Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"The poem does not
wait for you when
you set your pen down."
*
"Sound,
not meaning,
is the first law
of singing."
*
"Waiting for luck is
betting on nothing."
Saturday, February 25, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"The good poem -
an entrance,
not an exit."
*
"Don't number
your pages.
Don't number
your days.
Don't expect
any of it
to be easy.
Persevere."
*
"If he comes,
let him in -
you know that's
why you're
waiting."
Friday, February 24, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
LINES FOR FEBRUARY 21
Crow like poet,
in sun on sidewalk -
he's eating a piece
of nothing. And
what is it I do?
Monday, February 20, 2012
LINES FOR FEBRUARY 20
The light lies
like wind at
the window -
there and no
farther, the day
winding down.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"If only
a short while,
then only
a few words."
*
"Don't write
so hard
that you
destroy
joy."
*
"The universe is
a cosmic dolphin -
you get what you give."
Saturday, February 18, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"The shapeless
poem
shapes itself."
*
"Ear?
If I had
an ear,
I'd sing."
*
"I don't know
where they come from.
I don't know
what they mean.
They come on
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays,
and all the while between."
Friday, February 17, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
LINES FOR FEBRUARY 16
Watercolor wash of cloud,
the sun our imagination.
Morning comes with sadness.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
LINES FOR FEBRUARY 15
Crow in a hurry.
Whatever could he
be flying towards,
or from?
What are we
flying to?
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Not every
thought's
a keeper,
and not
every thought
is not."
*
"We do
or do not.
The clouds
lay their
shadows
anyway."
*
"Silence and God -
so much alike we all
believe in heaven."
Saturday, February 11, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"If it looks
so easy,
you do it -
one every damn
day for a year.
Then we'll talk.
Then you may
have something
to say."
*
"Like fire
extinguisher
and fire,
technique
is useless
when you
have nothing
to say."
*
"If you want to
make sense
you cannot be
afraid of
nonsense."
Friday, February 10, 2012
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Monday, February 06, 2012
Sunday, February 05, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"The happy man
has nothing.
The sad man
makes poems
of sorrow."
*
"Making it
look hard
is easy.
Making it
look easy
is not."
*
"You may say
it's done,
the poem,
but it's
never done,
it's always
hardly
begun."
Saturday, February 04, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Ah, yes, these
poems, all
these poems
pushing against
the final silence."
*
"It's either
boom chick or
chick boom,
chick chick boom or
boom chick chick
or some variation
thereof. Why is
that so difficult?"
*
"Always ask yourself
where is the beat
and when you find it,
keep it, keep it, keep it."
Friday, February 03, 2012
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
