Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"I don't
intend to
say it.
It says
itself."
*
"Where do I learn
this line I pound?
Where do I find
this lack of rhyme?
Doing what I do
undoes what I've done."
*
"Fill the same
form until
you're certain
you broke it."
Saturday, April 28, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"When you don't
understand what
you're trying to
say is the best
time to say it."
*
"If you aren't
sometimes foolish,
you aren't
making art."
*
"That is
poetry -
that which
says itself."
Friday, April 27, 2012
LINES FOR APRIL 27
The green
urgency
of spring.
The musk
of everything
swollen.
The push
towards light,
life.
It's morning.
Say yes
again.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
LINES FOR APRIL 23
Spring hangs
for a moment,
then vanishes
on the wind.
We're left with
a hawk instead.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Why more
stress over
what we
don't have
than rejoicing
over what
we do?"
*
"Wanting nothing
is the first
condition for
happiness.
Having little
is the second."
*
"To eat.
To be eaten.
Are we less
or more than
nothing?"
Saturday, April 21, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Why must
you rush
the poem?"
*
"If you think
about it too
much, sometimes
it disappears."
*
"How much of
something is
too much?
How much of
nothing is
not?"
Friday, April 20, 2012
LINES FOR APRIL 20
The worked earth
soaks up sun.
The wind hums
in the leafing trees.
The air vibrates
with all the birds.
You know it's spring.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
LINES FOR APRIL 19
The trees are misted
with urgent green,
clouds hanging
like white kites.
The earth gives up
a welcome warmth.
It's spring. I have
all I can do to
keep my clothes on.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Sometimes the form
suggests itself, and
sometimes I don't
know what it's doing."
*
"If heaven
isn't
the view
just over
this hill,
then heaven
isn't."
*
"Chase the poem,
it vanishes.
What you think
you've grasped
evaporates."
Saturday, April 14, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"If
you haven't
already done
the obvious,
don't
do it now."
*
"Sometimes no
words are enough."
*
"Sometimes
it's the poems,
sometimes
it's me, and
sometimes
I don't know
what it is."
Friday, April 13, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Monday, April 09, 2012
Sunday, April 08, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Too much and
not enough,
the poisons
we take."
*
"Sometimes
one
or two,
more
often a
run of them -
words and
sand-
hill cranes."
*
"Water goes
where water goes -
what's not to
understand?"
Saturday, April 07, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Those I most
admire
show me
the hypocrite
I am."
*
"Poetry is a small
man. I don't know
his name, but his
wisdom brings me
to my knees."
*
"If it's a gift, don't say
it's not what you want."
Friday, April 06, 2012
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Monday, April 02, 2012
LINES FOR APRIL 2
Rock, woods,
water, hawk.
Sky
so high.
The earth,
dark.
You can
smell it
coming -
spring.
Sunday, April 01, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"I am in no hurry
to meet Mr. Death
but he doesn't worry -
he sees me coming."
*
"Words and wind -
nothing and
nothing more."
*
"Sometimes
a small line
is enough.
Sometimes
too much."
