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Thus fails poetry

Posted on June 5, 2005 by John

What can I show you in mere words requiring some shared frame, a reference we both use to describe a common ground only imagined that in the vanity of hope we craft of veiled illusions, archetypes that may at best, … Continue reading →

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Cantos This

Posted on May 19, 2005 by John

That Pound should from the castle walls on high weight his Cantos with bricks, and with great gusto and abandon hurl these gems into the fosse so that the Philistines encamped and overnight drawn nigh should fall prey to such … Continue reading →

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Who Says That Poetry Dare Not

Posted on April 28, 2005 by John

Who says that poetry dare not describe, except in abstract, the signs of the times, when modern culture abounds with sound bytes from cinema, like Puzo’s line that all business is personal, and we hang with pride by electron pins … Continue reading →

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Toward More Colorful Newspeak

Posted on February 10, 2005 by John

If you’ve been reading this blog, you’re aware that I am in the process of organizing my poetry using del.icio.us keyword tags. I’m only about a tenth of the way through all the poems in this journal, and already I’m … Continue reading →

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The Shelter of Righteousness

Posted on February 5, 2005 by John

What good was in the world has gone, if we proclaim, with innocence, that justice has escaped our grasp, while our hands show no sign of fight and, at the end of stiffened arms held at our sides, are soft … Continue reading →

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Communication for a New Age

Posted on January 24, 2005 by John

This is primarily an intro to several chains-of-thought that make up the bigger picture. They probably will not be chained together in this way once each of them has been fleshed out a bit more. Each historical age is determined … Continue reading →

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My Mother Tongue vs. My Grandmother’s Tongue

Posted on May 27, 2004 by John

After having spent a number of days contemplating the connection between the Vedic and Celtic stream beds, via Indo-European language, and receiving a number of illuminating comments to my queries posted at several Celtic culture sites, I now find myself … Continue reading →

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