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Engagement The Point On We Like To Think Saying Nothing: sonnet A Boost for Sarah Bakewell Sing a Morning Song Time Enough Idle Chat(ter) Too Much is Still Unsaid Here and There The Five Pillars I Love Our Little Talks On Sharing the Wealth Something Else Anti-Social Media: free verse The World Doesn’t Need Conquering No More Martyrs Salt Dolls in the Sea What It Is The Time Not Now: villanelle Celebrity Nobody What You See: triolet Throw Me Something: terzanelle Ignorance <> Bliss: sonnet (terza rima) The Diamond Sutra: sonnet (Spencerian) The End of the World: sonnet (English) A Soul in Cement: sonnet (sonetto rispetto) The Ears Have It: sonnet (envelope) The Fire Game: sonnet (Italian) Talking Heads: sonnet (Sicilian) The Unbound Wheel: sestina The Great Pretender: sestet Any Day Now: Sicilian sestet Sense of Loss: sedoka The Echo Cages: rubai The Use of Sorrow: roundelay What Would Become: rondine The Passing Game Outside of Time: rondelet Blame the Mess: rondel supreme Ways and Means: rondel You Are the Path: rondeau redoubled Our Secret: rondeau What Is It: rispetto Shut Up and Row: rionnaird tri-nard Out There: rime royal No Substitute for Progress: qasida Dog in the Rain: Burns stanza No Time: rimas dissolutas With a Whisper: rhopalic verse Watching the Sunset: rannaigheacht ghairid The Dancing Bells: quintilla Outside the Cage: Sicilian quintet The Vocabulary Lesson: qasida With Us: pantoum Connecting Flights: ottava rima The Edge of War: Keatsian (English) ode Hunter-Seekers: limerick About a Horse The Recipe The Eyes Have It: Chaucerian madrigal Another Marionette: light verse Anthem: kyrielle Close the Book: haiku Untitled: tanka On Map-Making: waka The Snow Breathes: choka The Moment’s Warmth: katauta Who Really Knows: mondo Haters Loss: hir a thoddaid On Poetry and Prettiness On Fertilizer: heroic sonnet Absolute Nonsense Wake Up: gwawdonyn hir The Pursuit of Happiness: gwawdodyn Good Morning: gloss (glosa) Nothing Left to Lose: ghazal Nothing Matters: free verse No One Writes Letters: epistle Travel Plans: englyn unodl union The Whole Point: englyn unodle crwca The Minute Waltz: englyn proest gadwynog Mirror Moves: englyn proest dalgron The New Almost Normal Mirror Moves: englyn lleddfbroest Share Alike: englyn cyrch Left of How: English sonnet Anybody’s Anything: droighneach Here and Back Again The Tipping Point Mr. and Mrs. John Q: double dactyl What Urgency: descort Score None for Everyone: deibhidhe The Way of Not Alone: cywydd llosgyrnog There is Singing: cywydd deuair hyrion Lighten Up Already: cywydd deuair fyrion Straighten the Story: cyrch a chwta Tell Me Anything I Woke From What: cyhydedd naw ban The Road to Find Out: cyhydedd hir Spare Change: curtal sonnet Shout It Out Loud: complaint The Time is Now: common measure How Long Have I Seen: clogyrnach Small Change: cinquain What Else: choka What If We Win?: chant royal Indra’s Neti-Neti: chantey (shanty) Anti-Amergin: chant Who Sings Your Battle Song: chanso The Write to Read: caudate sonnet Speaking Time: casbairdne A Victory Sublime: carol (carole) Ameri Can How Bold and Beautiful: cancione Let Us Be Unbound: canzone Inside the Henhouse: byr a thoddaid Uncertain Eternity: bref double The Sellout: brag For Art’s Sake The Bright Pearl: bob and wheel What Good Is It: blues sonnet The Ride: blues stanza Suppositions: blank verse Your Feet Know the Way: benison A Song to Sing Too Fast, Too Young Beyond the Sea A Walk In The Rain The Old College Try Change Your Mind An Epitaph An Actor Prepares The levels of music Liquid Concentration: barzaletta Musical Chairs: ballade supreme Change My Mind White Hat Testing Stop Feeding the Wrong Wolf Slow and Steady: ballade The World’s a Mess: balada The World’s Not Like That: awdl gywydd Expecting Different Results Don’t Drink the Water: anagram The Blunderbuss Dragon: amphigory Curiouser and Curiouser Recrimination: alcaics The Sleeper: alba (aubade) Just Past the Fire: ae freislighe It’s a Mad Mad World Just a Second: acrostic Anger is an Energy Where is the Rebel Base? Gaining Experience Points Learn to Sing the Blues Provoking an Indelible Image A Wick, Awake, Awoke, A Wake Tasters’ Choice Dream a Little Dream On the Other Hand Cassandra’s Rejoinder Get Busy and Die Trying Talking Loud is Saying Nothing King Me, Please The Salmon in the Streambed Birth and Death The Plan It Planet No Time to Lose Idiocracy Emptiness Go Outside The Lineage of Fog Virtuosity Nothing to Say Imagine What When You Want So Many Words Without a Trace What’s the Score? Speaking the Tao Destined to Lose Your Reality Part of Your Dancing The future never happens Walk Away The Heart Sutra Bodhisattva The Shadow More Pretend Be Here Now, Or Don’t Be Zazen Salt Dolls and Other Temporal Measures