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What is canola?
The oilseed packed with healthy oil, protein and potential
In a few decades, canola has become one of the world’s most important oilseeds and one of Canada’s leading crops. Today canola is a true “made-in-Canada” success story and the foundation of a thriving, sustainable industry.
The canola plant
One of the most widely grown crops in Canada, canola plants produce beautiful small yellow flowers which develop into pods, resembling pea pods. Each pod contains tiny black seeds, made up of about 45% oil. Once harvested, canola seeds are crushed to release the oil contained within the seed.
Canola grown in Canada belongs to the Brassica napus B. rapa or B. juncea species which belong to a much larger mustard family (Brassicaceae). Cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower are also part of this same botanical family.
The history of canola seed in Canada
Historical records indicate that rapeseed was cultivated as early as 2000 B.C.E. in India and introduced into China and Japan around 35 B.C.E. Documented use or that of a close relative appears in the earliest writings of European and Asian civilizations. Rapeseed plants prefer to grow in relatively low temperatures, with less heat required for successful reproduction than other oilseed crops. Therefore, rapeseed was one of the very few oil sources that could be successfully grown in temperate climates. This led to rapeseed being grown in Europe as early as the 13th century. In later centuries, rapeseed was used for both cooking and lighting, as its oil produced a smokeless white flame. Rapeseed had a rather limited industrial acceptance until the development of steam power, when it was discovered that rapeseed oil would bind to water and steam washed metal surfaces better than any other lubricant. It was this special property that led to the introduction of rapeseed into Canada.
The need for Canadian rapeseed production arose from the critical shortage of rapeseed oil that was needed by Allied forces during World War II and were supplied by Canada to break the blockade of European and Asian sources in the early 1940s. The oil was urgently needed as a lubricant for the rapidly increasing number of marine engines in naval and merchant ships.
Matthias Church is a Roman Catholic church located in Budapest, Hungary, in front of the Fisherman's Bastion at the heart of Buda's Castle District. According to church tradition, it was originally built in Romanesque style in 1015. The current building was constructed in the florid late Gothic style in the second half of the 14th century and was extensively restored in the late 19th century. It was the second largest church of medieval Buda and the seventh largest church of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom.
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What is unease,
What is repose
And gentle peace?
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Roteiro Caminhos de Pedra
Idealizado pelo Eng. Tarcísio Vasco Michelon e pelo Arq. Júlio Posenato o roteiro Caminhos de Pedra visa resgatar, preservar e dinamizar a cultura que os imigrantes italianos trouxeram à serra gaúcha a partir de 1875.
O Roteiro passou a ser concebido quando da realização de um levantamento do acervo arquitetônico de todo o interior do município de Bento Gonçalves, ocorrido no ano de 1987. Constatou-se então que a Linha Palmeiro e parte da Linha Pedro Salgado, área abrangida basicamente pelo Distrito de São Pedro, composto por 7 comunidades, (São Pedro, São Miguel, Barracão, São José da Busa, Cruzeiro, Santo Antonio e Santo Antoninho) possuía o maior acervo de casas antigas, conservava sua cultura e história, tinha acesso fácil e, conseqüentemente, um grande potencial turístico, apesar da decadência e abandono por que vinha passando desde a década de 1970 com a mudança de traçado da rodovia que ligava Porto Alegre ao norte do estado.
Esse precioso acervo material, parcialmente abandonado e esquecido, exigia uma ação rápida para não ter a mesma sorte de tantas e tantas casas de pedra, madeira e alvenaria que acabaram ruindo ou sendo demolidas. Com recursos do Hotel Dall’Onder as primeiras 4 casas foram restauradas e passaram a receber visitação e outras tiveram obras emergenciais. O primeiro grupo de turistas proveniente de São Paulo, através da Operadora CVC foi recebido na Casa Merlo, Casa Bertarello, Ferraria Ferri e Cantina Strapazzon em 30 de maio de 1992.
