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Triomphant

"Triomphant"




Mea Culpa


Latin two words
a wrong turn
move forwards


Lux Vitae


Latin two words
shower me with Your Love
Your Light I move towards


Amor Vincit Omnia


Roman Poet Virgil
Message to the young girl
Secret Communiqué Love is plural


Jeanne d’Arc
Triomphant


(Lovejoy-Burton/Feb 2018)



"On the darkest days, when I feel inadequate, unloved and unworthy, I remember whose daughter I am and I straighten my crown". 
(GVLM.K.M.L.)


“Rome is not outside me, but inside me. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.”
Amedeo Modigliani

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Joe Dimino Date: 2/19/2018 6:18:00 AM Amazing how far we have come since, Joan, in the way of technology, but how little we have traveled as a society, regarding our lack of ability to express differences with such high dignity and grace. Great presentation! Thank you. Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/19/2018 5:24:00 PM Thank you Joe.

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/17/2018 11:04:00 PM "Cauchon's court did everything possible to get Joan to stumble and provide damning evidence against herself but she proved to be very capable of defending herself. One of her most famous replies in her trial came when she was asked whether or not she thought she was in a State of Grace. This was supposed to be a trick question as an affirmation would presume to know the "mind" of God while a denial would mean she felt herself already damned. Joan famously responded: "If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest creature in the world if I knew I were not in His grace" Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/18/2018 4:25:00 AM I'm just reading above words again. If they are truly the words of that 19 year old girl, she was incredibly intelligent and I believe, revolutionary in state of mind, but I do not think, nor believe, she was mad. What Jeanne really needed was someone of power and authority (with the balls and belief in ...as it would have been in those days - 'himself', not 'herself', to BELIEVE IN HER (Jeanne) and lobby for her. People she believed in and fought for, stood by - betrayed her on a massive scale (in my mind, they were cowards). Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/17/2018 11:12:00 PM "Finally Cauchon had Joan taken to the cemetery at St. Ouen on May 24th where she was threatened with burning if she did not "abjure" which meant to admit guilt to all she was accused of and submit to Cauchon's court. After the long months of the trial Joan was undoubtedly weary and combined with her great fear of being burned she agreed to abjure and signed a paper put in front of her. She had been promised that if she agreed to abjure her trial would be over and she would be taken to a Church prison to be guarded by women. Cauchon immediately reversed this promise and had Joan taken back to her prison cell where she was again guarded by coarse English soldiers." Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/17/2018 11:11:00 PM "As part of Joan's abjuration she had agreed to wear a dress instead of her soldiers clothes which Cauchon's court had made a big issue about lacking any real evidence that Joan was a heretic. Joan had always contended that wearing men's clothing was her only way to protect her chastity when she was around soldiers such as the men who guarded her in prison."

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/17/2018 10:50:00 PM "EXECUTION" http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/joanofarc/section10/ Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/17/2018 10:58:00 PM http://www.saintjoanofarc.com/ Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/17/2018 10:54:00 PM http://www.stjoan-center.com/topics/Death_by_Heat_Stroke.html

James Swartz Date: 2/16/2018 9:18:00 PM You teach and offer insight into topics you care and it shows in the way you write about them. Nice short historical lessons written by wordmaster. My daughter is a huge fan of Joan as well. Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/16/2018 11:04:00 PM Joan of Arc - Rightful Ownership of The Ring "The Guardian", Article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/26/joan-of-arc-ring-stays-in-france-after-appeal-to-queen Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/16/2018 11:03:00 PM http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/12200145/Come-and-get-it-French-refuse-to-hand-Joan-of-Arcs-ring-back-to-Britain.html Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/16/2018 11:00:00 PM Thank you James. Very clever daughter you have there...I was reading about a ring they believe that is Joan of Arc's, the only thing that survived after they burned her twice. I will find the article for your daughter.

Frederic Parker Date: 2/15/2018 4:30:00 PM A gold star my friend...amo amas amat...my 7th grade latin is a little rusty, ok...very rusty...now more of the poets here will be exposed to your work...that is a positive...as for Joan ..no one in the written history did as much with less than did she...but she frightened the powers of her times so they tortured and burned her for no other reason but fear... Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/15/2018 5:04:00 PM I have a thing for Joan. She was incredibly betrayed and let down, but she didn't back down, she stood firm by what she believed in, her TRUTH and her God. Very courageous woman. As for Virgil interesting man, fabulous maze of a mind. Modigliani sums up well the whole short story here in my words, which may or may not be about Joan of Arc and Virgil. At the time of her death, Joan of Arc was 19 years of age, she had led armies of men.

Freddie Robinson Jr. Date: 2/15/2018 2:44:00 PM A very informative poem, Leanne. Your knowledge well runs deep, dear. Ty for sharing such diverse tendrils of wisdom. Wonderful linguistic poetry. Love and joy always. Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/15/2018 5:05:00 PM Indeed, I fear it does not - one is always learning lessons in life, Mr Robinson Jr.

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/15/2018 7:47:00 AM THE TRIAL. "Several members of the tribunal later testified that important portions of the transcript were falsified by being altered in her disfavor." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc Login to Reply

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/15/2018 6:38:00 AM In Book 6, Aeneas, with the guidance of the Cumaean Sibyl, descends into the underworld through an opening at Cumae. They pass by crowds of the dead by the banks of the river Acheron and are ferried across by Charon before passing by Cerberus. Then Aeneas is shown the fates of the wicked in Tartarus and is warned by the Sibyl to bow to the justice of the gods. He is then brought to green fields of Elysium. There he speaks with the spirit of his father and is offered a prophetic vision of the destiny of Rome. Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/15/2018 5:21:00 PM LUX VITAE for my father. Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/15/2018 6:38:00 AM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid

Silent One Date: 2/15/2018 6:33:00 AM Oooh is that a gold star I see? Any help with images or youtube videos just ask.. The only latin I know is Nil Satis Nisi Optimum! Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/15/2018 6:48:00 AM Veritas. Verba volant, (littera) scripta manet. Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 2/15/2018 6:39:00 AM Email/message.