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Victor Hugo

Synergy


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syn·er·gy
noun
“The interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.”
The “other agents” in this case are your’s truly and two remarkably knowledgeable people: Laurel Hicks who is a walking encyclopedia for poetry and Paul Merchant who is a poet and translator of Greek poetry.
I have sent photographs and montages to Laurel, who then picked a fitting poem for each day; she had spontaneously posted a poem for one of my images of birds on FB which gave me the idea. Paul, on the other hand, gave me a volume of poetry by Constantine Cavafy that he recently translated, and I will present one poem here with montages that I created for it, by the end of the week. So stay tuned – this week will be a treat thanks to these two.
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Be like the bird, who
Halting in his flight
On limb too slight
Feels it give way beneath him,
Yet sings
Knowing he hath wings.
—Victor Hugo