potholes on the streets and sidewalks of paris with vibrant color ... How joyful!! Via NotCot

Title Quote: Richard Kehl

 

... teach disappearing also me the keen / illimitable secret of begin

This song always puts a skip in my step ... will snap me out of even the worst moods ... Enjoy!!

Title Quote: e.e. cummings

 

The despair of the blank page: it is so full.

On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 

 

1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 

 

2. The despair of the blank page: it is so full. 

 

3. In the head Art’s not democratic. I wait a long time to be a writer good enough even for myself. 

 

4. The best time is stolen time. 

 

If the wind means me, I'm Here! Here.

I love the delicacy and darkness of these paper sculptures I want to toucch them but would be afraid to, I like that. By BrowneHsieh 

Title Quote: Theodore Roethke

Learning words have the blood of birds.

This is absolutely magical. I've always been enchanted by the idea of the birds next. I love the natural ones made from twigs and leaves but I especially marvel when our fragments end up woven in. I remember findind a mouse next outside of my house once and in it were little remants of silk and yarn that the little guy acquired when paying a visit inside my creating space. It beautiful, using what you have. Birds The Ultimate DIY Architect +  Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them, via NotCot

Title Quote: Paul Carrol

If only there were a perfect word I could give to you - a world like some artichoke that could sit on the table, dry, and become itself.

This video is short and it is amazing! Title Quote: Sandra Hochman

The heart is a strong shore and the ocean has many moods. // Mark Nepo

Prayer Tablets 

"Thousands of wooden prayer tablets, ema, hang outside Meiji Jingu, a Shinto shrine. Japanese are not normally religious, but during times of crisis they often revert back to traditional beliefs. Prayers for disaster victims and the nuclear crisis are written and hung around a divine tree. In a special ceremony, Shinto priests burn the prayers as an offering." //  Susie Rain