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Michelle Mitsui
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(née Vezzoli) Musician. Writer. Hildegard & Dorothy Day Stan. Just trying to make something beautiful. Art by Daniel Mitsui. https://linktr.ee/michellemitsui
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Stack of Current Reads: Still Life No. 10
A stack of books on a brown shelf, next to a blue pyramid puzzle Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Makoons by Louise Erdrich The Dream Keeper and other poems by Langston Hughes The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
March 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The Mouse is Still Alive by Charles, duc d'Orléans

#poetry
Nouvelles ont couru en France Par mains lieux que j’estoye mort; Dont avoient peu desplaisance Aucuns qui me hayent a tort; Autres en ont eu desconfort, Qui m’ayment de loyal vouloir, Comme mes bons et vrais amis. Si fais a toutes gens savoir Qu’encore est vive la souris! Je n’ay eu ne mal ne grevance, Dieu mercy, mais suis sain et fort, Et passe temps en esperance Que paix, qui trop longuement dort, S’eveillera, et par accort A tous fera liesse avoir. Pour ce, de Dieu soient moudis Ceulx qui sont dolens de veoir Qu’encore est vive la souris! Jeunesse sur moy a puissance, Mais Vieillesse fait son effort De m’avoir en sa gouvernance; A present faillira son sort. Je suis assez loing de son port, De pleurer vueil garder mon hoir; Loué soit Dieu de Paradis, Qui m’a donné force et povoir Qu’encore est vive la souris! Nul ne porte pour moy le noir, On vent meillieur marchié drap gris; Or tiengne chascun, pour tout voir, Qu’encore est vive la souris! News has traveled in France In various places that I am dead; Some were hardly displeased by this, Those who hate me unfairly; Others have been discomforted Who are loyal and love me As good and true friends. So I am letting everyone know, The mouse is still alive! I have been neither ill nor in pain, Thank God, but hale and strong, And pass the time hoping That peace, too long asleep, Will wake and by accord Give everyone cause to rejoice. So may God curse those Who are saddened to see That the mouse is still alive! Youth still holds me, But age is making the effort To take me in charge. Her attempt will fail now. I am far away from her port And wish to save my heir from tears; Praised be God in Paradise Who has given me strength and power That the mouse is still alive! No one should wear black for me, Grey can be bought more cheaply; Everyone must know it is true That the mouse is still alive!
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Stack of current reads
A stack of books on a brown shelf The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Makoons by Louise Erdrich The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes Death Comes to Pemberly by P. D. James
March 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain, #poetry by Charles duc de Orléans
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain; Esté est plaisant et gentil, En tesmoing de May et d’Avril Qui l’accompaignent soir et main. Esté revest champs, bois et fleurs, De sa livrée de verdure Et de maintes autres couleurs, Par l’ordonnance de Nature. Mais vous, Yver, trop estes plain De nège, vent, pluye et grézil; On vous deust banir en éxil. Sans point flater, je parle plain. –Charles, duc de Orléans Winter, you are nothing but a rogue; Summer is pleasant and kind, As May and April can testify, Accompanying it each eve and morn. Summer clothes fields, woods and flowers With his verdant livery, And many other colours too, As nature commands. But you, Winter, you exude Snow, wind, rain and hail; You ought to be exiled. Winter, you are nothing but a rogue. —Charles, duc de Orléans Translated by Richard Stokes
January 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Stack of Current Reads: Still Life No. 9
A stack of books on a kitchen counter Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Makoons by Louise Erdrich Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
January 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Stack of Current Reads: Still Life No. 8
A stack of books next to a silver Art Deco Christmas tree Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
January 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A little Fibonacci poem by me
Old dreams in the back of the pantry are still good. Just scrape off the cobwebs, it's fine! -Michelle Mitsui
December 30, 2024 at 9:17 PM