#1 03-02-23 07:30:51

Mew

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Registered: 06-03-13

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Otilia Outside!

OMG I love this dreamy forest nymph shoot Otilia sent us! So gorgeous, I cannot get over her talent and beauty <3

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_redbird_

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Registered: 22-04-16

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Re: Otilia Outside!

Oh wow, so stunning!! I am eternally in awe of Otilia.

privignus

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Registered: 29-12-15

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Re: Otilia Outside!

Oh my, Otilia is stunning!  Nice timing since its the depths of winter in the northern hemisphere.

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Res est arduissima vincere naturam,
in aspectu virginis mentem esse puram

Hangdog90

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Re: Otilia Outside!

The earthiness here reminds of the Irish poet Séamus Heaney's poem A New Song, from his collection, Wintering Out.

A NEW SONG

I met a girl from Derrygarve

And the name, a lost potent musk,

Recalled the river’s long swerve,

A kingfisher’s blue bolt at dusk

And stepping stones like black molars

Sunk in the ford, the shifty gaze

Of the whirlpool, the Moyola

Pleasuring beneath the alder trees.

And Derrygarve, I thought, was just,

Vanished music, twilit water,

A smooth libation of the past

Poured by this chance vestal daughter.

But now our river tongues must rise

From licking deep in native haunts

To flood, with vowelling embrace,

Demesnes staked out in consonants.

And Castledawson we’ll enlist

And Upperlands, each planted bawn —

Like bleaching-greens resumed by grass —

A vocable, as rath and bullaun.

Explanatory notes:

[1] Derrygarve: a town in Co.Derry, Northern Ireland,
[2] vestal: referring to Vesta, the virgin goddes of the hearth, home, and family, [
3] haunts: frequently visited places,
[4] Demesnes: pieces of land attached to manors and retained by the owners for their own uses,
[5] Castledawson: a village in Co. (London)Derry, Northern Ireland,
[6] Upperlands: a village in Co. (London)Derry, Northern Ireland,
[7] rath: a strong circular earthen wall forming an enclosure and serving as a fort and residence for a tribal chief,
[8] bullaun: stones with bowls formed by water in them; believed to have magical/ mystical/ spiritual powers