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Mooie dingen die ik heb gevonden en graag deel.
Beautiful things I like to share.
Poetry on Bears & global warming
How to talk about global warming, without mentioning the word, and wrapping in a love story.
Mahogany L. Browne performs “Bears”
10 Things Every Female Should Know
1. You are a prayer in the most holy mouth. The space between clasped hands. A landscape so picturesque at any angle, you are a reminder that magic exists.
2. Oh, they will stop and stare, you most divine creature with unapologetic skin and fearless features. LEARN to take a compliment. Settle into being the center of things. Lees verder
Phenomenal Woman
Zen Pencils is a great cartoonist who turns strong words into even stronger images. I love how he makes poems come to life. Such as Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou.
Angelou recently passed away and Gavin of Zen Pencils dedicated this cartoon to her. I think it’s a very strong and gracious poem on the strength of women. With my love for spoken word poetry, I like to read poems out aloud, and this one very good for that. So try it.
First the wonderful cartoon by Zen Pencils, then the full text of the poem (under read more). If you like Maya Angelou, also watch the video by Natalie Patterson with A Tribute To Maya Angelou, al the way down this post.
Private parts of a jigsaw puzzle
I love the mind of Sarah Kay
4 in the morning
What is it with all the mentions of 4 o’clock in the morning in our culture? They seem to be everywhere. At least if you are like performance poet Rives!
Crowdsourcing the 4 A.M. mystery
I’ve loved Rives since his 2006 talk ‘If I controlled the Internet’. Funny, beautiful, and a new sort of poetry. I’ve placed it below. That year after that he came back to share his fascination for the early morning hour in popular culture. Books, movies, TV, poems: 4 A.M. seems to be mentioned all around us. Since that video went online, he has been getting references from all over the world. Now he came back to TED to unravel the mystery and finish the story. The first time I applauded for a TED talk, behind the screen of my computer.
If I controlled the internet
A kiss on the forehead
A kiss on the forehead—erases misery.
I kiss your forehead.
A kiss on the eyes—lifts sleeplessness.
I kiss your eyes.
A kiss on the lips—is a drink of water.
I kiss your lips.
A kiss on the forehead—erases memory.
Love Came
Love came,
and became like blood in my body.
It rushed through my veins and
encircled my heart.Everywhere I looked,
I saw one thing.
Love’s name written
on my limbs,
on my left palm,
on my forehead,
on the back of my neck,
on my right big toe…Oh, my friend,
all that you see of me
is just a shell,
and the rest belongs to love.
Rumi
Korintiërs
De liefde is geduldig en vol goedheid.
De liefde kent geen afgunst, geen ijdel vertoon en geen zelfgenoegzaamheid.Ze is niet grof en niet zelfzuchtig,
ze laat zich niet boos maken en rekent het kwaad niet aan,
ze verheugt zich niet over het onrecht maar vindt vreugde in de waarheid.Alles verdraagt ze,
alles gelooft ze,
alles hoopt ze,
in alles volhardt ze.De liefde zal nooit vergaan.
Profetieën zullen verdwijnen,
klanktaal zal verstommen,
kennis verloren gaan –want ons kennen schiet tekort en ons profeteren is beperkt.
1 Korintiërs 13
If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,
but do not have love, I gain nothing.Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13
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