Category Archives: Words



For September:

Posted in Inspiration, Wisdom, Words

Modern History

Today, in Baghdad,
Car bombs killed
Twenty-eight humans
And wounded eighty-eight more.
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Posted in Death, Religion, Today's News, War, Words

The Music Of Critical Response

Well known unwritten protocols insist
On generosity, however mild.
One never growls “Dear friend, please, please desist!
Your hapless, somber verse leaves art defiled.”
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Posted in Poetry (What is it?), Vanity, Words

Gut Music

The body is an instrumental source
Of various and somewhat sour sounds
Though frequently the melody is coarse
When smelly drumbeat flatulence astounds.
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Posted in Pain, Words

Eileen

What, one reasonably asks, are poems for?
The answer’s not so simple. They must bloom
With color, fragrance, substance at the core—
With words that swim, reverberate, and croon.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Family, Pain, Poetry (What is it?), Words

Anoesis

This morning, in a comic strip,1 I saw
A word I doubt has ever been exclaimed,
A word so powerful, so crammed with awe,
Involving human bliss (or grief) untamed.
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Posted in Pain, Religion, Wisdom, Words