“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” Amy Lowell… more →
Istanbul through my eyeswrote 1 week ago: This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight; The trees glittered with the tumbli … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Embrace thy solitude. Do not be scared to be alone. It brings security and love. When you are alone: … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea, He steals the down from the honeybee, He makes the fores … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: You are beautiful and faded Like an old opera tune Played upon a harpsichord; Or like the sun-floode … more →
wrote 4 weeks ago: September, 1918 This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight; The trees glittered … more →
wrote 4 weeks ago: A Minstrel stands on a marble stair, Blown by the bright wind, debonair; Below lies the sea, a sapph … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Spread on the roadway, With open-blown jackets, Like black, soaring pinions, They swoop down the hil … more →
wrote 1 month ago: My cup is empty to-night, Cold and dry are its sides, Chilled by the wind from the open windo … more →
wrote 1 month ago: A short lived but very influential poetic movement that flourished both sides of the A … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Fuji X100 Landscape photography, Nigel Borrington The Fruit Garden Path by Amy Lowell The path runs … more →
wrote 1 month ago: There was a man Who made his living By painting roses Upon silk. He sat in an upper chamber And pain … more →
wrote 1 month ago: You came to me bearing bright roses, Red like the wine of your heart; You twisted them into a garlan … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Fringed Gentians Near where I live there is a lake As blue as blue can be, winds make It dance as th … more →
wrote 1 month ago: What is poetry? Is it a mosaic Of coloured stones which curiously are wrought Into a pattern? Rather … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Thank you — to WordPress users and “likers” (pls click their avatars and public pr … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Amy Lowell was among the inventers and leading practitioners of Imagism, America’s first moder … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Title page from the first edition of the first volume of Pride and Prejudice (Photo credit: Wikipedi … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship Prize; collection of poetry fewer than 40 pages; deadline O … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Ah, the writing life… The Letter — Amy Lowell Little cramped words scrawling all over th … more →