Well then there now… Becoming A The Same Breath Prajnaparamita Solstice The Tuition of Wisdom Not So Empty: waka Seasoning Shikantaza This Moment of Now Thisness Sprung 15 AUG 22 The Beginning of Something 6 FEB 2022 No Substitute Out in the biosphere Doing Not Doing The Wider, More Ignorant World The Whole Everything Dividing Up the Blame The Presence of Today Go Ask Alice Don’t Preach Me Does Somebody Win? Only Our Effort: villanelle A Single Blink: triolet These Three Things: triad (Sub)urban Lawns: toddaid byr Plain Speaking: toddaid Come Out, Come Out: terzanelle A Simple Rule: tercet The Ancient Lie: tawddgyrch cadwynog Rainbows and sunshine: tanka Let’s Toast: stave The Undertone: terza rima The Notion of Privacy: Spenserian sonnet Eclipse: Shakespearean (English) sonnet Wake Up: sonetto rispetto What Now?: Sicilian sonnet One Cause Alone: envelope sonnet Causes Worth Fighting: Petrarchan sonnet The World is Broken: skeltonics What is Love: sestina On the Veranda: serenade Win or Lose: Sicilian septet Sky and Water: sedoka In Between: séadna Don’t Kill the Siren: sapphics Colors Besides Black Sailing to the Islands: rubai / rubaiyat It Is Their Flag: roundelay The Wind’s Words: roundel The Use of Dreams: rondine The World Remains: rondelet Meat or Wood: rondel supreme Such a World: rondel You Came to Hear: rondeau redoubled I Cannot Speak: rondeau The Same Street: rispetto If Seeking: rionnard tri-nard What Good is That: rime royal Closing Time: rime couée Good Grief: rimas dissolutas The Critic: riddle Lose or Win: rhupunt Idol Wake Early: rhopalic verse Day Flight: rannaigheacht mhor Little Bird: rannaigheacht ghairid Reducto Nostalgia: quatorzain Heart of Mine: Qasida Smoke and Mirror: poulter’s measure Simple Ways: pantoum A Thing Gets Old: ottava rima Small Towns: ode (Keatsian) Call It Madness: mad song I Thought I Knew: madrigal Rest Your Head: lullaby Debt Collection: limerick Blank Canvas: kyrielle Time Travel: katauta Let Loose: hir a thoddaid Not So Simple: heroic sonnet This is the Morning: gwawdodyn New Directive: glosa, glose, gloss Whatever Works: ghazal Sing the Song: georgics Quite Different Chains: free verse See Here Now: forensic poetry How Tragic: epistle (rubliw) Luck and Chance: epistle The Fall of Because: epilog Fit to Print: englyn unodle crwca Walk Out: englyn proest gadwynog What Happens Next Come Up: englyn proest dalgron Philosophy Useless? Or What We Consider Philosophy? Useless Feet: englyn lleddfbroest The Threshing Floor: englyn cyrch Change and transformation Nothing But Us: echo verse The Wild Wind: droighneach The Dust Cloud None Will Come Clean: double dactyl No Time Like Today: dithyramb Glory Evermore: dirge Cut the Crap: descort Dawn Patrol: deibhidhe The New Idea: cywydd llosgyrnoch The Subtle Taste: cywydd deuair fyrion Shape the Now: cyrch a chwta Random Theory: cyhydedd naw ban 14. See the World, Part 2 What We Pretend: cyhydedd hir The Great Lies: curtal sonnet Dictionary Gloss: the E’s Imagining the Cost: common measure Our Sum: clogyrnach Dictionary Gloss: the D’s Listen: cinquain Let go, let go, let go Put Away Those Foolish Thoughts Morning Dogs: choka Lines from Our Epitaph: chant royal The Wild Wonder: chant What Room to Move The Book of Forms (revisited, Round 3) Round Again: chanso The River: cautionary verse Battle Positions: casbairdne Arts and Crafts The World is Full of Magic: carole Science v Philosophy Don’t Worry, Be Happy: canzone What is Beauty: cancione A Thing Survives: byr a thoddaid The Simple Life: a bucolic Hope and Despair The Renaissance Myth: bref double She Saved Me: brag The World Begins: bob and wheel Not Those Kind of Blues: blues sonnet On Optimism: blank verse Politisaur: bestiary A Thing: barzeletta Some Sense of Meaning: ballade The Oxymoron of Social Media The Dance: balada Morning Breath: awdl gywydd Tall Tales: anagram Baby Elephant, Walk! The Last Word: amphigory Only Dream: alcaics At Dawn: alba or aubade Ode to Joy Into the Breech: ae freislighe Happy New Year: an acrostic Nominus umbra If Privacy is Power I Think Therefore The Secret Undertown Ministry Americans Undecided for Apathy 16. Philosophize Only By Accident Like Nothing The Dominant Species 8. Keep a Private Room Behind the Shop 6. Use Little Tricks 10. Wake From the Sleep of Habit 11. Live temperately 5. Survive love and loss (part 1) Farewell to Facebook 4. Read a lot, forget most of what you read, and be slow-witted 14. See the world 3. Be born 2. Pay attention 1. Don’t Worry About Death Using Twenty Questions as a Starting Point On Discussing Beginnings Each thing that starts must have an end The wise men all say look within Memory is the Greatest Weapon Wake Up America (from Otherhood) Screwtape Revisited On Reading Benjamin Franklin Preamble to a Dream Counterpoint: Domestic