THE AWAKENING

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 8, 2018
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THE AWAKENING
Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

In the early dawn of happiness
you gave me three kisses
so that I would wake up
to this moment of love

I tried to remember in my heart
what I’d dreamt about
during the night
before I became aware
of this moving
of life

I found my dreams
but the moon took me away
It lifted me up to the firmament
and suspended me there
I saw how my heart had fallen
on your path
singing a song

Between my love and my heart
things were happening which
slowly slowly
made me recall everything

You amuse me with your touch
although I can’t see your hands.
You have kissed me with tenderness
although I haven’t seen your lips
You are hidden from me.

But it is you who keeps me alive

Perhaps the time will come
when you will tire of kisses
I shall be happy
even for insults from you
I only ask that you
keep some attention on me.

My Studio

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 7, 2018
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My Studio
Raphael Soyer

"In this lithograph, Raphael Soyer represented himself at work on a portrait of a model, while his subject dresses in the foreground. The artist’s face is turned, and his portrait is characterized not by his features but by the vigor with which he works. The print captures the isolation that pervades the urban scenes Soyer painted in the 1940s. Even as the artist delights in the form of his model’s body on his canvas, he is entirely separated from her physical presence in his studio." 

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The Mountain And The Squirrel

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 6, 2018
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The Mountain And The Squirrel
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter
“Little prig.”
Bun replied,
“You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I’m not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry:
I’ll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track.
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a licensed minister who resigned from the clergy when his first wife passed away a couple years into their marriage. In this poem, a squirrel and a mountain have a quarrel because the mountain feels as though it is more important. Each person has his or her own individual talents, and everyone/everything has its purpose in this world, none greater or less than another.  [Source]

Where You Love From

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 5, 2018
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“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.

Drum sound rises on the air,
its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says,
“I know you’re tired,
but come. This is the way.”

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?
Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone?

Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.”
—
Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

WPC: 2017 Favorites

Posted by Maverick ~ on December 21, 2017
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“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” ― Jalal al-Din Rumi

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I selected the photo above from the Weekly Photo Challenge: Bridges, posted in July.
Perhaps I’m missing summer now that it’s winter because it has become much much colder.

Goodbye 2017, see you in 2018.

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 Weekly Photo Challenge:  2017 Favorites

Happy Holidays ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on December 10, 2017
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I’ve been making a post on here every day for over the past 4 years.  So now I thought might be a good time to go on hiatus and take a break during the holiday season in order to re-energize.  I leave you a festival of lights along with some selected Rumi quotes.  Have a happy and safe holiday season!
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“Love calls – everywhere and always.  We’re sky bound. Are you coming?”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.”  ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”  ❤️ ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

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Les Femmes du Maroc: Grande Odalisque

Posted by Maverick ~ on December 9, 2017
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Les Femmes du Maroc: Grande Odalisque
Lalla Essaydi

“The compelling photograph La Grande Odalisque, by Lalla Essaydi, which references Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ famous 1814 reclining nude, La Grande Odalisque. That oil painting, residing in the Louvre in Paris, belongs to a genre that came to be known as Orientalism. The term describes the exotic and sensual way in which 19th– and early 20th-century Western artists (mostly male) depicted the Muslim culture of North Africa and the Middle East.

In her photo series Les Femmes du Maroc,which includes Le Grande Odalisque, Essaydi reacts to and in some cases recreates these Orientalist images, making subtle changes in poses and facial expressions. Her subjects are draped in white (mourning) cloth and covered in dense Arabic calligraphy done in henna. The words are largely illegible but come from the artist’s own musings about personal identity and freedom.”-Toledo Museum

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Embraced: Yellow and Black

Posted by Maverick ~ on December 8, 2017
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Embraced: Yellow and Black
Jules Olitski

This is an abstract painting. At the lower center edge is a white ovoid form, formed with thick paint and surrounded by a few brushstrokes of blue. Above is another dark ovoid and atop it is a patch of vivid yellow. Other colors, washed across the surface, are blue, white, burgundy, purple and black. All of the colors and forms are bounded by a continuous “frame” of orange paint which appears to have been poured, rather than brushed, onto the canvas.

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WPC: Cheeky

Posted by Maverick ~ on December 7, 2017
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My first time
 by Emily Wimetal

The sky is dark, the moon is high
 All alone, just she and I
 Her hair so soft, her eyes so blue
 I knew just what she wanted to do
 Her skin so tender, her skin so fine
 I ran my fingers down her spine
 I didn't know how, I tried my best
 I began to place my hands on her breasts
 I remember my fear, my fast beating heart
 She slowly spread her legs apart
 And as I did I felt no shame
 All at once the white stuff came
 At last it's finished, it's all over now
 My very first time milking a cow!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cheeky