Posts Tagged ‘life’
Inspirational sayings,motivational messages,romantic poetry and music.
Welcome to my new slide show called “The Muses in Concert”,which is a fusion of poetry,philosophy,musings,reflections,and classical music in various moods.It is missing one selection of music because of the under 10 minute rule,however the longer version is posted at the nomojofoyo blog at Blogger.
That version is expanded and requires a little more time to enjoy.
The blog is a mixture of slide shows, powerpoint formats,
involving photography,travel,music,interesting videos,astronomy,science,books etc., and is called
Serendipity.Please visit and leave comments.
http://nomojofoyo.blogspot.com/
Duration : 0:9:56
My Pajamas Show – http://www.BAZHE.com
Radio Interview with B.K. Bazhe, Part 3
B.K. Bazhe B.K. Bazhe talks about
his Writing, the Poetry of his
book Identities, and his Art
with Trina Jaye on Writer’s Cramp.
BAZHE is a writer, poet, and artist.
He is the author of DAMAGES
(creative nonfiction)
— Winner in the Writers Digest Awards
and IDENTITIES (poetry).
He is published and exhibited
in Europe and America.
More info at:
http://www.BAZHE.com
Books & Art on Amazon:
http://astore.amazon.com/bazhe-20
YouTube Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BAZHE
Google Blog:
http://bazhe.blogspot.com
Duration : 0:8:4
Special 
ENGLISH SUBTITLE – Neda Agha Soltan Salehi – This poem is dedicated to all those innocent people who have so unjustly lost their lives… RIP Persian Poet 
Poem by Dennis with video from NASA and royalty free music by Kevin MacLeod. Photos by ThisBoyTV. In loving memory of Plagiarius Terra on Earth Day 2010
Duration : 0:2:37
This poem expresses the unjust pain and suffering of all Iranian people and dedicated to the brave souls of all those who are fighting for the freedom of Iran. Persian Poet 
Denise Levertov 1923-1997
In her final interview, a couple of months before she died, Nicholas O’Connell discusses Denise Levertov’s essay Some Affinities of Content, particularly concerning the Northwest Poets’ attention to nature as a way to submerge their individual ego, and she is asked if her approach to poetry involves a spiritual quest. She says it is, and then she continues :
…optimism is a twentieth-century repeat of attitudes in the nineteenth century, when they thought that steam, electricity, and telephones were going to make for some kind of utopia. There’s a lot of dependence on technology today, and a willful ignorance that it’s messing up resources… [o]ur ethical development does not match our technological development. This sense of spiritual hunger is something of a counterforce or unconscious reaction to all that technological euphoria.(1)
Denise Levertov was born October 23, 1923 in Ilford, Essex, England. Her father was a Hasidic Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Anglican parson. Her mother was Welsh and read Willa Cather, Dickens, Tolstoy and Conrad. Denise was Home schooled and became interested in writing early, although she studied and intended to pursue ballet. She later said WWII changed her plans. To avoid conscription (women as well as men were required to serve in England,) She became a nurse during WWII.
After publication n of her first book in 1946, she was recognized as one of the New Romantics. But after marrying American writer Mitchell Goodwin she moved to the US and settled in New York. There she became acquainted with the transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau. She also developed a friendship with William Carlos Williams, and made pilgrimages to visit him.
In 1965 poetry published her essay Some Notes on Organic Form. in it she discusses her theory of poetics as being a crystallization of a constellation of perceptions within the poet at the time of a precipitating poetic experience. She says the poet is brought to speech:
Suppose theres the sight of the sky through a dusty window, birds and clouds and bits of paper flying through the sky, the sound of music from his radio, feelings of anger and love and amusement roused by a letter just received, the memory of some long-past thought…[ t]his is only a rough outline of a possible moment in a life. But the condition of being a poet is that periodically such a cross section, or constellation, of experiences (in which one or another element may predominate) demands, or wakes in him this demand: the poem. (2)
In a 1984 interview with Sybil Estess, Levertov speaks of her political awakening from apathy to revolutionary. (3) She speaks of becoming politically active through pacifism first. She says:
You will remember that there was actually no antiwar movement during the Korean War comparable to the one against the war in Vietnam. I shared that apathy, I’m afraid. But I began to participate in antinuclear demonstrations back in New York in the “ban the bomb” period. I was a convinced pacifist for a number of those years. Then I became more and more politically involved with the antiwar movement concerning Vietnam, and I began to feel that being a pacifist was an unbearably smug position to take. I felt self-righteous. I realized that there was a connection between the Vietnamese people who were struggling for self-preservation and between people’s struggle for self-determination in all places, and with racism. So I gave up my pacifism at that point and became more revolutionary. (3)
Denise Levertov died of Lymphoma on December 20. 1997.
Text of poems read can be found:
Clouds: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171233
Everything That Acts Is Actual: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171228
Come Into Animal Presence: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=17534
Life at War: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181968
News Report, September 1991(4): http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180095
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Webliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Levertov
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/41
http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/g_l/levertov/life.htm
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=4048
Notes
(1) http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/g_l/levertov/oconnell.htm
(2) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/poetics-essay.html?id=237852
(3) http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/g_l/levertov/estess.htmq99q
(4) New York Times story September 15, 1991:
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/world/us-army-buried-iraqi-soldiers-alive-in-gulf-war.html?pagewanted=1
Duration : 0:8:52
A Gift Of Love: Deepak Choopra Music Inspired By The Love poems Of Rumi,
1-The Lover’s Passion 2-Do You Love Me 3-Come to Me
Duration : 0:4:33
A Gift Of Love: Deepak Choopra Music Inspired By The Love poems Of Rumi,
1 – Valentine to Rumi
2 – My Burning Heart
3 – Bittersweet
4 – Intoxicated by Love
Duration : 0:6:2
Lyrics are a poem by the Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
“Dark Night of the Soul,” like much of John’s poetry, is based on “Song of Songs” from the Biblical Old Testament, and also on much of the romantic poetry and lyrics of Spanish popular balladry of that time, i.e., 16th century. The “secret stair” has less to do with a staircase in a monastery, and more to do with the popular theme of lovers meeting for a late night romantic tryst. In order for this to be possible, the young maiden of the song or poem would have to sneak out of the house, by the “secret stair.”
John uses this as a metaphor for the soul in prayer who, by means of contemplation, steals away from the world unnoticed, to meet in loving relationship with God. The dark night refers to the soul’s search for God, beyond the confines of the human definitions we have put upon God.”
lyrics and more on this here
http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/lm/lorecd53.html
*All Music by Loreena McKennitt*
Fan video by me, various arts from wikimedia commons.
Duration : 0:6:45