Tag Archives: Poetry

We Are All Invited —

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Touch2Touch

  Come, come whoever you are, Wanderer, worshipper, lover of learning, It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times. Come, come yet again, come. —-     Jelalu’ddin … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: violet

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Touch2Touch

In contrast to cheery Johnny Jump-ups and bold-faced pansies, there’s an introverted branch of the Violaceae family. Violets, true violets, are modest and demure. They shelter underneath their heart-shaped leaves, and even great masses of them never seem to call attention to themselves. Unless … Continue reading →

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Appearance and Deception —

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Touch2Touch

We were happily wandering in a lovely area of the fabulous gardens at Chanticleer, in Wayne, PA, when we came across a dark stone Hermit’s Pool with fast-running water: It took a while for the shock to register. The photo reminds me of one of British … Continue reading →

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Spring in the Heart

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Coming along the mountain path Somehow it tugs my heart Wild violet (trans. Lesley Downer) The mercury slunk down to – 12 Fahrenheit last night. Or thereabouts. At such low temperatures, what difference does it make? All is white, white, … Continue reading →

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What Matters in the End?

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Touch2Touch

Here is one answer, from playwright, author, actor Alice Childress:  “Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.” And here is another, from … Continue reading →

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Getting Up Early in the Morning?

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Touch2Touch

I know lots of people who do, but I don’t. (Normally, that is. This photo is an anomaly.) The warm shelter of the quilt is too cozy, my body insists on just a few more minutes — and then a … Continue reading →

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INNUMERACY

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Touch2Touch

I think I’ve confessed this publicly before: I am innumerate. What an illiterate is among letters, I am among numbers. It’s a skill I don’t possess. A magnetic field, or rather anti-magnetic field, surrounds me, and I repel mathematical understanding. … Continue reading →

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The Way It Is in the Winter of the Soul —

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Touch2Touch

Almost February, the nadir of the year (according to me). Even though the light has begun returning, it is still a dark time, cold, snowy, gray when it isn’t black. My head tells me that, underneath the snowy blanket outside, … Continue reading →

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Arise, My Love!

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Touch2Touch

(Note to self: Keep camera by bedside ready to go. Get up earlier, and get out of bed. Northampton may not be the desert, but surely it can muster up a sunrise! Go outside and look at the new day before … Continue reading →

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On Being Innumerate

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Touch2Touch

I am innumerate. And what is that? most everyone will ask (except, perhaps, a few other sufferers.) It really is a word found in dictionaries, and it means (in the simplest definition):  “marked by an ignorance of mathematics and the scientific … Continue reading →

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