#Donald Hall

[soracities]

Donald Hall, on solitude and the death of his wife, Jane Kenyon, pub. The New Yorker (2016) [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #typography #essays and articles #id included #donald hall #the aftermath of love #d #m #x

[thesunpersists]

The Third Thing, Chapter 4

"We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing."

Snapshots of Katniss and Peeta's post-war life. Each chapter is inspired by and loosely based on a quote from "The Third Thing" by Donald Hall.

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Chapter 4: “For many couples, children are a third thing.”

Read on ao3!

#everlark #everlark fanfiction #post mockingjay #pre-epilogue #growing back together #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #katniss and peeta #katniss x peeta #katniss everdeen and peeta mellark #katniss everdeen x peeta mellark #the hunger games #the hunger games fanfiction #thg #thg fanfiction #thg fandom #thg series #fanfiction #donald hall #the third thing

[vedantvarma]

What we did: love. We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.

Beautiful words that tell a beautiful story.

The concept of ‘the third thing’ resonated with me deeply.

So much of love is rooted in the everyday. Little things that will not make it into a diary or journal. And yet, when it matters the most, when you seek to remember a loved one, it is to the routine that we shine a spotlight on; of stories and things shared, discussed, agreed or disagreed upon. Some seminal life events, but mostly the mundane.

#life #culture #poetry #relationships #love #donald hall #jane kenyon

[dc-tournaments]

Why do they deserve to win?

Iris West

Dove

#dc #mental stability tournament #iris west #donald hall

[dk-thrive]

as if everything heavy and cold vanished at once... / weightless as clouds in the great day’s windy April.

Donald Hall, from “Great Day in the Cows’ House” in “Great Day in the Cows' House” (Published by Ives Street Press, Mt. Carmel, CT, 1984)

#winter #spring #cold #winds #cold wind #wind #april #clouds #Donald Hall

[rachelspoetrycorner]

Afternoon at MacDowell (1993) by Jane Kenyon Summer Kitchen (1999) by Donald Hall

In Episode 263, Rachel shares one of the greatest poet romances of all time!

Rachel: I wanted to talk about Jane Kenya for a minute. So she is 20 years younger than him. Um, and that is significant because it makes kind of what happened in their relationship kind of all the more tragic. So in 1989, Donald Hall was diagnosed with colon cancer, and even though his chances of survival were really slim, he ended up going into remission. Five years later, Jane Kenyon was diagnosed with leukemia and died only 15 months later at age 47.

In those last months of her life, they were putting together an anthology of her work. And at the time she was kind of commenting on his health issues. So I wanted to read one of her poems about his illness, and then read his poem kind of about her. Because I think like, you appreciate his more if you have read hers.

[His poem] is lovely in the context of her poem, particularly because they both used the word "miracle", and her miracle is kind of in the context of poetry and art and this kind of high concept, you know, of what is spectacular. And then his is just kind of like, we had an incredible life, and that was a miracle, too.

This segment is such a gem. When Rachel pointed out the miracle link, I was blown away because I hadn't even noticed. Adding my two cents to the cause -and just like Rachel, I don't pretend or assume this is an actual connection meant by Hall- I like to think Donald was also echoing the use of the chair, and the use of light in his poem.

If you’d like to hear more about this poet romance, you can do so here: BoPo, from 8:01 - 17:56

#poetry #rachel mcelroy #griffin mcelroy #poem #Jane Kenyon #Donald Hall #poet #Afternoon at MacDowell #Summer Kitchen #writing #words #literature #love poem #love #romance #grief #miracle #marriage #death #illness #romantic poetry #romantic #tragic love #couple #summer #hope #wonderful! #wonderful! podcast #rachel’s poetry corner #episode 263

[shy-girl04]

White Apples

when my father had been dead a week

I woke

with his voice in my ear

                                           I sat up in bed

and held my breath

and stared at the pale closed door

white apples and the taste of stone

if he called again

I would put on my coat and galoshes

By Donald Hall

#poetry #words #donald hall #white apples #woman #grief #black and white

[lunchboxpoems]

WEEDS AND PEONIES

Your peonies burst out, white as snow squalls, with red flecks at their shaggy centers in your border of prodigies by the porch. I carry one magnanimous blossom indoors and float it in a glass bowl, as you used to do.

Ordinary pleasures, contentment recollected, blow like snow into the abandoned garden, overcoming the daisies. Your blue coat vanishes down Pond Road into imagined snowflakes with Gus at your side, his great tail swinging,

but you will not reappear, tired and satisfied, and grief’s repeated particles suffuse the air like the dog yipping through the entire night, or the cat stretching awake, then curling as if to dream of her mother’s milky nipples.

A raccoon dislodged a geranium from its pot. Flowers, roots, and dirt lay upended in the back garden where lilies begin their daily excursions above stone walls in the season of old roses. I pace beside weeds

and snowy peonies, staring at Mount Kearsarge where you climbed wearing purple hiking boots. “Hurry back. Be careful, climbing down.” Your peonies lean their vast heads westward as if they might topple. Some topple.

DONALD HALL

#donald hall #poem #poetry #poetry month #spring poem #for jane kenyon #peonies

[apoemaday]

Gold

by Donald Hall

Pale gold of the walls, gold of the centers of daisies, yellow roses pressing from a clear bowl. All day we lay on the bed, my hand stroking the deep gold of your thighs and your back. We slept and woke entering the golden room together, lay down in it breathing quickly, then slowly again, caressing and dozing, your hand sleepily touching my hair now.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years, shining and whole.

#poetry #donald hall #gold

[davidhudson]

Donald Hall, September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018.

