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Buddhapada

31 Wednesday Jan 2018

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Sculpture

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Buddha, Buddhapada, Canberra, petrosomatoglyph

Buddhapada

 

Going to do another one, as I think I spoilt this one by using chalk

too vigorously.  Saw the originals at The Ashmolean and some

others in Canberra and became fascinated by

petrosomatoglyphs in general.

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My Cubist Sculpture

30 Tuesday Jan 2018

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, Sculpture

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Cubist sculpture

 

Fun!

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Tasmanian Beach

29 Monday Jan 2018

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acrylic, Tasmanian beach

Tasmanian Beach

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Posted by Candia | Filed under art, Nature, Summer, Travel

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Taste

29 Monday Jan 2018

Posted by Candia in Summer 2012

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It doesn’t matter

if everything is perfect.

A flower’s bud is lovely,

as well as its bloom.

When you see the blossom fall,

it can seem quite sad,

but the yearning to recall

it in its beauty

can be achingly poignant.

Few people have taste.

One should view things as a whole.

Those who are in love

often realise it when

there is an enforced absence.

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Wasting Time

28 Sunday Jan 2018

Posted by Candia in Summer 2012

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Archery tutors

will tell you that two arrows

in your hand merely

make you careless when you draw

the first one.  Each shot

should be as if it’s your last.

Students often find

procrastination tempting.

They tell themselves they’ll study

later in the day.

Then they end up wasting time,

when what they should do

is knuckle down right away

and pay their best attention.

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Casa Batllo by Night

27 Saturday Jan 2018

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Architecture, Barcelona, Casa Battlo, Gaudi

Gaudi house by night

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Wabi Sabi

26 Friday Jan 2018

Posted by Candia in Philosophy, Poetry, Social Comment, Writing

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Buddhist, Confucian, ku, mujo, sanboin, serenity, wabi sabi

Uniform bindings

on your books shows lack of taste.

Uniformity

in anything is mundane.

Buddhists, Confucians

often left a chapter out

and some palaces,

by art, were left incomplete.

Three marks: sanboin, mujo, ku

are vital concepts.

Reality shows nothing

lasts; nothing’s finished;

nothing is perfect.

Serenity comes with age

and it is a flawed beauty.

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John Lackland in Newark

25 Thursday Jan 2018

Posted by Candia in History, Humour, Poetry, Writing

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dysentry, Isabel of Gloucester, John Lackland, Magna Carta, Newark Gate-House, Pope, Runnymede, Swinehead, treason

 

A drawing of the effigy of King John in Worcester Cathedral

An effigy of King John (Worcester Cathedral)

from Samuel R Gardiner’s ‘History of England’

source: Wikipedia

 

A rhyming romp through a particular period

of history:

 

Banished from Ireland for a good reason

and then committing an act of treason;

responsible for murders, uprisings;

provoking the Pope’s severe chastisings;

killing sons of the Welsh nobility;

losing French land through incivility;

divorcing Isabel of Gloucester (kin);

calling their bond consanguineous sin.

Duplicitous about Magna Carta;

kidnapping his young enamorata.

North, in Lincolnshire, losing his war chest,

which seems like carelessness, or a poor jest;

contracting vile dysentry at Swinehead:

Runnymede in his system, it’s been said.

Newark Gate-House was as far as he reached.

There he expired, before being impeached.

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Mata Ninos

24 Wednesday Jan 2018

Posted by Candia in Summer 2012

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My friend suggested that I write a poem addressing the

subject of the women in El Salvador who have been imprisoned

after being accused of self-terminations- sometimes when they

allegedly have just had stillbirths.  I was unaware of this until I

researched the topic and discovered material on the group Las 17.

The prison terms are in the region of decades.

 

MATA NINOS

 

In El Salvador, there’s an assumption,

in many cases, that a miscarriage

is the consequence of an abortion.

Girls who have been raped can lose their freedom.

A premature, or unviable birth

can result in a forty year sentence.

How can a country of that name sentence

women when it reveres the Assumption

of a Virgin? Supernatural birth

protected Mary from a miscarriage

when she experienced threats to her freedom:

state infanticide, worse than abortion?

Las 17, accused of abortion –

each subjected to a lengthy sentence,

in a land whose motto includes ‘Freedom.’

Youngsters, trafficked, can face an assumption

which might lead to judicial miscarriage,

as ‘Mata Ninos.’ They’re victims from birth.

After civil war there should be re-birth,

with an enlightened view of abortion

and understanding that a miscarriage

is, for women, a kind of life sentence.

And why should the state make an assumption

that stillbirth expresses woman’s freedom?

Accused of homicide, denied freedom,

because of complications to a birth –

to disregard is to make assumption

and logic itself suffers abortion.

The powerful deliver the sentence

and fear itself can induce miscarriage.

There’s no calculation in miscarriage.

It’s spontaneous – there is no freedom

expressed. Those women uttered no sentence:

‘I now intend to sabotage this birth,‘

nor ‘Drinking this will promote abortion.’

Blame’s an ignorant assumption.

Restricting freedom; pronouncing sentence

on those who endure miscarriage, stillbirth:

abortion of innocence assumption.

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All Shall Pass

24 Wednesday Jan 2018

Posted by Candia in Architecture, Community, History, Nostalgia, Philosophy, Poetry, Writing

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choka, Hojo Temple, Kaneyuki, Kyogoku, Mikado, Nine Images of Buddha

Even The Palace

at Kyogoku and the

Hojo Temple are

fallen into deep decay.

The family of

the Mikado’s guardian

could not preserve them.

Nine images of Buddha

remain, however.

Kaneyuki’s painted door

has somehow survived.

Elsewhere, not even ruins

are able to tell stories.

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My name is Candia. Its initial consonant alliterates with “cow” and there are connotations with the adjective “candid.” I started writing this blog in the summer of 2012 and focused on satire at the start.

Interspersed was ironic news comment, reviews and poetry.

Over the years I have won some international poetry competitions and have published in reputable small presses, as well as reviewing and reading alongside well- established poets. I wrote under my own name then, but Candia has taken me over as an online persona. Having brought out a serious anthology last year called 'Its Own Place' which features poetry of an epiphanal nature, I was able to take part in an Arts and Spirituality series of lectures in Winchester in 2016.

Lately I have been experimenting with boussekusekeika, sestinas, rhyme royale, villanelles and other forms. I am exploring Japanese themes at the moment, my interest having been re-ignited by the recent re-evaluations of Hokusai.

Thank you to all my committed followers whose loyalty has encouraged me to keep writing. It has been exciting to meet some of you in the flesh- in venues as far flung as Melbourne and Sydney!

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