Strife and Miles ’64 Some Things The World Can Change I Wonder, St. Patrick No End of Days Both Kinds of Good When It Comes Those Whom the Goddess Calls Happen Shut Your Mouth The Jam The Conversationalists Something Else to Find Voodoo Rising Let the Cold Wind Blow Relativity How It Goes I Can See Ohio The Slightest Remnant New Year’s Eve 2014 Two weeks Conversate Cannon Fodder So Much To Do, So Little Time Single digit blues Generation Gap Music and me Back to the Bassics I Miss Lester Bangs A Flattery More Sincere Amerigeddon Somnambulism in the Rain A Drop in the Bucket Don’t Touch That Dial The Cruelty of Saint Valentine Keith Jarrett and the Abstract Truth Divine Intervention: Blessing or Curse Simple Truths: a ruba’i Memory: a poem of the five senses All Possible: a poem of lies Nothing is more true: a terza rima The answer: a 20 questions poem By Aid of Telescope: a kenning poem The tree of reason: a replacement poem A Toast to Anacreon Absolvo-Meal: an advertising jingle Little Girl Lost: a random playlist poem A Song The Old Guitar: a love song Out Back: an observation It Matters: a golden shovel Cycling: a lune The Cure is Worse It’s Our Fault Spare Change If the Germans Could Laugh Like the Irish TS BS Just Yesterday’s News I wonder if like days Your Children, Art and Earth Day In Defense of Pan Grr the Glab-Glab Listen to the Music The Wren (Drui-En) The Art of Happiness Fundraiser for my new album project Mere Words A flame in darkness The shadow knows P.S., T.S. America is Still: an erasure exercise The Ballad of St. Orwell Some music must be free Richie Havens Mother Earth Journey’s End The Loudest Sound Let go, let go, let go Nesorna’s Monologue The Borderlines I don’t believe that we have met The Speed of Now Freedom of Speech The Possible Festival Day The Smile That Sells You Could Change: tanka Response to the next table over Something about a city on a river Cannon fodder: an ottava rima It is not enough Epiphany To be in Kansas, nevermore Your backstage ghost At Shakespeare’s Feet The fainter stars The blues spoken here A simple turn of phrase A Prayer for Kurtis Cummings Lay down Deep End Abilities The Cow Sutra: a double dactyl The Legacy: a dizain So-Called Simpleton’s Rag: a ditty Join the Circus: a dithyramb Why Not?: a dit If You Should Curse Me: a dirum Let Loose Your Weapons: a dirge Winding Down: diminishing verse The Know of Unclouding: descort We Need New Gods: deibhidhe The Owl (Cailleach-Odiche) Imago: a decastich A lover’s question: a débat The Speech Not Given: a deachnadh mor A Screen Door of Perception: a cywydd llosgyrnog Speech Between the Fallen – a cywyyd deuair hyrion The Starting Point – a cywydd deuair fyrion When I Was Young Old Song Nothing Left to Prove Palimpsest An End to Madness Mabon Greater than the whole Something’s Coming A word used in place of the word implied Wit’s End This is Bliss Song within: a cyrch a chwta Sing, Then: a cyhydedd hir The ears have it: a curtal sonnet Anti-Virus: a complaint or lamentation Look Inward, Angel: common measure The flicker flame: a clogyrnach Not Right: a cinquain New Day: a choka Wounded to the Core: Chaucerian stanzas The End is Near: a chant royal Contraband: a chantey (shanty) All That Is: a chant Don’t You Cry: a chanson The End: a chanso The Great Unknown Sing Another Song Life requires art: a cento Beyond this point: a cautionary verse Out of Plumb: a caudate sonnet List Season: a catalog poem Midwinter’s Tale: a carol (or carole) By Request Only: a capitolo Teach Your Children: canzone For Starlight: cancione Time Enough: a byr a thoddaid The Good Old Days: a bucolic Make Your Last Dance Count: a bref double The Swinger: a brag I Will Not Dwell: a bob and wheel The Backhand Gift: a blessing Natural Blues: a blues sonnet I Love the Way: a blank verse Perigoric: a bestiary Real Fools’ Gold: a barzeletta Not My Fate: a ballade supreme The Same Old Song: a ballade Simpleton’s Tune: a balada Toy Dog Soldiers: an awdl gywydd To Live Unveiled: an anagram For the Goddess: an anacreontic Overslept: an amphigory Butterfly Wing: an alcaic The Sound of Her: an alba or aubade No News: an ae freislighe Election Day: an acrostic A run through the poetic forms Bargain debasement A song for a star I am so sick of poets Art is required Just Fine The Wedding Singer Reflections of a Twentieth Century Bard The Holy Fool’s Lament Ground Zero High School Reunion Musical I do not wish to change the world Water seeks its own level Face to Face Gladrags and Cold Bags A definition of punk @everyone Working on a Building Other Colors Besides Black No Time But the Present Our musician compability State of the Union Difference Song Not my favorite bands of all time, but … The soundtrack to our lives There is a wall around a thing Slip, Trip, Stumble and Fall