Viridiana

June 6, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is portraits of women.

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A name poem for Viridiana, a woman whose beauty, like that of most of us, is mainly unseen:

Viridiana is a vast blue ocean

In which ten thousand treasures lie unseen.

Rays glide like intimations in slow motion,

Intent on meaning more than they can mean.

Deeper still are jewels that wait for sunlight,

Iridescent on their beds of bone.

Awash in a white innocence like moonlight,

No grace can be perceived till it, unknown,

Awakens with the clarity of stone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

6/4: Aimée

6/5: Maggie

6/6: Viridiana