Humans turn to the arts during oppressively-stressful times.
I know a masterful surgeon who would return home from the operating room and watch Disney movies. I loved that he confessed this. The world of fantasy in art, the world of music, world of dance, the act of living room dancing itself, solo, partner or group...singing alone or together, being silly -- all or any are salve for the burns from the dark side of the human condition's branding-iron sizzle. -- To your crayolas everyone!
There is a lot of synergism going on today, as your succinct yet delightful promise of reality in a new way for any of us was causing a smile to form on my rather serious and somewhat exhausted face of exercising a draft of "From Where Came?" Your wordsmithing of charm and discovery was just what I needed. This is a man I'd love to meet. Kudos, Diana. May all the stars you deserve gracefully move about and around you.
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
A Collection of Voices from Around the World is more than just a poetry compilation. It is a partnership of poets from around the globe brought together by an internet poetry forum. That forum, poetrypages.com, has been the home of many a fine poet s
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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