Fall has pungency Like nard. Summer’s fullness crushed Anoints the late year. Winter has the scent Of absence. Nothing. Death. Life. Shrouded under snow. Spring is memory. Fragrance from a walled garden Calls to the lover. Summer will not end. Here at this wedding: wine, bower Evermore and more. ________ Please permit another [...]
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Between Fall and Winter, Springtime’s an Eternity Away
Posted in c. s. lewis, Church Life and Theology, Haiku, Influences, Lachrymose, Personal Growth or Lack Thereof, Poetry, tagged a severe mercy, c. s. lewis, death, doubt, fall, grief, Haiku, heaven, Jesus Christ, loss, mourning, naturalism, poems, Poetry, resurrection, sheldon vanauken, song of solomon, spring, summer, winter on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Beavers’ Stream
Posted in Ache for Eternity, Art Thief, Church Life and Theology, Influences, tagged aesthetics, art lindsley, beavers, beyond nature, Book of Hebrews, c. s. lewis, disposition, God, heaven, Hebrews, Jefferson national expansion memorial, melancholy, memory, mother, new earth, norma das, norma lee das, nostalgia, paradise, Phil Keaggy, photography, photos, plato, plato's forms, Poetry, sensucht, St. Louis, st. louis riverfront on Saturday, August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am not sure if it is simply a function of how I am wired, in my unique mixture of hormones and synapses and amount, or lack therof, of serotonin, or whether it is a function of life experience, my unique mixture of joys, sorrows, disappointments, but, though my memory is not very good at [...]
Ed Crim in Popular Photography!
Posted in Art Thief, Influences on Friday, May 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ed Crim of Edward Crim Photography and Forest Park 365 and the recent co-sponsor of the Evoking Spring Photo Contest, is having his Forest Park 365 project featured in the June issue of Popular Photography. Pretty cool. Here is a sneak preview.
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
Posted in Art Thief, Influences, Poetry, tagged daffodils, forest park, i wandered lonely as a cloud, jonquils, photography, poem, Poetry, romantic poets, St. Louis, william wordsworth on Sunday, March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending [...]
The Dassler Effect, A Retrospective
Posted in Ache for Eternity, Art Thief, Blogness, Catapult Magazine, Church Life and Theology, Culture, God's Grandeur, Guest Blogger, Haiku, Influences, Library Stuff, Literature and Language, Movies and Television, Music, Personal Growth or Lack Thereof, Poetry, Politics, Sonnets, tagged blog, c. s. lewis, Culture, dassler effect, film, literature, movies, Music, photography, Poetry, Politics, tolkien on Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well, this new version of The Dassler Effect has had a more promising start than I could have imagined. And yet its previous incarnation was no slouch either (it still shows up first on Google). Because it was around for longer, it has far more more photos on it than the current blog and there [...]
Influences: John Keats’ “To Autumn”
Posted in Art Thief, Influences, Poetry, tagged autumn, fall, john keats, Poetry on Thursday, October 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Upon hearing it alluded to on an NPR program this morning, I began to remember this poem. The deep swell of feeling I had in recalling it signalled to me just how much of an influence this poem has had upon me, upon my aesthetics, both literary and photographic. Such influences generally are not a [...]
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