iv. Signs and Wonders - Jesus
Jesus Late 12thC Old English use hælend; saviour, from Greek Iesous, from Aramaic proper name Jeshua, Hebrew Yeshua. Four In The...
iii. Signs and Wonders - Ruins
Ruins Late 14c. ‘act of giving way and falling down,’ from Old French ruine, from Latin ruina ‘a collapse, Spanish ruina, Italian rovina....
Iambic Images 9.
©Jeff Guess 2017
‘Words in their best order.’
I was in transcendental mode when this book arrived. I was searching my mind for different meanings to my life, other tasks, other ways...
'Not marble, nor the gilded monuments . . .'
Venere Di Canova South Australia prides itself as embracing the arts early in its history and this statue, translated as Canova's Venus...
ii. Sign and Wonders - Olives
Olives c.1200, ‘olive tree,’ from Old French olive, from Latin olive, from Greek elaia. Picking Olives There are barely two colours:...
'Not marble, nor the gilded monuments . . .'
Matthew Flinders The explanation afterward for everything was the ship inside his skull not the leaky one he sailed in mistaking the new...
'Not marble, nor the gilded monuments . . .'
North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia. ©Jeff Guess 2017
i. Signs and Wonders - Autumn
Autumn From the 14th century. The Old French word autompne and from the Latin word autumnus (autumn; autumn fruits, harvest; of autumn,...
On This Day in 1938 - C. J. Dennis Australian Poet Died.
C.J. Dennis was born on September 6, 1876 in Auburn, South Australia, Australia as Clarence Michael James Dennis. He was a writer, known...
