I decided to play with words by writing some haiku-like poems: a word swinging a smile a raven lands on the white page dancing words into story the silken wingtip of the butterfly touches the blank page creating poetry words evaporate becoming nothing words appear out of nothing blink and […]
A Poem Each Moment
“’When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.’ –James Tate Tate tells us that an awareness of language helps us to see the poem in all things, but I would add that an awareness of all things—not just lush farmland in the early summer. but crowded city streets, […]
Rebel with a Cause
Unlike James Dean starring in Rebel without a Cause writers have a legitimate need to rebel through their writing. “Sinclair Lewis wrote, ‘Every compulsion is put on writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. . . .’ Nonconformists We believe that powerful artists are always nonconformists and rebels, even though one may pledge allegiance […]
Write your Odyssey
I found the Odyssey to be one of the most profound works of ancient literature. The word “odyssey” implies journey. And aren’t we all on a deeper and more meaningful inner journey that transcends our physical journey through life? Carl Jung walked this path. So did many mystics and sinners. Alluding to Odysseus’ wanderings after […]
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