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Poetry Friday

THE POEMS I HAVE NOT WRITTEN

I’m so wildly unprolific, the poems I have not written would reach from here to the California coast if you laid them end to end.

And if you stacked them up, the poems I have not written would sway like a silent Tower of Babel, saying nothing

and everything [...]

Poetry Friday

REMEMBER, BODY …  

Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds where you lay, but also those desires for you, shining clearly in eyes and trembling in a voice—and some chance obstacle thwarted them. Now when everything is the past, it almost looks as if you gave yourself to [...]

Poetry Friday

AUTUMN

Both lying on our sides, making love in spoon position when she’s startled, What’s that? She means the enormous ship passing before you— maybe not that large, is it a freighter

or a passenger ship? But it seems huge in the dark and it’s so close. That’s a poem you say, D. H. Lawrence—Have [...]

Blogging for a cause (and good music)

Anyone who knows me knows what Neko Case does to me … between the voice and the red hair, I’m generally reduced to a quivering pile of Steven when I’m listening to her. So it should come as no surprise that I’m really looking forward to her newest album, entitled MIddle Cyclone, which is due [...]

Poetry Friday

THE DARKLING THRUSH

I leant upon a coppice gate      When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate      The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky      Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh      Had sought their household fires.

The land’s sharp features seemed to be      The Century’s [...]

Poetry Friday

“PITY THE NATION” (After Khalil Gibran)

Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that raises not its voice Except to praise conquerers And acclaim the bully as hero And aims [...]

Video Poetry (Missed edition)

BLINK 182 – MISS YOU

Hello there The angel from my nightmare The shadow in the background of the morgue The unsuspecting victim Of darkness in the valley We can live like Jack and Sally If we want Where you can always find me And we’ll have Halloween on Christmas And in the night [...]

Quote of the Day

RAIN by Claribel Alegría (translated by Margaret S. Peden)

As the falling rain trickles among the stones memories come bubbling out.

It’s as if the rain had pierced my temples.

Streaming streaming chaotically come memories: the reedy voice of the servant telling me tales of ghosts.

They sat beside me the ghosts and the bed [...]

Video Poetry (smashed)

SMASHING PUMPKINS – DISARM

Disarm you with a smile And cut you like you want me to Cut that little child Inside of me and such a part of you Ooh, the years burn Ooh, the years burn

I used to be a little boy So old in my shoes And what I choose [...]

Poetry Friday

FOR MILES

Your sound is faultless     pure & round         holy     almost profound

Your sound is your sound     true & from within     a confession     soulful & lovely

Poet whose sound is played     l lost or recorded     but heard     can you recall that 54 night at the Open Door     when you & bird     wailed five in the [...]