P/P NEWSLETTER | VIII.10.2009

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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 August 2009. Back on the
Southside of the Wallowas, and down for a few
days at my office in Richland & Eagle Valley after
a wonderful trip on horseback. (see slideshow below)

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

http://www.picture-poems.com

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FEATURED HIGH SUMMER SPECIALS:

**THE WALLOWAS ON HORSEBACK*

A portrait of horsemen Frank Randall & Tommy McClure
on a 4-day trek through some of the most beautiful
country in the South Wallowas:
http://picture-poems.com/movs/photoweek_8-3-09.html

Download at: [23' | 36 Mb]
http://picture-poems.com/movs/photoweek_8-3-09.mov
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

*PHOTOWEEK NORTHWEST VII.5.20098 PDF*

24 new images, texts, poems & meditations
from two weeks of fieldwork up in the Krag Peak Basin,
on top of Red Mountain, and at Muir (Crater) Lake:

http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/photoweek_7-5-09.pdf [3 Mb]
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

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

*MOVING UP INTO MOUNTAIN TIME II*

This week, two new translations from the
German [with intro & poster]:

Rilke wrote the Sonnets to Orpheus at his modest chateau in Muzot,
Switzerland, during a period of intense activity in February of 1922. It
was to be his last published work. The sequence of 55 poems, all sharing
the same basic form and divided into two parts, is characterized by a
marvelously light and quick energy. Indeed, they seem filled with the
exuberance of the mountains in which they were composed, where
everything seems larger than life, colors brighter and more radiant, and
streams faster and more clear.

This then is a poetry of praise, of the air I breathe, the meadow through
which I walk, the beauty of a single windflower opening to receive the
morning sun, and yes, of praise itself:

SONNET TO ORPHEUS XVI [SECOND PART]

Torn away from us again and again
is the god of the place which heals.
We are sharp-edged, for we have to know,
but he is [un]divided and serene.

Even the pure, the consecrated gift
he declines to take into his world
for, unmoved, he stands contrary
to the unfettered conclusion.

Only the dead drink
from the spring heard by us here,
when the god silently waves to them, /
the dead.

For us, noise is all that is offered.
And the lamb, out of a more quiet
instinct, begs for its bell.

Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Cliff Crego)

http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/features/gandschijen.html

Poster:
http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_sonnetXVI-2.html

DOWNLOAD Poster at:
http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_sonnetXVI-2.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

Or visit the P/P nested website for Rilke's poetry
in new English translations at:

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

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Featured at Photoweek Northwest: a new set of images
& texts composed during treks during the a three-week
period this summer in the High Wallowas:

*RED MOUNTAIN*
http://cs-music.com/features/photos/red-mountain_krag-peak.html

*ALPINE LAKE, COMPOSITION*
http://cs-music.com/features/photos/alpine-lake_composition.html

Or go to the new updated Photoweek Northwest Image Index at:

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

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Featured Miniatures:

*THE PASS*

http://www.cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_granitesky.html

PDF: [to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
http://www.cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_granitesky.pdf

DOWNLOAD PDF:
http://www.cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_granitesky.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

*MONEY!*

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

DOWNLOAD PDF:
http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_money.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

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:

*HOW TO PROTECT AN ALPINE MEADOW*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/eagle-cap_from-west_9-4-08.html

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

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Featured Picture/Poem Essay:

*ON THE TWIN GUIDEPOSTS OF YOGA &
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE*

"In this brief sketch or outline, I'd like to suggest that the
twin guideposts of all learning and education are Yoga
and the Alexander Technique. Why? Because Yoga forms
the life-long practice of learning to work and move and do
things without force. And the Alexander Technique (AT)
forms the complementary life-long practice of learning to
work and move and do things without unnecessary tension.
So we have movement without force, and we have movement
without unnecessary tension." [,,,]

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/muir_7-4-09.html

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 Picture/Poem Musical Composition:

*SPANISH DANCER*

SCORE:
http://www.cs-music.com/viola/suite_3-1.html

Listen to the MP3:
http://www.cs-music.com/viola/suite_3-mix.mp3 [653 K]
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

Download PDF [6 A4 81/2 x 11" pages / 165 K]
http://www.cs-music.com/viola/suite_va-gt-3.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

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Featured Picture/Poem FLORA:

New weekly feature: Wallowa Wildflowers & Wallowa Weeds:

*JUNE CLARKIA (Clarkia pulchella)*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/clarkia-pulchella_6-23-09.html

*WHITETOP (Cardaria draba)*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/powder_cardaria_5-23-08.html

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Featured Links:

*FOOD & WATER WATCH*

"Water sustains all life. We drink it, we bathe in it, we grow our
food with it. We can’t live without it. Yet today, water is being
polluted, depleted and diverted at a rapid rate. One in 6 people —
more than 1 billion — lack access to clean water. And that number
will increase if we do not act now."

http://picture-poems.com/links

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Help to Picture/Poems & Photoweek Northwest
to Alaska and beyond!

Make a donation online with PayPal at:
http://picture-poems.com/support_3.html

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As always, your comments and
suggestions are welcome.

All the best.
Cliff Crego
GENERAL DELIVERY
Richland, Eagle Valley, Oregon,
The Wallowas, 97870 USA
crego@picture-poems.com

Get the new Picture/Poem Calendar *AUGUST HIDDEN LAKE* at:
http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_hidden-lake_8.html

Or DOWNLOAD as PDF at: [to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_hidden-lake_8.pdf

NEW: PicturePoem Lunar-solar CALENDAR 2009:

Lunar-solar CALENDAR
http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/lunar-solar_calendar_2009.html

Or download as PDF:
http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/lunar-solar_calendar_2009.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

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	Rilke wrote the *Sonnets to Orpheus* at his modest chateau in Muzot, Switzerland, during a period of intense activity in February of 1922. It was to be his last published work. The sequence of 55 poems, all sharing the same basic form and divided into two parts, is characterized by a marvelously light and quick energy. Indeed, they seem filled with the exuberance of the mountains in which they were composed, where everything seems larger than life, colors brighter and more radiant, and streams faster and more clear. This then is a poetry of praise, of the air I breathe, the meadow through which I walk, the beauty of a single windflower opening to receive the morning sun, and yes, of praise itself: SONNET TO ORPHEUS XVI [SECOND PART] Torn away from us again and again is the god of the place which heals. We are sharp-edged, for we have to know, but he is [un]divided and serene. Even the pure, the consecrated gift he declines to take into his world for, unmoved, he stands contrary to the unfettered conclusion. Only the dead drink from the spring heard by us here, when the god silently waves to them, / the dead. For us, noise is all that is offered. And the lamb, out of a more quiet instinct, begs for its bell. Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Cliff Crego) http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/features/gandschijen.html