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Fanning a Breeze
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'O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you've missed.
W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening

To love not any one, nor every one.
To live in one land is captivity,
To run all countries a wild roguery.
Waters stink soon, if in one place they bide,
And in the vast sea are more putrified;
But when they kiss one bank, and leaving this
Never look back, but the next bank do kiss,
Then are they purest; change is the nursery
Of music, joy, life and eternity.
John Donne, Elegy III, Change

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 123

Us And Them, Sikelia ArT

L A Woman, Justin Johnson

Nothing Else Matters, Soren Madsen

Wish You Were Here, SilverSwan

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.biffobear
12/30/23 5:15 PM GMT
Like a wurlitzer rising from the theatre floor...R.
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Do not trust Atoms....they make up everything.
::corngrowth
12/30/23 5:31 PM GMT
John, I see that your breeze is still a moderate one although it was fanned. So no gale warning is needed, (😁).
A breeze on its own isn't visible, but with your artistic skills you still was able to visualize it in a perfect way.
The poems and the music links are, per usual, well chosen.
I was somewhat confused by your summery of the music links.
I took the freedom to give some minor additions:
-Pink Floyd - Us And Them, provided by Sikelia ArT;
-The Doors - LA Woman, performed by Justin Johnson (cover), provided by Justin Johnson;
-Metallica - Nothing Else Matters, performed by Soren Madsen, provided by sorenmadsen.com;
-Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, provided by SilverSwan.
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If you think you can't accept something, try to change it. But if this doesn't work, don't be frustrated, but give it later another try. The one who perseveres wins! Please CLICK HERE to see my journal! Feel free to save my images or to add them to your favorites.
.casechaser
12/30/23 5:57 PM GMT
* My overall theme is "changes." The fan, fanning a breeze is thus a metaphor to changes in the air. The selections from the three poems support the positions of accepting or denying changes in your loved ones and or in yourself.

The music was a little trickier in that the music supports the theme but are all covers not performed by the original artists. Thus are changes too!

And, Fanning a Breeze is a modification to Dulcinea's Dahlia, thus a change!
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::tigger3
12/30/23 8:51 PM GMT
My first thought was a new type of an accordian, but also a fancy billow!

tigs=^..^=
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life and so is my love of photography. sandi ♪ ♫
::koca
01/01/24 7:52 AM GMT
Great fan, so beautiful, with so many colors. I'd like to have one like this. And the quotes are also excellent, as usual.
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