electronic portrait painting from Chris D’Orta
lettered by Jeanne Poland
Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
02 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Chris D'Orta, curiosity, each heart is her teacher, electronic portrait painting, erratic behavior, flashes of intuition, freedom of expression, humanitarian, individuality, intuition, Quicksilver, refusing to conform, shocking, truth, unpredictable, untarnished
electronic portrait painting from Chris D’Orta
lettered by Jeanne Poland
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in certainties and doubts, Poetry Tags: angels, Blue Horses, calcified, certainties and doubts, claws or nails, confidence, confusion, curiosity, edges, hope, imagination, livable, Mary Oliver, Perhaps, raggedy edges, Ram Dass, sureness, wild horses
claws or nails?
My goal isn’t to take away your confusion. Confusion is a fertile field
in which everything is possible. If you think you “know,” you’ve just
calcified again. Ram Dass
Is there something exciting out on the raggedy edges called Perhaps?
What sorts of certainties stifle curiosity? What sorts of sureness make
life livable?
I have a lot of edges called Perhaps
and almost nothing you can call
Certainty.
Mary Oliver in “Angels,” Blue Horses
Hope keeps me from calcifying
Angels teach me “perhaps’
Curiosity makes imagination grow
and
the wild horses keep running!
01 Jul 2017 2 Comments
in innocence, Innocence 2, Poetry Tags: curiosity, Don in 1961@7 years of age, graced with affect, Innocence 2, Jeanne in 1958 @17 years of age, joy, two doves learn-yearn to fly
Don in 1961 @ 7 years of age
Jeanne in 1958 @ 17 years of age
.
graced with affect, joy
and curiosity, two
doves learn-yearn to fly!
31 May 2016 Leave a comment
in I need to see my grandchildren grow, Poetry Tags: bike, creative, curiosity, dropping seeds, every week, flashing light, Fun, grandmother, I need to see my grandchildren grow, love-rays, loyalty, quicksilver lady, respect, spin things
Annika Chef ready to grill
.
Every week
I need to see my grandchildren grow
To know
They have a grandmother such as I
Pie-in-the-sky
Creative quicksilver lady dropping seeds
With needs
Built in for curiosity, loyalty, respect and fun
To run
And bike and spin things-flashing light shining love-rays
Every week.
16 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: bicycles, curiosity, Curious George, cycle to safety, escape persecution, German occupation, H A Rey, Hans Augusto Rey, monkey drawings, published in NY, the illustrator's resolve
To escape persecution, as a Jew, Hans Augusto Rey and his wife, Margaret, had to escape Paris just before the German occupation in 1940. Hans created 2 bicycles to use to cycle to safety, fleeing with his monkey drawings and his life. Later the Curious George books were published in New York, and Hans was listed as illustrator, and Margaret as story writer.
Folio your gems:
Cycle them to freedom’s press:
c u r i o s i t y!