#donald hall #poetry #literature #baseball

[starssssss]

“Renaissance artists utilized doves primarily in religious artwork to depict the third element of the trinity, the Holy Spirit.”

#don hall #dawn granger #donald hall #dove #hawk and dove #dc #DC comics #art #fanart #artists on tumblr

[thesunpersists]

The Third Thing, Chapter 2

"We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing."

Snapshots of Katniss and Peeta's post-war life. Each chapter is inspired by and loosely based on a quote from "The Third Thing" by Donald Hall.

—

Chapter 2: “Meantime we lived in the house of poetry, which was also the house of love and grief, the house of solitude and art.”

Read on ao3!

#everlark #everlark fanfiction #post mockingjay #pre-epilogue #growing back together #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #katniss and peeta #katniss x peeta #katniss everdeen and peeta mellark #katniss everdeen x peeta mellark #the hunger games #the hunger games fanfiction #thg #thg fanfiction #thg fandom #thg series #fanfiction #donald hall #the third thing

[lonestarfangirl2014]

I love you so much titans west!

(Fair warning I'm using photos from all over the comic timelines)

All of them can be considered longtime members of the titans organization.

Golden eagle/Charley Parker/Ch'al Andar

Half thanagarian half earthling superhero. Son of thanagarian fel andar(who himself is half n half) and human Sharon parker.

It's been a while since I read anything with him in it so can't say for sure who he's been romantically linked with.

Lilith clay/lilith Jupiter known as the heroine omen long time member of the titans organization.

a powerful telepath with the power of limited foresight as well as other abilities.

Been romantically linked to both gnarrk and garth/tempest

Garfield logan aka Beast boy/changeling

Much like lilith, gar is also a Long time member of the titans organization

a green-skinned superhero who has the power to transform into any animal. Originally a member of the Doom Patrol, he joined the Teen Titans after the death of the other Patrollers.

Romantically linked to notable titans terra/tara Markov in the main comic continuity and raven/rachel roth in alternative universes/continuities

Mary Elizabeth kane aka bat-girl/flamebird/hawkfire(we don't talk about hawkfire)

Athletic rich heiress. Professional tennis player. Flamebird to dicks Nightwing. First batgirl

Younger Biological 1st cousin of Bruce wayne and Kate kane. I love her so much. Much like lilith and Garfield bette is also a long time member of the titans organization.

Romantically had a crush on Nightwing since they were kids(before bette and bruce were said to be cousins) . It's also been heavily implied that she had a adult fling with hank hall during their time on titans west.

Hawk and dove

Twin brothers hank(red) and Don hall(blue)

Hawk and Dove are empowered by the mystical Lords of Chaos and Order.

Hanks a long time titans member same with Don but he died at one point.

Hanks been romantically linked to both bette kane and dawn granger/dove II(titans tv show)

Bumblebee and herald/vox/hornblower/guardian

Karen beecher-duncan and Malcom Duncan

I love them omg I love them.

In order to help make Herald look good in front of the team, Beecher secretly made herself a bumblebee-themed super-suit and attacked the Teen Titans. She escaped without this ruse being revealed.

When she later explained to Mal and the Titans what she had done, they were impressed enough to offer her membership, which she accepted.

Karen is a research engineer at star labs making non lethal weaponry and Malcom whose a accomplished jazz musician owns a nightclub called Gabriel horns. obviously married to one another. They have a family together to.

Gnarrk aka ape-boy/cave boy

Gnarrk was a 17-year-old caveman whom Teen Titans Mal Duncan and Kid Flash(wally) encountered on a trip to the Stone Age.they Accidentally brought gnarrk back. The titans helped him adapt to the modern age. Romantically link to lilith.

Duela dent

Aka harlequin(not to be confused with harley quinn)/jokers daughter

Another long time member of the titans organization

It was always an enigma who she was and where she came from, even to herself. She eventually discovered she was a reality-hopping inhabitant of Earth-3, and was not the Joker's daughter, but the daughter of the Jokester's(think heroic alternate joker from another universe) and Three-Face(female heroic alternate two face named Evelyn dent) as well as being the step daughter of earth 3s heroic riddler.

Romantically linked to a talon(think earth 3 evil version of the robins) Who wasn't actually named outside of his code name (but could be alt tim drake) who also crossed over into new earth as a titans member. So Romeo and juliet style romance.

#dc comics #lilith clay #bat-girl #batgirl #bette kane #mary Elizabeth kane #hawk and dove #hank hall #donald hall #golden eagle #charley parker #Ch'al Andar #gnarrk #bumblebee #karen beecher #Malcom Duncan #herald #beast boy #garfield logan #flamebird #omen #titans west #new earth #earth-one #jokers daughter #duela dent #harlequin #teen titans

[dc-tournaments]

#dc #mental stability tournament #lucius fox #donald hall

[dk-thrive]

Here, among the thirty thousand days of a long life, a single day stands still

Here, among the thirty thousand days of a long life, a single day stands still: The sun shines, it is raining; we sleep we make love, we plant a tree, we walk up and down eating lunch: The day waits at the center when I reached out to touch the face in the mirror, and never touched glass, touched neither cheekbone nor eyelid, touched galaxies instead and the void they hung on. The one day extended from that moment, unrolling continuous as the broad moon on water, or as motions of rain that journey a million times through air to water.

— Donald Hall, “To Build a House” in The Iowa Review 18(1), 27–39. doi, 1988. (via The Hammock Papers)

#Donald Hall #gratitude #live #life #ordinary #love #time

[withnailrules]

“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do.”

— sculptor Henry Moore to poet Donald Hall

#henry moore #donald hall