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Day 810 – At Shiraz (Johae)
Our poet Antony Johae finds essences of principled beauty in the women of the ancient city of Shiraz. On this Day 810 of the Daily Poems ‘At Shiraz’ is a longish poem but it’s a beauty in itself … At Shiraz for Thérèse Here, long before settlement,Earth’s plates shifted and crushed up great mountainstaking their timely… Continue reading
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Day 809 – West Stow (Clark)
Our poet Fiona Clark sees the beauty of West Stow and its Anglo-Saxon village in the Breckland in Suffolk. Day 809 of the Daily Poems. West Stow Frozen mist over the heath.Feral ponies graze with drizzle-whiskered lips.They move silently as ghosts through the dusk. Beside them, shadowy figuresshoulder burdens. Heathlandgrows their houses, bent from beechand hazel branches, daubed with… Continue reading
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Day 808 – Plensa (Monach)
It is Day 808 of the Daily Poems. Our poet Jane Monach sees the work of sculptor Jaume Plensa (b. 1955, Barcelona) at Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2011. The takeaway of beauty – after Gertrude Stein’s Hotel François 1er. Plensa it was light faces height space it was language flowing it was serene inside past… Continue reading
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Day 807 – Beauty (Spencer)
Day 807 of the Daily Poems … and this is of some interest: our poet today Andrew Spencer introduces us to a definition of Beauty in the form of poésie concrète: Beauty: a definition We define beauty as that minimal unique property which unifies at least the following phenomena: M’s morning smile when the weather’s sunny… Continue reading
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Day 806 – Lunar beauty (Clark)
Our poet Fiona Clark sees eternal beauty in a crescent moon – and the poem evokes the music of the spheres. It is Day 806 of the Daily Poems … Lunar beauty A bare rock circles in silence in an interstellar drift of dust. Burning rocks blaze in darkness,hurtling through time and space. We look up… Continue reading