Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Monday, May 18, 2020

Dreaming About My Father: Two Dreams, Three Years Apart

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Dream: May 18, 2020: Very early this morning, I dreamed that I was driving in an unfamiliar part of SF, couldn't find the right streets...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Mental Models

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Take your pick, right?
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

The Clay Waits

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The clay waits Life-mask Death-mask The sculptor can't decide Drawing ragged breaths This broken morning Fixing memory in pieces ...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Keats and Yeats: Two Odes

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ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains          My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some d...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

"The Other Worlds": Life's Largest Riddle

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The Other Worlds  is an excellent mythopoeic novel by a dear friend, Christoph Greger.  Christoph's own humble way of introducing t...
Friday, July 24, 2015

The View From Cook's End

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A gorgeous view from a sacred location, sacred to the ancient and modern Hawaiians. The cross marks the spot where Captain Co...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Last Day: Motley

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Motley : rest in peace, dear sprite. April 1, 2005 - June 2, 2015. Thank you for twenty years of love, companionship, and bossy...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Tennyson: "The Kraken" and "Sonnet"

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Two sonnets from Tennyson: THE KRAKEN Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Exam Prompt: Channeling Peter O'Toole

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The late great actor Peter O’Toole expressed something I feel is worth remembering: "I will not be a common man. I will stir the smo...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Two More From Brendan Kennelly

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UNION When salmon swarmed in the brown tides And cocks raised their lusty din And her heart beat like a wild bird's heart, She left...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Remembering Rudi: A Gallery

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Rest in peace, dear me-orange-boy-o: You fought the good fight against cancer for ma...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Yeats: "That Dolphin-Torn, That Gong-Tormented Sea"

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BYZANTIUM The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night walkers' s...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

William Dunbar's "Lament for the Makers"

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LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS I that in heill was and gladness Am trublit now with great sickness And feblit with infirmitie: -- Timor Morti...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Montague's "Upstream"

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UPSTREAM Northwards, annually, a journeying back, the salmon's leap & pull to the source: my wife, from the shore at Roche...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Fatality Knocks

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"Dead people and dead thoughts and supposedly dead moments are never, ever truly dead, and they shape every moment of our lives.  We di...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Robert Graves: Ghost Stories

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Here are five more poems from the incomparable Robert Graves: A RESTLESS GHOST Alas for obstinate doubt: the dread Of error in supposing...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

"The Sounding Furrows"

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Keith Sanders, Drake's Bay, February 1980. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in ...