tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post8897066098889623112..comments2024-02-22T13:10:05.327+02:00Comments on the floating bridge of dreams: nowRoxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-30292963693786268092013-04-04T21:43:15.597+03:002013-04-04T21:43:15.597+03:00If we call it by the right word, by the right name...<i>If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes.</i> yes!<br />but the nomad in me would add to that, <i>from the right place</i> also.<br />i smile . . .<br /><br />spring is coming, no two ways about it! much love,<br />bluestormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393432589753557993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-62672080611019387602013-04-02T02:01:20.709+03:002013-04-02T02:01:20.709+03:00thanks, i suspected it was from the Diaries. quite...thanks, i suspected it was from the Diaries. quite the nifty new comment format you have here. pensumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08253154717997773018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-11635626643418179942013-04-02T01:52:26.627+03:002013-04-02T01:52:26.627+03:00Ah, this is the real spring!
It is colorless sple...Ah, this is the real spring!<br /><br />It is colorless splendor.Prosperohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114988815558549577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-86783267861273604022013-04-01T17:59:48.672+03:002013-04-01T17:59:48.672+03:00hugs to you as well, Ofelia...hugs to you as well, Ofelia...Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-75931435243185565852013-04-01T17:59:27.944+03:002013-04-01T17:59:27.944+03:00i know, James, i know you also have often felt thi...i know, James, i know you also have often felt this, maybe there is a hidden affinity wave connecting all those to whom this feeling is familiar, and separating them from the rest of the world :-) for sure, it is both a blessing and a reason for much suffering.<br /><br />and Lascelles Abercrombie!!! what a name, i would have thought it invented :-) the lines are beautiful, indeed - and i also loved these:<br />Ay, see this morning trembling like a sail !<br />Can it still hold the strain ? must it not fail<br />Even now ?<br />(i managed to find the entire poem online!!!)Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-75859601483820974432013-04-01T17:53:43.756+03:002013-04-01T17:53:43.756+03:00haaa Marion thank you for sharing this hope here, ...haaa Marion thank you for sharing this hope here, we all need it, i think :-)Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-33338432013659475752013-04-01T17:53:17.573+03:002013-04-01T17:53:17.573+03:00i love dogwood, myth! how lovely to imagine a dogw...i love dogwood, myth! how lovely to imagine a dogwood winter...Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-45746456320378685772013-04-01T17:51:15.106+03:002013-04-01T17:51:15.106+03:00Lynne, the day will come, hang in there :-)
(someh...Lynne, the day will come, hang in there :-)<br />(somehow i can't stop teasing you with snow :-)Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-59937464680078710572013-04-01T17:49:50.074+03:002013-04-01T17:49:50.074+03:00"the spring of our thoughts", how lovely..."the spring of our thoughts", how lovely you put that, Madeleine!<br /><br />thank you and warm bises :-)Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-35795159040842074552013-04-01T17:48:33.637+03:002013-04-01T17:48:33.637+03:00actually, erin, it is snow upon young leaves and b...actually, erin, it is snow upon young leaves and buds, which, i am sure, had they been able to think, would have thought themselves equally foolish to come out in search for spring. but today there is sun and blue sky and i think they have started to enfold :-) Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-42095890246670039322013-04-01T17:46:46.360+03:002013-04-01T17:46:46.360+03:00thank you, b, what high praise, coming from you!!!...thank you, b, what high praise, coming from you!!!<br />i see you are in a poetic mood :-) what is this with "silence" as the only word? maybe you are too deeply under the influence of that lovely Burnside-poem you posted the other day, is that it? <br />Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-10298402841826006242013-04-01T17:41:02.899+03:002013-04-01T17:41:02.899+03:00i'm glad you like the post! it's from his ...i'm glad you like the post! it's from his diaries. and there is a fictional biography focusing on his relationship with Dora, in his last years of life, which is entitled "the splendour of life", taken from this quote. it has very good reviews, i'd like to read it. Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-59514052008126784982013-04-01T14:21:47.050+03:002013-04-01T14:21:47.050+03:00Sharing....
