Symphony in Green ~ Jeremy Geddes You wore your heart upon your sleeve; a style long out of fashion You drove yourself to the water’s edge, the sea intent on crashing You grit your teeth and split your lip and spoke with forked tongue twisting Of all the woes and wanderlust and interstitial bitching You raised your arm to hail the chief but found his wonder wanting Laid your palm on fur-decked hide whose thirst had gone to panting Who sized you up for an overcoat with lining laced in... Read Full Story
Rosemary Laing ~ Flight Research #6 (1999) Take me with you when you fly Sign my name upon your eye In smoke and blood and cauldron dye Hope returns the weeping sky Take me with you when you dye My name upon the weeping sky While smoke and mirrors trick the eye And cause the days to faster fly Take me with you, blink your eye Tomorrow into the past does fly My name is writ on cauldron sky And days are coloured in weeping dye Take me with you, take my eye Past the fields and feathered sky My... Read Full Story
It does not matter what the skeptics say, For I'll continue to watch and pray; I know it was His voice that I heard, When I read and believed His Holy word; His Holy Spirit resides in me, Protecting my soul and keeping me free; Skepticism is of the mind of the flesh, A haunting foe determined to crush; But not this soul of mine, Will I allow skepticism to bind; Now I'm free as the roots of a tree, Running l o n g and growing deep; I know in whom and what I believe, The blood of Jesus washed... Read Full Story
Spark Sleep dust shed from eyes like sand from the cannon cast The light dispels the shadows of night You rise to face the day’s charade Sunrise Sunspots on your astral shirt induce the drawing of aurora curtains across your mind Thus occluding the view afforded By sleep’s access to the vaults of memory Morning Mourners gather to line the streets pale witness To the black crate bearing wagon passing, parading the town’s inability to feel, Only to whisper grey with knuckles white clenched... Read Full Story
The Daily Iowan
Award-winning UI alumni share nature-inspired works
By Rebecca Koons, September 24, 2009
The simplest and most complex things can inspire poetry. A distinctive talent is necessary to craft a work that not only makes sense but has greater meaning.
Two graduates of the Iowa Writers Workshop have turned this talent into a satisfying career. Jared Stanley and Jessica Savitz will share their works at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., at 7 p.m. today.
Both Stanley... Read Full Story
Aerodynamics for Psychonauts ~ Mario Martinez Through roots and leaves the leaving routes the day behind you now Sinking fast the light recedes through neon night to stellar plough Where cryptic clues in package stash behind the doors of dreams Lead you through the maze of days between daylight’s woven beams That breathe the sun’s beguiling light in pulsating chlorophyll The toothless tiger whose keeper caged refuses to keep still Will drain the hearts and sap the wood behind the schoolyard... Read Full Story
Cape Cod Today
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver to speak at Cape Cod Community College
September 29, 2009
One of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America, named by the Boston Globe as one of the Seven Wonders of Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author Mary Oliver will read from her works at the Tilden Arts Center on Cape Cod Community Colleges West Barnstable campus, Wednesday October 14th at 7 p.m. Read Full Story
Belief dot net
Dharma Poetry: Jane Hirshfield
September 25, 2009
A few weeks ago I blogged about Tyler Doherty, a fine contemporary Buddhist poet, and Gary Gach of Tricycle Magazine posted a comment. I looked Gary up and found out that he hosts a lively Haiku Corner blog at Tricycle's website. I also discovered that Gary edited a very cool book of Buddhist poetry called What Book!?: Buddha Poems From Beat To Hip-hop. This link is to a preview of nearly half of the book on Google Books. It... Read Full Story
WHAT HAPPENS when a disappointed, if a practical man turns his rage into pure atomic fuel? Appledoom , a CBC Radio production, is now available as a free download. The poem is read by Geoff Whynot, and produced by Kelley Jo Burke. Read Full Story
The Dream ~ Henri Rousseau In the corners of a darkened dream Fingers words in the wood will score Lovers’ hearts in sap to gleam Twig-like kisses on littered floor Celtic heart on stone to carve Verdigris veins the circle completes Give me light these leaves to green Suck these roots the black earth writhes With fist and hammer to scrub me clean Whittle me down to the barest of lives Through valleys green on wings of wet iron Pass your laws in warm earth pen Enforce it with the passage of... Read Full Story
