Teaching With Heart

At a school, a teacher was pepping up the student lagging behind. He answered that he is walking.
I asked him what does she teach
"Everything"
How do some leave an everlasting impression. Whats their driving force? Some of the teachers here share the poems and what they find in them to move on forward with the tough job of teaching. I am familiar with some of the poets but none of the poems except for one which I heard in a poetry reading recording - Margaret Atwoods' "You Begin"
some of my favourites in the book are
Purple
Kindness
Famous
Edgar Degas and Philip Levine
The way it is 
What is your thread?
At the end of a book is a steb-by-step of how to start your own similar projects.
 Cant wait to use unseasonable. Another Lilacs in september.
The Real Work

The Back Chamber

I didnt enjoy this book as well as other Donald Hall books like 'Unpacking the boxes'.
'Apples peaches' poem is the authors reflection on the time left to him.
'What we did', 'Searching','The Gardener', 'The Offspring','Freezes and Junes' - all meditations on the authors wife, posthumous birthday celebration like.
'Rics progress' is a long poem with a movie story and follows the life of characters to the fag end of it.
'Envy'- author envies his pet's granted euthanasia.
'Maples'- leaves the reader with a strong image of the solitary landscape.

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?

The Age of Auden

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

That we are changed by what we 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

 

How were poems different when I was born?

Rope came true - tightened?
translated - transferred to heaven
slop bucket
Will always be true
A poem that you will read twice. Makes me wonder why didnt she refer by Castor and Pollux.  More of Lorrie Goldensohn Tea Musician?

what is the color of the tea?

R.G.VLIET's tea-brown curtains
make me wonder

is it not the colour of milk
if less tea powder
dark if boiled too long
and gold when it tastes
as you like

A tea invitation

To look out the clear backyard air and then into the cup

Dictionary

General purpose - suitable for two or more

Geophone  - vibrations through rock?

Write a Georgic like  Virgil

The Informed Air

Musquash coat

If a place could speak then each landmark would be a word. To have a great primitive black crag rising up in the middle of populated streets of commerce, stately squares and winding closes', she wrote, 'is like the statement of an unmitigated fact preceded by "nevertheless"