As I have mentioned I have added Majikwoid and Argo to the websites I check each afternoon and even if there are no new entries I read some of the older ones until I catch up.
A few days ago at Argo I read the entry about Winslow Homer’s Maritime Masterpieces. I am familiar with many of Homer’s paintings and watercolors and once claimed to be attempting to reenact his ‘The Gulf Stream’ when I lost the headstay on RESURGAM off North Carolina. That was an exaggeration. No sharks. No waterspout. And I was able quickly to use a spare halyard to keep the mast up and sail down wind to anchor off Beaufort.
But some of the works shown in the article are new to me. I particularly like the one at the top which is titled ‘Blown Away’. And another, ‘Winter at Sea—Taking In Sail Off the Coast—reminds me why I would not have done well during that age of sail. I don’t like heights.
Two poems 1200 years apart.
The first by Du Fu, 712-770.
The second by Edwin Brock 1927-1997, which I may have posted here a few years ago.
Du Fu and his contemporary, Li Bai, are among the most illustrious of Chinese poets. They meet a few times and each wrote poems about the other. One by Du Fu, ‘Dreaming of Li Bai’ ends:
Immortal fame, hard to enjoy in the tomb,
Will not replace joys that were never lived.
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