a poem is a sermon
Rescind your tortured sentences; let words escape like AWOL soldiers past the fence, like sullen rocks that would grow wings like birds and fly out into fresh experience. Rethink your injured poems; let each line cascade in a cacophony of sound where all the images you dare define in simple rhythm’s ancient tongues resound. Don’t […]
Philosophically, I’ve walked the wrong side of the tracks for quite some time; and in a chasm that’s grown bigger I have passed ridiculous into sublime. But the fundamental differences between us haven’t really crossed my mind: you on one side claiming genius, leaving me a portion of insanity. There may be a difference, but […]
There is something liberating about waking up early. Not too early, mind you. But earlier than you need to be awake; and if you’re lucky, early enough to see the last of the night disappear in the whitewash of the morning sun, and to hear the birds when they first rise and start practicing their […]
Freedom of speech doesn’t do any good If no one has time to stop and listen; Not that anyone actually could Listen, with their mouths also open. So I will stop talking, at least for a while, and let everyone else have their say; I will listen to the same things repeated by countless others, […]
Thanks to a thread over at Have Your Say Today. The question: should guns be banned? My answer is, and I dedicate it to Charlton Heston, Tom Selleck and Arnold Schwarzenegger – each who may use it as they see fit: No. Banning guns violates the Bill of Rights guarantee of the right to bear […]
Is it real obscenity, or just a lack of taste? To legislate morality seems such a useless waste. For standards vary by observer, and from day to day; Leaving little black or white, but only shades of gray. Let Washington decide the content, and it won’t be long Before no matter what you say, it […]
Feelin’ in my bones I just can’t shake these lonesome blues Standin’ at the crossroads thinkin’ either way I lose If I leave that girl in Birmingham the fault will just be mine But things will be no better done this time Woke up in the station, morning breeze around my head Standin’ at the […]