Tag: poetry
member name: John Harris Beck
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September 10, 2007 08:59 PM EDT --
CONSECRATION OF THE HOUSE
For my homeland: 9/11/2007
We all have set up walls, to give our selves
a home, built of what seems most strong,
trued to . . .
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February 22, 2008 02:38 AM EST --
For Daisy Aldan
Finish Dying, Leave Nothing
(by the stream of consciousness)
Finish dying. Leave nothing by the way.
Be clear at last: see even how you know .
It's . . .
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March 23, 2007 07:51 PM EDT --
A late offering for the unofficial Gatherers Appreciation Day.
Freed Verses
So I’ve liberated four from the drawer.
They’re happy to be out and about.
Andrea had asked, . . .
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April 01, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --
This is a kind of collaboration - a back-and-forth, anyway - with Gerry Wass' class studying metaphors. (See The Secret Code of Metaphor.)
Is metaphor, nay?
A metaphor . . .
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October 14, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
This the first of a series of metaphysical, indeed initiatory, poems I started in 1998. One way to describe initiation is "to die but go on living." Of course that could go two directions; the . . .
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October 16, 2007 03:50 PM EDT --
MEMORY'S BROWN
The autumn light falls hard
through stiffened air.
It warms, but to the eye
already death is there.
The spirit that enjoyed
its summer days
makes last show . . .
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January 17, 2008 11:25 AM EST --
Ed Nudelman has been on Gather
two years -- Two Years on Gather --
and certainly stands out for quality
of writing and service to the community.
By way of salute I could only think of
an old, . . .
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February 15, 2008 01:57 PM EST --
THE DOUBTFUL CLAIM "HE WENT..."
I hope you're feeling now
the amber warmth/fierce goodness
you brought all our lives
From what I'm . . .
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July 25, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
WATCHING RHINE
It just lies here in its big
curve through Basel
on an early autumn
evening, possibly wanting
to have changed its course
a few times over the years
but maybe not minding . . .
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March 18, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
A poem that feels like an expert
would need between the human tutor
and the generalized user driver
in one hand a glossary of embossed sensation
stroked by a digit of practised . . .
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April 15, 2007 10:20 PM EDT --
A poem for a poet and spiritual seeker, whose book The White Goddess contributed so much to my awareness of trees....
"On the One Theme"
for Robert Graves . . .
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June 27, 2007 08:41 PM EDT --
I published this recently as a group of haiku. Well, maybe it didn't work so well. The Russian original is more flowing, as the last image of the poem suggests. So here is a rendering closer to the . . .
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September 01, 2007 08:41 PM EDT --
An old-technology love poem.
SIDE TWO
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you have to go out there alone they say
alone and backward by candlelight
to gather the names and faces of home
and forward into . . .
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September 14, 2007 09:13 PM EDT --
Singularity 101:
Odysseus’ Return / Lucifer’s Adieu
Goodbye, I say, to high ideals,
to lofty spirit tones.
Too-long-denied-within-me pains
would bring my aching . . .
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September 29, 2007 09:43 PM EDT --
In living memory of a great good friend, who appreciates being remembered on the day of St. Michael the Archangel...
AUTUMN FLOWER
Out from the Broadway crowd
hideous, petite, . . .
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October 06, 2007 09:28 AM EDT --
Found that the worms had etched this into an old rotting tree trunk in the woods. Sharing it as a peculiarity of natural science.
Bomba-bomb!
His imperial travesty George IIIrd
Second . . .
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October 10, 2007 08:27 PM EDT --
I'm re-posting this with a tip of the hat to JFW, our Man of Granada, who critiques by embracing what you are trying to do.
Samuel Delaney is a noted sci-fi writer, afro-american and gay, who understandably . . .
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December 21, 2007 02:10 PM EST --
Autumn Endings
Bare twigs and pines still green
guide the rain down, the drops heavy
at bare bony joints, but . . .
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January 15, 2008 08:54 PM EST --
IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS
Somewhat later,
in the final analysis,
you will tell everything
the books on your shelf
(Proude, Giste, Dollstoy) . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:44 AM EST --
Welcome to Gather Essentials: Writing ,
for Friday the 8th of February.
A recent comment by Vijay Kumar to a poem
of mine, about artists' legacies or monuments,
goes like this: . . .
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