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14/11/2022

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." — Herman Melville

16/07/2022

“Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle” – Ross Simmonds ;)

18/06/2022

“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”
― Dejan Stojanovic 🌊

22/05/2022

“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.” - Nayyirah Waheed

21/08/2021

The Black Oak Tree (Quercus Velutina)

A black oak tree is a small sized, fast growing, deciduous tree that is commonly found in central and eastern North America. This tree is a dominant tree commonly found in different parts of North America, but it is not as valuable as the red oak tree (mentioned below). This tree is usually grown on gravelly soils and dry grounds.

The wood of the black oak tree is strong, hard, and heavy, but not as valuable as the red oak tree. The wood is used for fuel wood, ties, and construction.

The bark of the black oak tree is dark brown, and smooth. As it gets older, it started becoming gray black and extremely rough. Sometimes, the bark starts to peel off and it reveals a yellow orange inner bark that is often used to yield yellow dye. The leaves of this tree are simple and they have bristles on their tips.

There are two other types of black oak trees as well. One of them is the Casuarina pauper, Australian tree species and Quercus kelloggii, the Californian tree species, from the western United States.

14/08/2021

The Bigtooth Aspen Tree (Populus Grandidentata)

Also referred to as the large-tooth aspen, American aspen, or Canadian poplar, this thin and disorienting tree is native to eastern North America. It is a deciduous tree with strange leaves, which is where it gets its scientific name. Populus grandidentata is latin for sharp teeth, basically.

Found in Virginia, Maine, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and beyond, the bigtooth aspen can adapt to a large variety of soil types. It is abundant in loamy sand, but is also capable of thriving on alpine, rocky sites (hello, Colorado!). They would prefer to exist in well aerated soils, but they definitely do no tolerate shade.

Seed production begins around 10 years for the bigtooth aspen, and each year the tree will release around a million seeds! Another way this tree reproduces is through suckers. If an aspen dies, suckers grow from the roots and eventually evolve into little clones of their mother tree. Kind of alien, huh?

These trees live short and fast, but provide necessary shade and food for their animal neighbors. Humans utilize bigtooth aspen wood in the form of pallets, log homes, chopsticks, and ladders. This is because their wood is straight grained with very fine texture.

The tree has thick leaves that tremble and clatter in the wind, with thin and smooth olive green bark that eventually turns white. In maturity, the bark will then start fading to grey and become thick and riddled with strange grooves.

08/08/2021

The Primrose
Upon this Primrose hill,
Where, if Heav’n would distil
A shower of rain, each several drop might go
To his own primrose, and grow manna so;
And where their form and their infinity
Make a terrestrial Galaxy,
As the small stars do in the sky:
I walk to find a true Love; and I see
That ’tis not a mere woman that is she,
But must or more or less than woman be.

Yet know I not which flower
I wish; a six, or four;
For should my true-Love less than woman be
She were scarce any thing; and then, should she
Be more than woman she would get above
All thought of ***, and think to move
My heart to study her, and not to love;
Both these were monsters; since there must reside
Falsehood in woman, I could more abide
She were by art than Nature falsified.

Live primrose then, and thrive
With thy true number five;
And woman, whom this flower doth represent,
With this mysterious number be content;
Ten is the farthest number; if half ten
Belong unto each woman, then
Each woman may take half us men;
Or if this will not serve their turn, since all
Numbers are odd or even, and they fall
First into this, five, woman may take us all.

BY JOHN DONNE

31/07/2021

Amethyst ,
Greek for not intoxicated
A gemstone of violet colored quartz
once believed provided protection
against becoming intoxicated

Black Butterfly , a book about transformation and rebirth after death
But I don't know where the stripper
drama comes in
The rest is life ,
compartmentalized
into daily drudge

Oh , but for the last dregs
of glory
at the bottom
of the bottle of life

The electric breath that once
activated every nerve cell
of your being
into ecstacy
has become a distant emoticon
that was once closer
than shadow thin
But now has become the one
living in a graveyard
with hopes
of raising dead dreams

Written by
South by Southwest

24/07/2021

The Chrysanthemum

The rose is called the queen of flowers,
Surrounded by her sisters fair,
A lovely throng of beauties rare,
She holds her court 'mid summer bowers,
'Neath smiling skies of sunny blue,
Gayly they bloom the summer through
Brightening all the golden hours.
But when the autumn days have come
Then blooms our sweet Chrysanthemum.

As we watch the summer days depart
And the painted leaves in silence fall,
And the vines are dead upon the wall;
A dreamy sadness fills each heart,
Our garden seems a dreary place,
No brilliant flowers its borders grace,
Save in a sheltered nook apart,
Where gay beneath the autumn sun
Blooms our own Chrysanthemum.

Ah! she is not a "Summer Friend,"
She stays when all the rest have flown,
And left us flowerless and alone;
No singing birds, or blooms to lend
Their brightness to the autumn haze,
'Tis she who cheers the dreary days;
'Tis joy to know so sweet a friend;
No fairer flower blooms 'neath the sun
Than autumn's queen Chrysanthemum.

by Hattie L. Knapp.

17/07/2021

Little Azalea

Little azalea
on the corner;
You gave me quiet joy
year after year.

I promised you;
vaguely, as I scampered past
that one day I would snap your picture,
crop it just so
press you in a tender frame
and adorn you
above the fireplace
or in the gentle gazebo
watching as we sip lemonade
and murmur about the weather.

But you have withered
and your buds no longer clasp the dew.

I told you that it was no matter;
that the picture will always live
in my mind.
Yet my memory fades
and I can't even recall
that subtle twist of your fresh limbs
and what was that shade of pink?

I must confess to you
that in the Spring
I will plant a little azalea
above your cracked, buried, splintered bones
and scamper past to hang a dimestore sketch
of some nameless azalea
in the gazebo.

Written by
Michael Berman

12/07/2021

What is a Stream?

By the stream I dream in calm delight, and watch as in a glass,
How the clouds like crowds of snowy-hued and white-robed maidens pass,
And the water into ripples breaks and sparkles as it spreads,
Like a host of armored knights with silver helmets on their heads.
And I deem the stream an emblem fit of human life may go,
For I find a mind may sparkle much and yet but shallows show,
And a soul may glow with myriad lights and wondrous mysteries,
When it only lies a dormant thing and mirrors what it sees.

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

03/07/2021

What is a Rainbow?

The morning rays of the Sun cling
On the upper bow of the Rainbow
Emerge after a moment ‘s dusk
Brown Pelicans and Western Gulls
Fly beneath the lower bow
That touches the water
Send fishes into hiding

As I walk along the white beach
Looking at the sea, the blue waters
Dance its way towards the golden sand
Shy away from the smiling horizon
Once, in a jubilant second, vessels across,
Scream their hearts out,
Ignite the nature’s garland
The Princess of the Sea,
Colorful as Galaxies dust
Catches watchful eyes off-guard

The seven colors spectrum is the senses
Nourishes the need and desire
Like a prism, it passes through every heart
Leaving the lights of absolution
Windward and crystallize

Red, orange, yellow
Life and love bestows
Green, blue, indigo
Ships of love embargo
Engaged for passion
Violet
Rhymes like couplet
One kiss,
Over the rainbow
Breaches the distance
Between friendship
And love

Rainbow – Dancing With The Wind
by TaMaRa HaNaRiNg