That gooseberries on the front door repel snakes
Yesterday at Satya Narayana vratam,
The family who held the pooja
Offered gooseberries to the Brahman
An old lady gets ready to chase the Brahman
‘Its auspicious to touch the feet of a Brahman
In the month of Kaarthika!’
Net Galley Challenge
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Designing Life
A term of Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a further life
Erikson's stages of development
Imru'u l Qays
Erikson's stages of development
Imru'u l Qays
Turmoil at readers end
One morning I had a spill. Tea on a book. The spill led me to Out,Out. After reading the poem, I wondered why it didnt appear in an anthology of Frost poems that I had read.
Reading poems related to dreams I read The Tower. Ben Bulben in it makes the title Under Ben Bulben familiar. Seeing the recurrence of Ben Bulben, I set out to read the poem but I am nagged by how I could have better appreciated the poems with some knowledge of Irish history and who are the poets from 1800 and 1700s with whom my origin lets me connect without effort.
In many days I havent come across a poem where I had to refer the dictionary.
Fons
Reading poems related to dreams I read The Tower. Ben Bulben in it makes the title Under Ben Bulben familiar. Seeing the recurrence of Ben Bulben, I set out to read the poem but I am nagged by how I could have better appreciated the poems with some knowledge of Irish history and who are the poets from 1800 and 1700s with whom my origin lets me connect without effort.
In many days I havent come across a poem where I had to refer the dictionary.
Fons
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Facing the heat
The fires is a must read for anyone curious about how a modern city works.- book's blurb.
That an opened door is an invitation for the fire to engulf the person who opens the door, that a big hole in the roof helps control the fire.. a hole in a roof is said to be enough to ruin a barn. The say of a buliding's architecture in its reaction to fire.
That an opened door is an invitation for the fire to engulf the person who opens the door, that a big hole in the roof helps control the fire.. a hole in a roof is said to be enough to ruin a barn. The say of a buliding's architecture in its reaction to fire.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Writing under prosthesis
There is a little difference between the glasses and the boobs to me,just things I wear when I'm awake, each an item to bridge the world between my dreams and waking time, between whoever I am and the rest of the living world.
- The sky begins at your feet
- The sky begins at your feet
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
What is a good book?
When I am looking for something new to read, its novelty should match The wave watcher's companion
I want it to have big ideas.
Reading poems on poets.org, I like how with the search on the top right, you can make an anthology of your own of any common subject. I wake up and think, I want to read poems on 'morning' and I just need to have time to read 70 poems on it.
I want it to have big ideas.
Reading poems on poets.org, I like how with the search on the top right, you can make an anthology of your own of any common subject. I wake up and think, I want to read poems on 'morning' and I just need to have time to read 70 poems on it.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Lyric check
To know if my poem is ready to go out, I will send it through the Dancing naked on the floor check.Its in the style of Billy Collin's Workshop
Alternately, Poetry should ride the bus
Morning kiss must be different from the others in some way
Here a link to a poem with marriage being sstained by morning and evening promises.
Midnight poems
you will not
Alternately, Poetry should ride the bus
Morning kiss must be different from the others in some way
Here a link to a poem with marriage being sstained by morning and evening promises.
Midnight poems
you will not
Friday, December 31, 2010
You could do this while hiking in a difficult terrain
The author of Kilimanjaro: A photographic journey to the Roof of Africa composed a song in the language he learnt in the four days he was in the mountains hiking.
Joys of poetic acquaintances
I came across Those Winter Sundays in The 100 best African American Poems and recognised having read it before. There was a sudden surge of interest in eating and staying awake.
I try to get my hands on whatever poetry lies on the racks in the town library. I leaf through words and most times miss their connection in the poem, looking for that poem which spikes my interest in its wholeness, some relay themselves much later.
I try to get my hands on whatever poetry lies on the racks in the town library. I leaf through words and most times miss their connection in the poem, looking for that poem which spikes my interest in its wholeness, some relay themselves much later.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Desires
because desires do not split themselves up, there is
one desire
touching the many things, and it is continuous
Human Wishes, Robert Hass
Is it the school of reason that goads you with a stick to just find one reason for an action that leads us into the single desire conclusion?
Desire is among other things a function of repitition or so the very patterns of life have led you to believe.
Annotations, John Keene
one desire
touching the many things, and it is continuous
Human Wishes, Robert Hass
Is it the school of reason that goads you with a stick to just find one reason for an action that leads us into the single desire conclusion?
Desire is among other things a function of repitition or so the very patterns of life have led you to believe.
Annotations, John Keene
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
How the big banged
Leavings
Let us hear from you
Antaeus
Stegner Fellows:
Ernie J Gaines
Ed McClanahan
Hayden Carruth disliked Alice in Wonderland.
Let us hear from you
Antaeus
Stegner Fellows:
Ernie J Gaines
Ed McClanahan
Hayden Carruth disliked Alice in Wonderland.
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