Looking in the mirror I see nothing special, a face puckered by age and a body carrying wear and tear...
Wisdom Highlights
Author: Raven
I am a freelance writer and poet and started writing after raising my two boys as a way of discovering just who Jez is. That is still very much an on-going project but the journey so far has introduced me to many wonderful friends and fellow writers through an ever growing love of poetry.
Duality
At dawn the first rays of sun light, That chase the shadows of the night To keep the joyful spirits bright...
Let Me Believe
whatever it takes no sacrifice is to great a silent promise I made...
Clouded #writephoto
Background: Every Thursday Sue Vincent hosts the #writephoto prompt. This week’s prompt ...
Thursday photo prompt: Clouded #writephoto
Welcome to this week’s #writephoto prompt!
You can find all last week’s entries in the weekly round-up, which was published earlier today.
Throughout the week, I will feature as many of the responses here on the Daily Echo as time and space allows, usually in the order in which they are submitted.
All posts will be featured in the weekly round-up on Thursday 20th August, linking back to the original posts of contributors.
Use the image below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, as long as it is fairly family-friendly.
Submit your link by noon (GMT) Wednesday 19th August.
Link back to this post with a pingback (Hugh has an excellent tutorial here) and/or leave a link in the comments below, to be included in the round-up. If you link to any…
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Thursday Thoughts …. “🤗 ‘After Social Distancing ‘ 🤗 …. “!!
A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms
Brahms was a composer, pianist, and conductor. He spent much of his professional life in Vienna. Brahms composed for orchestras, chamber ensembles, organ, piano and voice. A virtuoso pianist he premiered many of his own works himself. He is grouped with Bach and Beethoven as one of the ‘Three B’s’ of music...
Recorder Sonata by Georg Philipp Telemann
Telemann was a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He became a composer against his family’s wishes and was almost self-educated musically. Before settling in Hamburg in 1721 as a musical director of the city’s five main churches, he held important positions in Leipzig, Eisenach, and Frankfurt. He is one of the most prolific composers in history and considered to be one of the leading composers of the time...
Natural Instinct
The turning points of life pretty much suck, don’t they? I knew they were coming as the moments built up over years, even decades...
Game of Thrones by Ramin Djawadi
Djawadi is a score composer, best known for his scores for the Marvel film Iron Man in 2008 and the TV series Game of Thrones. He has also written the scores for Clash of Titans, Warcraft, and West World...
queen of the lake in the spotlight
Simply gorgeous
The Barbary Apes of Gibraltar – photos
The Barbary apes aren’t apes at all – they are tailless monkeys, Barbary macaques, who originated in the Atlas mountains of Morocco and were probably brought to Gibraltar by the Muslims when they invaded Europe.
I do adore monkeys. I always wanted a pet one but it isn’t very ethical.
These particular monkeys are doing very well. They first prospered because of the myth that the rock would always be British while the apes were there – so the British fed and nurtured them. Now they are a major tourist attraction and get fed and pampered.
Technically they are wild – though because they get fed and looked after, they have no fear of people and are dependent on humans.
They seemed to be enjoying themselves posing for photos.
These Barbary Macaques are the only wild monkeys left in Europe (apart from my grandchildren).
The Hunger of Souls
Each breath inhaling infusions of leathery musk and floral high notes that carries no name but it is so familiar...
Strip Tease
Wrap around chrome, gyrating slow moving sensuality, intimate glances torment sighs...
GrannyMoon’s Weekly Feast 9-16 Aug 2020! Thanks for reading my blog!
Blessed be my little witch. To those who came before and those who will come after, know that the Goddess is with you always. Thank you all my dear readers…be blessed. ~GrannyMoon
Remember dear humans, fresh air, sunshine, and communing with nature is the best medicine. It is good for our immune system. It also lifts the spirits and it breaks up the monotony of “social distancing!” How are you doing?
