One Hundred and Ninety Five 11.25.16 oh little I am, and how great existence is - thanks for the raw love, Hank! Bukowski in other words the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now here good people with good eyes are … Continue reading Bukowski – in other words

One Hundred and Ninety Four 11.21.16 Rilke Lament How far from us everything is, and long gone. I think the star whose light reaches me now has been dead for thousands of years. I think I heard in the boat that went by something anxious being said. In a house, a clock has struck the … Continue reading Rilke – Lament

One Hundred and Ninety Three 11.17.16 Pablo Neruda Your Feet When I cannot look at your face I look at your feet. Your feet of arched bone, your hard little feet. I know that they support you, and that your sweet weight rises upon them. Your waist and your breasts, the doubled purple of your … Continue reading Pablo Neruda – Your Feet

One Hundred and Ninety Two 11.12.16 William Stafford Assurance You will never be alone, you hear so deep a sound when autumn comes. Yellow pulls across the hills and thrums, or the silence after lightening before it says its names- and then the clouds' wide-mouthed apologies. You were aimed from birth: you will never be … Continue reading William Stafford – Assurance

One Hundred and Ninety One 11.11.16 Goodbye wonderful Leonard Cohen - you were there for me when nothing was there, you were there for me when everything was there. my heart aches, it has been difficult past few days and now you are gone and I am angry and sad selfishly - ah farewell field … Continue reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti The World Is A -Beautiful Place [Adieu L.Cohen]

One Hundred and Eighty Nine 11.9.16 (Post Election Trauma) America and Friends - I am sorry for what happened to us last night. Scroll down for the poems. what a day - what a sorrow. A day full of tears, despair, sad faces, and awful feeling of hungover caused by excessive drinking to stop the … Continue reading Miller Williams + Bukowski

One Hundred and Eighty Eight 11.8.16 Words: When it comes to the clouds, sometimes, all you can do is look at them and feel an immense love for them from a distance even if you won't be able to touch them - maybe ever - You still would love a lazy cloud hanging in the … Continue reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti – [Heaven was only half as far that night]

One Hundred and Eighty Seven 11.7.16 Tomorrow is not that far! Americans, family, home away from home! You can do this!! Go Blue - Go Hillary - Go Vote! - let's end this Trump bullshit and elect Hillary to this , let's not let more hate and ignorance find it's way to our world!! Hang … Continue reading Allen Ginsberg – Footnote to Howl

One Hundred and Eighty Six 11.3.16 Naomi Shihab Nye Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate … Continue reading Naomi Shihab Nye – Kindness

One Hundred and Eighty Five 11.1.16 Sylvia Plath You're Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish. A common-sense Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode. Wrapped up in yourself like a spool, Trawling your dark as owls do. Mute as a turnip from the Fourth Of July to All … Continue reading Sylvia Plath – You’re