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#translator #writer #exteacher #naturelover #doglover #hiker #reader & #paint covered much of the time Managing/translating at (when the mood hits). 🇨🇦&🇮🇹 Posts/pics with no author/translator named are me being me
My fascination with doors and stone and brick walls continues... #blueskyart #painting #acryliconcanvas Peccioli, Pisa Doors that open but, sometimes, only close. #loss
Brick red the face, and gap - paned - the eye. A splash of mortar holding me together.
A patch of sunlight - grassy open air theatre - deer watch me watching #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt glade #poetry #writing #blueskypoetry
Circola Arci Antifascist pasta When hearts (and stomach) are in the right place...
Lots of pleading eyes sun-struck vassals - sunflowers - fields of followers #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt sunflowers #poetry #writing Pic, my home
Not so silly rhyme for the day...#Trilussa #poetry #rhyme #romanesco #dialect #nomorewar #peacenow #peace paralleltexts.blog/2026/04/05/t...
She will come home, she will come home, she will come home.... She's home... (I may even roll around a bit to show her what I was doing before her totally indifferent - to me - return). #dogs #jackrussel
I love this poem by #CorradoGovoni It's my instant pick-me-up... "Left eye gothic portals of the phosphorous cathedral of my mind Eye-lashes glance rays become everything they behold a sea of flowers a sky of stars..." #translation #Italian #poetry #poetrylovers paralleltexts.blog/2026/06/15/c...
Dusty sirocco northbound on the broken wings of disheartened doves #dailyhaikuprompt south wind #haiku #poetry #peace #doveofpeace by Picasso, 1961 PS: I'm having a hard time understanding the world...
General strike in Italy. September 22 2025 for #gaza It included social media silence for 24 hours... #peacenow #nomorewar
This is all I have to say on this war-ridden Saturday. #dogs #peace #saturdayvibes
I have decided that seasons do not mark time for hikers (and their dogs), fruit does: from wild plums to blackberries, strawberry grapes to figs, walnuts to wild pears... #hiking #dogs #jackrussel #nature
Vines gripped the facade, searching out lifeless windows framed hermetic blue #dailyhaikuprompt vine #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #loss
I carry this beautiful book with me from room to room. I read, become overwhelmed, put it down, do stuff, pick it up, read, then carry it into another room with me… I know how it ends. #nakba #Palestine #SuadAmiry #books Book isn't out IN Eng but it was translated FROM Eng! Why? 🔗 In comments ⬇️
Groves in silent hues of lemon and green eye seas dripping in orange. #dailyhaikuprompt grove #Sorrento #poetry #haiku #Italy #poetrylovers
Walks under bridges: still green waters and echoes of footsteps mirrored. #haiku #poetry #sundaywalks #poetrycommunity
For years I read to kids in libraries. I fell in love with the poetry of #GianniRodari, an Italian writer, teacher, and brilliant man with a profound sense of justice and equality. This is from the book: "Il cielo è di tutti" #peace #nomorewar #poetry #translation paralleltexts.blog/tag/gianni-r...
Should be a September harvest, but I'll take early August... #nature #hiking #blackberries #dogs
Pettegola, you, legs soaking in orange hued ripples - nosy piping #dailyhaiku #haiku #poetry #nature #poetrycommunity #birds #redshank (called "pettegola" in Italian, which also means nosy gossip) #naturelovers #painting #acryliconcanvas
Not all god's creatures await - like me - the sweet scent of freshly cut grass #dailyhaikuprompt (cut grass) #haiku #poetry #nature #roedeer #hiking #walks #writingcommunity #poetrylovers
There were cows grazing in the pasture once - and my kids rolled down hillocks laughing (wrong day #prompt but today's view inspired me) #dailyhaikuprompt (pasture) #haiku #poetry #loss #nature #writing #poetrycommunity
"I say it all the time: if Palestine were a crime scene, all our fingerprints would be on it. The goods we buy, the banks we entrust with our savings, the universities we give our taxes to." #FrancescaAlbanese (UN Special Rapporteur) #Palestine #peacenow ⬇️ (To name but a few)
Like dragonflies skim and skip over still waters my pebble too - then it sinks #dailyhaikuprompt (pebble) #haiku #poetry #blueskypoetry #blueskypoet #nature