The Great Harvest
Oak Leaf through sunlight sparks patterns in the imagination, twigs and branches and bark and wood fires....
Poetry is Science
Leaves of Grass: Walt Whitman comes into mind....
Who Else?
Close Up of Maple Leaf: PRIMAL
I am picking up some favorite books~ friends and references, memories and time rewound. Then I push fast forward. Let's open pages at random:
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams:
"The Archangel Loved Heights...."
"Science and Art are One...."
William Blake Selected Poems:
A Cradle Song,
"Sleep Sleep beauty bright
Dreaming o'er the joys of night...."
William Butler Yeats Poetry for Young People:
* The Lake Isle of Innisfree
"I shall arise and go now, and go to Innisfree
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows I will have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade...."
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows I will have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade...."
Twinning~
Basking in the afterglow of books well lived and written....
Science is Poetry
Science is Poetry
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Resources:
Books:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, a classic
Mont-Saint-Michele and Chartres by Henry Adams, 1905 by Henry Adams, 1933 by Charles Francis Adams, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
William Blake Selected Poems, Gramercy Books, New York, 1999 Random House Value Publishing
William Butler Yeats Poetry for Young People, ed. Jonathan Allison and Illustrated by Glenn Harrington, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York, New York, 2002
* Notes about poem: Innisfree: "the heathery island," a small island in Lough Gill, County Sligo. "Wattles" rods and branches interwoven.
Also an Irish folk song, The Isle of Innisfree (pronounced "Innish free")
Music:
Irish Folk Music, various
Roots, Leaves, Branches: Ben Cooper, Radical Face
Neil Diamond Greatest Hits: Holly Holy , Song Sung Blue, Stones, Sooliamon
Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor
Images: photos by Dahlis
Oak Leaf through Sunlight
Primal close up maple leaf
Twinning, maple leaves
