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Das innere Licht … The inner light

Dieses Mal als Musik. George Harrison hat hier ein wunderbares Gebet aus dem Hinduismus vertont. … This time as music. George Harrison has written …

Das innere Licht … The inner light

Salt

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem for kids in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Lãm Thắng
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm


Phuket on Fuji film

Salt

– Swimming in the sea
There’s no salt to see
And you say to me
Salt is from the sea

– But as the sun sets
Light and seawater met
Water left with the light
Only salt is left in sight.

May 2023
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Muối

– Bé đi tắm biển
Nào thấy muối đâu
Sao bảo là muối
Lấy từ biển sâu.

– Nhưng rồi triều lên
Tràn vào đồng nắng
Nước bay về trời
Là còn muối trắng.


Nguyễn Lãm Thắng

Born August 14th, 1973, writes under many pseudonyms: Nguyễn Lãm Thắng, Lam Thuỵ, Trà Thị Kim Xuyến and as a children’s author: Nguyễn Trần Bảo Nghi, Du Lãm, Nhật Quang, Nguyễn Trần Khải Tú…

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and…

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Os Lusíadas

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Das lembranças que na alma lhe moravam,

Que sempre ante seus olhos te traziam,

Quando dos teus fermosos se apartavam;

De noite, em doces sonhos que mentiram,

De dia, em pensamentos que voavam;

E quanto, enfim, cuidavam e quanto via

Eram tudo memórias de alegria. “

Os Lusíadas Canto III

Camões, Luís de

Os Lusíadas. 1 ed. Cotia, São Paulo. Pé da Letra, 2018

Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: pinterest/ Hand Luggage Only

Santarém, Pá 20 de maio de 2023

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Filosofa’s Meandering Mind …

Filosofa's Word

What Is R.E.S.P.E.C.T.?

Yesterday, I played Aretha Franklin’s wonderful song, R.E.S.P.E.C.T.  And then, I did my usual perusal of the day’s news and a question began to form in my mind:  What, precisely, is respect?  My first answer was that it is something we have far too little of in this world today.

A quick look at the online dictionary gives two definitions for the word “respect”:

  • a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
  • due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others.

Both are apt, I think, and certainly there are people who deserve our respect as per the first definition, though we might not agree on who those people are.  But the context in which I typically speak of respect is more aligned with the second definition … which can be simplified by my motto:  Live…

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Novel as Not Even Thinly Veiled Autobiography??

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

    Probably not a good idea, at least so all of the writing experts tell us.  But why, or why not?  I’ve heard it quoted that ‘all novels are autobiographical,’ which makes sense given that any and every line one writes tells much about the writer, no matter what that writer’s intention may have been.  Every word you write reveals something about you.  But you never have a chance to explain or give your own interpretation to your writing.  Once it is out in the world, readers will see in your writing what they wish to see.  Even if it is a true event which they would prefer (and you would also have preferred, for that matter) were not true, or a time when you wondered if you yourself might not be some alien artifact merely sent here to record these odd human goings-on, or if you always thought…

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Magnolia Reveries

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Alphabets become jeweled figurines
Like studded stars drip-dropping
Sparkling confetti on a magnolia vignette…
I sit in quiet solitude breathing in the solace of sepia memories…crocheting a borealis in my solstice day
Syllables of Monet flame
A potpourri of poesies
Galaxy’s champagne
Serenades my rosette fire
Kaleidoscopic eloquence
Needling a mantle of chrome waltzes
A phonographic euphoria
Etching a musky interlude
Of shared tears
Radiating scarlet of an Amaryllis quill…

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