"Physiologus" (Latin version B) is the origin of the medieval bestiary. It describes animals with Christian moralisations attached. This page is from the Bern Physiologus, c825-850. #medievalmanuscripts#physiologus#medievalbeasts
By the way we found them lying they’d made a good game stand, Heaps of empty cartridge shells at each dead man’s right hand. And now out on that desert land are bones of shattered horses, And Lonel…
In the cheerless dawn of an April morn Pale stars still lit the sky, Did the rollers break on Gaba Tepe, Where sea birds wheel and cry. The time had come, but no beating drum Or brazen trumpets bla…
We climbed the sandy ridges and saw the sea, The old unresting sea and its headlands grey; And the yellow beach sang low to each of us three A song of another land and another day, Came dawn, and t…
On Outpost by Edwin Field Gerard (Trooper Gerardy)
Out on the lone grey outpost, where silence broods unstirred, Unruffled by the swaying palm, The whirr of winging bird, Out where the barren ridges look pitiless and white Beneath the flaming sky a…
Our final medieval hare may be my favourite. This free-floating, baffled-looking hare is playing a set of bagpipes in the Rothschild Canticles, c1300. #medievalmanuscripts#medievalbeasts#hares#hare
Of the Broken and Almost Broken by Rosemarie Wurth-Grice
I think therefore I am. – Descartes I am unfurled – a whirling dervish in a summer rain. A thousand proverbs spilt in a desert I am unfurled – a mirage of thoughts drawn to the almost broken I am …