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Sunday 27 May 2018

The Colonel's ghost sinks toward the ocean floor | Joseph Ceravolo: Hidden Bird

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Untitled | by JV Damasio

Untitled [Av. Paulista, Sao Paolo]: photo by Vitor Damasio, 25 May 2018

Untitled | by JV Damasio

 Untitled [Av. Paulista, Sao Paolo]: photo by Vitor Damasio, 25 May 2018

Untitled | by JV Damasio

 Untitled [Av. Paulista, Sao Paolo]: photo by Vitor Damasio, 25 May 2018

Untitled | by Maria Kappatou

 Untitled: photo by Maria Kappatou, 11 February 2018

moscow2012 | by Emil Gataullin

Mumbai (2018) | by bek_the_sur

 Mumbai (2018): photo by Suresh Naganathan, 7 April 2018

Mumbai (2018) | by bek_the_sur

 Mumbai (2018): photo by Suresh Naganathan, 7 April 2018

Mumbai (2018) | by bek_the_sur

 Mumbai (2018): photo by Suresh Naganathan, 7 April 2018

I prefer feeling l̶o̶v̶e̶d̶ understood. | by Sven @ Let me shoot for you

 I prefer feeling l̶o̶v̶e̶d̶ understood. | (Playing around with some of my pictures): photo by Sven Laurent, 8 May 2018

Untitled | by Gustavo Minas

Untitled [Havana, Cuba]: photo by Gustavo MInas, 7 January 2018
 
The quiet of a storm | by Nico_Ferrara

The quiet of a storm: photo by Nico Ferrara, 9  May 2018
 Joseph Ceravolo: Hidden Bird
     June 13, 1985   

S
ong birds enter the morning
the pre-dawn before the fires,
you know, when the night floats away
like vapor on a lake,
or like kisses in the woods.
Songs that even creation
might not remember.

Continuous, threaded, as if
a cherry pit were stuck
in the throat
to produce the trumpet of the branches.
So varies, yet never, changing
through all the days, since
reptiles fell to earth.

I give up the reason for the sound
I give up the creature of sound
and the creator of the creatures
and of us and of dawn and
air and of vacuum
and human inhumanity.
I give up the song.
I give up the place


Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Hidden Bird (June 13, 1985), from  Collected Poems (2012)



... | by ░▒▓█ Piero Donadeo █▓▒░

Untitled [Tiber, Rome]: photo by Pierre Donadeo, 2 January 2015

... | by ░▒▓█ Piero Donadeo █▓▒░ 

Untitled [Tiber, Rome]: photo by Pierre Donadeo, 2 January 2015
 ... | by ░▒▓█ Piero Donadeo █▓▒░ 
Untitled [Tiber, Rome]: photo by Pierre Donadeo, 2 January 2015
The Colonel's ghost sinks toward the ocean floor

It seemed so easy
all those years
slicing through the currents

you'd order
wait a bit quietly in the shallows
and done

you could breathe again

then things changed
with the great calcification
you'd turn to stone

down down down you'd sink
plummeting to the bottom 
arms pressed tight to your sides


https://www.instagram.com/piero_donadeo/ | by ░▒▓█ Piero Donadeo █▓▒░

Untitled: photo by Pierre Donadeo, 18 August 2014

KFC, Komachi, Kamakura, Apr 2018 | by Shin Noguchi

KFC, Komachi, Kamakura, Apr 2018: photo by Shin Noguchi, 24 April 2018

KFC, Komachi, Kamakura, Apr 2018 | by Shin Noguchi

KFC, Komachi, Kamakura, Apr 2018: photo by Shin Noguchi, 24 April 2018

KFC, Komachi, Kamakura, Apr 2018 | by Shin Noguchi

KFC, Komachi, Kamakura, Apr 2018: photo by Shin Noguchi, 24 April 2018

4 comments:

TC said...

J Hendrix Hey Joe live 1967

People were confused after watching this show They didn't know how to take the presence of an inter dimensional, space alien from the future playing the music of the ancient ones

Hubert Farnsworth 1 year ago

TC said...

Hendrix Machine Gun | live c 68

Unknown said...

Songs that even creation/might not remember.

TC said...

Some things are gone before they even happen, unless creation is paying especially close attention.