Month: August 2021
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Review Update
David Toft, A Gift of Butterflies Paranormal Thriller Four young people venture into the woods at night. When they wake up, they have received a gift – or is it a curse? A Gift of Butterflies focuses on Mark Aldridge and Susie Philips and the ordeal they must face. The butterfly gift forced on them…
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Gentian
Violet and bell-like Upstanding and brave Azure and white, or yellow and slight Buds as small cones that unfolds in a swirl An emblem for samurais, amid Heian peers Shadows protect and assist them to growth * Mountain dweller and tonic giver Bog lover, temperate, But still cosmopolitan * Circling Swirling Dreaming Of snow ***…
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Reflections in a Tree
I painted this watercolour in 2000 but wasn’t too happy with it. Had almost forgot about it but found it recently and thought it wasn’t so bad after all. It may not be exactly what I planned, and I believe I’ll try it again, perhaps on a larger scale, to see if I can capture…
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Delight in Imperfections?
The good thing about working intensively on a group of songs, and then let them rest while going through others – and repeat until reaching the end – followed by another round, is that the songs that rest don’t. There is always something brewing – even in the songs that don’t get worked on at…
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Kaleidoscope
*** People must populate Patterns perpetuate: Humans defy humility But prosper and spread Speeding through centuries With deftness and dread * Cosmos and micro-cosmos Mirror the mirages: Perceive earth and heaven Through a peacock’s tail Iridescent blue Glittering green Held and withheld but Tumbling, obscene * Peopling populations Prime persons to kill * Prying, the…