ArtfulFairyTales...Musings...Poetic Artistry

Welcome to my ArtfulFairyTales Musings and Poetic Artistry...i am spiritual artist, mommie, educator, writer, interior designer composing...and if i had to do it all again..i would do so... afloat a leafy sea dragon...and having a conversation with a whale i would most definitely wear my wedding dress with a strand of for-get-me-nots attached - EdenClare

P.S. "I'm going to make everything around me Beautiful - that will be my life."- Elsie de Wolfe

P.S.S...imagery and words, unless noted, have been reblogged.... inspiring links...are located at the very end of this fragrant stream.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

fair and lovely MerMaids

at 3:20 AM

once upon a time

in June

i happened upon

some fair and lovely

MerMaids...

and to this day...i love them still.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

summer cottage

at 8:35 PM

well..

it is time

time

for
a little transformation
here at my summer cottage

amidst the bright light
and humid rainfall
with paint and plants

and influence from some
favorite artists
we are going to do it...

make this long over due
make over finally happen!

and we hope...all before our bouganvilla stops blooming!

thanks to
castles crowns cottages
we are feeling ever so inspired!

Sunday, June 2, 2013

celebrate Walt...

at 8:21 AM

a bit late

i still have to honor

one of my favorite

poet, writer, thinker...

for his legacy

of words...

xoxo

Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 — March 26, 1892) is widely celebrated as the father of free verse, his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass (public library; public domain) enduring as one of the most influential works in the American literary canon. He wrote in the preface to the 1855 edition, which he self-published in a limited edition of about 800 copies and which included the acclaimed fifty-two-section poem “Song of Myself”:

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

imagery and verse via...brainpickings

Maybe loving books is not so simple. Just like a healthy relationship needs work and changes with time, so too does our relationship with the things we own as we try to define ourselves and not be defined by stuff. Simply owning books didn’t make me a reader. What did make me a reader was an insatiable appetite for new stories and the things they have taught me. I would not be a better person for owning a library; I become a better person because I chose to read. — New Home, Empty Shelves (via booklover)

The thing you need to know, child, is that trees do speak, they do tell tales, they sing when they’ve a mind to, they are gigglers, gossips, grumblers cataloging every ache and pain, and yet they hold no grudges, claim no debts, speak ill of no creature. They have their tempers, yes, tantrums of branches lashed in gusts and gales, but then they come to rest in stillness, spent, humming contentedly. You’ve heard them child, just yesterday. You though it was only the wind. The thing you need to know is that by dawn-light every tree stands tall and chants its name, its history, its kinship web and lineage. You’ve heard them child. You thought it was the dawn chorus of birds. The thing you need to know is that the trees tell stories older than the oldest tales of humankind: by dusk, by night, by starlight, you have heard their midnight murmuring. You told me so. You thought it was just water running in the stream. The thing you need to know, child, is that trees do speak in their own language. They mutter with the rustle of old brown leaves, they sigh with the snow drifting at their feet, they utter exquisite arboreal poems as each new tender unfurls, they laugh in shivers of green and gold tickled by a passing breeze. The thing you need to know, child, is that the trees do speak, in the tree language. And yes, you will understand their speech one day, root child, sweet sapling.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

fair and lovely MerMaids

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

summer cottage

Sunday, June 2, 2013

celebrate Walt...

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