Altered books and visual journaling (continued)

Scan240Maggie and Milly; Molly and May sung by Natalie Merchant and written by the American poet EE Cummings (Greek translation can be found in past posts)

Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pZX5aQGpo

Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
went down to the beach to play one day

and Maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and

Milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and Molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles, and

May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose like a you or a me
it’s always ourselves we find at the sea

Motherland by Natalie Merchant (Greek translation can be found in past posts)

Motherland cradle me
Close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me don’t go
Don’t you go

Oh, my five and dime queen
Tell me what have you seen?
The lust and the avarice, the bottomless, the cavernous greed
Is that what you see?

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