Thursday, June 22, 2006

pequeno gafanhoto... little grasshopper...




On the Grasshopper and Cricket

The poetry of earth is never dead:

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead
In summer luxury,--he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

John Keats

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Monday, June 19, 2006

Sunday, June 18, 2006

"Nature" is what we see
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"Nature" is what we see—
The Hill—the Afternoon—
Squirrel—Eclipse—the Bumble bee—
Nay—Nature is Heaven—
Nature is what we hear—
The Bobolink—the Sea—
Thunder—the Cricket—
Nay—Nature is Harmony—
Nature is what we know—
Yet have no art to say—
So impotent Our Wisdom is
To her Simplicity.

Emily Dickinson

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Monday, June 05, 2006

ancestral village...


This old village--

not a single house

without persimmon trees.

Matsuo Basho - translated by Robert Hass

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Friday, June 02, 2006