May 28, 2018

May 7, 2018

Marie Bortolotto 2018

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red ink
bleeding
through white paper
what's more indelible
than impermanence

- Marie Bortolotto Tanka 2018

"My activities have never had anything
to do with the idea of becoming famous
or achieving success. I have always been
concerned with getting people to listen to
me. In everything I do ... my aim is to
make people listen. I want to communicate
the things that I love and in which I believe,
because I think that people can derive a
general benefit from them. What I really
want is success in a philosophical sense:
I want people to grasp something of the
ideas and hopes which I express in painting.”


- Antoni Tapies 1923 - 2012, Spanish Painter











































April 24, 2018

Marie Bortolotto 2018


our life in this world -
to what shall I compare it?
it is like a boat
rowing out at break day
leaving not a trace behind

- Somi Mansei C. 720, Japanese Buddhist priest and poet

April 19, 2018

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April 12, 2018

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when you opened
my letter
were you surprised
my heart
fell out?




the recluse
opens
the door
only for
the cat.


-Michael Windsor McClintock, American Poet 1950 -


how invisibly
it changes colour
in this world,
the flower
of the human heart

-Ono no Komachi, Japanese poet 825 - 900 AD






April 9, 2018

Marie Bortolotto 2018


Past, present, future: unattainable,
Yet clear as the moteless sky.
Late at night the stool’s cold as iron,
But the moonlit window smells of plum.

- Hakuin,  Japanese Zen Master 1686 - 1768



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April 3, 2018

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Shall I go
Shall I stay
another day

Haiku by Marie Bortolotto

March 28, 2018

Marie Bortolotto 2018


An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door.
It will never happen that we will find the truth we are looking for
just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator
discovers the truth, because of his own efforts.

- Antoni Tapies 1923-2012, Spanish Painter and Sculptor



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March 26, 2018

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February 26, 2018

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Now, which way shall I go the wind blows

Taneda Santoka Haiku 1882-1940


February 15, 2018

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December 16, 2017

Abstract Collage 2017 by Marie Bortolotto

Marie Bortolotto 2017

A Way

A way to pure joy
is in the morning sunlight's hiyo bird
chanting from the swaying top of a tall bamboo.
Glimpsed between the other swaying fronds and blue sky
beyond the yellowed blades of leaves,
he calls. I answer. He answers back.
Again and again until whether it is his sounds or mine is gone
and I am bird, sunlight, long swaying fronds.

- Edith Shiffert 1916-2017, American Poet

November 27, 2017

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November fades,
white clouds hover
over my heart.

- Haiku by Marie Bortolotto 2017



"We must dream our way."
-Pablo Neruda

October 9, 2017

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Even my shadow
Moves as I do in the moon
Listless October.

Haiku by Gerald Visenor, 1934 -
American Anishinaabe writer and scholar






October 3, 2017

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Poems by Stonehouse

I move my bookstand to read sutras by moonlight
I honor the buddhas with a vase of wild flowers.


A hundred years slip by when you are free
ten thousand cares dissolve when you are still.

Stonehouse (1271 - 1352) Chinese Zen Monk Poet

September 5, 2017

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I just discovered Benedetto Marcello 1686 - 1739 born in Venice
Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate and teacher.
These were all painted to Marcello's sonatas and psalms.