by Selima Gurtler | Apr 16, 2019 | Info, The Arts & Pure Being
I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO GIVE you this poem for over a year. Last week I was watching a BBC documentary about Surrealist painters, and Robert Desnos was mentioned in passing. The time had come. I will keep this article short because the poetry must take centre stage....
by Selima Gurtler | Feb 25, 2019 | Cross-Cultural Perception, News, The Arts & Pure Being
NO, I DIDN’T WATCH THE OSCARS. It’s somehow lost its pizzazz for me. I think it’s the social media, celebrity bash ‘thing’ that it has become today as opposed to the fabulous, aloof, diva glamour that it used to be that leaves me – cool. I did...
by Selima Gurtler | Feb 1, 2019 | Deep spiritual study, Historical Interest, The Arts & Pure Being
THE EERIE SILENCE OF BLANKET VIRGIN SNOW has a mystical clarion call to every man alive. Do you remember as a child how it would stun you into awe when you looked out of your bedroom window in the early morning? That deep sense of childhood wonderment is still with...
by Selima Gurtler | Jan 23, 2019 | The Arts & Pure Being
I see You on the distant horizon at that line between sea and sky Just can I see You, but only just. Is it You? Above the smoke which separates land and Lord Somewhere You are there. You are, I know. I will soon have to go, and here I ask Your time The burning,...
by Selima Gurtler | Jan 18, 2019 | Historical Interest, The Arts & Pure Being
CLAUDE MONET, THE GREAT FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST painter (1840-1926), once wrote in 1908* to Gustave Geffroy, the art critic and journalist, that he had become completely obsessed with the landscapes of water and reflections in his garden at Giverny 75 kms outside Paris,...
by Selima Gurtler | Jun 26, 2018 | Living as Pure Being, The Arts & Pure Being
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking. Sea Fever ...
