by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 15, 2021 | ANGELS, AWAKENING, FLOWERS
John Dickson Batten – The Garden of Adonis–Amoretta and Time, 1887. “A sensitive plant in a garden grew,And the young winds fed it with silver dew,And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,And closed them beneath the kisses of night. And the spring...
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 12, 2021 | BOTANICAL, BUTTERFLY, ETERNAL LOVE, FLOWERS, LOVE
For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty...
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 2, 2021 | AWAKENING, BECOMING, FLOWERS, GARDEN
“To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed…That can make life a garden.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Ernst Eitner
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 25, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOTANICAL, FLOWERS, GARDEN, LIFE PATH, NATURE, POET, POETRY
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” John Keats Henri Le Sidaner – Hydrangeas, 1918.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 24, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BOTANICAL, CLASSIC LITERATURE, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, DREAMS, FLOWERS
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Felice Casoati – Dreaming of Pomegranates, 1912.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 23, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, DREAMS, ETERNAL LOVE, FLOWERS, FREEDOM, HEART, LOVE, LOVERS, POET, POETRY, PORTRAITS
“I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen. When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red...
