Posts Tagged with ‘poetry’
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A delightful poem to raise a smile
26 Jul 2011Now just who is Ron Koertge? “You who asked for advice, listen: When the tower falls, be like that child.…
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Where are those qualities of bravery and sharp compassion in this group?
07 Jun 2011There’s courage involved if you want to become truth. There is a broken- open place in a lover. Where are…
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Is the universe capable of having your city at its center?
01 Apr 2011Have we really imagined a universe with our own town or city as a centre. What kind of universe has Olney as its center? And what might I find in a universe that has New York, or Mumbai, or Beijing, or Lagos as its center? How can we deny the lens of the place we live? Do we not deny ourselves?
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Our lives but a poetry of place?
31 Mar 2011Could it be that our lives are the poetry of place? Even if we are unaware of writing its poems?
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Are you grasping for the moon in the water?
16 Mar 2011A little poem by Taigu Ryokan captures for me the way we get caught up in fruitless activity and how much more we could do and enjoy if we only stopped to "listen".
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Poetry of the Week: Robin Yassin-Kassab
12 Mar 2011Responding kindly to a harsh world is tough to do. I found a line in "the road from DAMASCUS" that helps us keep our bearings.
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Serene or frazzled?
13 Jan 2011Bukowski on the restless.
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Legitimate anger
28 Nov 2010I don’t like anger. I don’t trust it. I don’t like anger. I don’t trust it. We just become one…
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Be a connoisseur and taste with caution
24 Jul 2010Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed." Read the poem to explain the camel!
