domingo, 28 de diciembre de 2014

Poetry: Czeslaw Milosz - Incatation - Ars Poetica? - At a Certain Age - Links







Incantation

Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It establishes the universal ideas in language,
And guides our hand so we write Truth and Justice
With capital letters, lie and oppression with small.
It puts what should be above things as they are,
Is an enemy of despair and a friend of hope.
It does not know Jew from Greek or slave from master,
Giving us the estate of the world to manage.
It saves austere and transparent phrases
From the filthy discord of tortured words.
It says that everything is new under the sun,
Opens the congealed fist of the past.
Beautiful and very young are Philo-Sophia
And poetry, her ally in the service of the good.
As late as yesterday Nature celebrated their birth,
The news was brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
Their friendship will be glorious, their time has no limit.
Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction.



Ars Poetica?

I have always aspired to a more spacious form
that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose
and would let us understand each other without exposing
the author or reader to sublime agonies.

In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent:
a thing is brought forth which we didn't know we had in us,
so we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out
and stood in the light, lashing his tail.

That's why poetry is rightly said to be dictated by a daimonion,
though its an exaggeration to maintain that he must be an angel.
It's hard to guess where that pride of poets comes from,
when so often they're put to shame by the disclosure of their frailty.

What reasonable man would like to be a city of demons,
who behave as if they were at home, speak in many tongues,
and who, not satisfied with stealing his lips or hand,
work at changing his destiny for their convenience?

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today,
and so you may think that I am only joking
or that I've devised just one more means
of praising Art with thehelp of irony.

There was a time when only wise books were read
helping us to bear our pain and misery.
This, after all, is not quite the same
as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics.

And yet the world is different from what it seems to be
and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.
People therefore preserve silent integrity
thus earning the respect of their relatives and neighbors.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will.

What I'm saying here is not, I agree, poetry,
as poems should be written rarely and reluctantly,
under unbearable duress and only with the hope
that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their 




At a Certain Age

We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.
White clouds refused to accept them, and the wind
Was too busy visiting sea after sea.
We did not succeed in interesting the animals.
Dogs, disappointed, expected an order,
A cat, as always immoral, was falling asleep.
A person seemingly very close
Did not care to hear of things long past.
Conversations with friends over vodka or coffee
Ought not be prolonged beyond the first sign of boredom.
It would be humiliating to pay by the hour
A man with a diploma, just for listening.
Churches. Perhaps churches. But to confess there what?
That we used to see ourselves as handsome and noble
Yet later in our place an ugly toad
Half-opens its thick eyelid
And one sees clearly: "That's me."







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Botany - Botanica: Abelia - Data - Links



Abelia Chinensis


Abelia Chinensis


Abelia Grandiflora


Abelia Grandiflora




Abelia  Confetti 


Abelia  Confetti 


Abelia  Confetti 


Abelia  Confetti 

Abelia /əˈbiːliə/[1] is a genus of about 15-30 species and many hybrids in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. Some authors, including the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, consider Abelia and related genera to belong instead in the segregate family Linnaeaceae, also including such genera as Linnaea, Abelia, Dipelta, Kolkwitzia, and Zabelia, but not such others as Lonicera or Symphoricarpos, included by them instead in a more narrowly viewed Caprifoliaceae.

Abelias are shrubs from 1–6 m tall, native to eastern Asia (Japan west to the Himalaya) and southern North America (Mexico); the species from warm climates are evergreen, and colder climate species deciduous. The leaves are opposite or in whorls of three, ovate, glossy, dark green, 1.5–8 cm long, turning purplish-bronze to red in autumn in the deciduous species. The flowers appear in the upper leaf axils and stem ends, 1-8 together in a short cyme; they are pendulous, white to pink, bell-shaped with a five-lobed corolla, 1–5 cm long, and usually scented. Flowering continues over a long and continuous period from late spring to fall.

Type species of this genus is Abelia chinensis. The generic name commemorates Clarke Abel, a keen naturalist who accompanied Lord Amherst's unsuccessful embassy to China in 1816 as surgeon, under the sponsorship of Sir Joseph Banks. All of Abel's seeds and plants were lost in a shipwreck on the homeward voyage, however; living plants of Abelia chinensis were first imported to England in 1844 by Robert Fortune, who introduced A. uniflora the following year.[2]

The showy semi-hardy Mexican A. floribunda of the Cordillera of Oaxaca was introduced to English horticulture in 1841.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelia

Abelia Caleidoscope


Abelia Caleidoscope


Abelia Chinensis


Abelia Chinensis


Abelia Chinensis

Abelia es un género de unas 70 especies descritas, de las cuales unas 30 están aceptadas, de arbustos pertenecientes a la familia Caprifoliaceae.1

Descripción

Son arbustos caducifolios o semi-caducifolios, de hasta 4 m de altura, muy ramificados con ramas periféricas extendidas y algo arqueadas/pendulas, de hojas opuestas -o verticiladas por 3 a 5 en las ramas centrales erectas- cortamente pecioladas, de margen entero o ligeramente dentado o crenato-dentado. Las flores son axilares o terminales, solitarias o por grupos de hasta 3. Las 4-6 brácteas son pequeñas y no acrescentes. Los sépalos, en número de 2-5, son generalmente extendidos, estrechamente oblongo-elípticos o agudos, con o sin pelos y persistentes. La corola es penta-lobulada, con tubo cilíndrico o acampanado, bilabiada o no, de color blanco, amarillo, rosa o rojo. Los estambres dídinamos estén próximos al tubo de la corola, incluidos en esta o algo salientes, con anteras hasta el interior. El ovario es estrechamente oblongo, tri-locular -con 2 lóculos de 2 series de óvulos estériles, y un lóculo de un único óvulo fértil- con estilo filiforme y estigmas cabezudos, blancos. El fruto es un aquenio coriáceo coronado por los sépalos persistentes del cáliz.2

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelia
 
Abelia Mosanensis


Abelia Mosanensis


Abelia Mosanensis





Links
Especies – Species

Ginkgo Biloba
Orchard - Zapallo
Vaccinium
Vainilla – Vanilla
Valeriana
Vancouveria
Vanda
Veltheimia
Venegasia carpesioides
Verbascum
Verbena
Verbesina
Vernonia
Verónica
Veronicastrum
Viburnum
Vicia
Victoria
Vinca
Viola
Vuylstekeara
Wisteria
Zantedeschia
Zinnia
Zygopetalum
Fungus – Hongos
Agaricus
Agrocybe
Botany: Fungus. Hongos. Funji: Agrocybe  
Aleuria Aurantia
Amanita
Armillaria
Boletus
Cantharellus
Chroogomphus
Chrysomphalina
Clavariadelphus
Clavulina
Clitocybe
Clitopilus
Collybia
Coltricia
Conocybe
Coprinus
Cortinarius
Craterellus
Crepidotus
Crucibulum
Fomitopsis
Morchella
Suillus
Tricholona
Various - Varios
Various - Varios
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