Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“This old
poet's great
failure -
too many
words,
not enough
wisdom.”
*
“Words that
make sense -
you catch
what you can.”
*
“It is not enough
to want to write.
The poems must
want you.”
Saturday, January 26, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Ride the horse
til it throws you.
Poetry demands
that much and more.”
*
“Dial it up
til you can't
stand it and
hold on.
If you live,
then
write the poem.”
*
“I can't
help it,
writing these.
The world
keeps spinning.”
Friday, January 25, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Sunday, January 20, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Sometimes you grab them.
Sometimes you get grabbed.”
*
“Careful now
of God -
he won't
let go.”
*
Whatever
God is,
it ain't it.”
Saturday, January 19, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“If you see
the poem
and not
the thing,
I have
failed you.”
*
“Often poems
close with
long sounds,
but some-
times not.”
*
“If they speak
only to you,
perhaps you should
give them voice.”
Friday, January 18, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
LINES FOR JANUARY 14
Mid-afternoon
twilight with
dark-clouded
sun-smothered
sky, and not
much promise
of anything
better
on the wind.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Your best
plan is like
a melody,
operative
only while
you play it.”
*
“Sometimes the line
matters and sometimes
it's something else.”
*
How poets pray -
“Let loose, Lord,
the least of your
angels. Let them
lift me up.”
Saturday, January 12, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Crest of another day.
All that is before you
is also behind you.”
*
“Don't try to write
after lunch, for
by then you have
forgotten
what you're here for.”
*
“You do learn from hard knocks
but I wonder at what cost.”
Friday, January 11, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Monday, January 07, 2013
Sunday, January 06, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Accountants
cannot understand
the babble of poets,
nor would we
want them to.”
*
“Your failure -
you write everything
but the truth of
everything.”
*
“The beat.
The beat
is steady.
The accent
may drift, but
the beat,
not.”
Saturday, January 05, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“If you
think you
might have
said it
before,
you did.”
*
“Go ahead.
Say it again.
Poetry
bears repeating.”
*
“What do you
keep waiting
for,” they asked.
“I wait,” he said,
“for nothing.”
Friday, January 04, 2013
LINES FOR JANUARY 4
The weight of
winter snow
bends the boughs.
What we lose
has already
been taken.
Thursday, January 03, 2013
LINES FOR JANUARY 3
Crow low
to the snow-
covered corn-
field.
Sun low
on the western
horizon.
Evening yields
what it
has to.
The cold
holds.
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
