Thursday Doors

 christmas doors

shine this time of year

beautiful

spectacle

adds to the joyous  feeling

of this tradition 

autumn wreath

not for everyone

a bit bland

more discreet

for the conservative folk 

mostly alpha males

 

 

Thursday Doors

 

 

 

 https://www.boredpanda.com/polish-village-floral-paintings-zalipie/

 

they like flowers in Zalipie Poland

 even the church has not been spared

floral fantasy abounds

 

 

 90 year old grandmother Agnes Kasparkova decides to paint the houses in  her village .....beats going to the gym or playing lawn bowls.

Cinquain

agnes

creates great art

community service

they are lucky to have her...GO

AGNES

Thursday Doors

 she sat by the wooden door

hoping a passer-.by would stop for a chat

no such luck today

a bright light

in a sea

of drab

Thursday Doors

 

no need

 for a canvas

every door 

can be a work of art

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 a green door

near taormino

just lovely

ancient town

i would like to buy this house

my italian home

Thursday Doors

 Elizabeth Farm Sydney built by John Macarthur in 1793 is the oldest house in Australia. The colony was founded in 1788.

 

 

https://camdenhistorynotes.com/2017/04/14/elizabeth-farm-parramatta/

 

 impressive

built in just five years

nothing here

barren land

an empty isle continent

devoid of buildings

 

 

original

colonial design

not out of place

today

accomodation

for early settlers and convicts

a different story

Thursday Doors

 

this is my house

you have to get past me

to enter

i don't like visitors

unless

you are bearing  gifts

of expensive seafood

you can't come in

if you own dogs

if you don't bring

fresh salmon

if you don't obey

cats

Thursday Doors

beautiful  glass doors

surprised they still exist in our

 destructive war torn  world

 

 CINQUAIN

pretty

pink painted door

brightens up an old fence

bougainvillea adds quite a

nice touch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maurice Bourgue et Heinz Holliger:duo de hautbois

Maurice Bourgue: 6 November 1939 - 6 October 2023

Maurice Bourgue / Saint-Saëns : Oboe Sonata in D major (Pf.Ichiro Nodaira)

THURSDAY DOORS

Casa Comalat, Barcelona, Spain.

Casa Comalat is a modernist building located at number 442 on Avinguda Diagonal and with a rear façade at number 316 on Calle Córcega in Barcelona , ​​being a project from 1906 carried out in 1911 by the architect Salvador Valeri i Pupurull (1873- 1954).

 

ornate

over the top

no understatement here

dizzying curves 

dazzling

inspired

by sangria afternoons

 

 

a jack daniel's afternoon

can make a mural

look real

poor guys can't fathom

why they are unable

to get on the train 

sampling all the beers

at lunch

maybe a contributing

factor

CINQUAIN

CINQUAIN

its spring

furs packed away

bring out the summer frocks

time for the wide brim panama

straw hats

 

Challenge no 2 ....TANKA TUESDAY

CINQUAINS .....

Liguria Italy

 

 hello
i don't live here
i am just a figment
of your strange imagination
really

cool jazz
on a front door
quite a novel idea
entree sans frappe si tu veux
c;est ca

 

GREAT AUNT EUGENIE HENRIETTE

 For Aunty Nin

a tiny bundle of energy
in a big floral apron
butters fresh crusty bread
pours strawberry milk
(a special order from the milk man)
for her niece who is staying over
great aunt's excitement is contagious
her little canary chirps con giusto
while she unwraps a new jigsaw puzzle
miss you darling

St Benedicts

 

St Benedict's Catholic Church, on Broadway, Chippendale, Sydney in 1926.
 
