When forty winters shall have clocked your face,And carved deep lines into your once-smooth brow,Your youth, all hot and shiny, out of place,Will look like some old-ass thing from way back now. Then beauty, draped in clothes you used to wear,Will ask, “Who the hell are you?” with a sneer,And people will see through the … Continue reading Don’t Let Time Roast You (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 2 for Gen X)
Transformations with Life #9 – The Reaching Pot
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to repurpose this small tea bowl. It was very nicely done, comfortable in the hand, and with a beautiful blue crackle glaze…Transformations with Life #9 – The Reaching Pot
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #88: The Hollow Men 88 – Dog
The Hollow Men 88 – Dog: The History: There’s a story on this… Made about the same time as a series of poetry observations called Mall People. I saw …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #88: The Hollow Men 88 – Dog
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #436 – High On Her Pedestal
High On Her Pedestal Musings of the Artists Mind Unawares that her lover is watching her from below, or is she? He kept so high on a pedestal that it…500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #436 – High On Her Pedestal
T.A.E.’s Book Review – Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien
Few works by J.R.R. Tolkien reveal the private tenderness of the author more intimately than Roverandom. Written originally in 1925 as a consolation story for his young son Michael, who had lost a beloved toy dog on a beach holiday, the tale occupies a fascinating place within Tolkien’s literary corpus. Neither as mythically grand as … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien
Revisionist Poetry – “The Inner Bloom” – Into The Heart, v.3
He enters the roseas if entering a dream. Petals open around him,not in colour alone,but in fragrance,in satin weight,in the fine tremor of things unfolding. His camera waits at the centreof this living architecture.What it captures is not merely a flower,but the world inside a flower:dense, breathing,almost too delicate to name. And we, looking through … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Inner Bloom” – Into The Heart, v.3
Youth Isn’t Forever: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2 in the Age of Social Media
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2 is one of the clearest examples of his early “procreation” sonnets, and it reads like a fierce little argument about time, beauty, and legacy. At its centre is a simple but unsettling claim: physical beauty does not last, and the only real answer to time’s erosion is to pass that beauty forward … Continue reading Youth Isn’t Forever: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2 in the Age of Social Media
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #435 – I’m So Pretty, Oh, So Pretty
I’m So Pretty, Oh, So Pretty Musings of the Artists Mind The impulse suddenly overtook her and she began to sing: “I’m so pretty! Oh, So Pretty” I … 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #435 – I’m So Pretty, Oh, So Pretty
T.A.E.’s Book Review – Mr. Bliss by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mr. Bliss is one of Tolkien’s most revealing small works: an illustrated children’s story written and drawn by the author himself, published only after his death in 1982. Its origin in his own early motoring mishaps gives the book an unusually personal comic charge, as though a private anxiety about modern technology has been transformed … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Mr. Bliss by J.R.R. Tolkien
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #434 – Ancient Goddess
Ancient Goddess Musings of the Artists Mind I’m tempted to let you define this one for yourselves, because I’ve rewritten my definition too many …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #434 – Ancient Goddess