O sucesso do novo roteiro animou tanto os idealizadores quanto a comunidade. Em 10 de julho de 1997, com assessoria do SEBRAE foi fundada a Associação Caminhos de Pedra, congregando empreendedores e simpatizantes. Montou-se então um projeto abrangente que contemplava o resgate de todo o patrimônio cultural, não só o arquitetônico, envolvendo língua, folclore, arte, habilidades manuais, etc. Este ambicioso projeto foi aprovado pelo Conselho Estadual de Cultura em 10 de agosto de 1998 passando a partir de então a captar recursos das empresas locais através da recém criada LIC (Lei de Incentivo à Cultura do Estado do RS).
Atualmente a Associação Caminhos de Pedra conta com mais de uma centena de associados e o projeto, considerado pioneiro no Brasil em termos de turismo rural e cultural, está recebendo uma visitação média anual de 60.000 turistas. O roteiro está em expansão e possui 15 pontos de Visitação (assinalados em vermelho no mapa) e 56 pontos de Observação Externa (assinalados no mapa com letra verde).
De acordo com a Lei Estadual 13.177/09, que nos declarou patrimônio histórico do RS, considera-se como área de abrangência dos Caminhos de Pedra a Linhas Palmeiro e Pedro Salgado, localizadas nos municípios de Bento Gonçalves e Farroupilha, até o limite do município de Caxias do Sul, passando por Caravaggio.
Seguem algumas informações históricas
O surgimento da Linha Palmeiro
O Presidente da Província de São Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul, João Sertório, encarregou em 4 de abril de 1870 o engenheiro Major José Maria da Fontoura Palmeiro de proceder à medição e demarcação dos territórios que ele mesmo, por Ato de 24 de maio de 1870, denominou de colônias Conde D’Eu (hoje Garibaldi) e Dona Isabel (hoje Bento Gonçalves) onde mandou construir em cada uma um barracão para abrigar os colonos. Em homenagem ao seu demarcador o primeiro território demarcado na Colônia Dona Isabel passou a se chamar Linha Palmeiro.
O local que acolheu o Major Palmeiro em 1870 e posteriormente os imigrantes italianos a partir do final de 1875 é o atual bairro do Barracão, berço, portanto, da cidade de Bento Gonçalves e também porta de entrada dos Caminhos de Pedra. A Linha Palmeiro é uma das maiores linhas da colonização italiana com 200 lotes de 48,4 ha cada.
Esta Linha que, inicialmente, não passava de uma picada tortuosa no meio da mata tentando acompanhar uma linha imaginária reta que foi se desenvolvendo rapidamente pois era o único eixo de ligação entre a Colônia Dona Isabel com a Colônia Caxias. A picada foi virando estrada carroçável pelo trabalho dos próprios imigrantes que vendiam suas diárias ao governo, e posteriormente, passagem dos primeiros automóveis e caminhões.
A prosperidade da Linha Palmeiro é citada em inúmeros relatórios como os do Consul Italiano em Porto Alegre, Enrico Perrod de 1880: “Visitei uma colônia na Linha Palmeiro e encontrei na terra de um só agricultor todas as frutas da Itália: Castanhas, maçãs, pêras, laranjas, cerejas e nozes, juntamente com plantas de café, cana-de-açúcar e fumo.”(cfr. Rovílio Costa et alii, 1992, EST, As Colônias italianas Dona Isabel e Conde D’Eu, pg 21) ou do Cônsul italiano em Porto Alegre, Pascoale Corte, que aponta em seu relatório de 1884: “Atravessando um mato por um estreito caminho, chega-se, após quatro horas de viagem a cavalo, aos confins da Colônia Dona Isabel, exatamente na entrada de uma das linhas mais desmatadas e populosas: a Linha Palmeiro. Ali começa uma estrada carroçável que conduz à sede da colônia. Esta estrada é a mais pitoresca de todas.” (cfr. Rovílio Costa et alii, op. cit. pág 25).
