July 2010
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pasta with breadcrumbs - recipe in a poem
by Elizabeth Zezza, a student learning the English Language
The wayfarer eats what’s offered him
in exchange for a tale or a song.
There’s no food that can harm him,
since encounters heal
just like songs do, and tales, too.
It happened once, around noontime,
that the wayfarer, invited in,
was asked to sit
on a low, white stone wall,
under the shade of a creeping vine,...
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On a balmy midsummer evening
From Thirteen Ways with Figs, By Michelle, on Peony Moon blog:
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On a balmy midsummer evening, wrap up your al fresco meal
at the warped wooden table under the plane tree
with blistered grilled figs, spoonfuls of soft mascarpone
drizzled with orange blossom and rose water.
Smell the mimosa.
Don’t wipe the sugary smudge from your chin.
Carry the sated silence to bed.
The original...
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Figs by D.H. Lawrence
The proper way to eat a fig, in society,
Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,
And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.
Then you throw away the skin
Which is just like a four-sepalled calyx,
After you have taken off the blossom, with your lips.
But the vulgar way
Is just to put your mouth to the crack, and take out...
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June 2010
28 posts
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THE OCTOPUS by Ogden Nash
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I’d call me Us.
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The Kraken - by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant fins the...
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Lemon Tree - A poem
If you climb a lemon tree
feel its bark
with your feet and knees,
smell its white flowers
rub in your hands its leaves.
Remember
the tree is older than you
and in its branches
you might find stories.
- translation from the Spanish original below by Ravi Kopra
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May 2010
43 posts
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WatchBologna, where I live, is at Shanghai Expo 2010 as a city of Best Urban Practice
The video is by Articoltore, they have many more Bologna videos
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