Big and warm hugs***Sharing....<br />Big and warm hugs***Ofelia Gasque Andréshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15297167615906954496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-41740466377574562332013-03-30T22:05:48.704+02:002013-03-30T22:05:48.704+02:00this is a magic call, and i think the spring canno...this is a magic call, and i think the spring cannot fail to respond and come to you :-)<br /><br />but this sense that the reality of the world is there, just beyond touch, a splendour just under perception, but not within our power to unveil fully -- i have always felt this, deep and close to my being, as a certainty ...<br /><br />an old poet whom no one reads anymore, Lascelles Abercrombie, <i>Mary and the Bramble</i> ... somehow, just as much magic as any other call, he wrote of you;<br /><br /><i>Now she<br />Beheld, with eyes like the rain-shadowed sea,<br />Of late an urgency disturb the world;<br />Her thought that, like a curtain wide unfurl’d<br />With stir of a hurrying throng against it prest,<br />Seen things fluttere’d with spiritual haste<br />Behind them, as a rush of wingéd zeal<br />Made with its gusty passage shiver and reel.<br />Like a loose weaving, all the work of sense.</i><br /><br />.James Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-63919023788148542132013-03-30T01:41:33.839+02:002013-03-30T01:41:33.839+02:00yes, the everlasting winter... "You can cut a...yes, the everlasting winter... "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” —Pablo Neruda - this is the hope I'm clinging toMarion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-6617228908069438202013-03-30T00:23:58.973+02:002013-03-30T00:23:58.973+02:00Here, with spring beginning to pop, we often get a...Here, with spring beginning to pop, we often get a bitter cold spell...we call it Dogwood Winter because it seems to appear while the Dogwoods are in bloom. mythopolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03164758700393086005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-25881138241798780272013-03-29T23:45:32.315+02:002013-03-29T23:45:32.315+02:00White magic, brought into being by breath upon a w...White magic, brought into being by breath upon a window pane. Gentle snow blossoms taunting the buds of spring.Lynne with an ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00320166770541319601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-25976784538427009702013-03-29T18:09:05.194+02:002013-03-29T18:09:05.194+02:00This is beautiful my friend, the bewitching white ...This is beautiful my friend, the bewitching white buds of glory that blossom into tomorrows exotic cherished flowers of victory.our most cherished die Habseligkeiten,<br />sending you flowered snow kisses haha we still have them here in the spring of our thoughts.<br /><br /><br />miraehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09074095581188053256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-54759424331996655322013-03-29T06:51:10.966+02:002013-03-29T06:51:10.966+02:00this is snow? i thought it might be blossoms. mi...this is snow? i thought it might be blossoms. might it be? if this is snow then i have been a fool to ask for spring.<br /><br />grace indeed:)))<br /><br />xo<br />erinerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636371927224076866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-69475999582389050562013-03-29T06:34:17.521+02:002013-03-29T06:34:17.521+02:00These are ecstatically beautiful, Roxana...and now...These are ecstatically beautiful, Roxana...and now i look for a word that will call you, but there is only silence. Perhaps this was the only word between us.billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-72097018721605839142013-03-28T23:29:27.233+02:002013-03-28T23:29:27.233+02:00What a wonderful quote! (almost as wonderful as th...What a wonderful quote! (almost as wonderful as the photos) Where among Kafka's oeuvre is it from? pensumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08253154717997773018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-83196128638274883182013-03-28T22:26:45.821+02:002013-03-28T22:26:45.821+02:00i will go back to your wonderful comments on the l...i will go back to your wonderful comments on the last post - i simply needed to show you what is outside my window these days. instead of spring, and despite all my colourful magic spells (you'll remember! :-), the snow has returned, and with terrible power. and yet, this is splendour, calling.Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com