Ao longo de todo o trecho foram rapidamente sendo construídas belas e confortáveis moradias em pedra, madeira e alvenaria, bem como variados empreendimentos comerciais como ferrarias, serrarias, moinhos, etc. Como os lotes eram grandes, normalmente eram assentadas duas famílias por lote, uma em cada extremidade.
O visitante que ingressar nos Caminhos de Pedra pelo Barracão estará, pois, utilizando a mesma porta de entrada dos primeiros imigrantes, revivendo de certa forma, as mesmas sensações dos recém-chegados, através das histórias contadas pelos seus descendentes. Não deixe de dar esse mergulho na história da imigração italiana no Rio Grande do Sul.
Barracão, Berço de Bento Gonçalves
Assim escreve em seu relatório o Agente Consular Italiano em Bento Gonçalves, Luigi Petrocchi, em dezembro de 1905: “A sede da nova Colônia Dona Isabel (hoje Bento Gonçalves), foi traçada em 1875, em um vale entre dois cursos d’água, num local baixo, próximo ao barracão dos imigrantes, e chamada então de cidade branca, devido às tendas feitas de lençóis. Por comodidade, porém, a diretoria transferiu a administração para um local elevado, chamado Cruzinha, no meio de um pinhal, a 3 Km de distância.” (cfr. Rovílio Costa et alii, op. cit. Pág. 73). O imigrante Giuseppe Dall’Acqua em seus apontamentos de viagem assim descrevem o Barracão no ano de 1878: “Depois de um percurso de uma hora e meia pelo mato virgem, por uma estrada íngreme, em degraus e barrenta, chegaram, após uma longa descida, a uma várzea perto de um rio, em cuja margem esquerda havia três ou quatro habitações rústicas,(...) e uma alta construção de um só plano e mal vedada, com longas taquaras pregadas na parede, horizontalmente, e cobertas de barro e folhas. Este lugar quase solitário e sem nome, fora destinado para a sede da Colônia Dona Isabel, mas ninguém sabia do motivo do não cumprimento da escolha da localidade para sede da futura cidade. Aquele casarão construído com barro (...) fora edificado para abrigar temporariamente os imigrantes e assim, com o tempo, tanto a localidade como o rio tomaram o nome de Barracão”. (Manuscrito de Giuseppe Dall’Acqua, 1901, in Rovílio Costa e Arlindo Battistel, 1983, Assim vivem os italianos, pág. 1172).
A partir de 1875 o Barracão começou a receber, e hospedar provisoriamente as primeiras levas de imigrantes. Ali eles recebiam seus lotes, algumas ferramentas, sementes e um pouco de alimentos. Isso, porém, só acontecia após uma longa espera que podia chegar a diversos meses. Os colonos eram cadastrados e tudo o que recebessem, inclusive alimentos, ferramentas e principalmente a terra, era-lhes lançado como dívida com o Governo Imperial que deveria ser quitada no prazo de 10 anos. Tudo foi planejado para que o local fosse a sede da colônia Dona Isabel, mas já em 1876, não se sabem bem os motivos, a sede da colônia foi transferida para onde hoje é o centro da cidade de Bento Gonçalves.
Patrimônio Histórico e Cultural do RS
Graças à restauração das casas e a visitação turística desencadeou-se nas comunidades que o compõem um movimento cultural que permitiu o surgimento de várias iniciativas que visam preservar não só o patrimônio material, mas também o imaterial. Exemplos dessa vitalidade cultural que palpita em todo o Roteiro são a preservação do dialeto “talian” (língua típica dos imigrantes do lugar), a Casa da Memória e os grupos artístico-culturais (dança italiana, flauta doce, banda musical, orquestra de câmara, coro e teatro) que se apresentam em ocasiões especiais ou por solicitação expressa nos restaurantes do Roteiro.
