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MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY – department of ravens & crows, birds of prey, riding a zebra, spring, summer, autumn, winter

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Zebra-hunting

Zebra-hunting

Riding a zebra – Museum of Natural History
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Henry David Thoreau: The Summer Rain

Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)

The Summer Rain

My books I’d fain cast off, I cannot read,
‘Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large
Down in the meadow, where is richer feed,
And will not mind to hit their proper targe.

Plutarch was good, and so was Homer too,
Our Shakespeare’s life were rich to live again,
What Plutarch read, that was not good nor true,
Nor Shakespeare’s books, unless his books were men.

Here while I lie beneath this walnut bough,
What care I for the Greeks or for Troy town,
If juster battles are enacted now
Between the ants upon this hummock’s crown?

Bid Homer wait till I the issue learn,
If red or black the gods will favor most,
Or yonder Ajax will the phalanx turn,
Struggling to heave some rock against the host.

Tell Shakespeare to attend some leisure hour,
For now I’ve business with this drop of dew,
And see you not, the clouds prepare a shower–
I’ll meet him shortly when the sky is blue.

This bed of herd’s grass and wild oats was spread
Last year with nicer skill than monarchs use.
A clover tuft is pillow for my head,
And violets quite overtop my shoes.

And now the cordial clouds have shut all in,
And gently swells the wind to say all’s well;
The scattered drops are falling fast and thin,
Some in the pool, some in the flower-bell.

I am well drenched upon my bed of oats;
But see that globe come rolling down its stem,
Now like a lonely planet there it floats,
And now it sinks into my garment’s hem.

Drip drip the trees for all the country round,
And richness rare distills from every bough;
The wind alone it is makes every sound,
Shaking down crystals on the leaves below.

For shame the sun will never show himself,
Who could not with his beams e’er melt me so;
My dripping locks–they would become an elf,
Who in a beaded coat does gayly go.


Henry David Thoreau poetry
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Driving three zebras and one horse

Driving three zebras and one horse

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Georg Trakl: Die Raben

Georg Trakl

(1887-1914)

 

Die Raben

 

Über den schwarzen Winkel hasten

Am Mittag die Raben mit hartem Schrei.

Ihr Schatten streift an der Hirschkuh vorbei

Und manchmal sieht man sie mürrisch rasten.

 

O wie sie die braune Stille stören,

In der ein Acker sich verzückt,

Wie ein Weib, das schwere Ahnung berückt,

Und manchmal kann man sie keifen hören.

 

Um ein Aas, das sie irgendwo wittern,

Und plötzlich richten nach Nord sie den Flug

Und schwinden wie ein Leichenzug

In Lüften, die von Wollust zittern.

 

Georg Trakl poetry

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Zebra Milk Wagon

Zebra Milk Wagon

museum of natural history

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Sunday’s ride of a Zebra

 

Sunday’s ride of a Zebra

museum of natural history

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Driving a Zebra

Driving a zebra

museum of natural history

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Criminal Zebra

museum of natural history

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Riding a criminal zebra

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Hans Hermans Natuurdagboek: Januari 2011

Adelbert von Chamisso

(1781-1838)

 

Nacht und Winter

 

Von des Nordes kaltem Wehen

    Wird der Schnee dahergetrieben,

    Der die dunkle Erde decket;

 

Dunkle Wolken zieh’n am Himmel,

    Und es flimmern keine Sterne,

    Nur der Schnee im Dunkel schimmert.

 

Herb’ und kalt der Wind sich reget,

    Schaurig stöhnt er in die Stille;

    Tief hat sich die Nacht gesenket.

 

Wie sie ruh’n auf dem Gefilde,

    Ruh’n mir in der tiefsten Seele

    Dunkle Nacht und herber Winter.

 

Herb’ und kalt der Wind sich reget,

    Dunkle Wolken zieh’n am Himmel,

    Tief hat sich die Nacht gesenket.

 

Nicht der Freude Kränze zieren

    Mir das Haupt im jungen Lenze,

    Und erheitern meine Stirne:

 

Denn am Morgen meines Lebens,

    Liebend und begehrend Liebe,

    Wandl’ ich einsam in der Fremde.

 

Wo das Sehnen meiner Liebe,

    Wo das heiße muß, verschmähet,

    Tief im Herzen sich verschließen.

 

Herb’ und kalt der Wind sich reget.

    Dunkle Wolken zieh’n am Himmel,

    Und es flimmern keine Sterne.

 

Wie sie ruh’n auf dem Gefilde,

    Ruh’n mir in der tiefsten Seele

    Dunkle Nacht und herber Winter.

 

Leise hallen aus der Ferne

    Töne, die den Tag verkünden. –

    Wird der Tag denn sich erhellen?

 

Freudebringend dem Gefilde

    Wird er strahlen, Nacht entschweben,

    Herber Winter auch entfliehen,

 

Und des Jahres Kreis sich wenden,

    Und der junge Lenz in Liebe

    Nahen der verjüngten Erde.

 

Mir nur, mir nur ew’ger Winter,

    Ew’ge Nacht, und Schmerz und Thränen,

    Kein Tag, keines Sternes Flimmer!

 

Photos ©Hans Hermans Natuurdagboek Januari 2011

► Website Hans Hermans

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Ton van Kempen Photos: Winter (December 21, 2010)

Ton van Kempen photos:

Winter (December 21, 2010)

fleursdumal.nl poetry magazine

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Ton van Kempen photos: Winter (December 20, 2010)

Ton van Kempen photos:

Winter (December 20, 2010)

kempis.nl poetry magazine

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Riding a jumping zebra

For Ton van Reen:

Riding a jumping zebra

museum of natural history – fleursdumal.nl magazine

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