poetry – Water for the Ages

‘Water is Water’ – Newar Poet on Cultural Earth

April 6, 2008 By waterfortheages Leave a Comment

Purna Bahadur Vaidya is a Newar Poet from Nepal with a collection of “84 poems refracted through water” in the language of Nepal Bhasa called LA LA KHA (WATER IS WATER). Wayne Amtzis (photographer and writer himself) sat down with the author to translate the poems into English. He has so graciously given permission for […]

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Water Words – Quote of the Day

December 15, 2007 By waterfortheages Leave a Comment

Water, is taught by thirst. “Water, is taught by thirst. Land — by the Oceans passed. Transport — by throe Peace — by its battles told Love, by Memorial Mold Birds, by the Snow.” -Emily Dickinson

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Water Words – Quote of the Day

December 2, 2007 By waterfortheages Leave a Comment

The Peace of Wild Things “When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron […]

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