Hundred and Sixty Six 9.20.16 For those of you who sing and wants to sing! Nâzım Hikmet Thinking of you Thinking of you is pretty, hopeful, It is like listening to the most beautiful song From the most beautiful voice on earth... But hope is not enough for me any more, I don't want to … Continue reading Nâzım Hikmet – Thinking of you

Hundred and Sixty Five 9.19.16 Rainy Monday in D.C. -- You know how this goes. The sun rises and sets, so does the moon. Happening.  The wave comes in, sits on the beach's lap and leaves as quick as it came. Happening. The clouds appear and disappear high in the sky. Sometimes blue, sometimes gray, Sometime full of tears if … Continue reading Rilke – Love Song

Hundred and Sixty Four 9.15.16 One day you are flame, one day you are the moth but you are always the divine love. One day you read Barks, One day you read Rumi, but you are always divine poetry. Also, sufi jokes are pretty good... kind of like Zen Kōans.. and man I do love … Continue reading Rumi -Like Light over This Plain

Hundred and Sixty Three 9.14.16 Don't let this poem's format deter you from diving in Bark's beautiful mind. If you want you can listen to him read it for you! And this the first time you are seeing this lil site of mine! I am still learning my way around this place! Coleman Barks The … Continue reading Coleman Barks – The Final Final

Hundred and Sixty Two 9.13.16 Eyes eyes e yes e yes e ye s e y e s...playful, ablaze... wow... eyes eyes yes yes yes eyes eyes eyes!! I had some dream about some eyes last night and waking up to it was sooooo weird, it was just like this. There's sooo much I want … Continue reading Rumi – Like This

Hundred and Sixty two 9.10.16 - Happy Birthday Mary Oliver Oh my dearest Mary Oliver, Thank you. Mary Oliver Evidence No. 3 I ask you again: if you have not been enchanted by this adventure--your life--what would do for you? And, where are you, with your ears bagged down as if with packets of sand? … Continue reading Mary Oliver – Evidence No. 3

Hundred And Sixty One 9.9.16 I) A poem as promised : For those of you I have had the joy and privilege to sit with and for those of you who I hope to sit with someday - We have sat on a couch in the desert, on a swing under the rain, in a … Continue reading Louis MacNeice – The Sunlight on the Garden / Letter’s to a young poet

Hundred and Sixty 9.8.16 Highlight of the day : Read a poem that I wrote which talks about dying slowly in the office and a woodpecker that's trying to free himself from my rib cage at our company lunch meeting to our president... and she loved it! This is not that poem..but I do have … Continue reading Bukowski – Roll the Dice

Hundred and Fifty Nine 9.6.16 (Back From Dust and Fire) I know you know that I have written about burning man and I will talk about it, but maybe just not today. First day back at work, first day looking at the laptop screen, and my mind, body, my eyes, and finger tips are screaming … Continue reading Back From Dust and Fire

Hundred and Fifty Eight 8.23.16 For those of you who will be making trip to the desert - Come see me read poetry and slam on table and drink whiskey at my Poetry Dive Bar, Burning Man! -- For those of you who won't be there..Well, life ain't easy and we all gotta burn first … Continue reading Charles Bukowski – you’ve got to burn