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The NEW MOON always rises at sunrise
And the FIRST QUARTER at noon.
The FULL MOON always rises at sunset
And the LAST QUARTER at midnight.
~The New Orleans Mistic
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Dark Moon – Time to Rest
New Moon – Time to Begin New Projects; Birth; Attraction
Waxing Moon – Time to Grow; Increase
Full Moon – Time to be Fulfilled; Abundance
Waning Moon – Time to Banish; Decrease
Last Sliver of Moon – Time to Die; Letting…
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Living with Demons
My mind was haunted. So hideous evil, dark, and cruel the word monster is insufficient...
Gender Repetition
Answering the same old questions and I watch him ticking the same old boxes another shrink scanning my mind...
Barge Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin
One of the foremost advocates of naturalistic representation from any artistic era Repin defined essence of Russian Realism. From the humble beginnings of his birth he became an artist of bedazzling skill and insight, creating technically skilled work which conveyed a deep sensitivity to human emotion and suffering, and to historical and political events. Repin was committed to the spirit of the peasant class of his roots which allowed his art to be a humane social commentary. Despite being highly critical of Tsarist oppression his work brought him fame within state institutions. It is perhaps ironic that as an adopted patriarch of drab Social Realism the power of his work resonates much further than that milieu or any narrow context....
Invitation
Black lace kissing thigh high silk painted nails enticing my sighs...
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Plath was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist. Best-known for advancing the genre of confessional poetry through her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1982. Plath married the poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they lived firstly in America then moved to England. The couple had two children before separating in 1962...
A Reason to Fight by Disturbed
Disturbed is a heavy metal band from Chicago, formed in 1994. The line-up includes David Draiman on vocals, guitarist/keyboardist Dan Donegan, John Moyer on bass, and drummer Mike Wengren. With sales over 17 million they are one of the most successful bands of the modern era alongside Slipknot and Godsmack. The band has released seven studio albums, five consecutively debuting at number one on the Billboard 200...
Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was a poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A stoic pillar of the Irish literary establishment he helped found the Abbey Theatre and served as a Senator of the Irish Free State...
Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
Poe was a writer, editor, and critic, best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre through poetry and short stories. He was a central figure of Romanticism in the USA and one of the earliest practitioners of the short story. He was the first well-known American writer to earn a living from writing alone, leading to a financially difficult life and career....
English Quintain Notes
The popular English Quintain has no set meter with a rhyme schemexbxbbxdxdd… etc.orababbcdcdd… etc. Example The Boatman by Sean Curtis Do not call the boatman earlyWe must all wait out our time,He will not come if it's untimelyHe'll leave you waiting out of lineAnd the future will not be fine If he comes and takes … Continue reading English Quintain Notes
Chained Sonnet Notes
More of an effect than a set sonnet form the chained sonnet can be used with any sonnet variant the poet chooses. Each line begins with the last word of the preceding line. For a cyclic chained sonnet the last word of the last line should be the first word of the first line. Structure: … Continue reading Chained Sonnet Notes
Hymn to the Gods
Forces of nature, hail to Thee, From here on bended knee. The Earth Mother graces us with life...
Two Sleeps
Wednesday, some call it Hump Day and bloggers go wordless sometimes but in my diary, it reads two sleeps...
Thursday photo prompt: Fantasy #writephoto
Welcome to this week’s #writephoto prompt!
You can find all last week’s entries in the weekly round-up, which was published earlier today.
Throughout the week, I will feature as many of the responses here on the Daily Echo as time and space allows, usually in the order in which they are submitted.
All posts will be featured in the weekly round-up on Thursday 13th August, linking back to the original posts of contributors.
Use the image below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, as long as it is fairly family-friendly.
Submit your link by noon (GMT) Wednesday 12th August.