Deity and Single Parenting Round on the ends and high in the middle There is a poem, somewhere, here Using Disclaimers Where They Really Count The Wrong Side A New Technique for Slap and Funk Bass Space Between Breath What Soundtrack Arise, New Day Super 8 Blue Monday In that brief instant Like Miles Says, “So What” Beyond Faith and Belief Monster Set List: The Cover Songs Dear Rotosound Freedom of Religion Vintage Vinyl circa 1978 Eclectic Eight Tracks circa 1978 Movies About Musicians A Good Reason for Keepin’ On How to Save the World Up in Smoke On Destinations Solid Gold Ehwaz Home Bass One Horse Town Like Syd Barrett Better Your Dream Dies Young Sitting here thinking by myself What Good to Grieve The Ideal Band (right now) This Place A Bead of Words Welcome to the Undertown The Musician Label III The Failure of American Public Schools The Musician Label II The Label of Musician Thoughts on Time and Loss I Wonder How They Do It Lowdown Existential Blues King of Americana If Words Alone Could Change the World With an Unarmed Foe Crime and Punishment On the Next Child Prodigy Why Things Burn Epiphany The Dead Room Mailing List What has the Earth to Do Grounding On Tools Conversation with a Mirror Every Bass Player Should Know These Names Back to the Bass-ics Here is the Crossroads Let Vain Cassandras Moan Rock the Casbah You’ve Had the Blues Stale Yellow What Really Matters Burning Down Do Unto Others The Camp Meeting Heaven or Las Vegas Out into the Rain Untitled Americana circa 1953 Reunion ‘Til I Die My Country Gold A Tale of Two Singers Leaving Something Good Gospel of the Jester New Insights into Genius? Burn That Bridge No point in calling it James Brown Hymn to Mithras Don’t You Diagnose Me The World is a Small Town Isn’t That Something? Dear Kleenex Beyond Hope See You There The Catacombs of Night The First Day What You Do Not Seek A Week in LA Inappropriate Happiness At the Lakeshore What’s the Point? Thoughts on the Power of Authority Damocles Ayn Rand Elizabethtown Outside the Box Time the Devourer The Devil’s Daughter The Libertine Meet me down in the delta Just Like That Peace is a Verb Abandon This Garbage: alcaics Treating the Symptoms, Not the Cause No Surprise This Morning: an alba or aubade All Those Who’re Lost A Million Years Cajun Woman Pop Charts Foolish Notions The Spell Kit U.G. Om Mani Padme Hum Salt of the Earth Give and Take Shine a little light … Top Advice from Patanjali With one word aloud Who cries for the gods? So You Want to Change the World … If Not the Heartland Everybody Wants to Change the World … The Bluebird of Happiness You Don’t Know Me Doing Nothing The Louisiana Post-Katrina Right Wing Blues Nobody Wants to Hear Beyond the Salad Days What Was It Garcia Said? Along for the Ride Untitled for a Reason If You’re Not Growing By Faith Alone If all my days were whiled Test To Be Ambrose Bierce for a Day But It Ain’t Almost Famous Midlife Chrysler The Undertow This is the oyster Dear Coca-Cola Speaking in Tongues On the Professional Diarist LJ Interests Meme Results You and Me Against the World On South Park Downhome and Blue Country Style This Morning’s Song Big Fish Honest Silence Your Own Words Cottonmouth The Songs That Filled My Boyhood To Let New Orleans Die Ten Seconds Too Long Some Kind of All American Confucious A Song Worth Singing Something I Can Feel Come Out to the Cherokee If You Want Love Stretched at the Seams Lend a Hand Songwriter Blues How Many Times? Wide Open Road A Hillbilly Song The Fickle Hand of Fate Don’t Say a Word Checkered Flag What’s My Name? Insomnia Redux It’s Only Dancing Hello Mister America Road Going Nowhere Firm Foundation It Doesn’t Matter When You Were Mine Your Right This Song Incongruities in Advertising Life is What You Make It Hanging on Dreams Let the Other Fellow Be Party Crowd Lucky Number Daddy’s Little Girl Red(neck) White and Blue Why is a Cat Like a Sidewalk? No use crying now, the Musicares and Musicrising Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez No Useful Illusions One More Man You Can Come Home Undertown Kris Kristofferson My Reality So Long (This Time So Long) That Reminds Me Back to Natchitoches Seasons After Spring The Aftermath The Honkytonk Manifesto Blame It On Your Memory Thoughts on Willie Nelson Play the Game Hallows 2005 Hallows 1997 Obviously Lefty Frizzell Half Crazy I Blame Lawrence Welk Soundtrack for a New Age Letters to a Young Picker Careful With That Rhinestone Axe, Eugene (Radio Free Nashville) Yesterday’s Angels Untitled: an amphigory Not Much of Everything The Moon Dancing Allness of Everything: alcaics A Different Sunrise: an alba Petitioning: an ae freilighe Untitled Kali and Shiva The Storms We Name: an acrostic An Assessment of the Situation For Bukowski No Shaman Left to Heal Our Tribe The Wheels of