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Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – True Kindness Is A Pure Divine Affinity – Henry David Thoreau

This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘True Kindness Is A Pure Divine Affinity’ by Henry David Thoreau. Although he thought of himself as a poet, Henry David Thoreau’s most defining work was his book, Walden. “True Kindness Is A Pure Divine Affinity” appeared in The Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau (Hendricks House, Inc, 1943). 

I have matched mobile art by @amandathomsonscotland, entitled ‘keys that jangle in your pocket…’ To view her Instagram feed, please go here.

If you would like to be featured in our Saturday Poetry section, please ensure you include the hashtag #theappwhisperer to any images posted to Instagram. This will mean we will be able to consider it.

To view the others we have published in this section, go here.

via Poets.org

True Kindness Is A Pure Divine Affinity by Henry David Thoreau

True kindness is a pure divine affinity,
Not founded upon human consanguinity
It is a spirit, not a blood relation,
Superior to family and station
‘Keys that jangle in your pocket…’ ©amandathomsonscotland

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Joanne Carter BA (Hons), ARPS is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator, and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.