Poem: Poetry Painting Music

Poetry Painting Music

Poetry Painting & Music:
the three Powers in Man
of conversing with Paradise
which the flood did not sweep away.

— William Blake,
A Vision of the Last Judgment (1810)

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Poetry

Dante shares bread of
angels soaring to stars
in the temple of words
as Basho's "plop" brings
us back to earth: poetry.

Dante
(1265-1321)

Basho
(1716-1784)

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Painting

Aristotle's hand
points to the many,
Plato's to the One—
Raphael's painting in
The School of Athens.

Raphael's School of Athens (1511)

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Music

Pachelbel's Canon,
Zipoli's Ascension—
music by monks lifts
our mind to calmness
and heavenly peace.

Johann Pachelbel
(1653-1706)

Domenico Zipoli
(1688-1726)

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— Peter Y. Chou
Mountain View, 3-31-2020