Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your mind is a garden,
Your thoughts are seeds,
The harvest can be either flowers or weeds."
- Author Unknown
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Wow, this is a beauty, Monika! Abundance, joy, play, creativity, vision, and will. Emerson’s quote so resonates and one I personally relate to. Your drawing reminds me of a poem I wrote:
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Take a melody, let’s call it Chopin’s Mazurka In D Major,
and you’re Vladimir Horowitz scrunching your nose
as if against a window, or trying to smell deeper
what the fragrance you’re seeking is trying to bring forth;
and your fingers climb lightly over the keys as if they’re
twirling a young woman in white chiffon dress, her long
brown hair wing-spanning like a kite, across a grassy field,
as if it were a dance floor, and it is, because everything
she and you need is there, no more, no less;
and you, in bare feet and with your wild hair, sing
the wordless melody, unable to contain
yourself, were it not for you, as you reach
out for the next high note, realizing your grief
if roses sped up their blooms before the sun
was ready for its next day’s performance.
Nice poem, Paul. It's footloose and fancy free. I met Horowitz in 1975 and as I recall he didn't scrunch his nose...but his wife did!
ReplyDeleteLovely picture, my sweet. I could see it embroidered on a jacket. Or on a jumper for a young girl. csy
This poem at least partly emerged from Horowitz scrunching :)
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