What does everything say?

"the unfurling carpet of guiding lights that say here, 
the voice of the controller that says now; " - Mark Vanhoenacker

we might say that we have essentially launched new stars into the sky
Internal Guidance system

Bloods orbit

If arteries and veins form  Bloods Orbit.
Internal and external metaphors. Different Scale.

Country Living Smart Solutions

white plates with dictionary-like drawings of butterflies and insects.

Earth as poetry

“It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.” 
― Henry Beston

Seafoam is when ocean has seizures.

What would your poem be with 'earth as poetry'?

I paused at this sentence

Set on thirty five leafy acres on a hillside
Thatch of curls

Unresume

A summary
of who you didnt be
of what you didnt do

Theft of Memory

poetry prompt:

1. " If we couldn't free it, we'd have to cut the line and attach another lure and begin all over" - Jonathan Kozol.

In the lake of literature, are many lures that instead of catching the poems caught 'piece of wood'.

In 'The Theft of Memory: Losing My father. One Day at a Time', author Jonathan Kozol slices the 'journey' of his father's illness which led him to lose his capabilities, join a nursing home, continuously ask his son to take him home. The son takes him home after reassessment of financial condition. Throughout the book, the author walks us through how he went through the decision making process, giving us an insight into what options were available to him, what things did he think of, how did the other caregivers, doctors, his lawyer, mother help him take decisions by bringing up points that he didnt think about. Fitting tribute to a neurologist, this book delves a lot into the author's thought scape.
The blurb says that this book 'is not primarily about a doctor's public life' but it is also about how the doctor's doctor failed him and how in general geriatrics is not treated as well as pediatrics, because it does not have 'future productivity'.
The author went through his father's clinical cases through his notebooks and accounts how he solved many cases. consistent Dementia. I thought it was funny that a spouse should get competitive of her caregiver's attention when she has to share it. The writing is successful at creating an image of his ailing father, genius father.

Map

Museum

Ballad
Understanding Wislawa Szymborska
Conversation with a stone

".. lake
that goes unnamed
and doesnt exist on this earth, just as the star
reflected in it is not in the sky."  - Water

Fish to Fish
Inventor of Zero

"The boat from which he stepped into the world, into un-eternity" - Born

Census

The legend of Owl was a baker's daughter in Beheading

children of  Vietnam

Thomas Mann

The Cave

Map Collected and Last poems of Wislawa Szymborska begins with her work from 1944. I am glad I stuck to the book. From Salt 1962 is when I started reading the book with fire. From then on, each poem had something to offer.
If the poet Wislawa Szymborska were a painter, her painting would be a montage that morphs from a hyperrealistic painting to a revelatory painting, retaining only the necessary objects.
Her poems deal with plain opposites - In 'To My Heart, On Sunday' - its the restlessly working heart on Sabbath rest day.
Her poems deal with movement - In 'The Acrobat' - movement in time (present and future) and space. Sometimes calculated like this and other times, its a huge push to future of

"Nothing - but after us,
who were here before
and ate our hearts
and drank our blood" - Cave poem

Her poems, zoom in on a single in a multitude in 'Snapshot of a Crowd'

Her poems use literary devices like alliteration, string of words
"Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels,
the flame, the flamingo, he flounder, the feather-" - Birthday poem
Her poems usually a page and a half long arrive by the end of the page, the next half is a bonus. Unlike some poets, you dont have to wait
till the end.

poetry prompt

1. write an  Inverted poem
2. write a Soliloquy
3. I prefer earth in civvies. Write a 'I prefer' poem.
4. I am Tarsier. Write from a different point of view.
5. To my heart on Sunday. Heart works endlessly even on Sabbath rest day. Any such opposites strike you?
6. The Acrobat places the performer in time and space, weaves through it as he moves. Are you amazed by any movement?
7. Snapshot of a Crowd. Multitude to a single. Can you zoom in on a tree in  a forest, grain in sand?
8. Dinosaur Skeleton. Addressing in many different ways, mocking the addressed.
9. Pi

Ten Windows

On Ten Windows
Language wakes up in the morning on poetrys speaking

1. The stillness of the world before Bach . What will your 'before' poem be on?

From the New world

Masaccio's expulsion
Linda Pastan and Jorie Graham

The last two seconds

Lions and Tigers

Excerpt

ivory figurine lady doctor

Poetry Prompt.

1. Both these poems below have their first lines as a rephrase of their titles. As if it were a question- answer response type or title standing out as something that came into place after the poem has happened.

The perpetual night she went into
Except for being it was relatively painless

2. Look at long explanation of words and see if they strike a chord
Close Observation Especially of one under Suspicion is from the dictionary's meaning of Surveillance

3. In Had there been, there is a corner, a murder takes place. Poets have a thing for corners.
In Sketching for poets, robert hass talks of a corner as an inspiration for a poem.
Do you have a corner like that?

4. What do you think of anything?
since a symbol is nothing but an illustration

Passing through

"If the water were clear enough

... but its not clear "

3 Sections

What inspires your poetry?

Review

poem after 9/11

prompt: 

"  A shimmering as in a mirage.

A darkening, as in an aftermath"

How strange would it be if you met yourself on the street?
still young enough to return a gaze

Collected Poems Mark Strand

Something is in the air is the kind of poem which will make the reader come up wit his/her own parallel poem of what that something in the air might be.
Taking a walk with you
Walking around like I stalked myself to the open door by Sandra Lim.

8-D inspiration for a problem

8d worksheet

If you have a problem or want one, start answering the questions in the 8 diciplines of Problem solving format.

Arabic Poems

searching for wild kine I ended up at a book - Desert Travel as a Form of Boasting.

I found it
Rain Song
Brief and Timeless  reminds me of an answer a friend gave about how she was managing something - with 'help and difficulty'.
The City is arc of madness -  Adonis

I never ...

"I never saw a cloud I didnt like" - William Stafford
"I never saw a machine I didnt want to run" - Ida M Tarbell
I never saw a book that I didnt want to crack open

Poem as a road

poem as a road
Where  do you take the reader?

Timer

The formal logic of the clock

What if all that we knew for certain
changed
if minutes ticked faster than seconds
and we didnt know the equation
and knew when a person
w(h)ere to transfer
we would have a farewell

Can you be like a clock
or do you want to be
an alarm
or a time stamp
an hourglass like the
Suikinkutsu (Water harp)

Antiques are time stamps
without such inscription

Change

That we are changed by what we change