Fox on a Boat

Art Mondays Hi, and welcome to a brand new link up! I very much enjoy link ups, as I get to find new blogs and share my posts with others. However, though I frequent two great poetry link ups, I couldn't seem to find art ones. So, I made my own! I hope you will join me and share your blog posts and artwork! You can find the rules here. Sketches from Morocco This week, I share with you some of my art from Morocco. I stayed there with friends a few weeks ago , and managed to fit in a bit of sketching time. Palais El Badii Majorelle Gardens Tanger Now it's your turn! Link up your recent artwork blog post, and be sure to visit other bloggers' posts! Please leave a comment after linking.

Song of Sorrow Kicking around pine cones It's cold, the wind Pushes raindrops against my face Beating, tiny notes of music Lamenting. Would it not be wondrous - grow wings, fly up, add notes - the soft dancing notes of a tambourine. -- Poetry Prompt From Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, using the revisited Poem Sketching prompt. Word group used: pines, tambourines, raindrops, wings

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Moubarak Ouassat, Mahmoud Darwish Arabic Poetry in Translation Marrakesh If you are a new reader on my blog, you may not know that I love Arabic, and am currently learning the language. The above picture was taken in Morocco, when I travelled there two weeks ago with two friends. It made sense for me to continue on the Arabic theme and share some Arabic poetry today. Moubarak Ouassat The first poem I am linking to is   Perplexité . The poem is available in Arabic, with a translation in French (translated by the poet), but an English one does not seem to be available. Here is a quote from the poem: Et de quoi peut rêver  Un oiseau Que peut l’arbre Après que la pluie Ait été reportée Now, here is my (rough!) translation for you non-French speakers: And of what can dream A bird What can do the tree After the rain Has been delayed It's a pretty rough translation - the first line is not great, grammatically, but I wanted

Ten Must-Sees of Morocco Koutoubia Mosque At the end of February, I travelled to Morocco with two other bloggers: Chloe and Joy - we all currently live in the same town. Morocco had been on my travel list for quite a while, so I was very excited when the plane landed and I realised I was on Moroccan soil. I will of course be writing about various aspects of our trip, but this post will concentrate on the highlights - ten, to be exact. Enjoy! I'm in Morocco! What now? 1  If, like us, you arrive late in the evening (thanks, Orly technical glitch, for the hour and a half delay!), you will need to have dinner. Luckily, eating out is nice and cheap. Since you are saving so much money, I'm sure you won't mind slipping a few morsels of food to the local cat. I'd like extra sauce on that chicken, thanks. 2 After a good night's sleep, you don't want to linger in your hotel room! Get your camera ready and go have a stroll in the gardens