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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 fourth week of June 2007

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

http://www.picture-poems.com

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END-OF-JUNE SPECIAL FEATURE

*PICTURE/POEM CliffCards*

Box of 12 Note Cards $12.00 + shipping

The featured image is from this week's PhotoWeek
LEOPARD FROG--send a friend an image of
natural North America or the European Alps
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf40bee51594
[image may not display in all browsers . . . ]

Larger image:
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/slideshow.jsp?
auto=1&aid=768a5498cf40bee51594&idx=-1

OTHER CliffCards
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/gallery.jsp?gid=768a5498ce7cfd04fd65

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Featured photograph/poems from "Images of the Natural Year":

*SEEING THE WORLD FIRSTHAND*

This week, six new translations from the
DUTCH [with intro, recordings & poster]:

The Cottage in the Dunes

Wallflowers blossomed in front of the low window.
The late afternoon sunlight was warm and bronze,
and the undisturbed silence sounded like a hum
of many small wings beating together.

And behind the small, protected house
rose up the bleached-white sanddunes:
a clear sky stood above their crowns;
almost inaudible was the surf of the sea.

Here, the power of misfortune seemed to fade,
for a moment. Here, happiness seemed obtainable,
the heavy pressures of daily life avoidable
within the borders of a limited existence.

What is this obsession so ingrained for people
that it will not allow for the fulfillment of desire,
that they are by their weak hearts refused
that which they chased after, all their lives?

J.C. Bloem (1887-1966) (tr. Cliff Crego)

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

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

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

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Featured at PhotoWeek:

Or go to the PhotoWeek Archive at:

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

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Featured Miniatures:

*PERFECTION & PERFORMANCE*

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_performance.html

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

Purchace online glossy A4 (8 x 10") Posters $4.99:

http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf73536aeff1

Or go to the P/P Miniatures Archives at:

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/archive-miniatures.html

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Featured Picture/Poem:.

EVERY VALLEY REMEMBERS

Two neighbors working,
tapping out the blade,

the complementary rhythms of
2's and 3's.

Distance and a summer breeze
do strange things to sound,

     the sharp tang of heavy hammer
     on anvil planted on heavy rock,

     the delicate edge moves slowly
     round the tapping of the blade,
     a new moon moving from East
     to West.

Higher up the mountain, silver
consonants ricochet off nameless
steep granite walls...

Wide awake, noon rest finished,
these sounds— were not made today.

                  (Urnerland, Fire Festival Time,
                   getting the scythes ready, making hay)

http://www.picture-poems.com/week1/farmer.html#Every%20Valley%
20Remembers

Part of ON PATHS: download as ebook / or pdf at: [1 Mb]
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
http://picture-poems.com/ebooks/on-paths.pdf

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Featured COMPOSITION:

*INTRO: RIDGE CROSSING*

A song cycle for mezzo-soprano & piano:
http://cs-music.com/voice/intro_ridge-crossing.html

DOWNLOAD mp3 at:
http://picture-poems.com/mp3/ridge-crossing-stream-32.mp3

DOWNLOAD pdf of the Performance Score at:
http://cs-music.com/voice/ridge-crossing.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

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Featured LINKS:

*Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies*

The new energy-efficient building at Oberlin College, in Ohio
USA; a set of links to work of one the remarkable designers /
architects who worked on the project, William McDonough.

http://www.picture-poems.com/links

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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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