POETRY

Friendship

Posted on February 28, 2022 at 4:23 pm by Lisa Azarmi / CHILD PORTRAIT, CHILDREN, FRENDSHIP, POETRY

“Friendship takes work. Finding friends, nurturing friendships, scheduling face time, it all take a tremendous amount of work. But it’s worth it. If you put in the effort, you’ll see the rewards of positive friends who will make your life extraordinary.” Maya Angelou Marie Bashkirtseff – The Meeting, 1884.

Love

Posted on February 28, 2022 at 4:16 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, FEARLESS, LOVE, POETRY, SPIRITUALITY

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi John William Waterhouse – Windflowers, 1902.

Love

Posted on January 4, 2022 at 6:40 pm by Lisa Azarmi / BOTANICAL, ETERNAL LOVE, POETRY

“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 goldThat you tread as you…

Wisdom

Posted on December 5, 2021 at 4:52 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ALCHEMY, ANIMALS, AWAKENING, BECOMING, POETRY

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.”Langston Hughes – Dreams, 1923. Jan Mankes – Big Owl on Screen, 1913.

Nude

Posted on November 10, 2021 at 1:36 pm by Lisa Azarmi / AWAKENING, BEAUTY, BODY, ETERNAL LOVE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, LOVE, NUDES, POETRY

“Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never bloomsbut carries in…

Faeries

Posted on October 28, 2021 at 10:12 am by Lisa Azarmi / BEAUTY, CHILDREN, FAIRIES, POETRY

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the disheveled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” William Butler Yeats William Heath Robinson – The Fairy’s Birthday, 1925.

Expressions

Posted on September 15, 2021 at 11:42 am by Lisa Azarmi / BEAUTY, BECOMING, ETERNAL LOVE, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, LOVE, MAGIC, PAINTING, POET, POETRY

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.” Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass, 1850. Gaston Bussière – Isolde, 1911.

Dreaming

Posted on September 15, 2021 at 10:40 am by Lisa Azarmi / BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, DREAMING, DREAMS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, GARDEN, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, MOON, MUSIC, POET, POETRY, SLEEP

“We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams.World-losers and world-forsakers,Upon whom the pale moon gleams;Yet we are the movers and shakers,Of the world forever, it seems.” Arthur O’Shaughnessy – Poems of Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Music and Moonlight, 1874. Felice Casorati – Dreaming…

Patience

Posted on September 13, 2021 at 1:27 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, PAINTING, POET, POETRY

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a…

Love

Posted on August 26, 2021 at 12:52 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, COURAGE, ETERNAL LOVE, FEELINGS, LIFE PATH, LOVE, LOVERS, POET, POETRY

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup….

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