Poets and Poetry

A place for everything, everything in its place – Benjamin Franklin Writers are frequently asked to talk about what inspires them. It’s a difficult question for me to answer because I don’t believe in inspiration, not in any Romantic sense of the word and I never talk about my muse. I believe in ideas. My definition of inspiration is a good idea. And I can get a good idea anywhere. I had a religious upbringing. It didn’t do me any harm but I can’t say my world view has not been affected by...Read Full Story

Hank Williams Jr - Are You Ready for Some Football?   Monday Night Football Theme It attracts like nothing else It attracts like nothing else Emotions stirred in every way Time is an issue Two or three hours or more It could be almost any day Sixteen, nineteen, even twenty two Meetings they say, August, September, October November, December also January and February too Sunday or Monday always Thursday and Saturday sometimes It moves and stirs The appetite hungers It wants him more and more...Read Full Story

Today's tattooed poet is named Nescher Pyscher and hails from Cambridge, Ohio. Nescher offered  up his right wrist for us here at Tattoosday: Photo courtesy of Nescher Pyscher Nescher explains: "The tattoo was done in two parts. The first part was my wife's name in Chinese, surrounded by an infinity symbol. It was my wedding present for her. I designed the tattoo myself, and I was inspired to do so by a ink-stamper-thing-y my wife's father brought home for her from China . The second part, my...Read Full Story

inherited from the Romantics, as was the antagonism ghd hair straighteners toward an urban life regulated by the cycles of modern industry and commerce. The followers of Baudelaire eventually became associated with a literary and cultural disposition which stubbornly resisted the main streams of thought stemming from the Enlightenment, and which crystallized toward the end of the nineteenth century as a series of reactions against the realism and naturalism then in vogue. These reactions...Read Full Story

Umar Ibn al-Farid (b. 576 [hijri date]/1181 CE; d. 632 [hijri date]/1235 is the most venerated mystical poet in Arabic. An accomplished Sufi as well as a respected poet, his poetry blends the two traditions-classical Arabic poetry and Islamic mysticism-in a body of work with a distinctly devotional and mystical character. In a major contribution to the critically acclaimed and long lived Classics of Western Spirituality™series, editor Th. Emil Homerin makes available here two of Ibn al-Farid...Read Full Story