O fato de concentrar o maior acervo arquitetônico da imigração italiana em meio rural do país e a preocupação com a preservação do patrimônio histórico material e imaterial rendeu aos Caminhos de Pedra o qualificativo de “museu vivo”. Em 2009 por iniciativa do Dep. Estadual Jerônimo Pizzoloto Güerguen, e apoio do IPHAE (Instituto de Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico do Estado) foi declarado patrimônio histórico e cultural do RS pela Lei Estadual 13.177/09 promulgada pela então Governadora Yeda Rorato Crusius.
http://www.caminhosdepedra.org.br/pt/?pg=historico
This is what God told us: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life, but whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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Photocontest Entry.
This is what happens when I try to take a shortcut home to make it in time for dinner and end up choosing the least safe route. Sammy and I almost became dinner ourselves!
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MadPea Shark Bite Hat
MONTANA Tee by Cold-Ash
CHINO Shorts by Cold-Ash
[P.0.E] - Messenger Bag (Demo) Crate
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Synnergy Flooded Room Backdrop (dismantled and altered for my scene)
Dock piling (2 Prim) by Kagehi Kohn
My lovely pet ♥
JIAN Pets Splashy Spaniels / Brit. Gold
The bitey sharks:
JIAN Sharks
Background was taken at Fruit Islands Surf beach (Frozen Banana)
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My princess and my queen.
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My now and my forever.
The past few years have been amazing, and I wouldn’t change a single moment. I’m beyond blessed to have Claudia in my life. I’m the luckiest man alive—she chose me, and I get to call her my wife.
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And "TRUE LOVE" Comes From GOD!
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... fresh Physalis in their husks. Both to eat and to photograph!
Physalis is characterised by the small orange fruit similar in size, shape and structure to a small tomato, but partly or fully enclosed in a large papery husk derived from the calyx.
The berry also goes by the names Golden Strawberry,Chinese Lantern and Cape gooseberry.
Not all Physalis species bear edible fruit. Select species are cultivated for their edible fruit, however; the typical Physalis fruit is similar to a firm tomato in texture, and like strawberries or pineapple in flavour, with a mild acidity.
Physalis fruit is a good source of vitamin C, beta-carotene, iron, calcium and trace amounts of B vitamins.
These fruits contain 18 kinds of amino acids.
These berries are also abundant in polysaccharides, compounds that may help fortify the immune system.
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Every year is happening the Sommernachtstraum in the Olympic Park Munich and it ends always with an impressive fireworks display. This picture was taken in front of the BMW World
This is about the 4th or 5th Ladybird I've seen this year. A great sight as I hadn't seen any for several years.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites.
This is one of those new-to-camera- lens-yard-and-me shots. The house wren arrived some days ago but I was unable to get a shot off until today. Not sure what she’s up to. She’s been checking out all the holes left by the downies and nuthatches and seems to like this one the best. Her pose seems to indicate that she feels she’s part of the in-crowd and I am just glad she acquiesced to do this shoot.
Naturally, this shot was facilitated by perfect positioning of the Adirondack. The major challenge was, however, to not drift off into a snooze. This was accomplished by some mental gymnastics that involved perfecting the recipe for what I call Apple Blossom. Of course it’s not a flower, it’s the perfect summer drink. I was introduced to this in the early eighties in Victoria’s Inner Harbour in a place called the Captain’s Palace (changed to Huntingdon Mansion). It’s one of those Victorian mansions converted into a restaurant and they really serve(d) wonderful fare. And part of the breakfast menu was, you guessed it, the Apple Blossom. I could have stayed there all day sipping this nectar of the gods and observing the goings on in the harbor. They never did tell me what the ingredients were but due to my tenacious nature (I’ve been called a pit bull) I am now getting awfully close and finally reaping the fruits of my labor.
What is next? A beloved question my grandpa in law would ask me. He was always prepared for the next wonderful adventure life would bring. So I dare to ask you, “What is next?’. Ponder on what is on the other side of your bridge and get ready for the wonderful adventure that is to come!
The Kinzua Dam, on the Allegheny River in Warren County, Pennsylvania, is one of the largest dams in the United States east of the Mississippi River. It is located within the 500,000-acre (200,000 ha) Allegheny National Forest.
