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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Aug 27

“I’m sorry for smudging the air with my song”

-Leonard Cohen

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 3

In the misty silvered night
My eyes fall to the ground
I can feel it come alive
In the seeds pushing out through the soil
New life weaves its way out through the coil
Nothing’s going to hold this movement down

-Peter Gabriel

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 9

So little time
Try to understand that

I'm Tryin' to make a move just to stay in the game,
I'm Tryin' to stay awake and remember my name,

but
Everybody's changing and I don't feel the same

-Keane

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 10

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

-Henry David Thoreau

#Nature #poetry #writingcommunity #walden
#jounal

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 13

If it be your will
That I speak no more
And my voice be still
As it was before
I will speak no more
I shall abide until
I am spoken for
If it be your will

Leonard Cohen

#lyrics #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 12

American artist
Eyvind Earle
Title Unknown
Pastures in Early Spring
Unknown year

#artist #painting #illustration #graphicstyle #painting #arthistory
#art #oil #snow #shadows #disney
#trees #cows

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 17

I set out one night
When the tide was low
There were signs in the sky
But I did not know
I'd be caught in the grip
Of the undertow
Ditched on a beach
Where the sea hates to go
With a child in my arms
And a chill in my soul
And my heart the shape
Of a begging bowl

Leonard Cohen

#lyrics #poetry

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 23

Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song

-Leonard Cohen

#lyrics #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 18

Howard Pyle
Marooned
1909

This painting shows that it is nearly impossible to be a Wyeth (pick which one) fan and not be a Pyle fan.

#artist #painting #illustration #painting #arthistory
#art #oil

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 30

N.C. Wyeth
The Drowning
Oil on canvas
1936

I love discovering Wyeth paintings and drawings I’ve never seen before.

This one surprised me.
It’s all there, yet I would not have said “That is obviously N.C!”

Via- Brandywine River Museum

#Art #artist #Arthistory #artist #painting
#expressionism

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Feb 13

Howard Pyle
The Mermaid
1910
Illustration/Romanticism

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Feb 2

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (1911 –1975)
Unknown Title

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Dec 31

Hello BlueSky!

I post a wide assortment of things here. Some my own and others the works of artist, writers, musicians of all stripes that I love

All photos by me

I’m Henry J Fate, a Dealer in Everything

#poets #artist #painter #musicians
#philosophers #sculptors #photographers #writers

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Feb 4

On February 2, 1959, Buddy Holly performed his last show. At 1:00 a.m. the next morning, his plane tragically crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa. The last known photo shows him with Waylon Jennings, 1.5 hours before the crash.

His final song: Chuck Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man."

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Dec 13

Romain (Erte) De Tirtoff
Chinese Legend
Cold-painted and gilt bronze
Casting Circa 1988

#Art #artist #Arthistory #sculpture
#bronze #Sculpture #fashion
#graphicarts #costume

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 8

In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail

No fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my face, I've changed my name
But no one wants you when you lose

-Peter Gabriel

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Mar 1

"With Annie gone,
whose eyes to compare
with the morning sun?
Not that I did,
but I could have."

-Leonard Cohen

#poem #poetry #writingcommunity

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Dec 10

N. C. Wyeth
The Lobsterman
(The Doryman), 1944

Egg tempera on wood

Not your typical or well known Wyeth. You can see everything that made his illustration work great, but this is something else. A foot in the door of fine art.

#art #artist #painter #illustrator #arthistory #fineart

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Dec 11

“Would not have been here baby, if it hadn't been for you
Way down here, way you wanna do”

Gritty and Raw.
The life stuff of the heart.
Pumping.

R.L. Burnside is the quintessential Mississippi hill country blues artist.

#musicsky #blues #guitar #folk #musiciansky

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R.L. Burnside: See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978)

YouTube video by Alan Lomax Archive

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Feb 10

I am standing up at the water's edge
In my dream
I cannot make a single sound
As you scream
It can't be that cold
The ground is still warm to touch
Hey, we touch
This place is so quiet, sensing that storm

-Peter Gabriel

#lyrics #poem #poetry #writingcommunity #musicsky #musiciansky #music

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Feb 6

I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark,
Where it all goes on;
By the rivers dark
In Babylon.

-Leonard Cohen

#lyrics #poem #poetry #writingcommunity #photography
#abstract #photoart

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Mar 12

“Villon - The Singer Fate Fashioned to Her Liking”

Howard Pyle
Unknown year
Illustration
Romanticism

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Dec 31

“Gonna see the river man
Gonna tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time

If he tells me all he knows
'Bout the way his river flows
And all night shows
In summertime”

-Nick Drake

#lyrics #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

Ron James Hampton @rjhamptonjr.bsky.social · Dec 31

Lesser Known Originals & Covers

Nick Drake had a gem on his ‘69 debut. It was a complex tapestry of music & rhyme, an underground masterpiece, The Riverman

It was covered by Boy George and Nigel Kennedy in 2010, a surprising sonic feast
#musicsky #musiciansky #music

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BOY GEORGE & NIGEL KENNEDY QUINTET - River Man (2010) - Jazz - 320 kbps

YouTube video by 4444nomad

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Dec 17

Dawn's quiet breath clings to the earth, unveiling a realm between dreams and waking. The mist stirs the soul, gently rousing it from slumber.

-Henry J Fate

#micropoetry #lyrics #poetry #writingcommunity #photography
#abstract #impressionism #photoart
#visualpoetry #journal #lyrics

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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · Jan 1

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

-Henry David Thoreau

#lyrics #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

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