Sunday, June 30, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Silence waits
for no one.
Take it
where you are.”
*
“If the poem
could,
the poem
would
knife you.”
*
“Has every
thought been
thought? No,
not.”
Saturday, June 29, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“How do I know
this sounds like me
is a question I don't
have to ask.”
*
“How much
do we have to do
to do as much
as we have to?”
*
“Sudden wisdom,
the silence.”
Friday, June 28, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Monday, June 24, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Buy me,
buy me!
I'm a poet,
and cheap.”
*
“Want nothing.
You will get
plenty.”
*
“Poet,
nothing else to do
but this.”
Saturday, June 22, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Ha, he's got
opinions and not
enough bumper.”
*
“All the girls
saying No, No, No -
the poet still
saying Who, What, How?”
*
“Let's
bottle up
and go,
poet -
we've got
people
to see,
things
to do.”
Friday, June 21, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“If not
this word,
which.
If not
that one,
what?”
*
“The game of golf -
chasing shots
into the rough,
like poetry.”
*
“About inspiration -
is it the match or
the gasoline's desire?”
Saturday, June 15, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Poetry is not
a foreign language.”
*
“Poem – there
where was
not there.”
*
“Oh, yes, poet, show us
the deliciousness of things.”
Friday, June 14, 2013
LINES FOR JUNE 14
Sunday afternoon.
The world falling away.
I've got nothing to do
and no place I'd rather do it.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunday, June 09, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“The poet's
necessities -
a piece
of paper,
big but
not too
big; blank,
again
not too;
something
to scratch with;
something
to say;
and a God-
awful
need
to say it.”
*
“This
poet juice -
if
I knew
where
it came from
I'd
bottle some
for you.”
*
“This
wisdom,
the poet's
nonsense.”
Saturday, June 08, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Go towards,
don't
wait for.”
*
“Nothing
to say?
Open
your eyes.
Let the wind
come in.”
*
“Don't step on my feet,
I'll stay
out of your face.”
Friday, June 07, 2013
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
LINES FOR JUNE 4
Who guards the world?
The sentinel hawks,
red-tails everywhere,
bullets of attention.
Monday, June 03, 2013
LINES FOR JUNE 3
Rush of eagle
at the truck ahead of me
flashes like surprise,
clears the truck,
circles away.
Sunday, June 02, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“This
madness,
the poet's
greatest
gift.”
*
“The poet's mind
should turn,
turn over,
overturn
itself.”
*
“Why,
poet,
isn't
plenty
enough?”
Saturday, June 01, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“If you play
with it
long enough,
eventually
it won't
make any
sense at all.”
*
“Poet
like crow
sideways
to wind.”
*
“I am
too much
interested
in sound
to be
much haiku
poet.”