Progress New Orleans After the Flood What Remains is Greater Cast my stars as void of course Set my stars as void of course The Eyes On Heartbreak Addled Essence Before the Last Visit to the Vet More on Goal Setting The Perils of Goal Setting At the bookstore A Sense of Place Lughnassad Critical Path What Happens If What price a pawn Art of the Midwest Onrefni Setnad Taeper* The Ten Percent Solution Against The Grain Death of a Circus Lion Human Nature Follow Weak Blood As if the hazel mud Stars at Night: a sestina Moving to America Careful What You Ask For The Mockingbird The Camel in the Room Instrument of God The Blackout If I Should Choose Volume is no substitute Love is Enough Ain’t Too Proud to Beg Cause Without a Rebel The Chalk Lines Gray Days #4 Dividing Up the Blame Sometimes a phrase Stop all the clocks My once sweet voice Each moment is a threshold Season’s Crossroads So Much for Science Midsummer’s Night From The Trial of Nesorna The Neighborhood from Otherhood I closed my eyes just for a wink The summer in New Orleans melts Howard Jones Listening to Acid While Dropping Bob Dylan Thought for the Day If you would make a difference Just One More Night Laughter of the gods Ginger Freed from Wall Singing The Politics of Epiphany The sky was Maxfield Parrish blue Glowing in the Afterhurt Against the entropy of time At the far end of the canyon Just Go Away New myths are required On Discussing John Searle Hypocritical Mass When history’s sad lessons fail What fools would try to wrest a nation’s fate Thus fails poetry The voice you hear Back to the basics The shadow of greatness Socrates Let the great bells resound A June night like a fat man at a bus stop We met by chance, our wires were crossed In seventeen and forty one The hands that write these words tell lies With what will you refill the well The Swarm River Road Answering Jonathan Mayhew Cummings on Poetry Preparation for the journey Graduation Day Approaches Whence the morning comes Emergency Petition to Save the Courts Today at Shoneys I observed The spheres of thought that tangents bring the thin kings of aboutness Cantos This jazzum backclash I Don’t Do Slam What good is art Pagan Comm(unity)? Folly’s Promenade They grow up fast Friday the Thirteenth The locust choir at midnight What’s in a Pseudonym? Thought for the Day: On the Arts Bipartisan Blues Eulogy on a Blank Canvas Stupid War Take heart, ye wayworn pilgrims If no one listens No one stole the moon The Roots Must Lead Such Times Are These Ambrose Bierce Spring Cleaning Everything I Needed to Know About Western Culture… Rabelais On Bards of Old When Twilight Pales On Beauty Tailormade Intimations of Idiocy The Politics of Deconstruction Beltane 2005 My Wheelbarrow is Broken Gratitude Who Says That Poetry Dare Not The Loss of Art in School I want to play live music again Seed Thought: Page 43 I Want to Tell You Something Let Words Escape Redefining My Peer Group A Sense of Touch Wanting what you have vs having what you want What is the Secret Song? Thoughts on Practical Philosophy Words Burst the Thirteen Open Society’s Man Let Those Who Would Reform The Doldrums Finding Neverland No More Sad Weepings of Regret Galileo Democrats … Start Doing it for Yourselves An Ostara Blessing Against a Greater Evil Than the Dark Dictionary Gloss: the C’s When They Come for Us, Who Will Protest? The Flute Recrimination That Subtlety Escapes Me The Butterfly Effect At the Wishing Well The Thread That Holds Dirty Water Goodnight for Gonzo A Path of Wildness Deconstruction Between Something Worth Saying and a Voice to Say It With A Moment for Peace A Witch’s Daughter Valentine Shakespeare in Love Toward More Colorful Newspeak Immersion The Heart of Beauty The Shelter of Righteousness Mardi Gras Mumble For Stephen Stills A Different Path Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby Imbolc After Our Summer is Gone The Seeker’s Lament For Starlight Born with Robbie Burns The Starting Point An End to Parables Communication for a New Age More on Sanity and Madness Sanity A School of Truth A Dirge for the Left Wing On Adding New Friends If I Were, When I Was, What I Am Activism To Those Who Would Have Use of My Time On Milton and Dante Questioning Oh Mother Help Me On Paying for the Privilege Children of the Garden Samadhi A Pathless Land The Food (for Thought) of the Gods Thoughts on Vegetarianism Today’s Seed Thought Where Am I Bound?: Hymnal Verse Sisyphus Thinking of Gurdijieff Stirring the Pot, Part 2 Stirring the Pot New Year’s Eve 2004 Artie Shaw Feast During Famine Today’s Seed Thought Early Morning Imagining Ranting on Poetics After a Line in Rumi Thought for the Day In my inbox this morning Yule Log 2004 Snow in New Orleans Mixed Messages Peace in Action? Mother Father Breathing Om There are no words On Reaching