Life in Poetry reading, writing, reflecting

Life in Poetry reading, writing, reflecting
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Wednesday 26 June 2019

⌗FreedomOfExpression, week 26, CREATIVITY

Welcome to Freedom of Expression, Week 26.
If you would like to know more about this challenge, hosted by Richa at iScriblr,  go here


This week, CREATIVITY.


Creating.

A spark.
The first word.
The flow, a stream
trickling over polished
pebbles. A brook tripping
over moss sheening rocks.
A rushing river tearing down
the mountain from the artic peaks.
The Gange steadily migrates, irrigates
the coastal alluviums of growth, of Life.

Crumb by crumb, the tip of my pen
scratches the parchment, eats at ink
and spits out words. My arm
beholds the sky, searches
for metaphor, the instant
adjective, the sweet
honey, the
elixir.
©susanbauryrouchard


We produce works of art but we also enjoy them.

In the written word:

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, with illustrations, extract.



Nabokov, The Defense, 1929, extract.


Paul Auster, New York Trilogy, The Brooklyn Follies, extract.


Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man, poetry collection, 1978.
I Knelt Beside a Stream, Another Room, Our Government-in-Exile.



In Painting:

Boticelli's Birth of Venus.


TURNER, Seascape, Rockets and Blue Lights.


Renoir, Meadow. Chemin dans les Hautes Herbes



In Sculpture:


DEGAS, Dancer.


Rodin, Love



In Architecture:

Stonehenge

Salisbury Cathedral

the Taj Mahal


In Music:

MOZART, Der Zaüberflaüte, the Magical Flute, Overture. go here

BEETHOVEN, Moonlight Sonata go here
CHOPIN, Sonate au Clair de Lune go here
                 Nocturnes go here  ,  here   and  here

GERSCHWIN, Rhapsody in Blue go here and go here

The Beatles, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds go here and go here

QUEEN, Bohemian Rhapsodygo here


Thank you for visiting. Please feel free to comment, discuss. And I will be sure to reply.
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