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Handmade Ezra Pound (Ezruckus Poundamonium) paper doll for a series of skits in which E.P is the main star. --Theresa Williams
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Automatic writing by Nancy Bell Scott.
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One of a set of cards made while contemplating the poet Theodore Roethke. On November 12, Roethke suffered the first of what was to be many mental episodes. It happened in the cold Michigan woods, and he described the experience as having a "secret" revealed to him, which he said was the secret of "Nijinsky." Nijinsky was a famous ballet dancer who was institutionalized for schizophrenia. With your permission, I'd like to post your artwork at my blog: The Letter Project. I'm also looking for letters about literature and creativity. All works from the blog have gone through the postal system.
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gentili Signori poeti e artisti visivi, sono felice di far parte di questo gruppo.Ecco il perchè.Da sempre il mio lavoro cammina tra immagine e parola.Testo e materia visiva.Poesia e carta dipinta…Continue
Started by Alfonso Filieri. Last reply by Theresa Ann Aleshire Williams Jul 12, 2011.
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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 23, 2012 at 11:08pm
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Yes, art and poem went to Mark.
A dislexic friend of mine in London writes poem as pome, close to the French word pomme (apple).
Let’s write more apples, LoL
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Giechel (hihihi)
Wrote this one while eating in a restaurant, dedicated to Mark Sonnenfeld. the owner of the restaurant was a bit annoyed: you come here to «WORK»?!
My reaction: saying I loved him because he considered writing as work.
The smile on his
face is something I shall not forget, rewarded me with 3 free brandys! Okay, now I understand why poets can become alcoholics:::
SONG POEM: NOT THE SKIES BUT RATS HAVE| NO LIMITS
Dear Mark,
The banker lost his suit
in the euro crisis,
so recycled himself
as an erotic dancer.
Nobody watched this show on wall street.
The stripes on a narrow necktie
were sold however on war street...
Weeping stars were hiding
together in an effort to LOVE.
My face in this red mirror
starts bleeding OHNE reason,
OHNE knowledge on the edge.
Shrimp froze in the river
under the bridge.
Golden gates lead to hell
or NOT ???
Guido Vermeulen
May 2012
PS
OHNE is the German word for WITHOUT
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Theresa,
the waves of the universe are more profound than we can imagine even!
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De geboorte van de onschuld
voor Theresa Williams
Met het kind op mijn rug
daalde ik vermomd als schildpad
de trap af naar de kelder
van het geheugen.
Daar schuilden de ongeborenen
samen met mijn vertrapte schaduw.
Zij boorden gaatjes in de aarde,
planten zaadjes liefde in putjes,
overgoten met wijnazijn.
Een slang baande zich een weg
van struik naar struik.
Hij zocht zijn boom maar vond het
niets.
De babies huilden diepzinning omwille van het grootste
verlies.
Translation: GV
The birth of innocence
For Theresa Williams
With the child on my back
I went disguised as turtle down
the stairs to the cellar
of memory.
There were hiding the unborn
together with my trampled shadow.
They were drilling holes in the earth,
planting tiny seeds of love in little pits,
covered them with wine vinegar.
A snake cleared a way
from bush to bush,
looking for its tree but found
nothingness.
Babies cried profoundly because of the biggest
loss.
Guido Vermeulen
May 2012
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And another small one which went thru my head during Sunday lunch:
L’envolée n’a pas de nom propre.
Elle se nomme Liberté.
Cela est plus que suffisante.
GV
May 20, 2012
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New one from Basso, stunning!!!
PIETRA DURA
when schools of plankton
catch the current they take on
the illusion of life
wind convulses the trees
carves a mouth into the clouds
with its cold breath
rusticles feed off the iron
of the sunken ship
furring a floor where
fish will bury their dead
that clearing in the root forest
frogs gathered there at night
you know it's gone forever
wherever I walk
the moon follows me
even indoors it follows me
that moon of stone
May 19, 2012ERIC BASSO
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(another short poem for Small things)
Small Love Token
I froze a rose
to remember you.
It did not work that well.
In the narrow opera house
binoculars wept
to seduce the water
in our rowing eyes.
In the nearby future
we shall overcome drowning
with a postcard.
GV
May 2012
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A new work in progress on one of my mail art tables. (I use 2).
Title: Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Refers to a poem by Emily Dickinson.
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More art bike reacions on BURY by Val Herman
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Postcard collage, tribute to the Belgian artist Pol Bury (1922-2005), inspired by his book «art by bike and revolution by horse»
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