Forty in a Week Passing Fancy Song for Vidya Earthseasick A Grain of Salt Joy to the World (a different version) Counterpoint: Domestic Strife and Miles ’64 Antonin Artaud How the Brain Lost its Brawn Remembering July in New Orleans Blues for Elijiah/Fallen Angels At Dawn When I Awoke Morning Resolve Wrongful Thinking Department 101 Sometimes in Fits of Restless Pique Parenting 101 Blow Thou, Winter Wind Two Murders A Tale of Two Saints A Tree in Winter Upon Being Invited to Study the Great Books Online The Ride Home Thankfull The Reins Random Thought Neo Politics Disenfranchised Just a Quick Thought on Tragic Heroism Here-itic The Secret Undertown Ministry Numerology And the children who think that summer ends On Dialogue with Self Question Posted to the Ishmael Community Fun with Bicycling Evangelists The Divorce On Auspicious Times No Small Talk Left Last Night’s Storm Before Attending Miss Teen Louisiana Training Thoughts on the 9/11 Report Thought for the Day A Haiku A Brief Note to the Postmaster General Don’t Believe the Hype School of Osmosis: A Declaration of Purpose All Things Zero In the pagan mailbox this morning… undertown Poetry and War Physician, Heal Thyself Coming of Age … an ongoing diatribe … LOL No Critique Requested Thoughts on Writing Tell Your Children Random Passing Thought Rambling on Politics Message in a Bottle Notes from Icarus The Eagle at the Tree God is a Lonely Whore there is a poem Independence Day Brando An “A” Theory of American Politics Since the 60s Ah, New Orleans: a villanelle A Meditation Haiku Untitled Dathy Pahka and the Couscous Bauble Celsius 488.33 On the Incredulous A Single Word And Now a Word from Our Sponsors Box Haiku Beat Cops (the Pilot) No Surprise At All Concerning Past and Present Loves Father’s Day A Litha Blessing Overly Simplistic Solution #43293X/B Kerrying the Right Message? What It Isn’t Patti Smith Give Me That Old School Religion, Part 1 Oversimplification #40237A A Different Mirror A Different Revolution A Different Kind of Shore A Study In Contrasts The Confessions of an Optimistic Underachiever Ray Charles: Eyesight From the Blind Dictionary gloss: the B’s The Light of America Bonzo’s Bedtime Dictionary gloss: the A’s The View You Choose A Rainy Season in Hell Clouds (Nuages) Tradition and the Individual Talent De Toqueville Rides Again Alone Again Looking Back at Years of Writing Dreams and Light Random Thoughts from Gulfport Mississippi A Meditation on St. Sebastian Et tu, Brute, or Julius Caesar by Newsfeed The Wall A Tendency to Madness Late May at Twilight My Mother Tongue vs. My Grandmother’s Tongue The Black Druids Summer Quintet Pleasure City Chandelier’s Left Wink and Blinding A Line Has Two Sides Martyr Without a Cause Ecumenics On Writing Playing the Blues Again An Hour Gone Past Midnight The Element Book of Mystical Verse A Strategerie of Diversionism A Score of Reading College Board and the Great Books Lullaby Pranayama and the Celtic-Vedic Connection Wagner’s House on Lake Lucerne Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba Suppositions One from General Eisenhower… History Lessons Seed Thought for the Day Two Poets Lament, Part II de Toqueville on Poetry and Democracy William Butler Yeats Dada Town and Country Two Poets Lament, Part I a wisp of purple clouded sky Earth and Wood Thoughts for Today The Other Shoe Drops The Art of War on … The School of Osmosis My Generation Waits Add Chris Rock to the List of My Generation Have the best minds of my generation been destroyed by madness? What If and the Temptations Zen and the Art of Arc Welding W.M.D. America, I know your secret Another Thought on Ginsberg New Orleans: Imagine It Educated Staggering Fact of the Day Outside the Morphology of Poetics While Reading of Ginsberg’s Life One Moment at a Time My Blunderbuss versus the Western Can(n)on Building Around a Thing Herding Cats: a gloss as a quintilla The Squirrels: free verse Common Grounds: a forensics poem Our Children’s Lives: a villanelle Homestead Elegy: a quintilla Simplicity: an englyn cyrch The Press Conference: descort Can This Thing Fly?: septenary stanzas Wretched Thoughts: deibhidhe A Meeting is no Substitute for Progress: a cywydd llosgyrnog Eliot’s Month, Not Mine The Lesson of the Sirens Night Rain: a cywydd deuair fyrion The Circling: a cyrch a chwta Easter by Telephone: a cyhydedd naw ban Musings on Holy days: common measure The Garden Seat: a cyhydedd hir Saturday’s Child: a curtal sonnet Decoration Day: a complaint or lamentation Untitled: a common measure quintet Ananda: a colgyrnach Self-Damnation: a casbairdne The Sacred in All Things: a carole or carol Television: canzone The Presence of Love: a cancione A Change of Syllabus: a byr a thoddaid To Progress: a bucolic The Pen and the Sword An April Morning: anglo-saxon