Angelee Deodhar's Poetry

Tonight I'd like to focus on Angelee Deodhar's own poetry.  She has done so much for other poets with the visuals she creates and gives to them, so tonight is a good time to put the spotlight on her own work.  The first poem drew my attention to the blue spruce, a tree I tend to ignore although, more importantly, the poem is about poetry.

Brief Bio: 

Angelee Deodhar an eye surgeon by profession, is a haiku poet ,translator and artist from India. 

Her haiku/haiga have been published internationally in various books, journals and on the internet. 

An interview can be read here

http://gloxtalk.blogspot.in/2014/06/angelee-deodhar-life-in-haiku.html?m=1

all the visuals accompanying the poems are paintings by Vincent Van Gogh

from this site www.intofineart.com 

I've posted Dorothy Ashby's music before, but I'd like to include some songs where she plays the koto, a Japanese instrument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl9g10DSQGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3czbF283X24

Here is Ms. Ashby's version of "Stranger in Paradise," where she plays the harp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLH4KYCko4

Finally, be sure to vote in the Mourning and Memory contest.  Your vote may make the difference: http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/06/vote-in-mourning-and-memory.html