Friday, May 31, 2013
LINES FOR MAY 31
Grace is like rain.
You can't expect it.
It does no good to pray.
You simply must
hold your cup and wait.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
LINES FOR MAY 30
Small dark birds
pecking dead
deer along
the road - there
is little
mystery
in life and
death. We will
all be
forest.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
LINES FOR MAY 28
A long stretch of silence.
The grey Sunday morning.
Then a blue slip of sky.
Then half a notion.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“When you
die,
will you
laugh or
cry?”
*
“Ah, fool
poet,
find some
higher
ground – you
can't sleep
in a slough!”
*
“Poet
with a full
tank - I won't
need the map
for hours.”
Saturday, May 25, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“The poet
scratches
against
silence.”
*
“A poet's
words, like
smoke in
hard wind.”
*
“I can't
count
and I'm
too slow
to make
jokes -
of course
I must be
a poet.”
Friday, May 24, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Most
poems
go on
too long,
including
this one.”
*
“Poem, the
nothing at
the edge
where
everything
begins.”
*
“Some may say
hawk is
not-poet,
but I say
hawk is.”
Saturday, May 18, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“The last waltz
you dance alone.”
*
“The poem
like a woman
waiting for one
to comfort.”
*
“Sing or
do not
sing, but
don't
complain
of song.”
Friday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Careful
which words
you use.
You own
them. They
own you.”
*
“This
is.
Then
it's
that.”
*
“The poet who
doesn't know what
to say is
always the best.”
Saturday, May 11, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Poem -
a moment
of stillness
you fill
with words.”
*
“Nouns, not verbs -
not what they do,
what they are.”
*
“Yes, we choose
the stones
that trip us.”
Friday, May 10, 2013
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Monday, May 06, 2013
Sunday, May 05, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Sometimes
even when
you don't know
where the road
goes, you must
take it.
Especially
then.”
*
“The days
like cards
you hold.
You play
or fold.”
*
“What you
think you
want is
not
what you
think.”
Saturday, May 04, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Like a
blacksmith,
hammer
it till
something
shines.”
*
"Words and music
shall not compete.
We have an
agreement."
*
"You might
write at night
but you can't
revise
in the dark."
Friday, May 03, 2013
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
