The Arts community in Colorado Springs, CO came together to support their local Hear, Here! Poetry Slam team. The team worked together to produce excellent material. If you like what you see and read, you can check out the CD online. As a result of these efforts, some talented artists and the Hear, Here! Team won […]
Earworm: Poem of Champions Read More »
one the senses explore the world, and inform us of all that is for the world is all we know and we all know different. The universe is fractal cousins look alike and yet, you are not your brothers and sisters and certainly not those in far off lands. We cannot answer for each other,
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: All times I
Ulysses by Tennyson Read More »
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars. Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass
A Clear Midnight, by Walt Whitman Read More »
When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an attic, Gatherings of days too few. Baubles of stolen kisses. Trinkets of borrowed loves. Trunks of secret words, I cry. by Maya Angelou
When You Come, by Maya Angelou Read More »
An ethical dilemma: Do I switch channels, ditching rain-delayed Daytona, abandoning poor orphaned Junior before he safely rounds Turn Four for the final time, that deadly curve that claimed his daddy back on 2/18/01? (Let us bow our heads in a moment of silence for the Intimidator.) Or do I stay with Dale till Victory
Rednecks and Bluebloods Read More »