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Tag Archives: Beauty
Thought For the Day: Beauty Is the Purgation of Superfluities
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.” – Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564
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Tagged Beauty, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Purgation, Superfluities, Thought For the Day
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Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty, – That Is All
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all. “ – John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn (1819)
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Tagged Beauty, Earth, John Keats, Know, Need, Ode On A Grecian Urn, Thought For the Day, Truth
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Kalavale
Kalavaleby Michael Doyle In a Finnish woodWhere life is understoodTo be a magical thingThere were songs to singAnd laughter filled the airThe night washed away careAs we looked on the beautyThere amidst the trees A different music filled the airWith … Continue reading
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Tagged Arttist, Beat, Beauty, Care, Celebration, Colors, Dance, Dreams, Fascination, Finland, Finnish, Finnish Folk Art, Fire, Inspire, Kalavale, Laughter, Magical, Mead, Music, Night, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Pop, Romance, Satisfied, Sigh, Smoke, Songs, Stem van Helsinki, Strangers, Trance, Trees, Understood, Why, Wood
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Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)
Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)by Michael DoyleNo freedom, no libertyNo right to fundamental dignityHappy the Elephant pays the costAnd the decision it seems is lostThere will be no sanctuaryPersonhood has been denied capacityRegardless of intelligence, elephants are thingsSubstantially … Continue reading
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Tagged "X", Ability, Aesthetic, Arbritary, Autonomy, Beauty, Capacity, Chattel, Complexity, Cost, Dead, Decision, Dissent, Dominant Tusked, Elephants, Empathy, Factors, Family, Forehead, Freedom, Full Recognition, Fundamental Dignity, Given Hand, Happy the Elephant, Human Beings, Humanity, Intelligence, Language, Legal Reasoning, Liberty, Love, Majestic Giants, Memory, Mirrors, Mourn, Nonverbal, Personhood, Picky Eaters, Poetry and Poems, Points of Similarity, Present, Recognize, Refinement, Rejected, Sanctuary, Science, Self, Sentient Beings, Solitary Confinement, Talking, Things, Things Unsaid, Understand, Unfeeling, Walking, Words, World, Zoo Enclosures
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Inspired By Conversation
Inspired By Conversationby Michael DoyleLife has its hitsThat come along the wayThe Devil has his duesWe all have to payIt’s a slow paradeThe passage of these yearsFilled with ups and downsIts smiles and its tearsBut of all the thingsThat have … Continue reading
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Tagged Along the Way, Beauty, Belong, Caught, Come and Gone, Connections, Conversation, Dare, Dawn, Destination, Devil, Dream, Dues, Exchange, Fascination, Favorite Song, Feel, Fire, Hits, Hope, Inside Joke, Inspire, Life, Lyrics, Note, Passage, Pay, Poetry and Poems, Rainbow Constellation, Real, Shimmer, Slow Parade, Smiles, Smoke, Soul Shine, Time, True, Ups and Downs, Wish, Words
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Short Form Poetry Workshop: Zejel Duel of Recitation
As is known, from time to time, I attend a long running short form poetry workshop. I went back there tonight and learned of a poetic form called the Zejel. What is a Zejel? • Spanish poetic form likely an … Continue reading
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Tagged ACcompany, Beauty, Belong, Doubt, Drunkard, Duel, Flow, JoinIn, Lebanese, Lout, Magic, Means, Metric, Midsong, Poetic Duel, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Proper Poetry, Quatrain, Recitation, Rendition, Short Form Poetry Workshop, Sing, Song, Stanza, Tambourine, Tercet, The People, Troubadour, Two Poets, Zejel
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Speck of Dust
Speck of Dustby Michael DoyleThis speck of dust on which we restIs the speck of dust that is our testUnwritten laws frame our mindsAnd what is left when we no longer findThat the laws written serve us wellAnd that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Beauty, Bound, Century, Come Apart, Create, Dare To Love, Dream, Eon, Find, Flawlessly Broken, Fragile, Hand In Hand, Hope, Know, Learn, Live, Mind, More, Never Die, Our Lives, Pain, Pain and Misery, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Serve Us Well, Simply Survive, Speck of Dust, Star, Tale, Test, Tragedy, Truth, Unwritten Laws, Words Spoken
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Thought For the Day: The Ideals Which Have Lighted My Way, and Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.” – Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Beauty, Cheerful, Courage, Ideals, Kindness, Life, Light, Thought For the Day, Time, Truth
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Thought For the Day: The Most Wonderful of All Things In Life, I Believe, Is the Discovery of Another Human Being With Whom One’s Relationship Has A Glowing Depth, Beauty, and Joy As the Years Increase
“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human … Continue reading
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Tagged Another, Beauty, Discovery, Divine Accident, Found, Glowing Depth, Hugh Wapole, Human Being, Joy, Life, Look, Love, Marvel, Passionate, Relationship, Thought For the Day, Two Human Beings, Wish, Wonderful, Years Increase
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