Showing posts with label meaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meaning. Show all posts

Monday, October 31, 2016

Marigolds (trimeric poem)


When moving through midsummer’s haze
We search for answers, try in vain
To understand the seasons’ maze
Spring’s budding trees, and winter’s plain

We search for answers, try in vain
And meanwhile trees grow tall, and we
Shed like dry leaves ambitions vain

To understand the seasons’ maze
And find instead the utmost glee
In marigolds stuck in a vase

Spring’s budding trees, and winter’s plain—
From autumn’s top we clearly see— 
Peak of October will explain



Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)


Friday, September 23, 2016

"The true meaning of life is..."

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."



Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Weekly Wikems. Storytelling.



Hi.
Thursday. Make it wikems time.

Wikems = Wikipedia poems

  • Each Thursday (usually around 8a.m. Eastern) I post a link to a Wikipedia article, a quote from it and my wikem inspired by that quote.
  • I invite you to explore the article, searching for a quote that clicks with you. (You are free to use "my" Wiki quote if it happens to be the one.)  
  • Once you've found your quote, use it as an epigraph, write your wikem and post a link to it in the comments below.  (You are welcome to post your wikem directly in the comments if you prefer.)

 Let's play!

A very talented young woman Maria Popova and her essay on the importance of storytelling in the age of information and (lack of) wisdom led me to today's wiki prompt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling

Explore. Search. Find. Write.

Here's my wikem.
“People have used the carved trunks of living trees and ephemeral media (such as sand and leaves) to record stories in pictures or with writing.”


we draw our stories
on the ephemeral sand
ebony of space

we record ourselves
on the carved trunks of birch trees
ivory of clouds

we imprint our song
on the world filled with echoes
parchment of all time 




Thank you for reading. Look forward to your wikems.

Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy")