Tag: random musings
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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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 14, 2008 12:14 PM EST --
Off my beaten Gather track here....
Do you find ads on Gather that you have trouble with?
I just identified one, been around for a while. I have my PC hooked up to my stereo and am playing music . . .
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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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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 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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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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December 28, 2007 12:33 PM EST --
Hey, everyone,
I've fallen down on the job lately, just approving articles and not providing a suggestion. Another sad case of "life interfering with Gather."
The obvious suggestion . . .
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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 11:10 AM EST --
The phrase "substance of we-feeling"
comes from the novel Shikasta ,
a work of "speculative fiction"
by Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize
this year. It is about . . .
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September 22, 2007 07:29 PM EDT --
The sun shines alike on grasper and dreamer,
whenever clouds and their rain are working
elsewhere. The sun smites, it burns, it calls deep
into the skin, incites rebellion
whenever . . .
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September 28, 2007 10:16 AM EDT --
Respectfully dedicated to the older crowd here on Gather, a few poets in particular. If this doesn't seem to have the bite of some of my other efforts, perhaps I had my teeth out.
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October 19, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Welcome to Friday Writing Essentials ....
Today, Friday the 19th I'll be looking especially to feature writing about place -- brief stories, essays, poems.
And Friday the 26th . . .
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November 09, 2007 10:08 PM EST --
truth at any cost
pathological skepsis
no dessert, check please
JHBeck
. . .
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January 06, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
Well I hope no one will accuse me of just making up poem titles for the way they sound. This would be "koh-MAY-dee-ah in see-too" -- well, Zoo is just zoo. An old Roman might read that as "a . . .
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January 24, 2008 05:41 PM EST --
This arose as a comment-response
to a post by John F. Walter,
" Ground Zero Journal Entry #8 ."
Enduring Self: Forever You
Between pathos and . . .
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October 25, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
For the Thursday Writing Essentials "vacation" topic... Neither the luscious tropic isle nor the vacation from hell, an evening alone in Switzerland's Rhine city Basel, stopping for a little . . .
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November 10, 2007 02:00 PM EST --
Advice before a recital,
recollecting Auden
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take a pleasant, modest bow upon arrival
use even more restraint
when deep music's come to . . .
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November 23, 2007 12:54 PM EST --
Welcome to the Friday Gather Essentials: Writing : "Expression and Communication."
Today might be part of a long weekend for you, so I'm offering a rather challenging excerpt . . .
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March 21, 2008 12:22 PM EDT --
The Wounded Surgeon
Welcome to Gather Essentials: Writing for this Friday, March 21st, the first day of Spring.
We've had some discussion in past weeks of the sublime in poetry, and of . . .
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