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Posts Tagged ‘Verdi’

how that opera was / poem 88

Posted in 108 poems, feminism, music, tagged , , , on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

‘Don Carlo’ was excellent as I expected. I find Verdi to be passionate and the tempos in his music exciting. The plot, hey, it’s a bit weird to have the dead Emperor appear at the end. What did it mean? That he took Don Carlo back to the afterlife with him? Or just have a [...]

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opera: catharsis in the dark? / poem 87

Posted in 108 poems, music, my lesbian life, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I began my day with no food or even decaf since I was due into my doctor’s office for a fasting blood test. I told him next lifetime I will not have dinky veins. Finding a vein and the first stab is the worst part. His scale, of course, showed me a few pounds heavier [...]

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gratitude on a Saturday morning

Posted in dogs, gratitude, meditation, music, nature, retirement, tagged , , , , , , , on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

All week I’d been quite busy. So when I went to bed last night, I looked forward to an extended sleep. I had nothing I had to do until Saturday night.
My bedroom window faces east so I usually can’t sleep in much when the brightness of the sun shines in on me. I awoke at [...]

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