Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
THREE fromTHE OLD POET SAYS
“Always number
another page.
It tempts
the poem in.
*
“Sometimes
I can only
say what I've
said.
Sometimes
it's enough.”
*
“You cannot
be a poet
if you can
think of not
being a poet.”
Saturday, July 28, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Ah, poet,
it's quite a mess
you've put us in,
what with
your lines and dreams,
your half-baked schemes.”
*
“Do
not do
what
has been
done.
Do
what has
not been.”
*
“Your words
were spoiled
to start with -
they didn't
spoil with
the keeping.”
Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Though you
would stay
the same,
everything
changes.”
*
“Something
you can whistle.
Something
you can sing.
Something
you can say
and know
what it means.”
*
“If God were a poet -
oh, that's right,
she is.”
Saturday, July 21, 2012
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Listen carefully,
then break
the line. Keep
an extra beat
in your pocket
for just such
times you might
need one.”
*
“Everything
we think is
the last thing
we might think.
Why, then, are we
so stupid?”
*
“Whatever do you
mean,” they asked.
“I've wondered that
myself,” said he.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Sunday, July 15, 2012
THREE fromTHE OLD POET SAYS
“Here come
the poems.
Many more.
How many?
More.”
*
“Poet, anything you say can and will be
used against you if your words have any worth.”
*
“Let me
say it again -
nothing
to see here,
move along.
Notes for poems,
for my small
amusement.
Move along.
Please
move along.”
Saturday, July 14, 2012
THREE fromTHE OLD POET SAYS
“Say yes
if they ask
Is that a poem
in your pocket
or are you glad
to see us?”
*
“Sometimes death
will turn his face
but he does not
look away for long.”
*
“When death
comes, see
how much
fame
gets you.”
Friday, July 13, 2012
WEDNESDAY HAIKU
I see I'm blessed to have another poem up now at Wednesday Haiku over at the Lilliput Review blog. This feature is always wonderful, and is a true labor of love on Don Wentworth's part. Enjoy.Thursday, July 12, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Monday, July 09, 2012
Sunday, July 08, 2012
THREE fromTHE OLD POET SAYS
“Yes, death will
concentrate
your attention.”
*
“The poem,
chunks of
language,
lines and
stanzas,
words that
ring like
anvil and
hammer.”
*
“Ours
is both
business and
pleasure.
Theirs
licks the ear.
Ah,
the French,
those rascals.”
Saturday, July 07, 2012
THREE fromTHE OLD POET SAYS
“We are
the sum
of all
our choices,
whether
we got
what we
wanted
or not.”
*
“Should we be
judged by our
best success
or by what
we fall to
in failure?”
*
“Poet,
hawk-talker,
dream-chaser
to an
empty sky.”
Friday, July 06, 2012
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Monday, July 02, 2012
Sunday, July 01, 2012
THREE fromTHE OLD POET SAYS
"No grand scheme.
A word. A line."
*
"Some days,
silence.
Other days,
song."
*
"You might not
understand
and you can't
tell the poet
to shut up."
