Currently reading: Sissy by Ben Borek 📚
Clothes just undone—not that there were many,
— Cavafy Bot (@cavafybot) July 18, 2021
for an exquisite July was blazing.
Should Feminists Read Baudelaire? BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature 🔗
Interesting and informative podcast series from the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and Keats-Shelley House. John Keats’ Bright Star 1820: read by heart with analysis is one of the highlights for me. 📚🔗
The Great British Art Tour: why is Keats at Guy’s hospital? 🔗
The Romantic poet John Keats died 200 years ago today at the young age of 25. He has long since been celebrated for works such as Ode to a Nightingale and To…
John Keats: five poets on his best poems, 200 years since his death 🔗
Ode to a Nightingale (1819) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains…
Enclosing their lives
Old castle walls reinforce
The rule of the few
✏️ #mbnov
I’m gazing downwards
A tiny pedestrian
Fights against the flow
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Behind a dark mask
Punchinello imagines
Time of Carnival
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What can be certain?
No dilemma for Descartes -
I am, I exist
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Adjust the colour
Wait for something to happen
But nothing was changed
✏️ #mbnov
A call through the mist
Angry noisy chattering
Tiding of magpies
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Ancient monument
Provision of memory
On featureless plains
✏️ #mbnov
Books quickly devoured
But to capture the meaning
Is more of an art
✏️ #mbnov
Seeking a refuge
Lands of milk and honey lie
Beyond the border
✏️ #mbnov
A winter journey
Departing warmth and shelter
Towards the unknown
✏️ #mbnov
Old photographs fade
Our history in albums
Dusty from neglect
✏️ #mbnov
Possible worlds spin
Planets around their orbits
Peopled by strangers
✏️ #mbnov
Covering the tree -
Dependence on an other -
Lichen spreads slowly
✏️ #mbnov
My train of thought lost
Interruptions disturb me
Or are they welcome?
✏️ #mbnov
Pale marble headstone
Memory of young poet -
A broken Greek lyre
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Rumbling thunder sounds
Far away lightning flashes
Rain in the valleys
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Trees disturbed by breeze
Shadows beyond the window
Spooky gloominess
✏️ #mbnov
Difficult to guess
The story of an image
Caught in an instant
✏️ #mbnov
