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Monday, May 16, 2022

TO THE MUSIC OF MOZART

 

Symphony No. 27 in G, K. 199: Second Movement, Andante

 

Smiling, three women come into the salon,

Three young women under the high ceiling.

 

They curtsey together and, turning and circling,

Smoothly they move to invisible music,

 

While all around them the mute world is sleeping,

Feeling the hush of the late afternoon.

 

Softly the strings sound—and clarinet and flute,

Two shafts of bright daylight in a shadowy room.

 

 

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNRCsHNPXMM

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUHvHUAzjo4

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gD3uqdQTv8

 

Photo from http//:greatriftvalley.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, April 15, 2022

UN ASCETA

 

  (Mt. 10:38, 16:24)
 


Gracias te doy, mi Dios, por esta cruz,

relámpago que en mi pecho enterrado
me ha llenado de una luz interior,

dardo que en mi corazón hundido
ha encendido ahí un radiante dolor.

Y gracias por el fuego en el que yo ardo,
rosas las llamas son, y el humo espinas.

Gracias por el madero, la viga áspera y dura
que por la vía dolorosa de esta vida

arrastro—Gracias por la esencia pura
que rezuman mis llagas: mirra, nardo,    

incienso de punzante olor, fragancia divina
que destila cada gota de sangre que derramo…

Y por los clavos que me esperan, ¡gracias mil!
¡Mías sean las penas, la gloria sea tuya!

No me las quites nunca, aunque no me las merezca:
La ligereza, mi desnudez después de tal expolio,

me matarían—y solo, solo, sólo me moriría.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

RUSSIAN RAPE OF UKRAINE

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-troops-systematically-raped-25-065355536.html

Russian troops 'systematically raped' 25 women, girls as young as 14 in a Bucha basement, Ukraine says

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-rights-group-tells-top-203903403.html

Ukraine rights group tells top U.N. body that rape used as weapon of war

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-troops-bucha-turned-sexual-021005822.html

Russian troops in Bucha turned to sexual violence against Ukrainian women — killing some and impregnating others — according to reports

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elderly-ukrainian-woman-says-she-134802043.html

CBS News Videos  Elderly Ukrainian woman says she was raped after Russians took her village

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