You can listen to him read it to you here: https://youtu.be/rYrE_DOmZbo?t=37s Then you can open a window somewhere, and listen to the side walk purr like the cats in Istanbul on a warm summer day under the Walnut tree in Gulhane park. Then you can listen to the lovers laugh gaily on the street corners. Then you … Continue reading Leonard Cohen – Two went to sleep

Poem: Mark Strand The Remains I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets. I empty my shoes and leave them beside the road. At night I turn back the clocks; I open the family album and look at myself as a boy. What good does it do? The hours have done … Continue reading Mark Strand – The Remains

Antalya: 77  °F Chicago: 65  °F San Francisco: 55 °F Orumiye: 74 °F Tehran: 86 °F Marrakesh: 94 °F Hammam Sousse: 75 °F Washington D.C: 75 °F Okinawa: 77  °F Poem:   Cemal Sureya Now Sweetheart Now sweetheart, I am thinking of you in a big city  A dim blue pen in my hand, two packs of cigarettes in my pocket  Our life is … Continue reading Cemal Sureya – Now Sweetheart

Elizabeth Bishop One Art The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing … Continue reading Elizabeth Bishop – One Art

Happy Birthday Loren Baxter! NOT ANYONE WHO SAYS By Mary Oliver Not anyone who says, “I’m going to be careful and smart in matters of love,” who says, “I’m going to choose slowly,” but only those lovers who didn’t choose at all but were, as it were, chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable … Continue reading Mary Oliver – NOT ANYONE WHO SAYS

Oh boy... Time has lost it's mind, birds are on strike,  pianos are drunk, clouds are driving, and there's carnival of leaves in the wind. Did you see my hands reading poems to the night's smooth skin? Nick Lantz How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance You and I fit together … Continue reading Nick Lantz – How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance

I was sitting in a bar a couple of nights ago.. (I'm sure you have read this from me many times - but bars are one of the places that a lot of life is being made, and I like to go take a piece of that when I can. Week nights are the most … Continue reading Rilke – Book of Hours, I 2

Rant: Oh Hi! oh boy, it has been a minute since I've last sent you something, and I'm sure your inbox is happy about that - anyway, I was just busy bouncing from one coast to another - a few thoughts I've had in the past week - here's are a few of them : … Continue reading Kahlil Gibran – On Marriage

Unite! Great Humanity Nazim Hikmet The great humanity is the deck-passenger on the ship third class on the train on foot on the causeway the great humanity. The great humanity goes to work at eight marries at twenty dies at forty the great humanity. There is enough bread for all except for the great humanity … Continue reading Nazim Hikmet – Great Humanity

Alright folks I have discovered a new poet and I like-y! His lines are fresh and I love the feeling in his poems - like you can see him through these lines..or hear him - whatever your style is! Anyway, hope all is well out there, and you don't have to spend all the writing … Continue reading Nick Lantz – How to Help a Ghost