Mystical poetic painters . . .

t's Odin's day . . . who's name translates as “The Master of Ecstacy” and among other matters was the Norse god protector of all artists.

For those of you who extended their thanks for yesterday's blog notes regarding the music box, my thanks backatcha.

In today's maibox . . . painters, poets and mystics.

Georgia O’Keeffe was born 131 years ago on this date in 1887 Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, an apt name for her birth town, given the famous landscapes and flowers of her beloved Taos. She was and remains one of the most significant painters of the 20th Century, while her love affair and marriage with Alfred Stieglitz remains one for the centuries.

On this same day in 1887, Marianne Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri.. A poet who's works still resonates, she held the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet less attached to it. – Ram Dass

Maybe for you: a free online event using writing practice and singing as a threshold to step into the most authentic, vulnerable and accepting space possible in this terrible moment of human history hosted by Mirbai Starr.

Poetry

In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,

in defiance of their opinion— the raw material

of poetry in all its rawness, and that which

is on the other hand, genuine,

then you are interested in poetry. – Marianne Moore. This poem is in public domain.