Monday, March 31, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 31
Sunday, March 30, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“One of
God's
fingers
invites
you in;
the other,
the middle,
does not.”
*
“This is all
rehearsal.
What are you
waiting for?”
*
“Everything
I could tell you
about poetry
is there,
in the poems.”
Saturday, March 29, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Not
haiku
but what
haiku
can be.”
*
"Let go
the earth
when the earth
lets go."
*
“A few old tricks -
just to show us
you can do them.”
Friday, March 28, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 28
Thursday, March 27, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 27
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 26
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 25
Monday, March 24, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 24
Sunday, March 23, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“All day
the words
pursue
me and
sometimes
even
into
the night.”
*
“Like a dog
that won't let
go its bone,
the poet.”
*
“Not
the word,
the thing
that sings.”
Saturday, March 22, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Poetry
doesn't need you
to be smart.
It needs you
to listen,
to pay attention.”
*
“Silly poet!
That hawk
works much
too hard to
inhabit
your poem.”
*
“Not the logic
of logic,
the logic
of poetry.
Not promises -
deliverance.”
Friday, March 21, 2014
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 20
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 18
Monday, March 17, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 17
Sunday, March 16, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Pray for nothing
and be surprised.”
*
"Writing
in the dark,
sometimes
I do my
best work.”
*
“Under-
stand?
If you
say you
do, you're
lying.”
Saturday, March 15, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Broken lines
and static,
these partial
transmissions
I can't make
sense of.”
*
“Sometimes,
yes,
it is only
this
with nothing
more
to say about
it.”
*
"When what you need
is poetry
even a short one
will do."
Friday, March 14, 2014
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 13
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 12
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 11
Monday, March 10, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 10
Sunday, March 09, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“What
we promise
keeps like ice,
us poets.”
*
“I make my choice -
the world turns
the other way.”
*
You might lay claim
to someone's gift,
but it's not yours,
you know it's not.”
Saturday, March 08, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Sometimes
the beat.
Sometimes
the turn,
Sometimes
the sun
against
your arm.”
*
“Almost useless,
the promises
of a poet.”
*
“Poetry,
blindness
of the pig
in mud.”
Friday, March 07, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 7
Thursday, March 06, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 6
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 5
Red-tail spreads its
wings half as
wide as the sky,
lifts the wind,
lifts the day,
lifts the blue
dome away.
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 4
Monday, March 03, 2014
LINES FOR MARCH 3
Sunday, March 02, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Ah, the poem – like
tasting the pear.”
*
“As if
I know
what I
sound like -
they say
it sounds
like me.”
*
“Even if
you could sell
your poems
it would still
be a sin.”
Saturday, March 01, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“All my life
I practice.
For what?
For the art
of it.”
*
“If could
a word
disappear,
then only
thing.”
*
"Is there
anything
else to
break
once you've
broken
your lines?"
