Happy World Art Day.
Art isn't decoration. It's a record of what we noticed, what moved us, what we want to hold onto. What we want to consign to oblivion.
"Say Anything: Abolish Ice" is part of that conversation.
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#children #child #camp #ice #elizabeth #nj #separation #families #protest #immigration #detention #mastoart #mastodonart #chrisboese #boesegalleries
When it goes? or: Where does love go?
A Sijo
two toothbrushes apartd’Verse: Where does the love go?
At d’Verse, we are encouraged to take the title of our poems from the question “Where does love go when it goes?” or “Where does love go?” and answer it in our poems. We can write about personal experience, someone else’s story of lost love, or even philosophize on the question. The form is up to us.
Sijo?
A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
#Absence #Desire #Distance #Intimacy #Love #Marriage #Poem #Poetry #Routine #Separation #Sijo
"Trump choque la droite religieuse en s'en prenant au pape" (Le Figaro, 15 av. 26)
Efforts to equate provincial political disputes with the inherent and constitutionally protected rights of First Nations misrepresent the legal foundation of this country and disregard the role of Treaty as the basis upon which #Alberta exists today.
The Chiefs of the Blackfoot Confederacy acknowledge the decision of the Court of King’s Bench granting a stay on the certification of a citizen led petition seeking to advance a referendum on Alberta separation. This decision represents a necessary step in ensuring that the constitutional and Treaty-based relationship governing these lands is upheld and that matters of this magnitude are subject to full legal scrutiny.
"Whether the summer of 1812 or the spring of 2026, Canada's #Indigenous people have always been the first and last line of defense against American annexation… we will never bend the knee to foreign tyrants or their useful idiots." —Chief Allan Adam
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) Chief and Council are pleased with the decision from the Alberta Court of King’s Bench to issue a stay in the Alberta separation referendum campaign.Justice Leonard's decision to issue a stay means that Alberta’s chief electoral officer cannot certify the separation petition until after the court has issued a decision in the court cases launched by Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy.
Trust no one
"Vatican : avec sa délégation cléricale et identitaire, l'accroc de Macron à la laïcité" (Libération, 11 av. 26)
Today's poem:
Song of Songs
- by Iakovos Kambanellis
#mauthausen #poetry #love #ConcentrationCamp #IakovosKambanellis #death #separation #survival
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