Images And Words ~ Unusual Structures

 

There are structures and strategies in relationship,

 just add little bit of imagination.

 photo taken in Lisbon. Feb 2013

Have A Lovely Weekend

~ I do miss the splendid bright sunshine in Lisbon ~

photo taken at Alfama district, Lisbon

White Moon

~ Love is so short, forgetting is so long ~

Lisbon night. Jan 2013

Creative Challenge ~ Thingamajig ~ Whose Name Is Unknown

It was at that age …

poetry arrived in search of me.

I didn't know, I didn't know where he came from,

from winter or a river?

I didn't know how or when,

He was not from voices, not from words

nor was he from - silence;

but from a street I was familiar,

from the branches of night.

He came without a face,

and he touched me...

I wrote the first line,

A line without pretense - pure.

I did not know what to say, 

I wheeled with the stars,

my heart broke loose on the wind.

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I had no way with his name.

/ Pablo Neruda /

Lisbon night.  Jan, 2013

Images And Words ~ Feathered Friend

photo taken at paco da Alcacova, Lisbon

Becoming A Woman

 

That night he looked at me, the tenderness of his gaze was upon me, and he said, "You have many lovers, and yet I alone love you. Other men love themselves in your nearness, I love you in your self.  Other men see a beauty in you that shall fade away sooner than their own years.  But I see in you a beauty that shall not fade away, and in the autumn of your days; that beauty shall not be afraid to gaze at itself in the mirror, and it shall not be offended.

"I alone love the unseen in you."

"All men love you for themselves.  I love you for yourself."

Then he walked away.

No other man ever walked the way he walked.  Was it a breath born in my garden that moved to the east?  Or was it a storm that would shake all things to their foundations?

I knew not, but on that night, the moonlight of his eyes slew the dragon in me, and I became a woman, a woman lost to the earth she had known, and finding herself in new places.  

/ Kahlil Gibran /

photo taken in Lisbon

Love

~ This street art was found in Lisbon, Portugal ~

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.   / Rumi /

There Was A Night

What we were under the moonlight;

Had once been a wish.

Now, a memory...

 Happy Valentine's Day!

photo taken at Plaza Mayor, Madrid.  Jan 2013

Creative Challenge ~ Harmony

Sweet moonlight sleeps upon this lily

Soft stillness - the night

Becomes the touches of sweet harmony

Images And Words ~ Ingenious Inventions

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. 

Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

photo taken in Lisbon, Portugal.  Feb 2013

Snow Storm

photo taken today

I Have A Secret

I have a secret to tell you,

a secret, that I can't unveil.

by saying so,

I have already told it.

you already knew it so well...

/ Fernando Pessoa /

 photo taken in Avila, Spain  Jan 2013 

Images And Words ~ Statues

Portuguese poet -  Fernando Pessoa

I sleep. at waking - if I dreamed, 
I do not know what my dream had in it.

I sleep - if without dreaming, 
 I wake up in front of a space;

open and unfamiliar, since what I woke to meet

is what I don't know yet.

best is to neither dream nor not dream 

unawakened without end.

~ Fernando Pessoa ~

photo taken in Lisbon.  Feb 4, 2013

BREATHING A DIFFERENT AMBIENCE AT BELITA'S

Something interesting to me during my stay at Belita's is finding that red colour is sparkling at each corner of her apartment. I find this not only in the physical environment but also in her character. For me, as a painter, red is a warm and strong colour, that's what I've found in her. 

She is sensitive inside but she often expresses in such a spontaneous and straightforward manner that she makes me feel very much like at home.