In 1936, a major flood struck the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and caused widespread damage. This prompted Congress to pass the Flood Control Acts of 1936 and 1938, authorizing the construction of a dam on the Allegheny River. Construction of the dam was not begun by the US Army Corps of Engineers until 1960. It was completed in 1965, and the filling of the reservoir continued until 1967.
By then, considerable opposition to the dam had developed, particularly among the Seneca Nation of Indians based in New York. The proposed flooding of lands behind the dam to create a lake for recreation and hydropower would make them lose most of the historic Cornplanter Tract in Pennsylvania as well as numerous communities and thousands of acres of fertile farmland in New York. More than 600 families were displaced by the project and forced to relocate.
The main purpose of the dam was flood control on the Allegheny River. Kinzua controls drainage on a watershed of 2,180 square miles (5,650 km2), an area twice the size of the state of Rhode Island. According to the Corps of Engineers, side benefits derived from the dam would include drought control, hydroelectric power production, and recreation. The hydroelectric power is distributed largely to Pittsburgh.
According to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Kinzua more than paid for itself in 1972 when tropical storm Agnes dumped continual heavy rains on the watershed, bringing the reservoir to within three feet of its maximum storage capacity. Downstream flood damages were avoided of an estimated $247 million. The dam at Kinzua has prevented an estimated $1 billion in flood damages since it became operational. (Wikipedia)
Bachalpsee is a mountain lake close to the First above Grindelwald in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. The lake is located at an elevation of 2,265 m above sea.
Anaklia (Georgian: ანაკლია) is a town and seaside resort in western Georgia. It is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, at the place where the Enguri River flows into the Black Sea.
The earliest settlement on Anaklia's territory dates back to the mid-Bronze Age and is typical to the Colchian culture. It is the Classical Heraclea of Colchis, Anaclia of later authors, and Anarghia of Archangelo Lamberti and Jean Chardin (both the 17th-century travelers). After the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century, it was an important fortified town, sea port and fishing station within the Principality of Mingrelia. In 1723, the town was captured by the Ottoman Empire and converted into its maritime outpost and slave-trading locale. Western Georgian kingdom of Imereti regained control over Anaklia in 1770, seizing the opportunity of Ottoman Empire being at war with Russia (Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)). Solomon I, the king of Imereti, was supposed to be supported in this endeavor by a small Russian contingent under General Totleben, but the Russian troops retreated before a clash against the Turks.
In 1802, Kelesh-Bey Sharvashidze, the pro-Turkish ruler of the neighboring Principality of Abkhazia, capitalized on the internecine feuds in Mingrelia, and forced Prince Grigol Dadiani of Mingrelia into surrendering Anaklia, taking Grigol’s son and heir, Levan, as a hostage. When Mingrelia accepted the Russian protectorate in 1803, the Russian commander in Georgia, Prince Tsitsianov, demanded that Kelesh-Bey release Levan. On his refusal, Tsitsianov sent Major General Ion Rykgof into Abkhazia. In March 1805, the Russians took hold of Anaklia and threatened to march against Sukhum-Kaleh, forcing the Abkhazian prince to release Dadiani. The capture of Anaklia drew an Ottoman protest, however, and Tsitsianov hastened to disavow his subordinate and even apologize for his action, removing a Russian garrison from Anaklia. However, the incident added to an increasing tension between the two empires. When the next Russo-Turkish War broke out in 1806, the Russian forces restored Redoubt Kali and Anaklia to the Mingrelian prince Levan who would later relinquish the control of these forts to the Russian administration. (See Russian conquest of the Caucasus#Black Sea Coast.) In the 1850s, Anaklia was a small but strongly fortified seaport, which had a custom-house and carried on a considerable trade with Turkey.
Subsequently, the importance of the Anaklia port significantly reduced, but it remained a minor Black Sea Fleet base in the Soviet times.
