I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. -T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) A Choka how the star dissolves into the morning's first brew bobbing and fizzing at the glistening surface pushing hopelessly against edges unyielding which rim the opaque nectar of our universe weightless particles screened by hazy nebulae desperately quaffed in… Continue reading Cupped, or: Limitless
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. -T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) I have been writing poetry with my friend Sangeetha (of Mindfills) for nearly two years now, and we've completed three series of poems together: Ripples ~ a hyakuin (a 100 verse renga) Form verses creativity ~ one poetic form for every letter… Continue reading Word of the year: Creativity
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. -Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. -Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881) Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. -Plato (~423 – ~347… Continue reading We walk in circles, so limited…
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.-John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.-Helen Keller (1880 – 1968) A man must dream a long time in order to act with… Continue reading So the darkness shall be the light…
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.-Steven Wright (b. 1955) You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.-Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) We all write poems; it is simply that poets… Continue reading Language at its most distilled and most powerful…
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