Category Archives: Inspiration



For September:

Posted in Inspiration, Wisdom, Words

Failure

Despite his Nobel Prize, Faulkner explained
That writers always fail. They cannot move
The aura that illuminates the brain
Into alphabetic squiggles that prove
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Posted in Beauty, Inspiration, Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom

Aesthetics

Famously, beauty resides in the eye
Of the beholder. How did it get there?
Explain why some approve while some decry
The same shapes, music, colors, sounds, and flair.
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Posted in Beauty, Illusion, Inspiration, Wisdom

Form, Dammit, Form!

I often chide the poets of our time
For being narcissistic to a fault
For being formless and eschewing rhyme
Abandoning the strictures we exalt.
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Posted in Inspiration, Poetry (What is it?), Vanity

Literary Prose

Famously, Bill Howells and Henry James
Wrote to each other about the travails
Novelists endure while pursuing fame
And fortune. Their complaint? Incessant wails
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Posted in Inspiration, Poetry (What is it?)

Music

How did music start? Was it the whistle
Of a flying lizard that struck an ear,
Startling that neanderthal—a missle
That evolved? Hell, they could whistle, make queer
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Posted in Beauty, Inspiration, Wisdom