After the War in Abkhazia (1992–93), a Russian peacekeeping post was opened at Anaklia in 1994. In 2006, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia reported numerous damages inflicted by the Russian soldiers upon the 17th-century fortress of Anaklia and accused the peacekeepers of installing latrines and baths within the walls of the fort. Following a series of protests by the Georgians, the Russian military post was withdrawn in July 2007.
A monument has been erected in Anaklia on May 21, 2012, commemorating Russia's expulsion of the Circassian people from the region following the conclusion of the Caucasian War in the 1860s. The May 21 date was chosen to coincide with the day on which the Circassian people themselves commemorate the expulsion, which the Georgian government has recognized as an act of genocide. The monument was designed by Khusen Kochesokov, a sculptor from the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Rudesheim is situated in the the Rheingau and Rüdesheim Rhine River Gorge winery area.
There are dozens of wine tasting and buying venues in Rudesheim. This is one restaurant, tasting room and wine store in Rudesheim.
The room is the cellar of the hotel Felsenkeller.
There are a total of 380 winemakers in the region marketing their own products. Most are family run companies tending vineyards of between four and eight hectares. There are also three local cooperatives and around two dozen large wine estates (between approx. 10 and 50 hectares). These export a considerable proportion of their production and thus contribute to the fame and reputation of Rheingau Riesling.
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden is a large park with an eminent garden in Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally a residence of the Naitō family in the Edo period. Afterwards, it became a garden under the management of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. It is now a park under the jurisdiction of the national Ministry of the Environment.
The shogun bequeathed this land to Lord Naitō (daimyo) of Tsuruga in the Edo period who completed a garden here in 1772. After the Meiji Restoration the house and its grounds were converted into an experimental agricultural centre. It then because a botanical garden before becoming an imperial garden in 1879. The current configuration of the garden was completed in 1906. Most of the garden was destroyed by air raids in 1945, during the later stages of World War II. The garden was rebuilt after the war.
The jurisdiction over the Imperial Palace Outer Garden and the Kyoto imperial garden was transferred to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (now part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) in 1947.
On May 21, 1949 the garden became open to the public as "National Park Shinjuku Imperial Gardens". It came under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment in January 2001 with the official name "Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden".
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A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. The standard for the name mushroom is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. Mushroom also describes a variety of other gilled fungi, with or without stems, therefore the term is used to describe the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface. Forms deviating from the standard morphology usually have more specific names, such as bolete, puffball, stinkhorn, and morel, and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called agarics in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their order Agaricales. By extension, the term mushroom can also refer to either the entire fungus when in culture, the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms, or the species itself. 20063
Liebe ist bunt und vielfältig.
Sollten wir nicht froh sein über alle Formen von Liebe!?
Ein wunderbares Statement einer großen U-Bahnstation!
Love is colorful and multifaceted .
Shouldn't we be happy about love in general ?
Great statement of a big underground station
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Also BeSpoke is hosting a charity this month for a community member in need. Her father needed a pacemaker, no insurance. All people who donate will receive a free set of horns developed by Mesmer Macabre. Donation box here - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Honeydale/186/78/1585
What a sad picture...like someone is waiting forever for something. A loved one has passed and the sorrow of the survivor(s) is depicted in this memorial statue. Grief is also displayed...maybe a grief that can never be released until one has joined the loved one on the other side of hope.
Is there ever closure in grief?
-rc
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Absent Sophia
Poetry ceases without you
Ache embraces a pounding heart
Caged behind a glass door
A grieving liturgy waits
Silence roars on empty ears
Confined a passion thrashes
Lyrics fail to chant in your absence
Throbbing veins pulsate against flesh
Imprisoned by white bones
-rc
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A Sophia Song
Pushing through this myst
I ride on a melody
Cherry picked by my soul and me
Like a concrete statue I stand tall and still
I seek to own
Clouds of thought absorbing this silent song
Summoned with blue music
I go deep inside
Fire in the middle where pain and pleasure preside
Walking through this flame
I open my eyes
To gaze across a valley where my Sophia resides
-rc