prosody with a bob and wheel The Wheel A Blessing for the Road: a benison or blessing The Shallow Water Against the Cynic: a double refrain ballade The Pebble and the Wall: a ballade What Dreams Remain: a balada Not New, Not the World, and Not Order: an anagram exercise On Her Sleeping Form: an awdl gywydd Foolscap and Old Rice Speak Low: an alcaic And Still Another: a alba or aubade Advice for the Road: an ae freislighe Self-Similarity: an acrostic Untitled: a lai The Dogwood Random Thoughts Obscenity and Free Speech I Once Folded Space and Time moving edward, a wall said longing New Orleans Spring Kinship Thoughts on Poetry Jury of My Peers Peer Critique Hearsay Of Human Bondage Awake at Dawn Fool’s Gold Beyond the Boundary On TS Eliot My life as a Moody Blues song … The Great American Novel The disembodied politic An Anchor of Alexandrine Something new to ponder Random Thoughts on Nothing of Great Importance The weather again Eroica The Speed of Now To Love Without Words is to Lie to Life Blacksmithing The Hawk (Seabhac) There Is No Mundane How Fragile Is This World New Love Poetry On Demand My religion Testing the Fax Machine A letter to UPS 🙂 Morning on the Levee Short Subject Lady Sorrow Discord and Strife Memorial Day 1994 Release On Driving Coming Down Biography in Song, continued Idols and Influences, continued On idols and influences Born Outside of Nashville Untitled poem 9/11 Remembered Bob Dylan Here is Where I Am Questions of Love Random Thought Again Hello Dali Like the World Does Not Know Primary Colors Half Way Home Through Hurricane Glasses The Status Quo Music and me (again) Mightier Than the Sword Nothing of the Fall Into Independence Blues Fahrenheit 451 Half a Score Plan B is the Reality of Plan A Nostalgic Ramblings … Minutiae Hell is to the North Insomnia Me and My Shadow The Dust That Settles Between Sculptures A Novel Introduction After Reading Robert Burns This is the soft hoarse whisper of these times Ballad of the Undertown Why Some Sources Are Better Received: an allegory A Vignette Optimistic anapestics Confession of Faith August in New Orleans Sisyphus Highway Blues Who’s Who and What’s What The Crepe Myrtle One Can Learn Anywhere Changing the World Overtone The Width of a Circle Post Apocalyptic Is An Oxymoron This is the Way Declining an RSVP Of the People Homeschooling, Part 2 Homeschooling, Part 1 New Orleans Summer Portrait Somewhere Along the County Line In Memphis Death of a Family Farm Iambs and Trochees A Boston Busker’s Tale The Letter: a triolet On Education Inheritance Retrospect Old Pottage In Boston Morphology The Hero’s Face Turning Small Things The Poetry Reading Seed Thought on Worrying Poems that Changed my Life Dreams from California Moving Rocky to Balboa Significance Birthday Wishes to an Attorney The Parable of the Mustard Seed Rilke The Confession of Revenge: rime royal or Chaucerian stanza Space Between Breath The Desert Sometimes We Forget Choosing Your Battles Watergate and Lao Tzu For Allen Ginsberg The Parable of the Sower Truth is Stranger Than Fiction Seed Thought on Wealth Suggestion for Philip Morris War and Peace On Living and Dying Speaking in Parables Pursuing Happiness Seed Thought on Living and Dying GB Speaks There Could Be Worse Epitaphs Roadside Attractions The Virtual World Right Action Greeting Christian Ladies: a pantoum Slicing the Apple La Vita Nuova Another World On Having an Affect Full Moon Finding the Ocean (Again) Standards for Government Officials Finding the Ocean SEED THOUGHT: On Existence Seed Thought on Different Religions La Matri, La Filia, La Spirita Sancta On Being a Natural Baritone A Balmy Night in New Orleans A Sangha of Two Your Father’s Son Chuang Tzu Hanging Prayer Flags Declaring Independence Five Books to Rule Them All … Quoting Nihilists and Naysayers Something or Another Thing Orange Seed Thought from Henry James Krishnamurti Question On Prophets Enlightenment Today’s Seed Thought … If I Were A Quiet Today’s Potent Quote … A Shared Vision More on the Artist Within … Today’s Potent (Seed) Thought Footnotes to Occam’s Razor and the Heart Sutra The Uses of this World Sparks Exposition and Explanations, In General Untitled Sonnet Like a Bird on a Wire … Thoughts on Armed Conflict: a curtal sonnet Being Poetic Describing Sound to the Deaf By Candlelight The Coming of Summer Nada Brahma: a ghazal Anticipation A Thought on Religious Tolerance History Meme A Beltane Blessing The Parable of the Butterfly Quote of the Day Ostara Tending a Garden Random Thoughts … Talking Loud and Saying Nothing What is a Leader of the Free World? The Bird in the Hand Sign of the Times? A Thought on Artists Current Reading List Prânâyâma The Difference Between Media Singing Lessons Praying for the Living Rediscovering Gitanjali Thought from the Dalai Lama Desert