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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Classical Music

Listening to the classical music, I had to strain my mind to move from piano to what the instrument might be. after trying to recall similar aural situations, bugle I rested on. concentrating on the classical music, do we become the instrument that is being played?

Monday, August 11, 2014

The Age of Auden

What W.H.Auden can do for you


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

Because.. so

This prompt is from my daughter who says

"Because I want to meet my friend So"

because heart is a timer so
because our obit announces us so


A friend contributed
because I said so


Collected Longer Poems



The Good life is confined above the snow-line
A style whose meaning does not need a spanner
 At Home in Time has an essay The Reader in W.H.Auden's New Year Letter
If they thought art was upto nothing, why did they make it?
Oscar Wilde with his art is useless and Auden with his one less painting not changing history, is it a quibble with art?
Is art not a window into humanity?
Wallflower
In 'New Year's Letter', Auden call