Crisp pear

Patricia Donegan


Why fresh fruit is crisp?

Dream

A lady bought
a decoration
with a cross of her
and another religion
to hang on her door

Putting the skin of aloneness on

A while ago at a lonely bus stop I saw a LED display with moving indicators of time and temperature. On the wintry night that moving display gave a cozy feeling. That place felt like you wouldnt feel alone even if you were.
This book with vibrant illustrations with background changing constantly spread by spread seems like that display. If you read the book fast enough you can match the rapping tune of the makers in the video How to be alone, of the same name as the book.

Smooth pebbles

Look at the red throat of the humming bird - then tell your story again by Ronald Baatz.

A child looking at ants

Cedar cones tumble

Half of the minnows

A turtle on a turtle

Mule dragging dawn across the bridge

dawn.. the rooster for sacrifice calls in the temple - K Ramesh

Some writers like Gail Sher have made Haiku practising famous. 

Kigo - spring rain?

poet Title clarifies poem

She picks paper white
as boiled egg

From the haikus that I liked best, I take lessons in
1. How few words can encompass the world. Like the Worldsowrth's world-grain-sand
2. Actions in nature, traced back to its origins, find company - cedar cones (Gerald Vizenor)
3. Ilusions - James W hackett - minnows in shallow
4. Origin of certain thoughts like Peggy Willis turtle on a turtle on a rock

Dawn.. the rooster for sacrifice calls in the temple - K Ramesh

My favourite - Mule dragging dawn across the bridge - John Willis

At the beginner level you will be taken by aleast few haikus and enjoy the moments of when the poetry was written.
I can memorise this poetry if not Shakespeare.

Good find

I have never heard of the poet BJ Ward. The cover of the book ’Jackleg Opera’ with its exposed piano is like Billy Collin’s poem ‘Building with its face blown off’. Rubberneckers welcome.

My favourite is ‘Upon learning that hearts can become stones’. It is easy to relate with poems that have a tangible inspiration. This poem triggered by a newspaper clipping is a good example of his enchanting poetry. For a beginner poet just coming to the acceptance or realization of this metaphor would be the start and the end, while the poet here draws out the evolution of hearts to stone through the channel of life and language.

In most poems, the lines are of equal length but the pacing of words split the lines in the readers mind while reading. Visually the poems have a formal long line look. But the verbs in the middle break the line causing the illusion of bite size literature. There is the occasional Emily Dickinson style dashes. Often I would auto read the poems and then go back to the beginning of the poem to make sure, I didn’t miss anything.

Most of BJWard’s poems address a definite subject ranging from banal like stapler to universal like love. It could be a turtle, answering machine, cats, lovers, absence, unavailable father. Father poems steer clear of bitter but not without leaving a chilling effect. Many of literary figures too show up for some humour.

Having been a poet for more than 2 decades, poetry workshops and book tours too find find place in the book. In one such, the poet compares writing poetry to skiing

‘spreading easily across white surfaces,

Making our way from one margin to the other

And leaving marks-‘

Darkness lingers in his poem like nature in Frost's

Most poems have three paras.

Point Reyes poems - prose poems

In 'A conversation'

'Hair is excitable as a child of four or five

It is a hammock on which the sleeper lies/

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Birdsongbooks

Myths Galore

Ixion and Echo
A review
Sister Wendy in poem Dutch and the coin in or out of Paternal Admonition
Disperple
Desquamate

The biscuit dome

If we didnt have gravity
the odor of things
would come in spheres

Anthology

Fossil of race.
A fossil is
a diary of times past
Bones are remains, the essence
that time leaves for later

Eggheads
The poem feel likes  the poet is talking about himself when he is so acquainted with the ways of eggheads at the end of first para.
I take your T-short to bed again starts in one place and ends in another
bowl of foreign coins - chokecherry heart
Mascon
Epithalamium

In every myth theres a secret. Something to think about when you read mythology.

Exercise: Wrte an outline of your memoir
outline for my memoir - poets note

Exercise:
The shape of pouring soy milk
Write of arrangement of nature - transitory, repeatable.

Ten-cent store

Stories

Class of the Titans. I like how the characters switch back and forth into modern times and ancient mythical time.

Thomas and Friends. For the first time I watched this. Episode of rescuing Hero, the oldest train that fell into disuse. Now you dont have to wonder why the trains get delayed, when they do.

Sleeping beauties. New tales see the day of light.

11.11.2014
Heard of Percy Jackson from a colleague.

Creative business cards

Creativeenvironments has a very creative business card with a fold showing a landscape idea in black and white indicating the design on the left inside, and a picture of the real landscape on the right.
Looking at some cool Business cards.
Fruit Salad Tree

Like Ruby Ridge

Guggenheim and mining
Placer mining
Mining claim
Saw off shotgun
come along Jack
Fallout Meter
Cant run never will

The author is a raconteur. He plays the omniscient and fills in the gaps of history of both the main character and the place McCarthy. Each chapter starts with a picture, some introducing new characters into the story. The author has remained impartial by showing how Pap Pilgrim was perceived by his supporters and opposers. The town talking through the newspaper is funny. The alternating chapters of Papa pilgrim's previous life and present show the divide in him appriopriately.
The blurb takes a very Piped Piper of Hamlin take at Papa pilgrim and so does the town initially. But wish the book had a rating indicative of the abuse, but then I would have missed reading a good author's work.

Amidst

Six columns

Pillars without base, supporting nothing
a row of Terracotta soldiers
In an open area
In ruins
Legs of an invisible table
Obelisks
Sarcophagi
Modern Stone Henge


Are dreams Installation art?