All Blog Posts Tagged 'poetry' (13)

Naomi has made a big move. She's gone to Gabon! Yes, her heart beat a different rhythm and decided it was time for a major change. Click here to see her Zoobird profile. And, here's her blog. It's sure to be filled soon with photos,…

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Your Camel is Loaded to Sing

The

 Camel

   Is loaded to sing.

Look what good poetry can do:

   Untie the knot in the burlap sack

  And lift the golden

 Falcon

Out.

~Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky)

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Working at it

Working at it and
still the tall the tall grass grows
{Santoka 1882-1940}

Another sleepless night

A concrete paradise

Sirens screaming in the heat

Neon cuts the eye

As the jester sighs

At the world beneath his feet



It's a gutter ballet

Just a menagerie

Still the orchestra plays

On a dark and lonely night

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The Irish love the spoken word...reciting poetry from memory is an admired skill...



I was at Finca Mycol (Living off the Grid)… Continue

Charles Bukowski. Iconic. Unique, original, prolific. What he wanted to say, he said. He wrote tremendous numbers of stories, poetry, and what he wrote, he wrote without shame,

in a clean, terse style. In fact, his style was the only clean thing

about his writing. He wrote about the track, about women, gambling,

skid row, depression, obsession and cooked up the seedy side of life so

well that despite…

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Gary Snyder inspired writer Jack Kerouac. He's represented by a character in "The Dharma Bums". But, he's a real character in this life. He's lucid, funny and thought provoking. Enjoy a bit of Snyder here in this short, delightfully provocative clip. Let us know what you… Continue

Sh'mal asked me to post this for him. Some of you know him as a social worker, others for his help with the homeless in Gainesville, FL. He managed the McRorie Community Garden for some time. I met him there. I wound up with my patch because he gave his to me. He was moving to Seattle to be… Continue

Artist



Chip away,

Sand rough edges, varied patterns,

Circular, angular, jagged, straight,

Peel, cut, shave, reveal

New layers waiting to be born.



Trees shine, forming

Wet green networks,

Forests of leaves,

Entanglement of branches and lives,

Creeping, nesting.



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They're out of the dark's ragbag, these two

Moles dead in the pebbled rut,

Shapeless as flung gloves, a few feet apart-

Blue suede a dog or fox has chewed.

One, by himself, seemed pitiable enough,

Little victim unearthed by some lsrge creature

From his orbit under the elm root.

The second carcass makes a duel of the affair:

Blind twins bitten by bad nature.



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In honor of St. Patrick's…

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There are many fine things which you mean to do someday, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances.

But, the only time that is surely yours is the present.



Hence, this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others.



Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind…

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To tell the Truth but tell it slant -

Success in Circuit lies

Too bright for our infirm Delight

The Truth's superb surprise

As lightning to the Children eased

With explanation kind

The Truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind



Emily Dickenson





A controversial YouTube video about high fructose corn syrup prompted one viewer to comment that some tea is… Continue