tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post1188746310233638217..comments2023-12-16T23:54:45.620+13:00Comments on . . . All Finite Things Reveal Infinitude . . . : Tuesday Poem - Sotto VoceClaire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-58773059975803786942010-10-24T17:22:55.412+13:002010-10-24T17:22:55.412+13:00Dear Kay
It's always a treat to find you'...Dear Kay <br />It's always a treat to find you've been here. Thanks ; ). Hmmm. I've probably been doing too much lately, but it's felt like a way of steadying the boat, if that makes sense. I'd quite like to sit in my garden with my eyes closed and my hands in my lap, listening to the plants grow. (I did something similar yesterday, actually - and how very good it was, from the toes up. . .)<br />Hope you're enjoying a Labour-less weekend. <br />L, C xClaire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-84545722157489336922010-10-24T17:16:56.310+13:002010-10-24T17:16:56.310+13:00Dear Susan
What riches on Rebecca Harp's site ...Dear Susan<br />What riches on Rebecca Harp's site - thank you so much for this link. Your friend Emily's work is deep and wide; meditative, dramatic and immediate. It's like breath and breathing. Her ethos is one I admire, too. It speaks to some of the dilemmas I'm having regarding my own work right now. I feel as though the form of my work is undergoing some significant and necessary change, although I'm not yet sure what form it will (or will not) take or where it's going to lead me. All I know is that I must trust it to lead me (rather than the other way round). When is our creative process not an adventure, an unpredictable voyage of discovery? Thank you for endorsing my wonderings by introducing me to Emily's and Rebecca's work. <br /><br />It was a privilege to write your ocean/community words into my Standing in the Heart drawing, Susan. Thank you again for contributing so generously. <br /><br />Love, ClaireClaire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-34122102818420450992010-10-24T17:03:33.299+13:002010-10-24T17:03:33.299+13:00Dear Pen - I feel perpetually 'at odds and at ...Dear Pen - I feel perpetually 'at odds and at one' these days; wish I had more of the Breaksea Girl's metronomic equilibrium. . . I like the way you say 'at odds and at one' is the truth you're 'swinging away with' - thanks ; ). You just added a rainbow to this image. xClaire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-3028508548725190722010-10-23T06:39:37.860+13:002010-10-23T06:39:37.860+13:00Glorious! What a lot of work you have been doing- ...Glorious! What a lot of work you have been doing- and all SO BEAUTIFUL. As always, I stand in awe. Rest up and lap up (the restorative juices of 'home and haven').Kay Cookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01791873464409271216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-83487689876213038462010-10-21T03:15:33.881+13:002010-10-21T03:15:33.881+13:00claire,
as usual your strong visual statements an...claire, <br />as usual your strong visual statements and the organic flow of your poetic imagery are, together, such a rich language.<br />i want to share with you the work of an artist, i think you'd like it--and her; she's a friend of mine: here's an especially good introduction to her work.<br />http://rebeccaharp.com/antonio-lopez-garcia/emily-nelligan/<br />xo<br />susansusan t. landryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12454487318141469849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-28269275955030138782010-10-20T17:06:41.341+13:002010-10-20T17:06:41.341+13:00So much to love in this poem, Claire, but 'at ...So much to love in this poem, Claire, but 'at odds, and at one' is the truth I'm swinging away with. Thank you. xxPenhttp://www.penelopetodd.co.nznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-16388402634578877992010-10-20T16:22:55.908+13:002010-10-20T16:22:55.908+13:00Dear Marylinn - oh yes, there's a history in t...Dear Marylinn - oh yes, there's a history in this tale. How quickly you see through the surface of things. Your memory of wagon trains, mine of this sea voyage. . . each one like the Aboriginal song lines, threading our separate threads into a fine, strong plait? Thank you for accompanying me to Marlborough, Marylinn, and for welcoming me home. Love, ClaireClaire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-68697696726987390822010-10-20T16:19:31.120+13:002010-10-20T16:19:31.120+13:00Thank you, Kathleen --- the waters of Western Fior...Thank you, Kathleen --- the waters of Western Fiordland are impossible to erase once you've been there. I think I had goosebumps the whole time I was there. Have you been to the Sounds? Thank you for loving this poem. I really appreciate your saying that. Hope all's well back in the UK? You have a new job, I think? (I'm off to visit your blog now. . . ) L, CClaire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-22896233656041839432010-10-20T16:15:02.148+13:002010-10-20T16:15:02.148+13:00Hi Dinah - a nerve. A chord. I do hope whichever i...Hi Dinah - a nerve. A chord. I do hope whichever it is, it gets you humming rather than running for cover! I wonder what (or where) it was that prompted you to respond to it in writing all those years ago? <br />Thanks for coming by ; )Claire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-13087833965457353542010-10-20T04:56:03.718+13:002010-10-20T04:56:03.718+13:00Welcome home, Claire. Your musings in "Sotto...Welcome home, Claire. Your musings in "Sotto Voce" on the unwritten stories from other voyages reminded me of wonderings I'd had about our pioneers, the wagon trains that came west. Isolation and things unspoken. You and the sea, what a history there must be in that tale.Marylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-77136053709003214552010-10-20T01:41:11.871+13:002010-10-20T01:41:11.871+13:00I really loved this Clare - it's a fabulous po...I really loved this Clare - it's a fabulous poem. It gave me goose bumps.Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-73713359598350083492010-10-19T19:54:19.449+13:002010-10-19T19:54:19.449+13:00OH! This one has struck a nerve. Or a chord.
This ...OH! This one has struck a nerve. Or a chord.<br />This will send me back to visit again something I wrote many years ago...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com