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Tag Archives: nostalgia
Reducto Nostalgia: quatorzain
Some folks who wax nostalgic will believe that all the future’s answers can be found back in a yesterday that never was which lingers, like some land of make believe: a place where truth and justice are dispensed like manna … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, blindness, fate, ignorance, illusion, nostalgia, poetic forms, quatorzain
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New Directive: glosa, glose, gloss
Back out of all this now too much for us, Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather – Robert Frost Back out? How far? … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, destiny, Directive, dream, glosa, glose, gloss, illusion, nostalgia, poetic forms, Robert Frost
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The Simple Life: a bucolic
The simple life, that free from care and vain illusion we once led, in whose embrace our flourishing and true existence found their height, and with such grace evolved from beasts, abandoned filth and savage ways, escaped the snares of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, bucolic, daily poems, emptiness, illusion, nostalgia, pastoral elegy, poetic forms
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It’s Our Fault
If the world was better in your youth, and kids had much more sense; if things once great have gone to shit, and nothing makes much sense, you only have yourself to blame: your parenting did this. How damned convenient … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged blame, daily poems, education, leading by example, NaPoWriMo, nostalgia, parenting, responsibility
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The soundtrack to our lives
Watching the Michael Jackson memorial in bits and pieces in between work, I noticed that so many mentioned his songs as the “music they grew up to”. And it made me think of two things: First, I’ve always said the … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged Chris Rock, High School Musical, life, Michael Jackson, nostalgia, soundtracks
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Solid Gold
Shall I repeat again tonight the songs you heard last night and many nights before, and soulless, mouth the words you sing along, pretending love for money, like a whore? Are these the only tunes worth your applause, a tired … Continue reading
Back to Natchitoches
Big city living can be so unforgiving: people running ’round everywhere. Good chance your neighbors don’t care if you ain’t got a dollar to spare. Everyone looking for the next thing cooking, but ending up hungry and mean – man, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged dedications, Natchitoches, nostalgia, theme songs, tourism
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