Don’t even
Think about it
How many leaves
Did you see fall before
The one you were thinking of fell?
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Rembetiko, Dead and Alive!
(Set volume at full blast, please--loud enough to wake the dead!)
NB: It might take a while for the video to load but hang in there--after all, it's a long way to the netherworld and back.
Huuklyeand Cinquor on Why There Are So Many Bad Poems Out There
Too few poets know when
They’ve started one—
Still fewer know when
They should’ve stopped.
Moderator’s comments: Many poets might find themselves saying many things about this one but I for one am going to stop before I get carried away.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Dawn Finds the Poet on the Watchtower
restless at his post all the night
on the lookout waiting
for the herald the inner
fires burning the rosy fingers
turning in, ward to light.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Christian Van Limbergen in Meligalas
Well, there I was in Meligalas' upper square having an early afternoon tsipouro with one of my brothers-in-law when I looked across the street and saw what must be every elderly bicyclist's idol—the one-and-only Christian Van Limbergen slowly pedaling his way into the Guinness Book of Records but I didn't know who he was until I shouted out and invited him to take a seat and have something to drink. Twenty-two years of biking around Europe while picking up seven languages and racking up 600,000+ kilometers is no easy feat—my 9000 in four years seems pale in comparison. So, as we used to say back in the late 60s—keep on truckin', Christian!
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