Choosing Words Wisely by Henri Nouwen, written 2 days ago, Words are very important. When we say to someone: "You are an ugly, useless, despicable person," we might have ruined the possibility for a relationship with that person for life. Words can continue to do harm for many years. It is...

I have a way with woids,huh?

Thought for the Day, written 1 day ago, To cast syntax into lines is to provide choices, to place precision in the service of equivocation by making us consider the implications of reading the syntax in one way rather than another. So if line determines the way a sentence becomes meaningful to us in...

Thinking about submissions, rejections, the open road, written 1 day ago, With "Down by the River" by Neil Young setting me off on this post, I think it only fair to let you know I really don't know where I will end up. I have a goal, but who knows? With Neil, you never know when things ar...

Orgasmic Angina, written 2 days ago, Via an entertaining article on writing about poetry and the admitted awesomeness of Keats comes this breathless and little-deathless blurb: "Only rarely do lay readers experience poems as a cross between an orgasm and a heart attack." —David Orr, the ...

335. What is Life? by John Clare, written 1 day ago, J Clare read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to classic poetry. --------------------------------------------------- What is Life? by John Clare (1793 – 1864) And what is Life? An hour-glass on the run, A ...

Defend The cOnSTiTutIOn, written 1 week ago, Take an oath Defend the constitution Have you? Would you? What do you do? When you know foul's at play Constitution being eroded away Wisdom of patriots ignored Children filled with arrogance Of the improved upon way? Or power breeds corruption Constituti...

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My new girl, written 6 days ago, I know, I haven't been around here much. I have an excuse. Her name is Sophie, and I'm head over heels in love. I can't keep my hands off her.She's a 2002 Fender Stratocaster. Basically, this is the guitar I daydreamed about near-constantly when I was 17 years old.If...

Poetry and the literary culture I'm growing in a milk carton.

Ban, written 2 days ago, The different between Sarah Palin & Hitler? Lipstick. Apparently, Palin tried to go about banning books as mayor. Read on:Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books Time Magazine says that when Sarah Palin took office as mayor, she approached the town librarian and asked ...

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Tickets To The Game (rev), written 1 day ago, I asked my Dad about the War when I was veryyoung; he said it happened a long, long timeago and a long, long way away – seemed a littlevague so I relented thinking he hadn't attended.Never knew he was sent tickets to go and onlywent because he had to. ...

Contemplative poems by Jill Chan.

Always use the old sense of the word.

Poetry, prose and other thoughts.

Poetry – haiku, written 1 day ago, words, simple, true, fewsaying so much with so fewrevealing our soulsSeptember 6, 2008

An appreciation of creative cuisine and poetic expression (nourishment for the body / inspiration for the soul).

When Four Tribes Go to War, written 1 week ago, Ron has linked to a blog entry by Damien G. Walter on Scott McCloud's theory of the four tribes of artists in his book Making Comics. Longtime readers may recall my excitement about McCloud's classifications in this post that I wrote two years ago. I o...

Playing with Modernism, written 1 day ago, If Modernism begins with the death of God & the subsequent plunge into subjective experience in Western culture, it remains true that old traditions keep turning up in new forms. Whereas Modernism dismisses folk beliefs for an urban cosmopolitanism, it ...