P/P NEWSLETTER | XII.11.2006

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Picture/Poems by Cliff Crego

In every picture,
there's a poem;
In every poem,
a picture.

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Dear Friends:

Here's what's new on the Picture/Poem website
the second week of December 2006

Picture/Poems: Central Display (and follow links to...)

http://www.picture-poems.com

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REALLY-READY-FOR-WINTER
PHOTO FEATURE:

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featured image is from this week's PhotoWeek
MOON SET, SUN RISE--send a friend an image of
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Featured photograph/poems from "Images of the Natural Year":

*The Fall Umbel's Small Universe*

This week, seven new translations from the
DUTCH:

Song of the Hearth

Welcome Winter, how cracks your ice?
Fills your snow the valleys?
I have here spring thaw at the hearth
And no fire to fetch.
Blow you storm, through the firmament?
Wall and roof can bare it.
Pour you dampness down in streams?
My glass shall aside it put.

Shrinks the day? then less necessity
By light to yawn.
Stretches the night? then suits him well
Who together will sleep.
Does the garden no sappy fruit
On my table shine?
Dry fare does just as well digest,
With more ample drink.

Pour then, Winter, with your damp;
Storm and freeze outside;
Drive your light flakes around,
In front of my closed windows;
Give us but half our rations this day,
And one dish less;
High-spirited, with song and wine,
Of no hinder I complain.

Guido Gezelle (1830-1899) (tr. Cliff Crego)
http://www.cs-music.com/features/hemlockfall.html

Or visit the P/P nested website *r2c* for DUTCH poetry
in new English translations at:

http://www.cs-music.com/features/r2c.html

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Featured at PhotoWeek:

*WHITE OAK, NIGHT BRANCHES*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/whiteoak_nightbranches.html

*NO ICE!*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/no-ice_11-28-06.html

*CROW SOLO*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/crow-solo.html

*SQUIRREL. KEEPING WARM*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/squirrel_keeping-warm.html

*HERONS IN SNOW STORM*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/2-herons-in-snow.html

*ASIAN BITTERSWEET*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/celastrus-orbiculatus.html

*WINTER FOUNTAIN*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/winterweg-fountain.html

Or go to the PhotoWeek Archive at:

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/photoweek-archive.html

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Featured Miniatures:

*TO PROTECT THE BEAUTIFUL. . .*

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Or go to the P/P Miniatures Archives at:

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Featured Picture/Poem:.

The Color Black

for raven

The raucous sounds of birds burned
black with rage,
banished forever
to a cage
with fear for bars, victims of
their own inauspicious presence
on battlefields past.
Waiting.
Sensing what

was to come.
The smell of rotting

flesh. (Did they know who was to die?)
Ah, but this unbearable silence
filled with
thought's ravenous flies
biting at the brain's tender meat. [...]

http://picture-poems.com/features/colorblack.html

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[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
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Featured Musical Compostion:

*INTRO: RIDGE CROSSING*

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As always, your comments and
suggestions are welcome.

All the best.
Cliff Crego
Northwest Ohio, USA
crego@picture-poems.com

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Song of the Hearth Welcome Winter, how cracks your ice? Fills your snow the valleys? I have here spring thaw at the hearth And no fire to fetch. Blow you storm, through the firmament? Wall and roof can bare it. Pour you dampness down in streams? My glass shall aside it put. Shrinks the day? then less necessity By light to yawn. Stretches the night? then suits him well Who together will sleep. Does the garden no sappy fruit On my table shine? Dry fare does just as well digest, With more ample drink. Pour then, Winter, with your damp; Storm and freeze outside; Drive your light flakes around, In front of my closed windows; Give us but half our rations this day, And one dish less; High-spirited, with song and wine, Of no hinder I complain. Guido Gezelle (1830-1899) (tr. Cliff Crego) http://www.cs-music.com/features/hemlockfall.html