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
Louis MacNeice – The Sunlight on the Garden / Letter’s to a young poet
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
Bukowski – Roll the Dice
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
Back From Dust and Fire
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
Charles Bukowski – you’ve got to burn
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
Gray Sky
Ninety Eight 3/10/16 This is the first time I'm sending out one my own poems, because the sky is so beautifully gray now and this poem came out of my eyes! I listened to this song the entire time I wrote this poem, and I highly recommend listening to it while reading this poem, or … Continue reading Gray Sky
The Woodpecker
The Woodpecker I read somewhere they can bang their head to trees 1000 times of gravity's force That’s 956 times more than what humans are known to survive. I am speaking of woodpeckers. A woodpecker is banging his lonely head I think of him I tell him: “Hey bang your head or not, they sky … Continue reading The Woodpecker
Poems and Stories (145 Poem) – 10.13.16 — 9.14.16
Hundred and Fifty Seven 8.16.16 Danna Faulds Just For Now Just for now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness. Just for now, lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders. Feel the earth receive you, and the infinite expanse of sky grow even wider as your awareness reaches up to … Continue reading Poems and Stories (145 Poem) – 10.13.16 — 9.14.16
Ellen Bass – If You Knew
Twelve - 10/13/15 Ellen Bass If You Knew What if you knew you’d be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm, brush your fingertips along the life line’s crease. When a man … Continue reading Ellen Bass – If You Knew
Eleven – 10/12/15
Miller Williams Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone Have compassion for everyone you meet,even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, Bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there, Where the spirit … Continue reading Eleven – 10/12/15
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