Thursday, October 31, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 31 



Great blue
(heron, that is)

in the great blue
(sky, that is).



Wednesday, October 30, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 30 



A red-
winged fury

attacks
the hawk,

sets him
back -

you've
done that,

when what
you wager

is all
you'll ever

gain.



Tuesday, October 29, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 29 



The day always bends
back on itself.

Night always comes
to night again.

A thousand rehearsals,
ten thousand more,

every one like every one
that ever came before.

No complaints, though, for
when you've stopped rehearsing

you're carried out the door.



Monday, October 28, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 28 



Hover hawk
on a grey

morning, in
the grey air,

looking for
breakfast here.



Sunday, October 27, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“If dead
poet's could

speak,
would they?”

*

“Words
are all we have

against
the silence

of the dead.”

*

“If not
the sear

of this
moment,

then
nothing.”



Saturday, October 26, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“Everything
you do

is on
the way to

what you're
going

to do.”

*

“Old sick poet -
how bad can it be?

It can be pretty bad.
I don't do sick well.”

*

“Old sick poet -
tired and glad to be

headed home.”



Friday, October 25, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 25 



Is it
smoke

or is that
sadness

drifting off?



Thursday, October 24, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 24 



Flash of sun
off water,

wink of sky
with wind.

The day rolls
westward.

The season
wants to turn.



Wednesday, October 23, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 23 



Storm ahead.
Darkness chasing.

Seems I'm always
caught between.



Tuesday, October 22, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 22 



Wide bird
rides the sky.

Wind makes him
wobble;

wind lifts him
high.



Monday, October 21, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 21 



I've had
my coffee.

I'm moving west
with the day.



Sunday, October 20, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“A bad start -
don't try to

light it
when you can't

find the fuse.”

*

“Writer's block -
flint

in the lighter,
no fluid.”

*

“Old sick poet -
I have the heart

for writing, but
don't have the juice

today. I've been
sick.”



Saturday, October 19, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“You, too, could
write poetry

if it was
all you

thought about.”

*

“If you have to
worry about
word choice, you

have more problems
than I can
help you with,”

*

“Train on the sidetrack.
Poet with nothing to say.”



Friday, October 18, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 18 



Wind's burden,
the birds,

scattered.



Thursday, October 17, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 17 



Always going
somewhere,

never being
there -

no wonder
I'm unhappy.



Wednesday, October 16, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 16 



Wickedness
of the sky -

everything not
tied down is

flying by.



Tuesday, October 15, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 15 



Dust or shadow
or something else

in wind like this?



Monday, October 14, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 14 



Harrier
above the harried,

finding supper.



Sunday, October 13, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“The poet's cupboard -
nothing there

when you get there.”

*

“These
crooked

lines.
Nothing

is straight
as it

appears.”

*

“The cool
morning air.

The joy
of being

alive
still. The

old poet
gives thanks.”



Saturday, October 12, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“A poem is
like the scab
that forms

where you've pulled
off your skin.”

*

“The poet's
empty mind.

A bus
that doesn't

go downtown.”

*

“The old sick poet
tries to bribe

the nurse
for a cup of ice,

death
with a poem.

Not much luck
with either.”



Friday, October 11, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 11 



Red-tails across
Kansas, evenly

spaced as far as
the eye can see,

respectful each
of the other, each

perched at an edge
all its own.



Thursday, October 10, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 10 



Wyoming sky -
there's mountains

where clouds
should be!



Wednesday, October 09, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 9 



Wind rides high
in this wide

Wyoming sky.



Tuesday, October 08, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 8 



The wind
plays whackamole
with the clouds -

the clouds
are winning.



Monday, October 07, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 7 



What clouds
do to mountains,

mountains
do to clouds.



Sunday, October 06, 2013

FROM THE OLD POET SAYS 



“These words
shape themselves.

I push, they
push back.

When
finally

I let go,
they fall

in place.”

*

“A few
words you

need to
chew -

the poem.”

*

“Is this
how one

should spend
himself -

tiny
words and

tiny
poems,

every
moment

only
inches

from death?”



Saturday, October 05, 2013

FROM THE OLD POET SAYS 



"Happy fools!
We do our

best when we
don't know what

we're doing."

*

"Blessings
you don't
recognize

your only
complaints."

*

"Fool poet,
you talk too much

of silence."



Friday, October 04, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 4 



Camels at pasture,
the edge of Wyoming.

Why are you surprised?



Thursday, October 03, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 3 



Does one
dare to speak

of Cheyenne's
luminous

smog?



Wednesday, October 02, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 2 



Country so empty
even the billboards

have nothing to say.



Tuesday, October 01, 2013

LINES FOR OCTOBER 1 



Sometimes, out here,
when you get there,
there's no there there.



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