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[nny]

Bad back.

Getting worse, which is funny because I began the day having to curl into a tiny tiny ball every five minutes or so to stop my back seizing up.

I have my review at work tomorrow. So obviously perfect day to have to take off work, today.

Cack it.

Please could you leave a link to your favourite poem or piece of art? And tell me why you like it, too. Or, y'know, anything else that'll make me smiley.

In case I get vertical enough to get on a computer again, later.

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Shakespeare's Sonnet XXIX

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

There's just something about this one (http://www.albionmich.com/inspiration/whenindisgrace.html) that sums up hope -- it says "I've been down to the depths, mired in ye olde Dark Night of the Soul, and love has reached me even there".

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Maybe not exactly what you meant, but here it is (http://www.universetoday.com/am/uploads/northern_aurora.jpg).

Relatedly, I also love this (http://www.bartleby.com/113/2082.html) and this (http://www.bartleby.com/113/2085.html) by Emily Dickinson at the moment.

Re: Shakespeare's Sonnet XXIX

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Heh. Distracted by Shakespeare, sorry --> Poor you! I hope it eases enough to get through your review! 8[

[agonistes]

My very favorite piece of art is not so much with the smiley, since it's the self-portrait Robert Mapplethorpe did when he found out he had AIDS. So I think we'll go with poem.

William Butler Yeats -- Sailing to Byzantium

I won't deny that the idea of transmuting one's self into a work of art is extremely attractive -- I think it's one of the greatest dangers of being an artist or a craftsman.

But it's the second stanza -- an aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered rag upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress -- that gets me every time. Because -- we're the works of art. Or we can be. It's...reassuring. Confidence-building. It makes things all right.

*hugs, a lot* Rest well, and feel better sooner than soon.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

T.S.Eliot's The Ad-dressing of Cats (http://www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/Summer97/SemGS/WebLex/OldPossum/oldpossumlex/node15.html), because Old Possum's is the poetry of my childhood, and it's all such fun!

(Art too, just because so few people know of it: A man seated reading at a table in a lofty room (http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/WebMedia/Images/32/NG3214/eNG3214.jpg). Gorgeous light.)

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Ah!, the sweeting of the Leanan Sidhe, dear old WBY:
He wishes for the cloths of heaven (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/597.html) I know you're familiar with this one, sweet Villainny! ;]
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/309.html) The kind of home I'd love to build someday ...
When You Are Old (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/436.html) Perspective and quiet pondering of life ...
The Song of Wandering Aengus (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1.html) Rather like the Lay of Luthien ...
The Cat and the Moon (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/577.html) The wonderful dance of Black Minnaloushe ...
Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/79.html) The flame out of the eyes of Cathleen ...


And of course I can no longer read this one without substituting "Tadfield" for the fourth-to-last word:
The Second Coming (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/289.html)

[genarti]

My favorite poem changes by the moment, but here's one I like: The Joy Of Writing, by Wislawa Szymborska.

[skygiants]

I can never pick a favorite, but I reread this one recently:

My Last Duchess

[unravels.livejournal.com]

These are not art, exactly, but I've been meaning to put them up for a while and haven't. Maybe I did with one of them? Anyway. There was a giant sculpture at Burning Man in front of center camp that made me go ":o NNY" a lot, because it reminded me of that Gormley one (http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/001041.php) you like so much. So I took a picture (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/barebulb/bmlandseaair.jpg). :D

And the other one, which maybe I've shown you. The most uninviting bookshop I've ever seen (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/barebulb/bookshop.jpg).

Favorite poem, heh... I can't even pick a favorite poem of the day. :/ But I hope you're feeling better, one way or another. ♥