 
A Brief History of the Parish
 
St Benedict’s parish has played a central role in Sydney’s history. In September 1835, John Bede Polding, a Benedictine monk (who would become Australia’s first Archbishop) sought a central location for a new church. He secured a site in late 1838 on the corner of what was then Botany Bay Road and Parramatta Street.
A Franciscan, Fr Bonaventure Goeghegan, was appointed as the first parish priest. He and his successors ministered to a steadily growing population of convicts, emancipists and free settlers. They lived in small terrace houses and worked in nearby factories and on the wharves. In 1840, Bishop Polding travelled to England and, inspired by the architecture of Augustus Pugin, envisaged a similar design for St Benedict’s. Dr Polding laid the foundation stone of the present day church on 21 July 1845 in the presence of 3000 people. William Morris erected the church to Pugin’s design and it was completed in 1852.
During the middle decades of the 19th century, the parish expanded with a surge of migrants fleeing famine-ravaged Ireland. In 1880, the Good Samaritan Sisters took over the girls’ school. By 1883, the whole of St Benedict’s school had the largest enrolment in the Archdiocese, with the Marist Brothers having come to conduct a school for boys.
The parish continued to grow in the first decades of the 20th century, with second and third generation parish families. By 1924, the parochial district of ‘George Street West’ was the second largest in the Archdiocese, after St Mary’s Cathedral. In 1926, a new St Benedict’s Hall was opened. It would be used for many balls and concerts.
By 1939, Parramatta Road was becoming a major gateway to the city and required widening. In a cooperative spirit, it was agreed that part of the parish’s land be resumed. The church was subsequently reconfigured to its present design. In the 1970s the parish population fell as families moved to the outer suburbs. Fr Terence Purcell was appointed as parish priest in 1974 and in 1976 the parish celebrated the 125th anniversary of the consecration of St Benedict’s bells, the oldest set of bells on the mainland.
In recent years, the population of the area has risen again with the general revival of inner-city living. In 2005, the parish church and buildings were restored by the University of Notre Dame Australia. St Benedict’s continues its central role in the life of Sydney, serving both the parish and the university community.
(Credit The State Library of NSW and St Benedict's Catholic Church).


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Que reste-ils nos des amours

Que reste-t-il de nos amours
Que reste-t-il de ces beaux jours
Une photo, vieille photo
De ma jeunesse

Que reste-t-il des billets doux
Des mois d'avril, des rendez-vous
Un souvenir qui me poursuit
Sans cesse Bonheur fané,
cheveux au vent Baisers volés, rêves mouvants

Que reste-t-il de tout cela
Dites-le-moi Un petit village,
un vieux clocher Un paysage si bien caché
Et dans un nuage le cher visage
De mon passé Les mots les mots tendres qu'on murmure
Les caresses les plus pures
Les serments au fond des bois
Les fleurs qu'on retrouve dans un livre
Dont le parfum vous enivre Se sont envolés pourquoi?

Que reste-t-il de nos amours
Que reste-t-il de ces beaux jours
Une photo, vieille photo De ma jeunesse
Que reste-t-il des billets doux
Des mois d'avril, des rendez-vous
Un souvenir qui me poursuit
Sans cesse Bonheur fané, cheveux au vent
Baisers volés, rêves mouvants

Que reste-t-il de tout cela
Dites-le-moi Un petit village,
un vieux clocher Un paysage si bien caché
Et dans un nuage le cher visage
De mon passé De mon passé

Written by: Charles Louis Trenet

Thursday Doors... July 13th

Beijing China

inviting

come into my parlour

said the spider to the fly

 

 they wanted a van

couldn't afford it

undaunted

they proudly stood

at the door

of their creation

 

Thursday Doors July 6th

Jozef Mehoffer
 

 Sundance

happy to finally
meet my uncle dan
these doors belong
to sundance's bedroom
mi casa su casa
mi tio favorito
bienvenido

 

 

Thursday Doors June 8th

 A 13th century house in Aveyron France.

top heavy
to save on taxes
charged by the  measurement
of the ground floor

needs work
for 800 years
not bad at all
something charming
about its two little doors
wonder who lives in it

THURSDAY DOORS....JUNE 1ST

GARAGE ADELAIDE SA

it's said

you can't make a silk purse

out of a sow's ear

well guess what !

 

Friday Writings # 79 ...PSU

 

 moved by the beauty of a summer's night
she picked up the precious shell
and pressed it to her ear
listening to the wind wail
through the pulled branches from trees
singing psalms of abiding neglect
she marvelled at the curled backs
of the waves so high they almost hit the moon
the sky pierced with stars seemed a better option
a safer place with its meteors and milky way
flying solo under the radar loop
dodging knives and the telephone had appeal
slipping through the cracks so to speak

TUESDAY TANKA # 322

 

Shadorma

TIGER

my tiger
tiger burning bright
my best friend
remembers
the dark forest of the night
at meal times only

he is sweet
a gentle creature
except when
a strange hand
tries to frame his symmetry
then all hell breaks loose

Szpilman- Nocturne

Thursday Doors May 25th

ubud temple
ceremonies
temple scarves
a lot of white
incense
feels like
a lifetime ago

hubert
restaurant
wine bar
city centre
60s french
novel idea
60's folk
don't want to be reminded

 

 

TANKA TUESDAY # 321...ACROSTIC

Can't fault granny's cosy house
O for the wings of a dove
Soprano singing sweetly
Your dear gran harmonising

 

Very nice to have good views
Instead of ugly brick walls
Everyone should enjoy this
Wealthy people have all the luck

Children love birthday parties
Happy homes should be like this
A lot of fun had by all
Rosy cheeks and lovely smiles
Magical moments of life