It’s Monday, and what could I do but share a washing line. Siracusa, Sicily, September 2021 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 4 October 2021 Posted as part of Becky’s PastSquares […]
This attractive courtyard caught my attention as I wandered the streets of Ortigia. And when I discovered its current role, a cocktail bar, I was even more attracted. Cortile Verga, […]
About a 15 minute walk from the archaeological park in Siracusa, we find we have skipped from 1st century BC to late 1990s AD, with this church that was built […]
It’s the start of a new month of squares with Becky, and for October we are looking back at old themes, old square posts or old memories. My plan is […]
“Hidden, but there, Shadows and fair, But best of all? They were square” I’m not yet ready for the new month of squares, but I thought I’d take a look […]
I kicked off the month of trees with the start of Kilmer’s poem about trees, and am ending with his final lines. … Poems are made by fools like me, […]
On scorched and conflagrated sands, In sapped and grudging desolation, The solitary Upas stands Grim sentinel of all creation. – from The Upas Tree (Анчар) by Alexander Pushkin read more […]
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, … I love not man the less, but Nature more, – from Childe Harold’s […]
And the wind blew through the boughs, Of the jacaranda tree. Raining purple like it still does now, – from Underneath The Jacaranda Tree by Juan Olivarez read more Bloom […]
Palm-tree: single-legged giant, topping other trees, peering at the firmament – It longs to pierce the black cloud-ceiling and fly away, away, … – from Palm Tree by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 […]
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, ‘I’ll do a sketch of thee, What kind of pencil shall I use, 2B or not 2B?’ – from Hamlet by Spike Milligan LISTEN here Laurence […]