"There is a soft moonlight that gives us peace, and one that inspires a kind of awe. There is a cold, austere moonlight that tells the soul of its loneliness and isolation, and one prompting love, not only for an individual, but a whole universe."
www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/06/moonlight/?s=09
misty weather
serene and moody
hibiscus sky
Basho
some thoughts and volatile ideas
and finally some flocks of words
silhouettes filled with
between-the-lines
words waiting to be
magnetically assembled
Wagasa Illuminated in the Night This striking nocturnal photograph captures a display of wagasa (traditional Japanese umbrellas) transformed into glowing sculptural lanterns. The composition is dominated by several large umbrellas made of translucent washi paper and bamboo ribs, which are backlit to reveal their delicate structural skeletons. A large, cream-colored umbrella in the foreground is the primary focus, its fine radial lines creating a mesmerizing geometric pattern. Surrounding it are other umbrellas in deep crimson and royal purple, their colors saturated and radiant against the pitch-black background. Below the hanging umbrellas, dozens of small bamboo candle holders are arranged on the ground, their warm light casting soft circular glows that mirror the circular forms above.
Japanese umbrellas, Wagasa. Japan. Photography by Chajimori on Ganref
there is this flow, there is this river
and finding it again and again
from the beginning
always forever
the bright moon over dark rolling hills
I moonbathed diligently, as others sunbathe.
Denise Levertov
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
Gustave Flaubert
Mixedmedia-Meerliebe-Assemblage im runden Format auf blauem Grund mit Goldrand (Durchmesser 30 cm) Mit verschiedenen Fokus-Collage-Ausschnitten 1 Scherbenfundstück, 2 Delfine. Text: Minimalismus und Poesie Art by Teena
Ahoi
mit
Minimalismus und Poesie.
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#FokussiereWasGutTut
#Mixedmedia
#Collage
#assemblage
#LifeIsABeach
#cleanupthebeach
#Scherbenbringenglück
#Meerliebe
#DerBlauePlanet
Max Ernst, Sea and Moon, 1925
the balance between moon
and sun on a rainy winter day
soul cracks
through ice
a raven’s eye and upper body superimposed over female eye and upper torso, as one.
song at dawn
Ph. Laura Makabresku
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple
understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy.
Terry Tempest Williams
All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began their day. All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks.
Haruki Murakami
this whole universe
in a galaxy of starfish
once upon a time
a red suitcase
Print featuring a figure with a red umbrella walking away in the center of a snow covered tree-lined track
Vietnamese artist Vu Bach Lien, Snow path, 2014, woodcut print #WomensArt
Dirk Schulte
Winterstillleben mit Schirmträgerin
2024
thinking flowing drifting
in this cloud of snowy air
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.
Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
sometimes all
of a sudden
unusual moments of solitude
solitude in unusual moments
Since I find myself missing the sea today—
A thread of writing published in 2025, beginning with the latest: excerpts in Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social from An Absence of Sea, forthcoming in April 2026 with @erratumpress.bsky.social
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...
Photo featuring a delicate looking green blue geometric glass sculpture on a white surface
Geometric sculpture by Japanese glass artist Ikuta Niyoko #WomensArt
emotional topography
landscapes and cities
and still
the rain
To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.
Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks
