Saturday, August 31, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Everything
and nothing.
We keep
trying to
split the
difference.”
*
“Enough
or too
much or
not
enough?
How would
we know?”
*
“Ha!” says the poet
pulled up short.
“There are some things
I will not do.”
Friday, August 30, 2013
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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Monday, August 26, 2013
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
“In the end
the poet
stands and points.”
*
“We cannot
see the world
as it is -
our eyes
are not
old enough.”
*
“How the poem
comes to this,
standing on one
toe, alone.”
Saturday, August 24, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
“What
the poem
means -
caught
between
third and
home.”
*
“Not the singer
but the song
goes on.”
*
“Ah,
poets -
sometimes
wisdom,
sometimes
wind.”
Friday, August 23, 2013
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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Monday, August 19, 2013
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
“In
and out of
phase
and in and
out.”
*
“What shines
this morning -
the brightness of
my ignorance.”
*
“The poet
learning to pray,
learning poetry.”
Saturday, August 17, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
"Read but do not
read too much.
Write. You can't
write too much.
And dream."
*
"Sometimes
the poem.
Sometimes
the poem's
shadow."
*
“We are all
finding our own
blind silence.”
Friday, August 16, 2013
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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Monday, August 12, 2013
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Sunday, August 11, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
"Elsewhere
answers.
Poem
is only
the question."
*
"Is
what it is
and seldom
is it
something more."
*
"Poem
is the word's
way of
having fun."
Saturday, August 10, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
"If you can't
hear it, it
does no good
to count."
*
"The poet
puts in what
he thinks
belongs and
leaves out
what does not.
Yet what do
we know
of belonging,
loss?"
*
"Rhyming
is a kind
of twine
some poets
use to bind
their poems.
I'm into
leather
myself."
Friday, August 09, 2013
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Thursday, August 08, 2013
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Wednesday, August 07, 2013
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013
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Rough ground here
at the edge of Wyoming.
Makes me ask
the big questions.
The enormous sky
ponders them with me.
Monday, August 05, 2013
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Sunday, August 04, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“It's getting to be
that time of day
when I fear I might
have something to say.”
*
“The poet's
empty heart -
no fault
of the world.”
*
“Walking
uphill
against
the wind,
the poet
speaking.”
Saturday, August 03, 2013
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Poem -
poet
at the
dump.”
*
“You go,
you can't come back.
You cross over,
you get crossed off.
What's gone
was always gone.
The illusion is
we are holding on.”
*
“Poet's breath -
the wind
has picked up
again.”
Friday, August 02, 2013
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Thursday, August 01, 2013
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Dawn freshens the sky
behind me. Moon
disappears in the west.
The day moves on.
I am left with sadness.
