Tag Archives: experience

Anti-Virus: a complaint or lamentation

Posted on May 3, 2011 by John

I wonder how the world would be if thirty years ago, instead of playing thankless gigs, a soundbyte of a show I’d done when merely seventeen (and better then, than now) would have been made, and hit the ‘net (God … Continue reading →

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Each moment is a threshold

Posted on June 22, 2005 by John

Each moment is a threshold hinged upon an ancient door; we swing between two rooms: the future, and what’s come before. Experience, the lubricant that smooths the rust and squeaks, we start to use, and learn to hoard, before we … Continue reading →

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On Bards of Old

Posted on May 4, 2005 by John

Did bards of old, I wonder, ever tire of rooting through their souls for a new verse in order to instruct, praise or inspire through their connection with the universe, and after twenty years of “learn by rote”, requiring mastery … Continue reading →

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Tradition and the Individual Talent

Posted on June 3, 2004 by John

for T.S. Eliot When Icarus took flight with home-made wings he sought to rise above, not divine laws, but listening to how the eagle sings attempted to reach past the aeropause that culture places on its young when born to … Continue reading →

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Untitled Sonnet

Posted on May 31, 2003 by John

If I never saw another morning sky nor waked to hear the sparrows on the lawn, if roses gave no scent when I walked by and all the butterflies were dead and gone, there still would be their memory in … Continue reading →

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