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Category: Quotes

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Shall I Sing Thee Thy Praises

Posted on July 10, 2020 / 0 Comment

Shall I sing thee thy praises,as do the hollyhocks bendto fortune’s grace at summer’s crest,to have lived and laughed so long and joyfully?They have...

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I Should Sing

Posted on June 29, 2020 / 0 Comment

I should singeven if the high note falters,and hang tremolos upon the lilting petals,of the moon-facing flowerstilting in your garden, so solitary,and dim in yo...

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From Whence This Sweetness Came

Posted on April 8, 2020 / 0 Comment

From whence this sweetness came,I do not know.But sweetness be!Such felicity!No errant word transcribed or heard,or hard-wrought image showed. From whence this ...

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End of Time

Posted on March 17, 2020 / 0 Comment

I must give to you of myself,for these are the dark times.I am a man and a multitude,and within my sea swim the dreams of ages. I point to the end of timewith t...

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My Soul Spoke True Words

Posted on December 15, 2019 / 0 Comment

my soul spoke true words and I gave voice to them:when I look at you, there is only joy in my heart. a half century it took to empty my cup of nettles,the restl...

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Cloudy Eyes

Posted on November 20, 2019 / 0 Comment

You sojourned with us on the kissing hill, cloudy eyes.The hill,dotted with dancing dandelions,dancingto summers sprung and unsprung,outlives you–will out...

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Hourglass

Posted on November 7, 2019 / 0 Comment

moon-eye and sun-eye,you compel the ocean, and the daffodilsto skyward raise their splayed heads in ageless adulation,and suckle you like bees to pollen.you are...

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There is a Seed in the Darkness

Posted on October 4, 2019 / 0 Comment

Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sitThere is not even silence in the mountainsBut dry sterile thunder without rainThere is not even solitude in the mounta...

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I Am the World To Your Dream

Posted on October 3, 2019 / 0 Comment

I am the world to your dream.You are my sorrow and my song.You ride the shaman’s conjured wind.I am a lover’s net.I catch your butterfly notesand dr...

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Pantheist

Posted on October 3, 2019 / 0 Comment

I longed for thee when first I crawled to consciousness. My dreams were all of thee when in the chrysalis I lay.Oft myriads of my kind beat out their livesAgain...

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Brad Severance

Hi, my name is Brad Severance, and I'm a photographer, poet, artist, Francophile, and avid reader. I live in Indianapolis, Indiana.

You can check out my best photographs on my photography website site at photography.bradseverance.com and my Flickr profile at www.flickr.com/photos/brad-severance

I run a writer's group called Pen to Paper, Indy's most notorious coterie of misfit writers. Checkout our website at www.pentopaperblog.org and our Meetup site at www.meetup.com/Pen-to-Paper.

If you wish to contact me, don't hesitate to shoot me an e-mail at me@bradseverance.com


Current Projects

2023 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I will take a photo a day for year 2023.
Check it out here: 2023 Photo Journey


Stuff I’m Reading Now

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." — Joseph Addison
Don't get flabby! Read everyday. See what I've read in 2023 here.

I Sing The Body Electric! by Ray Bradbury

Short stories by one of the founding fathers of science fiction.

How To Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh

Thought you knew how to walk? Think again!

Collected Short Stories by Graham Greene

A compendium of Greene's best short stories.

Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert

The sixth and final installment in the lengendary series.

Mindfulness by Joseph Goldstein

An in-depth look into the Buddhist concept and practice of mindfulness.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The multi-generational story of the Buendía family.

The Red Book by C.G. Jung

Jungs account of his exploration in the shadow self.

A Poet to his Beloved by W.B. Yeats

Early love poems by Yeats.


Past Projects

2022 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I took a photo a day for the year 2022.
Check it out here: 2022 Photo Journey

The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

Each week, my painter, Addie, and I chose a theme upon which to write and paint. We had many exciting topics to explore and were excited to share our work.
Check it out here: The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

2021 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I took a photo a day for the year 2021.
Check it out here: 2021 Photo Journey

The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

Each day, for 30 days, my painter, Addie, and I selected a poem (from the public domain). I wrote a poem and she painted a painting inspired by that poem. The result was an outpouring of creative energy.
Check it out here: The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

2020 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I took a photo a day for the year 2020.
Check it out here: 2020 Photo Journey

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