Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
LINES FOR OCTOBER 30
Fallen leaves
and the last
of the green
fields. Autumn
does and undoes
and winter
will come to
nothing.
Monday, October 29, 2012
LINES FOR OCTOBER 29
Sunday morning as grey
as the geese, blue sky break-
ing through. A sandhill crane
calling in the distance.
Nothing else is enough.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Break lines
where
the sense
works at
and with and
against
the getting
there.”
*
"Even a short
poem is more than
I have earned."
*
"I make
these notes, not
for you, not
for me, for
the moment
only."
Saturday, October 27, 2012
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Talk
to yourself
you talk
to a fool."
*
"Not where
the lines
break,
where they
break you."
*
"Think about it.
Think about it.
Think about it.
Then never
think about it
again."
Friday, October 26, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
LINES FOR OCTOBER 24
Grey tea of a morning -
the day barely begun
and the birds are gone.
Even the hawks
have hunkered down.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"The poem is not
a lesson for you.
It is for me -
that I can learn it,
and if I haven't
that I have
wasted my life."
*
"The poet would
speak to rock
but can say
nothing the rock
believes."
*
"Measure measure measure measure measure
measure measure measure measure pleasure."
Saturday, October 20, 2012
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"The poet
as potter
bakes
as clay
these old
words new."
*
"These things
I keep
doing
I keep
doing."
*
"We say what we think we mean.
We mean what we think we say."
Friday, October 19, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
LINES FOR OCTOBER 17
Step into
the cold part
of the morning,
love. Let it
concentrate
your affection.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Each is
is not?
No.
Each is
not is."
*
"That you do
to please me
displeases me."
*
"I could stop now,
were this enough."
Saturday, October 13, 2012
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Preacher,
shouldn't you
know something
about something?
Like how much
of nothing
will bring us
happiness?"
*
"Your money -
God
doesn't need it
and
you can't take it
with you.
You might
as well
give it to me."
*
"The good poem's
rules
make themselves."
Friday, October 12, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
LINES FOR OCTOBER 10
Cold wind in the fur
of all the small creatures
dead along the road -
autumn leaves keep falling.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
LINES FOR OCTOBER 9
Cornfields glow,
waiting for harvest.
Geese flood
the western sky.
The light
lingers, lingers,
then fades.
Monday, October 08, 2012
Sunday, October 07, 2012
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Poet,
see
what you
see -
That's
what we
do."
*
"The game is
the game;
it is not
the score."
*
"Poet, ah
poet, you should
learn to play
your instrument."
Saturday, October 06, 2012
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"If the sun
comes up, be grateful
for silence."
*
"Some days
only noise
and some days
song."
*
"Accept
silence?
Why, yes.
Welcome."
THE OLD POET SAYS
"If the sun
comes up, be grateful
for silence."
*
"Some days
only noise
and some days
song."
*
"Accept
silence?
Why, yes.
Welcome."
Friday, October 05, 2012
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Monday, October 01, 2012