Link back to this post with a pingback (Hugh has an excellent tutorial here) and/or leave a link in the comments below, to be included in the round-up. If you link to…
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Time Caught in Art Deco #Writephoto
The prompt from Sue, https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/3193846/posts/2846323574, I’d recognise that clock tower anywhere so know this is one of my fave places in this world. ..
round of wild roses
I only said to Bex the other day I have never seen red dog roses – well thank you Paul, you captured them far better than me
Ballad to the Goddess
She sings to me in silver tones She calls the merry tune The maidens dance before the crones...
And Ravens Fly
Old buildings have secrets so some would say Whispering between the walls Old souls watching o’er the living tonight...
1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky was a Romantic composer and the first Russian composer to make a lasting international impression. In 1884 Tsar Alexander III honoured him with a lifetime pension...
Hallucinations
Anguished winds driving through my dreams Like hurricanes and thunderstorms In flashing, surrealistic screams...
Blade Runner by Vangelis
Vangelis is a musician and composer of progressive, electronic, ambient, jazz and orchestral music. He is best-known for his Academy award winning score to Chariots of Fire and also composing scores for Blade Runner, Antarctica, Conquest of Paradise and Alexander. From a career spanning over 50 years Vangelis is considered one of the most important figures in the history of electronic music...
Washing Line Sails
freshness pegged on line hoisted high sails billow to travel the seas...
Break Point
Megan Cornecki sat in her bedsit with an electric shaver in her hand the day after watching the annihilation of the crowd of innocent people in the market square. Desperate people but innocent....
The Wheel of the Year
In honour of changing spiritual seasons in life, witches and pagans celebrate eight annual sabbats. These sabbats mark the eight annual passages of both spiritual and earthly energy. The wheel of the year is comprised of the eight sabbats. Each celebration comes under either greater or lesser sabbats....
From Time Gone By
In old tales of Wales, we see Bards through the Mabinogi Myth and magic come to be...
The Answer is No by Kay Sage
Sage was a Surrealist artist and poet. She was a member of the Golden Age and Post-War periods of surrealism. Sage is best known for her artistic works of an architectural nature...
A 19 by László Moholy-Nagy
Maholy-Nagy was a painter, photographer, and a professor at the Bauhaus school. He was influenced by constructivism and an advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. He collaborated works with other artists, including Lucia Maholy (his first wife), Marcek Breuer, Herbert Bayer, and Walter Gropius. However, his greatest accomplishment is the School of Design in Chicago, which is now part of the Illinois Institute of Technology...
I Suppose
A gentleman and his wife pose In sadness, a thought comes to me On a lap a baby should be...
Cars by Gary Numan
Gary Numan is a singer, musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He began his career in the music industry as the frontman for Tubeway Army. In 1979, Numan started his solo career with the album The Pleasure Principle...
Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
Kipling was a journalist, poet, short-story writer, and novelist. Kipling ws born in India which inspired much of his work, including The Jungle Book and Kim...
A Moments Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist. He is credited with reshaping Bengali literature and Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1913 he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature...
Get the Party Started by P!nk
‘Get the Party Started’ is the first single released from the album ‘Missundaztood’ by P!nk. An international hit, it reached the top ten in many countries, peaking at number one in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Romania, Spain, and Wallonia. In 2003, the song ranked at 185 in Q Magazines 1001 Best songs, and in 2019, number one in About.com’s The Top 100 Best Party Songs of All Time...
Who’s Who by Benjamin Zephania
Born and raised in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, UK, Zephaniah is a writer, dub poet and Rastafarian. He is dyslexic and attended an approved school but left at 13 years old unable to read or write. He was included in The Times list of Britain’s Top 50 post-war writers in 2008...
Tonight
Tonight, I want to close my eyes and sleep and in the morning, wake up with you I want to see your hair disheveled...
Journey to the Land of Neverwas
Poor Mr. Easter Bunny, so full of woe. No chocolate, oh gosh, it so is not funny! Head in hands he sits, what to do?
Takes Two to Tango
Dance with me, baby let me hold you close for a lifetime forever and a day...
