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~ POEM OF THE MONTH Valentine For Ernest Mann You can’t order a poem like you order a taco. Walk up to the counter, say, “I’ll take two” and expect it to be handed back to you on a shiny plate. Still, I like your spirit. Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me [...]
Poem of the Month ~ January 2012 With Love, for John O’Donohue (1 Jan 1956 – 4 Jan 2008), Trickster, Lover, Poet, Sage This poem evokes quiet wonderment in me and reminds me of something O’Donohue said, with a lilting voice and a mischievous twinkle in his eye: “Mind your mind now, and steady yourself, [...]
Poem of the Month ~ November 2011 I love the tumble of images this poet crafts. And I now love this word: doggerel. You, too, can write your very own doggerel-style mantra, and place it in front of your very own Alter to the Incomprehensible. Caveat: take none of this seriously, lest an ear falls [...]
Poem of the Month ~~ October 2011 Happy Anniversary, Poem of the Month! October 2006: talking about poetry with Denny, my neighbor. A sudden inspiration: how ‘bout a flyer box in the front yard stuffed with poems? Just a wee conversation plus one simple act, and here we are, five years and 60 poems later! [...]
Poem of the Month ~ September 2011 Ah, Rumi. Ah, poem…such good medicine, quieting the need for certainly, the quest to figure it all out. To “be helpless” is joy itself. Receptive to the wisdom, beauty and fierce compassion of the Heart, I can only say, Whew! Let me be dumbfounded, please! Thank you, Heart. Send [...]
Poem of the Month ~ August 2011 There’s an old adage and it goes like this: You can be right or you can be happy. Indeed! Amichai’s poem inspired me to create, “The Little Mole Club.” Credo: Undermining Certainties; Radiating Happiness. Now Open! New members being accepted every single day! The price of admission: All [...]
POEM OF THE MONTH ~ MAY 2011 May you know True Happiness, which wants only to bless you, unceasingly. Such grace does abound. It is already so, as you read these words. –Krayna The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni HAPPINESS There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns [...]
Poem of the Month ~ April 2011 A miracle! Spring has come again! Sap is flowing, buds are swelling. What if, in the midst of the cries of this world, we lived as miracles? What if we flung ourselves into the Divine WOW! doing what is only natural in the face of such grandeur, such [...]
POEM OF THE MONTH ~ February 2011 Here’s to seeing differently! What if you look into your own heart, hear a new song sung in a bold voice, soak in your juicy imagination, and from that mysterious place within, express your tender, true, undomesticated dream. Hey, if this is crazy, sign me up! May crazy [...]
Poem of the Month ~ January 2011 Happy New Year! How ‘bout we all behave like the earth Hafiz describes and join the exuberant, “consecrated free-for-all” with whole-heartedness! I’m stuffing my sack with poems and who knows what else!!! Truly, may your love affair with the One turn you into a holy scoundrel, one of [...]
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