Storms and the Battle of Anghiari Diva Las Vegas? Come on … The Calms of Capricorn Choices Dilemma Quote of the Day After a Spring Rain Lost Love The Writing Life Bosses Job Fulfillment Discontinued Specials Losing a Good Friend Marriage and Weddings Peace India The Giant Squid Violence Why the Lady is a Tramp Raising a Teenage Daughter A Pond in the Forest The Pairing of Waterfowl Integrity White Rhinoceros The Universe Cancer A Willow Tree A Druid Reflects on Patrick’s Sainthood Getting Older The Harlem Renaissance The Lambda Acceleration of the Universe Thinking about the Sixties Renunciation Coffee Spoons Repetition On the Wasteland Temporality Breaking Silence On Reading Advertisements Ten Mile After a Line in Eliot Holiday Weekends Today’s quote The Underground Early Childhood Development The Neighborhood Another Rainy Day A Tavern in Spring The Road to Find Out The First Time Philosophers in General The Burning Times The Wrong Answer The Right Question The Blustering Wind Charlie Bucket vs. Veruca Salt Writing Every Day Sleeping In May the Teacher’s Role Be Lessoning Songs for the Deaf The Off-Season Life Beyond the Tunnel A Few Lines Composed Nowhere Near an Abbey Enough Crying Are Everywhere People: an acrostic Making Your Own Road Oh Bard, Come Sing: the official Welsh meters The Siren’s Song Random Musings The Wind in the Willows Evil Thirteen O’Clock (and All’s Well) Your Television Will Not Be Revolutionized Listening to the World What It’s Worth No New Texas Being American True Love Stating the Obvious The Fish Cheer, updated … The Law of Three Observance Ravens and writing desks Work on the Soul Current Reading List Morning Dew On the Sonnet Playing the Blues Metamorphosis Exposure Finding the Inner Core A Morning Walk Chiaroscuro Personal Responsibility Having What You Want, Wanting What You Have Festival of the Seeds Ritual Howling Silence Instant Gratification After the Opening of La Fiesta Dances with Whales, Winces with Dulls Polar Extremes Random Thought for the Day Compassion Resistance A Cup of Lotus Tea Procrastination The Ordinary Educating for Revolution Birthdays A Hard Freeze Changes in Mood The American Dream Hidden Beauty Her Sleeping Form Dieting One Too Many Unified Writing for Children Nonsense Being Thirty Eight Failure Literal Interpretation Routine Religion Fragmentation Comfortably Numb? Mistakes Journeys and Destinations Time Family Sleep Listening Mediocrity Haiku for the Holidays Looking for patterns in things Disconnection Returning Anesthesia Temporality Waking Early Immobilization Visiting California The Vessel Song for Today The Holly and the Oak Midwinter’s Night The Price of Freedom Entropy Don Quixote Perceived Endings Death and Kindness Existence Addiction Signs of Life The Doors of Perception A Call Out of the Blue Nothing At All A New Study on Music and Memory … The Grinch and Whoville’s Secret Religion Pre-Holiday Musings … Blues for the Sun: a blues sonnet Sonnets of Osiris The Madness of King George Monotheists Anonymous Ode to the Cantos Another Volley in the Battle of the Sexes Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Mood for a Day Paradox Lost Winter in New Orleans Ownership A Literary Question From Wolfgang to Leopold Quote of the Day A Modern Erasmus Untranslatable Word of the Day Song for the Green Man The Anti-War Codicil Does a Rose Say No To Life? For Stardances in Summer The Celt and the Kiowa America is Still Singing: an envelope sonnet Twilight at Pontchartrain The Enemy is NOT Terrorism First Harvest A Sidebar to my NEA post … More thoughts on war and peace Why the NEA has to cut Art The Bard Blues An Early One-Act Farce Quotes for Today On the Tao Bright and Clear: a ballade Wake Up America I Awoke Glad: an awdl gywydd And I thought I’d seen some crazy “Musician Wanted” ads in my time … The Write Stuff: a Shakespearean sonnet The Gift of Life: a modified Spenserian sonnet A Poem is Different from a Song The Wizard of Oz Among the Trees: a villanelle Carport Cacophony: a sestina The 4:20 Blues A Cup of Morning Chai Abbey Roadsigns A reflection on the state of the art(s) As We Are But Travelers Here Dancing in Depends Thoughts in these Increasing Militaristic Times Easy Seven Backwards – Dramatic Excerpts For the Musicians on my friends list 🙂 Kind of Blown (Miles Davis is Past Tense Now) Time Out in the Morning Plastic Pocket Harmolodics On Perception and Plausibility … Pseudographic Xenophoria … Or, there and back again … The class struggle … The Place of Refuge Some ancient affirmations Cosmo-Significant Blues Blues in Maybe Minor Invitation Seeds of Revolution Your Loving Man Star Song Time Addressing a Troll Instruction to Fertilize Quote of the Day On Sense and Nonsense On the Lull Between Storms Getting to see Sir Paul New computer Miscellaneous