Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver • Boy oh boy.. I've got a lot to say about a short poem..ah to be a dumb man.. Woke up somewhat tender this morning, ———————- as if I … Continue reading Mary Oliver – Box Full Of Darkness
Tender Morning
Woke up somewhat tender this morning, ---------------------- as if I was born into a gentle breeze, on the bed of clouds, ----------------- up the river in a small village, where houses have no roof, -------------no walls, -----------------no doors. and people only pray when --------------------------------------- the trees sing, and flies ask the cows -------------------------"May I sit … Continue reading Tender Morning
Maya Angelou – Equality – International Women’s Day.
"Equality, and I will be free. " - Maya Angelou - Happy International Women's Day. For All the amazing women here on this list! For all the amazing the women that I have known in my life, for all the women that I don't know. For my mother, sister, aunt, grandmas, for my friends, and … Continue reading Maya Angelou – Equality – International Women’s Day.
They Know
For Will Rogers You seek, it's gone. You wait, it never comes. Let go, and you become. Peyman 3.6.17 Washington, D.C.
The Samurai Cat
The Samurai Cat For Jean-Luc Picard, The Cat. The other day some lilies almost killed my cat, and rilke sent me a note : "Beauty is the beginning of the terror" how timely I thought. All that as one would expect, shook me. I was worried about my cat dying and I was confronted … Continue reading The Samurai Cat
Ellen Bass – Relax
Relax Bad things are going to happen. Your tomatoes will grow a fungus and your cat will get run over. Someone will leave the bag with the ice cream melting in the car and throw your blue cashmere sweater in the drier. Your husband will sleep with a girl your daughter’s age, her breasts spilling … Continue reading Ellen Bass – Relax
Rumi – The New Rule
What a poem! damn! It's been a year since I have left Chicago! a whole year! From one home to another to another to another - I have died so many times, and hope to die many mores! Taken many axes to walls, I hope to take many more! The New Rule Rumi It’s … Continue reading Rumi – The New Rule
Wendy Cope – After The Lunch
Two Hundred and Fourteen 2.27.17 Note : Apparently you cannot do background color and text color here -- which is how I originally wrote "Some Notes on Colors, 2.27.17" - so I just added photos... Here's a poem I wrote in response to my feelings after reading Wendy Cope's poem: Some Notes on Colors [I,II]
Charles Bukowski – The Laughing Heart
Two Hundred and Twelve 2.20.17 This is not your regular grumpy Bukowski, this is not the dirty ol' bastard who takes in all the low points of life and projects them on a white page, the same way a projector projects movies on screen. This is much more softer, this is the Bukowski of the blue … Continue reading Charles Bukowski – The Laughing Heart
Margaret Atwood – In Love with Raymond Chandler
Two Hundred and eleven 2.17.17 Hawt! In Love with Raymond Chandler Margaret Atwood An affair with Raymond Chandler, what a joy! Not because of the mangled bodies and the marinated cops and hints of eccentric sex, but because of his interest in furniture. He knew that furniture could breathe, could feel, not as we do … Continue reading Margaret Atwood – In Love with Raymond Chandler
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