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After Your Death

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 26, 2016
Posted in: Music, Nature, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: After Your Death, Butterflies, fruit, grief, Hall, insects, Masse, Natasha Trethewey, Reaper.

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After Your Death
Natasha Trethewey

First, I emptied the closets of your clothes,
threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised
from your touch, left empty the jars

you bought for preserves. The next morning,
birds rustled the fruit trees, and later
when I twisted a ripe fig loose from its stem,

I found it half eaten, the other side
already rotting, or—like another I plucked
and split open—being taken from the inside:

a swarm of insects hollowing it. I’m too late,
again, another space emptied by loss.
Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill.

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I Never Was To Africa

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 25, 2016
Posted in: Flowers, Music, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: Ferron, I Never Was To Africa, love, Red Rose.

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I Never Was To Africa
Ferron

If you’re ever sitting where the rushes grow
Or you catch a red rose bloom
Or if you’re ever standing where a raging river flows
And you feel yourself a lonesome tune
That’s right it’s me again
Right by your side
And you can yell out through the wind “She’s mine”
And ‘tho the wind might wail it will not cry
It will say “She always was and so am I”

I never was to Africa ‘tho it comes up in my dreams
And we never got our hearts in tune
If time is what it seems
But maybe when you’re with someone
who you understand
And you tell them “I love you”
Well maybe I’ll be with someone and I’ll take their hand
And I’ll say “I love you too”

And if I’m ever where the rushes grow
Or I catch a red rose bloom
Or if I’m ever standing where a raging river flows
And I feel myself a lonesome tune
I’ll know it’s you again right by my side
And I’ll yell out through the wind “She’s mine”
And while the wind might wail it will not cry
It will say “She always was and so am I”.

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WPC: Quest

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 24, 2016
Posted in: Art, Music, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge. Tagged: DPchallenge, Gold Rush, Harve Presnell, Maria, postaday, Quest, Weekly Photo Challenge.

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Weekly Photo Challenge:  Quest

Fire within ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 23, 2016
Posted in: Flowers, Music, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: Burning, Dahlia, desire, fire, Garou, love, moon, Pablo Neruda.

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“As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

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A Magic Moment I Remember

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 21, 2016
Posted in: Flowers, Music, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: A Magic Moment I Remember, Alexander Pushkin, Jay and the Americans, love, rare, Remembrance.

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A Magic Moment I Remember
Alexander Pushkin

A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that’s beautiful and rare
I pray to mute despair and anguish,
To vain the pursuits world esteems,
Long did I hear your soothing accents,
Long did your features haunt my dreams.
Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered
The reveries that once were mine
And I forgot your soothing accents,
Your features gracefully divine.
In dark days of enforced retirement
I gazed upon grey skies above
With no ideals to inspire me
No one to cry for, live for, love.
Then came a moment of renaissance,
I looked up – you again are there
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that’s beautiful and rare.

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Kisses ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 20, 2016
Posted in: Flowers, Music, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: Dahlia, Kisses Sweeter than Wine, Peter Paul & Mary, Robert Herrick.

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“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

— Robert Herrick

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Mystery ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 19, 2016
Posted in: Flowers, Music, Nature, Photography. Tagged: garden, Ken Kesey, Mystery, Mystery Wind, Richard Thompson, strange plants.

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“I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking.
But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.” — Ken Kesey

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Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 18, 2016
Posted in: Nature, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: Eco Watch, Emily Dickinson, Extinction, Goldfinch, Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird.

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Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird
by Emily Dickinson

Upon his saddle sprung a bird
And crossed a thousand trees
Before a fence without a fare
His fantasy did please
And then he lifted up his throat
And squandered such a note
A Universe that overheard
Is stricken by it yet—

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1.5 Billion Birds Lost in North America Since 1970s

Love’s reward ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 17, 2016
Posted in: Flowers, Inspiration, Music, Photography. Tagged: Dahlia, Leonard Cohen, love, Reward, Suzanne, Thomas Merton.

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“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved.
It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves.
Love, therefore, is its own reward.” – Thomas Merton

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Wings & Crutches ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 16, 2016
Posted in: Music, Nature, Photography. Tagged: Butterflies, Colley Cibber, crutches, garden, Harvest Moon, love, Neil Young, wings.

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“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.” — Colley Cibber

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