Artist Je Shen.
His works are characterized by a "sedimentation" of color; he does not apply it uniformly, but rather gradually deposits it with thousands of small touches, creating vibrant surfaces that call for pointillism.
Disfiguring the landscape -
“fenced in by cables and pylons…”
“Bring on the dancing girls of the future, the swaying pylons with their metal hair bickering…”
(quotes from poems by Welsh poet-priest RS Thomas)
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Text of poem - ADAGIO. Conversations between glass. Time weep for us. I weep for time never soon enough to anticipate a reflection. The poet stands beneath leafless trees listening to the wind bowing on their wires. What it affirms is: The way on is over your shoulder; you must lean forward to look back. No rhymes needed for such verse. They have moved a little nearer the light to accentuate their shadows, white-collared men at their dark trades. Their laboratories shine with a cold radiance, leprosy to me who have watched them run through the corridors of our culture shaking the carillon of their instruments at us and crying: Unclean!
‘Adagio’ - #RSThomas
(Later Poems 1972–1982, Macmillan 1983)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
Hello, you might be interested to read some by this Welsh poet-priest, if you haven’t already…
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I started reading Buechner’s The Clown and the Belfry and came across a line: “Faith is homesickness… less a sure thing than a hunch.” It made me realize I am not sure I have ever really answered, in a deeper way, the question of what faith actually is.
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Diolch, thank you for this, very helpful and realistic.
The Lord almighty grant us a quiet night and a perfect end. Amen. #nightprayer
Claddu’r cablau!
Hundreds of farmers challenge pylons firm in landmark legal case www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Disfiguring the landscape -
“fenced in by cables and pylons…”
“Bring on the dancing girls of the future, the swaying pylons with their metal hair bickering…”
(quotes from poems by Welsh poet-priest RS Thomas)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I felt... numb ... this morning. Around 845am, I finally was able to write a poem I was proud of longer than BlueSky limits and the rest of the day followed.
#thankful
#poetry #poem #unknown #questions #grief #pain #MovingOn #joy
An acrylic painting of orange-yellow aspen trees in the forest.
My painting QUAKING ASPENS
Beirut born artist Helen Zughaib mixes familiar imagery to bridge East and West #WomensArt
with a single glance
arrows of the ancestors
the waves of the heart
#art #abstract #painting #humanart #ancestors #heart #poetry
"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity ... which Nature cannot repair."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stained glass window with image of a peacock with tail open facing forwards
East window, St. John, Honiley, Warks, UK 1924 by Theodora Salusbury, English artist in the Arts & Crafts style, the peacock was her signature #WomensArt
‘A Blackbird Singing’ - #RSThomas
(Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis)
Text of poem - Art. It was a bad time for it. The poets descended to prose musings; novelists took over the weedy allotments of the muse. The manufacturers' pressure increased: Name me, the articles cried to the toiling vocabularies. In expensive studios passionless painters made with immense care small marks on a large canvas, In back rooms of the imagination composers dismantled the rusty machinery of their technique. The effects pleased them; they were called: Études. - RS Thomas
‘Art’ - #RSThomas
(Encounter 50.3 1978)
#Celf
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote.
Brexit was secured with lies. It hasn't delivered any of the claimed economic benefits.
Post Trump world will be more polarized.
Nobody under the age of 28 had a say on Brexit.
Need another referendum.
Text of poem - Are you coming with us? On the road to Emmaus you made as if you would go on, but stayed when they asked you. On a different road it is we are for going on, but 'Stay' you say, contemporary with a future never to be overtaken.
‘Are you coming…’ - #RSThomas
(The Echoes Return Slow, Macmillan)
#Emmaus
morning landscape
catches the sky when it falls
bloom in the rain
#art #abstract #painting #humanart #sky #bloom #poetry
Festival flyer in English, with photos of speakers
Festival flyer in Welsh, with photos of speakers
Tickets are now on sale!
RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Poetry & Arts Festival in Aberdaron 18th-21st June 2026
Theme: "Abercuawg - Paradise or Utopia?”
Rowan Williams, Jason Walford-Davies, Clare E Potter, & more
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‘In a Country Church’ - #RSThomas
(Song at the Year's Turning, Rupert Hart-Davis)
Print featuring a white and gold sunrise through a woodland with tree trunks in silhouette and a forest floor of light purple flowers
'Bluebell Woodland' by contemporary Northumberland printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt
A blurry image showing wavy columns of red and white elongated shapes.
Amser i adfyfyrio/adlewyrchu.
Time for reflection.
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape with hills under a starry night sky
'Starry Starry night' hand embroidered artwork by Vicki Foster, contemporary textile artist #WomensArt
A bluebell with long green leaves is growing through tarmac
Herfeiddiad clychau'r gog.
Defiance of a bluebell.
Painting of a flowing stylised plant in purple against a white background
Botanical inspired watercolours by contemporary artist Sally Ann Langley #WonensArt
Painting of a close-up of two blue and white blossoms, one in front of the other
Blue Morning Glories, 1935 by Georgia O'Keeffe #Womensart
Diolch i Nation Cymru am gyhoeddi fy erthygl am Benrhos.
Many thanks to Nation Cymru for including my article about saving Penrhos Nature Reserve from development into a holiday complex. @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social 1
From A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter.
Monday #latenightread
‘Dipper’, by Norman MacCaig