Tag: writing
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* travel update & some life sketches
Hello y’all! Since I am moving this week back to Oregon and am on the road as I write this, I decided I would forgo the usual Friday Influence post and share some life sketches. I will resume the usual astrologically-centered good times next week. Enjoy! *** walking in Flagstaff the folds of her…
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* pennies, memory, & the friday influence
Brown Penny – WB Yeats I whispered, ‘I am too young,’ And then, ‘I am old enough’; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. ‘Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.’ Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the…
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* the friday influence & some news
What Any Lover Learns – Archibald MacLeish Water is heavy silver over stone. Water is heavy silver over stone’s Refusal. It does not fall. It fills. It flows Every crevice, every fault of the stone, Every hollow. River does not run. River presses its heavy silver self Down into stone, and stone refuses. What runs,…
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* life sketches from the road
she kills a spider on my shirt the stain the orange of fresh rust she says sorry and in the morning sun I do not know to who *** on the track I run in circles the birds get out of my way *** Happy running! J
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Alan Berecka, dichotomy, and a change
My brother-in-law tells me often, poems once rhymed. (from The Evolving Case for De-evolution) *** The above lines are from the book Remembering the Body (Mongrel Empire Press) by poet Alan Berecka. The book, as hinted by these lines, takes on the preconceived notions of both poetry and life. Dichotomy is the name of the game. …
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* nerve, context, & the friday influence
The Red Poppy – Louise Gluck The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a…
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* “Love Dream” in Right Hand Pointing
* “Love Dream” in Right Hand PointingCheck out my poem “Love Dream” as well as the other great stuff on Right Hand Pointing. The issue is centered on, ahem, short lyric poems.Happy pointing!J
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* Masaoka Shiki & life sketches
along this darkling country road comes the lonely voice of a coachman every so often urging his horse on **** The above lyric poem is by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), one of the innovators of the modern tanka form *. Tanka is a Japanese poetic form that differs from haiku in that there is room for…
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* some Rimbaud thoughts & eating your own heart out
I is an other. – Arthur Rimbaud *** Mr. Rimbaud may be responsible for our contemporary poetry workshops. The spirit of these words can be heard around any discussion of a poem in terms of its speaker: the speaker seems real; the speaker isn’t believable; it feels as is if the speaker has issues with…
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