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Far Away

... sometimes an impulsive 2:00 AM cross-country trip is the only solution

by MykReeve

by krxxxa

Merry Christmas

There's no political correctness on this blog, so I would call this holiday what it is:

Merry Christmas!




by michelle-w

Ophélie

C’est que la voix des mers folles, immense râle,
Brisait ton sein d’enfant, trop humain et trop doux;
C’est qu’un matin d’avril, un beau cavalier pâle,
Un pauvre fou, s’assit muet à tes genoux!
Ciel! Amour! Liberté! Quel rêve, ô pauvre Folle!
Tu te fondais à lui comme une neige au feu:
Tes grandes visions étranglaient ta parole
––Et l’Infini terrible effara ton œil bleu!


––Et le Poète dit qu’aux rayons des étoiles
Tu viens chercher, la nuit, les fleurs que tu cueillis,
Et qu’il a vu sur l’eau, couchée en ses longs voiles,
La blanche Ophélia flotter, comme un grand lys.




---- 'Ophélie', from ARTHUR RIMBAUD Collected Poems

The Brain to the Heart

Stars tied to breath

don't have to be there

when you look.

No more than drops

of blood on ginkgo

leaves & inconsequential

eggs & frog spittle

clinging to damp grass.

Sure, I've seen doubts

clustered like peacock

eyes flash green fire.

So what?

When days are strung together,

the hourglass fills

with worm's dirt.

What do you take

the brain for? I know

how hard you work

in that dark place, but

I can't be tied down

to shadows of men

in trenches you won't

forget. You look at

a mulberry leaf

like a silkworm does, with all your insides,

but please don't ask me to be responsible

-- Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular

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Photo Session with Tigers

yes, these are tigers, aka, 'big cats'.

shot at a special studio in The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina



via Pluspets

Peace Love & Ice Cream

New Ben& Jerry Ice Cream Campaign

Louvre, II

Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, will set its mark as the world’s largest single concentration of premier cultural institutions at Saadiyat Island ("Island of Happiness").

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