Flowers of the rock before the green seawith veins that reminded me of other lovesgleaming in the slow drizzleflowers of the rock, facesthat came when none spoke and spoke to methat they let me touch them after the silenceamong pine trees, oleanders and plane trees. https://draft2digital.com/book/3562890 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096TTS37J
George Seferis – Collected Poems
I am re-reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. And in doing a little Wiki research on the German novelist, I discovered he also wrote poetry. I bought a collection of his verses entitled Poems by Hermann Hesse: Selected and Translated By James Wright (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970). Most of the poems are short (which I […]
Poems by Hermann Hesse
Photo Julie le temps lui-même reste surpris devant cette fresque de l’accompli cet écart sacré là le détail qui approuve l’excès et célèbre la lumière en nue-propriété arbres dont on envie partout les bras déliés d’offrandes et de chansons -la musicale révolution Barbara Auzou
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Robert Frost transformed everyday American speech into powerful poetry, proving that simple language could express profound ideas. Drawing on rural life and natural rhythms, he shaped a distinctly American voice in literature. His work bridged clarity and depth, showing that ordinary words, carefully arranged, can carry universal meaning and emotional resonance across generations.
Birth of Robert Frost (1874–1963) — The Poet Who Made Everyday American Speech Literary
The Ukrainian émigré Alexander Voloshin arrived in Los Angeles a year before Henri Coulette was born in the city on November 17, 1927. For much of the next three decades, until Voloshin’s death in 1960, the two men shared the same terrain, and it’s very likely that the young Coulette saw a good deal of […]
Simply Human: Henri Coulette and Alexander Voloshin
Et Francine Hamelin c’est ici tu te tais et pourtant j’entends ce matin la peau de tes pensées c’est matière solaire et nouvel alphabet tes yeux plissés qui s’évasent me disent que tout nous maintient en vie et s’étend tellement plus loin que ce qu’on en pensait tu me dis qu’on franchira encore une fois […]
Portraits de la vie sauvageonne / Second volet / XLV et XLVI / Photos de Francine Hamelin & Textes de Barbara Auzou
Born on March 10, 1810, Samuel Ferguson revived Irish myth within English literature by transforming ancient Celtic legends into poetic narratives. Drawing on early manuscripts and folklore, his work reintroduced heroic tales, landscapes, and cultural memory to English readers, helping lay the intellectual groundwork for the later Celtic Revival.
Birth of Samuel Ferguson (1810–1886) — The Scholar Who Brought Irish Myth into English Literature
THURSDAYI saw her die many timessometimes crying in my armssometimes in a stranger’s armssometimes alone, naked;in this way, she lived with me.Now I know, at last, that nothing exists furtherand I wait.If I grieve, it is my personal matterlike the feelings for simple things as theseand as they say we have gone beyond them;and yet […]
George Seferis – Collected Poems
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