“The Earth would die
If the sun stopped kissing her.”
Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī
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Interior with a Book, 1959
Richard Diebenkorn
“Richard Diebenkorn worked in two styles-gestural realism, as in Interior with a Book, and complete abstraction, as in the Ocean Park Series.
In Interior with a Book, Diebenkorn integrates flat areas of color with more realistic passages suggesting three-dimensional space. The right two-thirds of the canvas present a landscape, sky and interior space in terms of an abstract pattern of horizontal bands of color. Perspective, or the illusion of receding space, is achieved through the intersection of these horizontals with the diagonal lines of the window frame. The careful placement of a chair, book and trees enhances this illusion of depth.
The empty chair and open book suggest the absence or eventual presence of a solitary figure, creating a mood of quiet anticipation.”
“This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
– William Shakespeare
The Lily
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat’ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
William Blake
Summer-Haiku
Leonard Cohen
from “The Spice-Box of Earth”
For Frank and Marian Scott
Silence
and a deeper silence
when the crickets
hesitate
All that you see has appeared because of Love.
All shines from Love,
All pulses with Love,
All flows from Love —
No, once again, all is Love!
~ Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi
Red Satin Sheets
They say she was like red satin sheets
on a dark day
They say he was like the weather under them
and he adored her love
They were like a match made in Heaven
and a hurricane made in Hell
And they were full of a passion that
could only bring their tragedy
And when he lost her
he could never love another
red satin sheet again
“A mystic takes unity and diversity as one. Further, he sees unity in diversity. He tells the world that the One and the Many are one. The One is Many in its universal form. The Many are One in their transcendental form.” – Sri Chinmoy 💐
“There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness.
We are lutes, no more, no less.”
“Let the beauty we love become the good we do.”
Maverick Mist 