Tuesday, April 30, 2013
LINES FOR APRIL 30
The spring field,
the dry air,
dust lifted
by wind.
Every year
we make a deal
though we don't
always keep it.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"I could
write all night
if the darkness
would
unhand me."
*
"Writing at night?
Yes, I do
some of my best
work in the dark."
*
"Knowing
and not
knowing,
the sacred
bliss."
Saturday, April 27, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"Silence
or shards
of a
poem?
Which?
Why?"
*
"Sly humor
does not
lift the sky.
You need
big wind."
*
"I have pulled
the rip-cord
and still
no poem.
The wind is
something
fearsome."
Friday, April 26, 2013
LINES FOR APRIL 26
Good earth.
Sun.
Distance.
Moisture.
The proper
motion.
It springs
green, this
spring.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
LINES FOR APRIL 25
Ah, sky.
Nothing but
sun and wind
and the green
roll of everything.
Morning
sings it all.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"Ah, rock,
patient earth.
A warming
sun, the wind.
We have
what we have
and it's good
enough.
Why do we
want for more?"
*
"What the universe is.
What nothing was,
in the beginning.
There is much
I don't comprehend,
and much
I wouldn't want to."
*
"Lord, you look
at me with
kind eyes,
and then
you look
away."
Saturday, April 20, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"You lift us,
Lord, for what?"
*
"The business
of poetry
is wisdom,
not wealth.
Let go
the obsession
with money
and fame."
*
"Perhaps
that is
not the
word, yet
there is
not a
better
one."
Friday, April 19, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"I am
moving
fast, yet
I don't
mean to
hurry."
*
"These
words,
the least
of the day
or
the most."
*
"If we would
pray, let us
pray to rock
and trees and
air and the sun
which warms us."
Saturday, April 13, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"Poet?
What does
a poet
do? What
he must -
Quite
a lot of
nothing."
*
“Even in
the midst of
men,
I am
the lonely
one.”
*
“Better
to say it
roughly
and mean it
than to
scan without
passion,
smoothly.”
Friday, April 12, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
LINES FOR APRIL 10
Storm, do not
take down our
trees - let them
bend, let them
shake and race
as if chasing
the wind.
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Monday, April 08, 2013
Sunday, April 07, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“If you must
count, count
in the ear,
not on your
fingers.”
*
“All the stars are
set in heaven
and for naught
do men make plans.
The grind stone grinds.
It grinds, and what
it grinds is us.”
*
“The plan has
not been grand -
sometimes we
dine divine;
sometimes we
eat each other.”
Saturday, April 06, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Nothing to say?
For God's sakes, say
it and be done.”
*
“That we are not
alone,
that there are others
wiser than we are,
we pray, O Lord.”
*
“Some days you slap yourself
silly, there's still nothing there.”
Friday, April 05, 2013
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Monday, April 01, 2013
LINES FOR APRIL 1
A trey of ducks
overhead -
three of a kind.
In the distance,
two cranes, so
now a full-house.
Spring plays this game
every year and,
every year, wins.
