Showing posts with label haiku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label haiku. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Beauty, Red Carpet Fashions and Lord Byron

"Outer beauty attracts,
but
inner beauty captivates"

- Kate Angell, from Squeeze Play


Jennifer Garner, Oscars dress


I am a total fashion nut.
That is, in my dreams, not in my wardrobe!
(sigh, that darn budget thing...)

My favorites are formal dresses.
I suppose it is the repressed princess in me.

and one of my other favorite loves?
Quotes!

Today we combine the two
with a theme of BEAUTY

- and some fantastic Red Carpet dresses.

Angie Harmon, Screen Actors Guild

Summer Memories

If I could have caught
the poetry inside of
her beautiful smile.

- Haiku by Rhia Madison Thomer


Marisa Tomei, 2009 Oscars
www.harpersbazaar.com


"..and in the end, 
it's  not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years."

 - Abraham Lincoln

Angelina Jolie
www.ellefashion.com



"Regardless of the situation,
react with 
class."

- by H.Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live's Little Instruction Book, volume II
no. 7


Nina Dobrev
redcarpet.blog.naver.com

Charlize Theron, at the Oscars

She Walks in Beauty
- by George Gordon Byron
(Lord Byron)
1.
"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.



Diane Kruger 2012
www.aliexpress.com


Selena Gomez
www.fanpop.com



II.
"One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress.
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.


Amy Adams, Oscars 2013


Halle Berry


III
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!"

- end of  She Walks in Beauty

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16159

Cameron Diaz, the Academy Awards, 2010

Octavia Spencer, Oscars 2013


Haiku 36
by Timothy Hicks
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/short/beautiful

moonlight through her hair,
shows she'll be beautiful
with age

Hayden Panettier in Roberto Cavalli dress
Golden Globe, 2013


Jessica Chastain, Academy Awards
www.eastcoastnat.blogspot.com



'Living is not enough'
said the butterfly,
'One must have sunshine,
freedom,
and a little flower.'

 - Hans Christian Andersen

Natalie Portman
www.keltiecolleen.buzz.net


Taylor Swift, Country Music Awards
www.it.aliexpress.com


"What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters
compared to
what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jennifer Lopez, 2010 Red Carpet Gala

Angelina Jolie
www.okmarket.com



"The beauty of a woman 
is not in a facial mole, 
but true beauty in a Woman
is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives,
The passion that she knows."

- Audrey Hepburn


Scarlett Johansson, 68th Golden Globe Awards
www.newsgab.com


Miley Cyrus, Oscars, 2012



"Know first,
who you are;
and then
adorn yourself accordingly."

 - Epictetus


Jennifer Lawrence, Oscars


Olivia Wilde

I hope you have had as much fun
looking at fantasy dresses
as much as I had fun
collecting them!

until next time,
inkspired

www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com
www.inkspired.etsy.com
www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com
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Penelope Cruz


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Monday, June 25, 2012

Lilacs, New Hampshire and Walt Whitman

salaam

'Peace' in Arabic, spoken in Kuwait

Kuwait children flashing peace signs in Kuwait City, http://www.gulfnews.com/


I've been wanting to do another section in my on-going blogs about

The Language of Flowers

or

The Meaning of Flowers

I've been researching 'LILACS'.

Lilac and Chickadee flag, www.hollyandivy.com

As always, the subject has turned out to be very extensive!!!

First, the purple LILAC is the state flower of New Hampshire.

Second, I was searching for poems about lilacs.
I found one that was mentioned on most if not all of the sites I checked:

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

by Walt Whitman

Well, that opened up a whole 'nother door!!

Then there is all the history,
meaning,
and events associated with the LILAC.
purple lilac: streptpcarpuscape primrose or nodding violet

Oh! and have I mentioned all the different colors and kinds of lilacs?


So let's jump in!

The traditional Victorian meaning of a lilac is:

First Love

and if it is a white lilac, it means:

Youthful Innocence

http://www.countryliving.com/

Lilacs are in the family of the olive, and are deciduous shrubs
or small trees from 6'7" all the way up to 32'10" tall!

I always thought lilacs were just bushes.
By the way, deciduous means it loses it's leaves with changing seasons.



'Lilac' is about 20 - 25 species of flowering woody plants.
They like well drained soils, and really like soil that is chalk based.
That means they grow in mostly woodland and scrub,
from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia.

c.1920

You can attend LILAC FESTIVALS in
Boston, Massachusetts;
Lombard, Illinois;
Mackinac Island, Michigan;
Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;

and the longest running Lilac Festival in North America -

the Lilac Festival in Rochester, New York.
It's been going since 1898!!!

Spokane, Washington is known as 'the Lilac City'.

c.1920

The wood of the lilac is close grained,
making it extremely hard and one of the densest in Europe.
No, I don't mean stupid/dense,
I mean crowded/dense!
Lilac wood is traditionally used for engraving,
musical instruments
and knife handles!

vintage soap label

In Greece, Lebanon and Cyprus the lilac is strongly associated with
Easter, probably because of when they bloom.

Lilacs flower at different times, depending on the species.
It could be mid spring to as late as mid summer.
They like 'old wood'
which means the older the plant, the better they blossom.
Lilacs also produce more flowers if you don't prune them.



"I am thinking of the lilac trees,

That shook their purple plumes,

And when the sash was open,

Shed fragrance through the room."


by Mrs. Anna S. Stephens, 'The Old Apple-Tree'


Back to the colors of the lilac bush/tree.
You can find the usual light purple, but also
white
pale yellow
pink
and dark burgundy!


Several species have a very strong fragrance
which I associate with lilacs, as most people do.
I mean, really,
why have a lilac bush if it doesn't smell like a lilac bush???

vintage perfume label

Lilac leaves are easy to draw and recognize -
they are a simple heart shape.
The flowers are four-lobed (four petals)
and each lilac is bi-sexual.
That means the lilac has fertile stamens and stigma in each flower.


www.fairycoloringpages.blogspot.com

Spring Lilac Haiku

'Swirling Wind and Rain.
Lilacs Have Come, Spring Has Sprung.
Pink, Purple and White.

A Breeze Sways the Branch.
Heavy Flowers Back and Forth.
Lilacs Drip With Rain.

Now, Sparkling in Sun.
The Lilacs Cheer My Spirit.
Beautiful Flowers.'

by Marie M. Daniels

http://www.henbogle.com/

Well, I think that's about enough info regarding Lilacs for today!
I still want to blog about Walt Whitman's famous poem/elegy,
and about the state of New Hampshire.
So many subjects, so little time....

:0)

Oh yes, and I am working on a blog about the
Choctaw Indians
of North America.

Again, many thanks to many different web sites for their info.
Among them are:

The Society of American Florists


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringa




'til next time -

inkspired

'A Paler Shade of White'
original Collage Art Doll by inkspired




 
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