Saturday, April 4, 2015

Amanda Van Munster, New York, New York, USA


A late arrival  . . but Rainbows are always welcomed site in my mailbox . .Thanks Amanda . .  

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Friday, October 3, 2014

THANK YOU!


Many Many Thanks to the 123 artists involved in the Rainbows for Equality mailart project. It has been a joy to get your Rainbow themed works in my mailbox. 
The show had it's debut at the Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, BC, and has since moved to the Studio J ArtSpace where it was on display as part of the 100,000 Poets for Change event on the 27th of September 2014.


What's Next? . .   the show will be packaged and sent to Milan, Italy to be exhibited at a gallery as part of the Pride celebrations in 2015.

I am working on the documentation for the show and will be in touch once it is complete.  
With Love and Laughter, as always, Mailarta

Pedro Bericat, Zaragoza, SPAIN


This piece was at the College to greet me when I went in to check on the show. Thanks Pedro. 
More of Pedro's art at: MUTE SOUND

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Everarts, Noordgouwe, THE NETHERLANDS

Many Thanks my friend


Linda Findley, Temple, Texas, USA

Thanks so much Linda!

Sugar Irmer, Berlin, GERMANY

How do you know my secret?


Marina Attina Jozala, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, BRASIL

Thanks Marina . . see more of her mail art at: ARTE POSTAL

Patricia Lilian de Souza Oliveira, Sao Paulo, BRASIL

Thanks to Particia Lilian and her students for this Special Delivery that arrived in yesterday's mail.

Nathane Alves da Silva


Helen Cristina Correa Aguiar


Lucas Oliveira Silva


Lara Fabian Santos de Matos


Ana Julia Silva Viana


Natali de Souza Carvalho


Queren Hapuque de Jesus Lopes


Maria Clara M Souza

100,000 Poets for Change Blog


Visit the events from around the world . . 
and our page from the Victoria, BC gathering . .  100,000 Poets

Oliver Mitchell & Yvonne Owens, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA

Studio J Energy Vortex . .  and Yvonnne is there.

Yvonne Owens, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA


WAR

What is this thing called war?
So close, familiar,
Intimate and mine?
As near as the lines on my palm
Insistent, “you know me….!
“I’m in you, like wine….”
A heady draught, an incessant drum.
Like a pulse, or a song
That doesn’t end.

What are you, that abides,
In the blood, and the bone
That calls out,
Is compelled, bound outward,
and in, bound to see
Its image flower in the dust
Spilled like petals
Carmine blooms, from a basket overfull
Of good intentions?

What is the ancient intelligence
That dwells underneath
Every protest of peace
And goodwill, the limbic brain
Calling forth, from the deep
Well of memory, and fear
In sibilant earnest, the desire,
“To end all wars,” if you’ll just let me have
This, one more….

How is this thing
To ever end, its constant beat
Its tired song, when all its life
Is cycle-bound, like any hungry
Parasite, whose craving need
Is ever-fed, and hunger is
Its own reward, a thirsting addict
Reaching out its blind, poor mouth
Among our kind?

So give it alms?
And throw a bone,
Or millions, and some crumbs besides?
The climax of the clamoring beat,
The drumming pulse, the blood’s own heat
Insists and calls, from hill to hill
Like ancient fires, and women’s cries
That armies on the boil
Deny.

The serpent logic stirs
And wakes, but fails to rise
Beyond the gnarled, grim root
But coils and measures, calculates
The strict advantage, less flight than strike
“The kingdom’s yours, don’t hesitate
“Dominion waits,” the blithe,
New leaves, far higher up, are a’shiver
The cold wind turning ‘round.

The seed, the core
Of war, set deep
In sex and difference, older earth
Primary, raw, polluted bane
Of Other, Mother, Monster, Law
Dark matrix, unalienable
Nature’s saw. “What made you can unmake you..,”
Whispers fear, the throne now threatened
Balanced, pure.


Yvonne Owens
Victoria,2014

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