Steps into the wind
Tiptoes
Shuffles
Strung across a bridge
Lively on a wire
An archetype
Plucked out of veneer
Thursday, August 11, 2005
SPEAK OUT ON IRAQ!
Support Cindy Sheehan!
MoveOn is taking out an ad in President Bush's local newspaper in support of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who is camped outside Bush's ranch in Texas asking for a meeting with the president.
They'll publish the number of signers and the best comments in a full two-page spread in the newspaper nearest to Crawford (The Waco Tribune Herald) while Cindy holds her vigil.
Sign and spread the word before the 3:00 PM Friday print deadline?
http://political.moveon.org/meetwithcindy/
Cindy Sheehan
MoveOn is taking out an ad in President Bush's local newspaper in support of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who is camped outside Bush's ranch in Texas asking for a meeting with the president.
They'll publish the number of signers and the best comments in a full two-page spread in the newspaper nearest to Crawford (The Waco Tribune Herald) while Cindy holds her vigil.
Sign and spread the word before the 3:00 PM Friday print deadline?
http://political.moveon.org/meetwithcindy/
Cindy Sheehan
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Airing Out The Language
Turbulence
Leaves me uncomfortable
Holding tidy verse in my hands.
You will gawk at me-
Out of place. I want
To twist the words
On the page
Wrap some around me
Pull the syllables apart
And hide between them.
Shock you a little bit
So you don't see me.
Leaves me uncomfortable
Holding tidy verse in my hands.
You will gawk at me-
Out of place. I want
To twist the words
On the page
Wrap some around me
Pull the syllables apart
And hide between them.
Shock you a little bit
So you don't see me.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Across the Poetry Blogisphere
The Beached Fiance by Christine Hamm is so typically fantastic! If you like her work you'll love it. If you don't... it's a pity.
IVY is back! With Notes from the Castle.
Eileen is having a Summer Pleasure contest. Why I'm telling everyone about it, I don't know. That only increases my competition.
James gives us Nagasaki - thanks for giving us pause.
Gila Monster's big announcement.
IVY is back! With Notes from the Castle.
Eileen is having a Summer Pleasure contest. Why I'm telling everyone about it, I don't know. That only increases my competition.
James gives us Nagasaki - thanks for giving us pause.
Gila Monster's big announcement.
Monday, August 08, 2005
A thought
"Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is." ~James Branch Cabell
And what would that be, that man is, which causes such rebellious discourse? I agree with Cabell in principal that poetry wants to rebell. It wants desperately NOT to conform because that is too mundane. Is it that man has the capacity to always be unsettled no matter what his plight? The hungry want food, the King wants more territory.
Is poetry simply a more refined version of an animal instinct?
And what would that be, that man is, which causes such rebellious discourse? I agree with Cabell in principal that poetry wants to rebell. It wants desperately NOT to conform because that is too mundane. Is it that man has the capacity to always be unsettled no matter what his plight? The hungry want food, the King wants more territory.
Is poetry simply a more refined version of an animal instinct?
Friday, August 05, 2005
Thursday, August 04, 2005
untitled draft
Moist insignificance
Swells collecting droplets
Elongated by weight
To the breaking point
Raining upon the spirit
Quietly I withdraw
From the wetness
Wondering if this will shrink
My stature as a person
Swells collecting droplets
Elongated by weight
To the breaking point
Raining upon the spirit
Quietly I withdraw
From the wetness
Wondering if this will shrink
My stature as a person
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