Who searches and listens
with open heart and a healthy
Muse, awaiting the bursting
forth of a metaphor reflecting
that in life which is soulful,
gentle, appreciative of both
nature and humanity,
loving appreciations for
justice, honesty and the milk
of human kindness, but
which arrives full blown as
a plateful of poop, accompanied
by the words “I am your mouth!.”
nan
Gives grief life!
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953) wrote one of the most powerful and moving poems of all time, and this one has always been my favorite.
It’s been said to be about old age, but in these dark times, it has another meaning to me.
I never considered myself a patriot before, but now that my country seems to be broken beyond repair, I’m realizing I do in fact have a deep patriotic streak and am willing to fight for its survival. This poem brings out that part of me and has the power to move me to tears.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
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Taking this to heart:
“Youhavescarsonyourarm.” People sometimes approach me, whilst staring at my limb. My first and foremost reaction is to look down at my arm in fake surprise and panic, pretending I hadn’t previously realised the marks. Thank you Captain Obvious for your insightful input.
Sarcasm aside, I am more than happy to explain the cause of the raised streaks: when I can tell that a person is genuinely intrigued-and not intending to belittle me. I am comfortable with admitting that I did this to myself at low points in my life. That’s what happened. Why should I be ashamed of that?
I do not blame those who stare, or those who sneak a peek when they don’t realise that I can still see them out of the corner of my eye. It’s different. It’s human nature to feel that desire to take a second glance at the…
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The purple skein of yarn is no more.
It has run away–
Hi ho, away I say! Away.
Sweater half begun. No one
left to don it. No one, I say!
The sink is empty, the tree
uprooted. My life? It’s
been one long improv. An
improv, I say! One two three
five–no, four, dammit! I
never did get it right, a life
of improvisation….
Middle-aged bleached me
in a used yellow Gremlin
heading up Route 7
on Woden’s Day,
slow truck in font,
burdened, toting
sixteen logs that slip
toward the front, inside
their iron chains,
sixteen logs from the forest,
leaving 16 stumps behind.
At 8:20 a.m. on
May 5, nineteen eighty-two, in
Appalachia, decade
of Brooke Shields,
Century of Ann Frank,
millenium of St. Joan,
a mud-spattered Ohio
license hangs beneath
rough-cut faces
of former trees,
somewhere, pressed
between yesterday and
tomorrow on the long
journey to the mill.
So there I was, just a few minutes ago, lying on my back on the bathroom floor trying to get a drop stopper out of my bathroom sink. Seems I had leaned on my nail clipper and the connector gadget had gone down the drain. So I had rushed to
Google and saw how to remove the drop plug, but it took me 20 minutes to get up off the bathroom floor after the first step. Then the directions said I was supposed to remove the plug and then go back underneath and re-connect. That’s when I ran for my website to tell you all about it and get a chance to use one of my “awful” photos,.
r a limited time get Google Home for $99!”See this also on my page Secrets Two. from
scholars such as Claire Colebrook, Rosi Braidotti and Tim Morton. Their work investigates how the category of humanity is formed and sustained – largely through literary, artistic and social practices. They actively question the validity of this category and the extent to which it should be protected or retrenched.
The Citizens United Supreme Court decision sure made it easier for these gentlemen to Increase their demongoguery tenfold!
Ed Berger, a retired teacher who lives in Arizona and is active in the struggle to save public schools, has written a powerful post about the billionaire-funded movement to destroy our democracy.
It begins like this. I urge you to read it all:
“Within the core of our freedoms, lie the avenues powerful individuals use to take away the rights of citizens and the controls of government designed and evolved to serve all. Americans are now aware of the reality that subversive forces have made excessive headway in destroying our rights.
“What has been allowed is the incursion of an Oligarchy: The few exploiting the many. We are witnessing the theft of human rights through the infiltration of what were meant to be representative systems within a constitutionally defined government.
“My first introduction to those who want absolute power was through studies of The Robber Barons in America in the…
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You’re certainly a “mindful” poet!
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