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Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight? -Al Boliska As I have mentioned several thousand times before, a technology whiz I am not. I used to be, but missed one day of paying attention (June 5, 1989), and am interminably behind as a …
Put a poem in your pocket
Get out! It’s "Poem in Your Pocket Day" today. Who knew? My friend and hula hooper extraordinaire, Mary, just emailed to tell me. So, depending on where you live, you might still have a few hours of "Poem in Your Pocket Day" left–get a poem in that pocket post haste! …
Poets explore infinite inwardness
A Table in the Wilderness I draw a windowand a man sitting inside it. I draw a bird in flight above the lintel. That’s my picture of thinking. If I put a woman there insteadof the man, it’s a picture of speaking. If I draw a second birdin …
Poets take us to last places
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. -Plato The smallest of gestures, the symbolic connection to last places, the pilgrimages to sites of pain and loss. It is an urge, a yearning, a need I believe we all know. This one broke my heart. This one made me quiet. …
Poets take us out on the bridge
With thanks to the poet, another poem you’ll find in Life is a Verb: Undressing the Muse When Sonny Rollins walked onto that bridgeto play his saxophone to the windhe was stepping off the stageand into the woodshed.It wasn’t a failure of nerve, of course,nor was it only a deepeningof …
Turns out, life really IS a verb!
I told Mr Brilliant last night that the next post to 37days would be my 500th post. That would be this one. We looked for poems that featured the number 500. To no avail (except for the really horrible poem about the Indy 500, to which even in the most …
Poets let us stand on the earth among the cows
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. –Carl Sandburg …
Poets help us wish harder
Breathe-in experience,Breathe-out poetry.-Muriel Rukeyser I fervently pledged as a teenager that I would always remember how I felt then, that when I became a parent, I would remember what life was like then, what mattered then, what I worried about and laughed at then, and what I cried over then. …
Poets tell us about nothing, and about everything
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. -Kahlil Gibran Sheridan Simon, one of my favorite professors of all time–and he would have been your favorite too, had you been lucky …
