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[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
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experience = wisdom
wisdom = age
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As grey invades black
bones begin to ache
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reflections over time
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seeing youth through experienced eyes
by Michael Vass
How Wrong Can You Be? Thomas Gray
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[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
By Jack Peachum
Guest Author
I recently took the opportunity to comment on the poem “Ode On A Favourite Cat (Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes)” by Thomas Gray at Poemhunter. Don’t be put off by the title– I said it there and I’ll say it again– [...]
Wine Critics v Rock Critics
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Given the choice between listening to rock critics wax endlessly on garage centric one shot wonders who emerged from Decatur suburbs and wine critics swanning about about a particular pour’s pretensions, bouquet, garish aftertaste or the quality of the buzz it might give you, I would have [...]
Ashbery’s mojo
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
It comes down to whether you appreciate the conflations Ashbery artfully manages as he penetrates the membrane between Steven’s Supreme Fiction, that perfect of Ideal Types and their arrangements, with the material sphere that won’t follow expectation, nor take direction. I happen to think that much of [...]
Humility
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
Hats? Oh, not for me; I never care
to cover up my head. I like the feel
of openness, of wind in ruffled hair.
I’m always one who’d rather stand than kneel—
you’d never find me walking at the heel
of someone called a shepherd, called a guide.
Everyone said I had [...]
The Future Of POD (Or Why Vanity Publishing Will Get More Vain)
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[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
Google Books has been getting a lot of bad press in recent months due to its intentions to build the world’s largest library of stolen books. The controversy has centered around a clause in its agreement with prominent book publishers and authors over what to do [...]
Kicking Mailer When He’s Dead
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
It’s time, I think, that the amorphous reading mob called call “we” slide past hurt feelings and admit that the late Norman Mailer did write more than a few books where talent outshone excess and ego. In my mind , any way, and you can read my [...]
Mt. Adams at Sunrise
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
is posted as part of the Columbia Center for the Arts Plein Air anthology, 2009.
Addendum: I have several poems in the current issue of The Road Not Taken.
Ending Ramadhan
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
The fasting month of Ramadhan ends this weekend.
My belly, empty as a bell
for four full weeks, is ringing close
to closing. Shrinking moon-shapes tell
the tale of days. A dimming dose
of moonlight limns the month’s demise
as shadow claims the silver limb
and turns a mouth of round surprise
to glimmer [...]
World Of Mine
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[?]Stained blue skies with a peck of pink
Wandering birds with wide open wings
Dust and leaves ride the wind
Paradise on earth as the angels sing
Smiling sun sends forth his warmth
Listening to the yearns of needy men
Rays of joy slay the shadows of evil
Echoes of happiness linger in heaven
Knight of love seeks the [...]
A Fear Resides
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[?]raindrops fall as the light dims
a darkness so great takes me in
misery’s friend calls my name
Alone i fight this fear of mine
oh sweet angel do you think of me
when you’re far away in desert land
is your love as strong as mine
do you whisper my name at night
do you dream of me [...]
A Love So True
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[?]My heart whispers your name with every breath I take
Miles apart, yet I feel the warmth of your arms around me
every day, thoughts of you hover in this mind of mine
and through this pain, your hazel eyes are all I see
when night falls, I light a candle in your name
praying to [...]
KBOO
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
I’ll be making a brief appearance (is that even the right word??) on KBOO’s “Talking Earth” show, Sept 21 at 10 PM. (Actually sometime between 10 and 11. But listen to the whole show anyway.)
Collection available! Knocking from Inside
Scribblers on the Roof
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
has published “Leavened Bread”. You can read it here. I’m very happy to have found a home for this one.
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jim carroll is dead
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
eventually you roll up your sleeves
after you arise from the nod
to notice
the back of your shirt is covered
in grass stains and
small twigs
the shape of crucifixes.
there’s another song
these fingers will manage
as nicotine tips strike
keys that click
and snap another
name that
occurs to you
when the morning sun
is right where you like [...]
Insomnia with Jane Hirshfield
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Jame Hirshfield is a quiet poet, it seems, a writer of diffuse focus but deep feeling who manages to report from the far ether of her perception a slight and painfully sincere testimony to her difficulties bring the significant items of experience into a poetic redress. There [...]
Jack Spicer speaks to 9/11
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Ron Silliman commemorated the 9/11 anniversary on his blog yesterday with a gruesome photograph of ground zero with two poems by Jack Spicer superimposed over the carnage. It understandably caused a minor tempest among a few readers who thought we’d had enough fetishism over the attack , [...]
Are The New Formalists Just A Literary Footnote?
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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
T.S. Eliot was a big fan of footnotes. Just read “The Waste Land”. I think the notes take up more space than the poem – and it’s a long poem.
I don’t think the New Formalist poets have that problem. From X.J. Kennedy to Dana Gioia, the New [...]
The Company of Seekers
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
Original image by Karin Lindstrom
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Banking on The Beatles
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
The marketing of the Beatles continues with undelayed urgency, with the advent of Beatles Rock Band video game, and now the remastering of many Fab Four recordings in a flashy, bulky, expensive package. I cannot see myself having my history sold to me yet again; my memories [...]
Chance of showers
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
There is no smoke from the city today,
the streets are crowded with cars
and pedestrians waiting their turns.
it’s warm
as a wool hat
worn on a July beach,
the late afternoon shadows
begin earlier in the day,
shadows of birds
against the tallest
of what’s been built
dash by , barely seen
by eyes reading a newspaper
or [...]
Torch Singer
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
They think it’s hip to be scofflaws,
nonconformists, not members of some
faceless multitude. They’re all half-asleep,
nodding over flasks of plum wine
and sugary confections in an illegal
all-night dive
where in the harsh limelight she sings
husky-voiced, for a pittance. Her life’s
no bed of clover, but she’s content.
She’s extending her talents, [...]
Scrap
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
As summer starts to swiftly leave
beyond all hope of spring’s reprieve
an autumn shudder lends a hint
of winter’s unforgiving stint—
auspicious omens can’t predict
what deviation will be picked
to flourish for another blink
while former failures face the brink.
The epochs come then glumly go,
stagnation tends to settle slow,
the seasons change, but [...]
Enter The Smoking Poet’s Cigar Lounge
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[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
I’m proud to announce that I am among good company in being a part of The Smoking Poet’s new online issue. If you like fine cigars and good literature then I’d encourage you to check it out. There are some good reads.
My piece is not a [...]
When books talk back to you
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Having literary genres and various sub categories is a fine thing to have at your disposal when your pressed with putting a label on a book that baffles you after you finish it; more than once I’ve looked at a book in my lap seeming to stare [...]
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