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Now Available! Eyes of a Pilgrim Poet A Book of Minimalist Poem-Images by Marie Bortolotto AVAILABLE ON AMAZON Eyes of a Pilgrim Poet is a c...

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Summer Solstice Zen Poems: even if you consume as many books as the sands of the ganges it is not as good as catching one verse of zen if yo...

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  passing clouds Chopin's sombre air drifts out a window ~ poem-image 2026 M. Bortolotto

 I'm re-posting this story: The Rainmaker A story told by Richard Wilhelm, Chinese scholar and theologian to Carl Jung: In the ancient ...

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 symphony of buddhas 
passing by poem-image  by Marie Bortolotto 2026 Art Marie Bortolotto

Marie Bortolotto Art -- spring blossoms -- mixed media on paper

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  soon demolished!  
house porch buddha
 laughs  at day’s end poem-image by Marie Bortolotto Marie Bortolotto Art

  Do not say, “It is morning,” and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.  See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name. ~...

  "Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction." ~ Rumi

She Who eyes of fish
,  translucent seeing through ourselves she grows watery succulents where thoughts once were all around,  ocean of air ...

  "I believed that I wanted to be a poet,  but deep down I just wanted to be a poem." - Jaime Gil de Biedma (1929 - 1990) Spanish ...

...how to see with the eyes of a pilgrim poet? New book in progress: Eyes of a Pilgrim Poet A Book of Minimalist Poem-Images by Marie Bortol...

Gaiea Sanskrit  

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Now Available Haiku in the Time of Winterberries New and selected Poem-Images by Marie Bortolotto AVAILABLE ON AMAZON Haiku in the Time of W...

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think,  and of everything you do, is for yourself —and there isn’t one.”  - Wei...

The Edge by Robert Creely , American Poet (1926 - 2005) Long over whatever edge, backward a false distance, here and now, sentiment — ...

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This place is a dream only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your gr...

 

  “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,  nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”  — The Lorax by Dr Seuss Marie Bortolotto

Toshi Tsuchitori plays ancient Japanese Bronze Bells

Urban Jungle by Marie Bortolotto Wild-mouthed, a dog whines in swelling octaves. A garbage truck crouches over its prey. Squabbling children...

From "A Handful of Poem-Images" by Marie Bortolotto A Lost Key We dance in a line of pigeons; and crows, 
noisily, flapping wings ...