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Month: June 2019

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I Hear You

Posted on June 28, 2019 / 0 Comment

I hear you.Do you hear me?My lament and my devotion?You are breathless and nocturnalin a room next to mine.Before the valley door towers the guard of Janus.He d...

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I Will Cry For These Memories

Posted on June 26, 2019 / 0 Comment

I will cry for these memories–and the flickering light that cast our dance in shadows.How will you know me then?By my eyes?How will I know you then?By you...

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I Had Probed the Dark Sky

Posted on June 25, 2019 / 0 Comment

I had probed the dark skyfor words for youand there were none–starlings flown to valleys verdentand yet unexplored.Such is the coin of eloquencebequeathed...

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This Will Be a Summer

Posted on June 20, 2019 / 0 Comment

This will be a summerof hot dreams and playful nights.Every of your thousand inches will be touched and known.I’ll read them like pages from a fairy-tale ...

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Before Reading Any Bit of News

Posted on June 20, 2019 / 0 Comment

(repeat the following) The world is headed toward something.Catastrophe? Maybe not.Perhaps all the good people of the worldwill turn it all around. Perhaps. But...

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I First Saw You Play a Violin

Posted on June 15, 2019 / 0 Comment

I first saw you play a violinlike a cattail on a virgin wind. You were only an outline then. Tracing clouds with your eyesonly later did I see,and petals with a...

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I Thought the Night’s Solitude Over

Posted on June 10, 2019 / 0 Comment

I thought the night’s solitude over,on the forest’s edge where only I can go.I proffered my question to angels, towering above the trees,more ancien...

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The Days Are Filled with You

Posted on June 9, 2019 / 0 Comment

The days are filled with you; the night, too.ever-growing, my vines grow into you.Taut against your blossoms, over your valleys,I caress you like a fog, water a...

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We Are the Stories We Tell

Posted on June 7, 2019 / 0 Comment

We are the stories we tell–Even this onewe weave together. Our beautiful wordsdance with each otherand our love multiplies.

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This Sun

Posted on June 6, 2019 / 4 Comments

This sun, this moon, this moss-covered womb from which love awakes. To know you now, (Why not then? But still … now!) The butterflies have multiplied. I catch t...

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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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