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5/29/2020 8:57:02 AM

An Ode to Peonies

Rainsong Peonies
Rainsong Peonies

 

In this ode to peonies, Caroline recites one of her favourite poems as she harvests flowers from her Tuscan garden and creates her latest peony still life painting.

 

Poem

"Peonies"

by Mary Oliver *

©1992 Mary Oliver

 

Music

"Train"

by Sergey Cheremisinov **

www.s-cheremisinov.com

©Sergey Cheremisinov   CC BY 4.0

 

Filmmaker

John Charles Jopson

Dirty Poet Films, LLC

 

Painting and poem reading by 

Caroline Zimmermann

 

"Rainsong Peonies"  30x40  Oil on Canvas

 

 

* Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for her poems. In 2007 The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet."

 

* *Sergey Cheremisinov is a prolific Russian composer known for his evocative piano-based instrumental compositions.

 

 

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