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Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion-all in one."
-John Ruskin- Modern Painters
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Love!
by Jack Kennedy - C2004:
First the Angels Say.....
Love is patient Love is Kind Love has no Airs No never Mind
Loves not Self-Seeking Loves never Rude Not prone to Anger Love doesn't Brood
Rejoices in Truth Not whats Wrong Love never Fails Now Hear our Song.....
American male says.... We came to town Love In your Wedding Gown
Found a Place Love And we settled Down We raised our kids Love Man and Wife
We Settled in Love To the Happy Life
The kids grew up Love And we grew Grey
Then there came Love That Special Day
We drew So Tight Love Said our Goodbyes
You Breathed a Sigh Love We closed your eyes.
The Storms of life Love The Lighting Flashed
Torrential Tears Love Our Future Crashed
Life's not So Hard Love When we Learn to Bend
To Feel our Pain Love And Start Again
Remembering All Love Those Simple Things
Birthday Cakes Love And our Wedding Rings
Now I Wake up Love And Start each Day
With unsaid Words Love That I Must Say
Stay at Peace Love Til I come Your Way
Our Youngest Wed Love In Your Wedding Gown
They Built a House Love and Settled Down
Adopted a Child Love Man and Wife
They Settled in Love To The Happy Life
and The Angels Say...
Love is patient Love is Kind Love has no Airs No never Mind
Loves not Self-Seeking Loves never Rude Not prone to Anger Love doesn't Brood
Rejoices in Truth Not whats Wrong Love never Fails You've Heard It's Song.....
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: Unashamed original artwork displayed in our faces! Touching childhood fears, soaring joys and unbelievable love with it's tenderful grace. Let the Healing Begin!
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
RADNOR C 2004 by Jack Kennedy The forest floor beneath our feet Common pilgrims procession street Unimpressed by ego's roles Treed Cathedral Enchanting Souls
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: Prescient of the terrible Cleveland tragedy! The women bonded as a captive family and only one dared to attempt the escape from the childhood fears, to soaring joys and tenderful love! Freedom from the tyrant! The healing begins.
Dissimilar stories! ART imitating life once again!
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Another Anonymous Irish Poem; The thing that goes the farthest Toward making Life Worthwhile That costs the least Yet does the most Is just a simple Smile.
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Signature by Hannah Kahn C1954
If I sing because I must
being made of singing dust,
and I cry because of need
being born of watered seed,
and I grow like twisted tree
having neither symmetry
nor the structure to avert
the falling axe, the minor hurt,
yet of one thing I am sure
that this bears my signature,
that I knew love when it came
and I called by its name.
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Hannah Kahn: One of Americas greatest poets.
Suddenly she became a widow, Frank the love of her life was gone.
Now it was just Hannah and Vivian. VIVIAN by Hannah
All things inanimate because of her are brought to bloom
By her own light she brings a star into a room
As though a match were held against a shadowed wall
she, by her touch, can make full-blown what had been small.
Like any Great Woman and Mother, Hannah took a job in a North Miami family furniture store. She stayed in the Arts by volunteering as our part time assistant poetry editor for our Florida Arts Gazette.
This beautiful soul left a void in our earthly domain when she joined the angels in 1989.
I Thank you Hannah Kahn for bringing your luminosity into our lives.
I think of you often. You live in my heart.
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
There was a young man from Nantucket...
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
An anonymous Irish poem from another age, timeless in it's inspiration. Enjoy!
"I walked a mile with Pleasure. She chatted all the way.
But I was none the wiser For all She had to say!
I walked a mile with Sorrow And not a word said She,
But Oh! The things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me." .....An Anonymous Irish Poem
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: Who in their right mind would try to please everyone. It is accomplished in all of the arts by gently stroking the Emotions, the emotions of the performers touching the viewers, or readers, and in so doing, turning them into participants. Apathy is failure. Emotional response is success!
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: Prescient of the terrible Cleveland tragedy! The women bonded as a captive family and only one dared to attempt the escape from the childhood fears, to soaring joys and tenderful love! Freedom from the tyrant! The healing begins. Dissimilar stories! ART imitating life once again!
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
RADNOR
C 2004 by Jack Kennedy
The forest floor beneath our feet
Common pilgrims procession street
Unimpressed by ego's roles
Treed Cathedral Enchanting Souls
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Only the Toreador dares stand eyeball to eyeball to his primitive opponent waiting for its furious charge to allow it's horns to be his safety guides for his ballet muscled body. Toro raises his head as to throw the puny human while toreador, raising up, has his sword drawn from his cape and with two hands forcefully drives his surgically honed weapon directly into the vital area, stopping the furiously charging beast by piercing the heart, Toro stops dead on the spot as has been demonstrated for the ages.
Cheers and jeers scream from the crowds. Cries of nays or praise both echo but only the toreador risks life and limb by balancing between the horns and wielding the death blow.
Who in their right mind would try to please everyone. It is accomplished in all of the arts by gently stroking the Emotions, the emotions of the performers touching the viewers, or readers and turning them into participants. Apathy is failure.
Emotional response is success! Enjoy!
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: Prescient of the terrible Cleveland tragedy! The women bonded as a captive family and only one dared to attempt the escape from the childhood fears, to soaring joys and tenderful love!
Freedom from the tyrant! The healing begins. Dissimilar stories!
ART imitating life once again!
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: This 16mm film on screen effort was unashamed original artwork displayed in our faces touching childhood fears, soaring joys and unbelievable love with it's tenderful grace, we accept or reject our lives in others opinions or as the Hippies said "let it all hang out." Life is not always as simple as the Mona Lisa or as deep as Anonymous Irish poetry.
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: Prescient of the terrible Cleveland tragedy! The women bonded as a captive family and only one dared to attempt the escape from the childhood fears, to soaring joys and tenderful love! Freedom from the tyrant! The healing begins. Dissimilar stories! ART imitating life again!
"A Measure of the Sin: Every childhood is normal...to the child that lives it. For Meridith that means an enchanted seclusion that is shattered when she is deprived of her mother. Desparate and alone, Meredith must join a household with other women and their children, a sinister man who controls every facet of her existence and a vicious bear that only she can see. As life in this world becomes increasingly strange and frightening, Meredith realizes
that she must flee, even though she fears she has not learned enough to survive on her own." Unashamed original artwork displayed in our faces! Touching childhood fears, soaring joys and unbelievable love with it's tenderful grace,
Re: “Steeplechase: Come for the Hat Contest, Stay for the Fistfight”
That *is* Natalie Grigson.
Re: “Steeplechase: Come for the Hat Contest, Stay for the Fistfight”
Proud to say I grew up here and still haven't attended PeopleWaste.
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin;
"We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, -in everything-in people and in things and in events...The only thing is we don't see it...I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere. "- Thomas Merton