teacher keep on teaching...

Teacher, keep on teaching...Lover, keep on loving...Keep on trying, till I reach higher ground...
Higher Ground | Playing For Change | Song Around the World https://t.co/jdiWUz5zl8 via @YouTube

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 18, 2020

Playing for Change...

As I wander YouTube songs tonight, I notice many others are doing the same...right now...Seeking some message, some strength for 2020...
Stand By Me | Playing For Change Band | Live in Brazil https://t.co/LzqTHB4Bld via @YouTube

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 18, 2020

Walk of Life...

Adore this fun/serious song. And the visuals demonstrate all the fumbles and foibles that our lives can churn out and how, in retrospect, they can be funny...Let's keep that in mind in 2020.
Dire Straits - Walk Of Life https://t.co/r8zJCptjWl via @YouTube

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 18, 2020

Leonard Cohen sings Garcia Lorca...

Original poem - Spanish poet García Lorca -
'And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook...with the photographs there and the moss...'
Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz [Official Music Video] https://t.co/Cwo5RUBEca via @YouTube

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 18, 2020

I've played this over and over...So moving...
Always wanted to dance with my partner...
But in this world, it could not happen...
Yet now...
I feel it has...

Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
There's a tree where the doves go to die
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
On a chair with a dead magazine
In the cave at the tip of the lily
In some hallways where love's never been
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
Dragging its tail in the sea
There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews 
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
With a garland of freshly cut tears?

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz it's been dying for years

There's an attic where children are playing
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lilies of snow

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
Dragging its tail in the sea
And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
With the photographs there, and the moss
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
My cheap violin and my cross
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist

Oh my love, Oh my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It's yours now.
It's all that there is

Hope is a thing with feather...

Emily Dickinson's poem gets an eerily refreshing upbeat...
Trailer Bride, "Hope Is A Thing With Feathers" https://t.co/ZaUxEgqLDI via @YouTube

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 18, 2020

shift your energy...

Shift your energy to what you can create...and keep creating... https://t.co/CfoE2pn6xb

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 18, 2020

Why do we read and write poetry...

'Dead Poets' Society' continues to reach out and stir us into valuing our inner, poetic insights...
In this scene, John Keating (Robin Williams) teaches his pupils the reason for reading and writing poetry, quoting Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'...

The Ancient Mariner begins...

Jeremy Irons' reading of the first several stanzas of AM is dramatic and moving. He sets the stage with flourish and deep, disturbing undercurrent.
Reading No.1 - Reader: Jeremy Irons, Artist: Glenn Brown https://t.co/j5FArfCIxJ via @YouTube

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 18, 2020

The Ancient Mariner Big Read, commissioned by The Arts Institute at Plymouth University, will see the 150-verse poem divided into 40 readings.

barbecue circle...

barbecue circle
ghostly connections with
Stonehenge


My neighbours, a few weeks ago, set up this outdoor barbecue area in their backyard...
It has been used once...

when you connect...

When you connect to the voice within you, that is when you can make sense of your own song. https://t.co/k3KJeyY5PP

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 18, 2020