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“The Best Season?” a small talkin’ one-minute love poem
What is YOUR favorite season -- winter, spring, summer or fall? Here's a nice and easy one-minute short poem about a great small talk topic that everyone cares about, the seasons and the weather. Illustrated with black and white photo of a spring daffodil flower for a contemporary minimalist aesthetic. The short rhyming poem, "The Best Season?", is one of a collection of 36 poems in the poetry book, HOLD ME TIGHT by NY/Outer Lands Archipelago poet, blogger and painter NG Swett. The book is available in hard cover and ebook internationally. Nan is experimenting with short mobile videos like this for sharing poems, blog posts and new paintings online.
Three slides of a short 1-minute mobile video for the poem “The Best Season?” by NG Swett, Outer Lands Archipelago / NY poet
This is the 1:09sec video for posting “The Best Season?” love poem from HOLD ME TIGHT poetry book.
The video and the individual slides (pngs) are for posting on social media platforms with links back here to this website at 4seasonshelf.com.
Audio is added on each platform to avoid copyright issues.
What is YOUR favorite season
-- winter, spring, summer or fall?
Here's a nice and easy one-minute short poem about a great small talk topic. Everyone cares about the seasons and the weather!
Small talk is a lost art, isn’t it? People are so shy and wary of talking to strangers. When you’re at the front desk, as I’ve been from time to time over the years, small talk is perfect for engaging with people. It’s friendly but not nosy.
People feel nostalgic for the seasons and what special things each season brings to life. Changes, cycles and transitions are in our human nature.
About this poem
The short rhyming poem, "The Best Season?", is one from my new collection of 36 poems, HOLD ME TIGHT (link to buy internationally). The book is available in hard cover and ebook formats.
Minimalist aesthetic photo illustration
The poem is Illustrated here and in the book with a black and white photo of a flowering spring daffodil for a contemporary minimalist aesthetic.
In the book, each of the 36 poems shares a two-page spread with its own minimalist black and white photo collage illustration.
I’m experimenting with short mobile videos like the one above for sharing poems, blog posts and new paintings online.
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~ Nan
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What's on the shelf today?
On the shelf today are early indoor planting stuff…
seed packets
pen & ink sketches of seed packets
herbs in faux terracotta window planter (indoors)
clean plastic containers for planting seeds
It's springtime, and the garden adventure begins again here in the Outer Lands Archipelago.
We still have a while until we can plant outdoors, except for certain crops that like colder temps, such as leafy greens, peas, etc., which don’t mind a little frost.
Farmstand Update: What’s In Season
It’s the end of March, and most local farmstands have only one thing as of yet: firewood (see below). But before you know it, you'll see early crops start to come in like rhubarb, asparagus, horseradish and many more bittersweet lovelies. Local chickens are already laying eggs. And fresh daffodils!
Local farm stand with firewood in early spring empty shelves.