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On foraging and Videos, a poetic response

From Alex and Clare

Pioneers from vdmalex on Vimeo.

2010 we attended a ‘Weed Tour’ of Sydney Park, hosted by local artist Diego Bonetto as part of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s major exhibition ‘In The Balance: Art for a Changing World’. Diego introduced us to his friends – dandelion, wild mustard, sowthistle and more, unjustly [...]

Alack, ’tis he!

King Lear Act 4,
scene five CORDELIA:

Alack, ‘tis he! Why, he was met even now
As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,
Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With hardokes, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn (IV.v.1-6)

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on perMapOesiS

Natural Bitterness from Patrick Jones on Vimeo.

a short video poem by Patrick Jones, permaculturalist, spoken word artist, poet, blogger, father, all of which in no specific order.

” the industries
of spontaneous flora.
an invisible abundance
that greed ignores ”

Read [...]

Moment rair (moo-ment ra-ir) piedmontese for Rare moments

pic from Lady-Bug

This poem below was dedicated to you from a blog in Piedmontese, the language you grew up with.
You are flattered, it’s about a walk by two small lakes, the vegetation, and the silent of nature.
You can read the Italian translation here..
You’re not going to translate it any further than that.

Piemontes is a dying language, [...]

A little Poetry

Found this one by searching blogs around, thought was lovely…

Democracy
by Ann Zelenka

I’ve spaded up a garden
But I haven’t planted seeds,
This one’s going to be kept
Exclusively for weeds -
There won’t be distinctions
Or uptilted noses,
And Queen Anne’s lace is lovelier
Than lilies or [...]