https://media0.giphy.com/media/igrSs5Prw7AEo/giphy.gif OCTOBER WRITE POETRY MONTH 2018! October Write Poetry Month 2018 is coming up. I participated in the 2017 one and found it very enjoyable. At first it was daunting thinking about coming up with a brand new poem every day for 31 days. It was a challenge, and I discovered I was up to…
Category: poetry
The Birth of Religion
image link Aquarium meditation percolates this and that to the surface. One thought leads to another, as thoughts are wont to do. Many times they are about the fish and the way of fish in an aquarium. The thought trail begins as such. One-sided relationships. Me, watching fish in the aquarium. I watch them and…
At Dusk
Dusk is that special time daylight relinquishes its favor. Colors slowly wash out, diluted with grayness. Details of objects soften, to murky dark shapes Dusk is the time where birds vacate their feeding turf and fly to secret resting spaces. Crickets pump up their cricketing for the second shift. Fireflies flash coded sexts. Nightcrawlers break…
Poetry — Late summer nature
image link Queen Anne’s lace fringes the edges of long green lawn ruffling with the breeze. Bees and butterflies, yellow, black, red, orange, blue, ride the gentle swells. Crickets and cicada chirp and thrum in concert with chickadee and finch. Apple, pear, and locust branches bob, leaves rustle in flickering sunlight.
Paterson (2016)
insert link Yesterday the first disc arrived from my renewed subscription to netflix discs. I found it through an Adam Driver search and chose it when I saw Jim Jarmusch directs and saw that it was about a poet who has a day job. Who could resist this trifecta? I watched Paterson last night. Already…
No Such Thing Part 2
image link Left hemisphere seized up No grease Sand in the gears Amygdala sensory alert Walking into the aftermath of the maelstrom The tinkling echoes of 10,000 shards of glass Pastel and clear confetti Embedded in the carpet Like IEDs for unwary tender feet, It will be a long time before skin Touches the floor….
Depot
image link You’ve heard fake it ’til you make it? Where you pretend you’re caring Human, empathetic, a good listener, Monogamous, drug-free, eating single portions. It’s practice, they say, try on the role, And one day you’ll get the golden trophy. It takes time, they say, things worth having Are worth working for. Time…
