2010 “What are you doing to cultivate culture?” | Jul 18 | Apr 25
Dreaming Harrisburg In A Reflection
“A few weeks back I took a photo of a sculpture that can be found ...”
| Mar 05
Something Deeply Spiritual
“There is something deeply spiritual about this video. Please watch the video before reading further.
There ...”
01 | Feb | Jan 25
Happy Birthday Robert Burns
“Scotland's, favorite son, poet and songwriter is turning 251 today. Robert Burns is most remembered ...”
21
Bragging Rights
“I can't help but share the fact that recently three of my photos were selected as ...”
18
The Webb Sisters ---- Words That Mobilize
“Recently I was searching through the many videos of Leonard Cohen found on YouTube and ...”
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2009 “Any Regrets?” | Dec 24 19 04
What would you like to have happen by the end of the day?
“I continue to be fascinated with these short 1 question 50 people videos: this one ...”
| May | Apr 30
The List
“By Naomi Shihab Nye
A man told me he had calculated
the exact number of books
he would ...”
29
Poverty
“By Pablo Neruda
Ah you don’t want to,
you’re scared
of poverty,
you don’t want
to go to the market ...”
28
I Shall Be Released
“by Kevin Young
What we love
will leave us
or is it
we leave
what we love,
I forget—
Today, belly
full enough
to ...”
27
Amaryllis
“by Ted Kooser
A flower needs to be this size
to conceal the winter window,
and this color, ...”
24
Love In Black And White
“by Bianca Rossini with photographs by Michael Kenna
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23
Children in a Field
“by Angela Shaw
They don't wade in so much as they are taken.
Deep in the day, ...”
22
Silent Music
“by Floyd Skloot
My wife wears headphones as she plays
Chopin etudes in the winter light.
Singing random ...”
21
New Water
“by Sharon Chmielarz
All those years--almost a hundred--
the farm had hard water.
Hard orange. Buckets lined in ...”
20
They Sit Together on the Porch
“by Wendell Berry
They sit together on the porch, the dark
Almost fallen, the house behind them ...”
19
Fifty People, One Question
1 comments
17
A Body Distant Brought Near
“by Kathleen Adcock
Sitting on the moon's rim
all that can be seen
is her mountains, flatland,
a pale ...”
Tell Yourself
“by Mark Strand; read by Mary Louise Parker.
And when you done watching and listening take ...”
16
Flirtation
“By Rita Dove - The first African-American woman to be named Poet Laureate of the ...”
15
"Since why to love I can allege no cause"
“by Roger Mitchell
"Since why to love I can allege no cause,"
I will love instead, leaving ...”
14
A SONNET FOR NAPALM
“by H. PALMER HALL
"Tell me something," she says. "Do any flowers look
just like that, those ...”
13
Word
“by Madeleine L'Engle
I, who live by words, am wordless when
I try my words in prayer. ...”
10
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
“by John Donne
Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this,
The intelligence that moves, ...”
09
Find Work
“By Rhina P. Espaillat
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl—
Life's little duties do—precisely
As the very ...”
e. e. cummings . . . now I know why!
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Poetry Out Loud
“Worth the watch! Poetry Out Loud”
08
Ox Cart Man
“by Donald Hall
In October of the year,
he counts potatoes dug from the brown field,
counting the ...”
07
Three Poems by Jane Kenyon
“Jane Kenyon is another favorite poet of mine. Her poems are usually short often touching ...”
06
My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task
“by Jon Pineda
A basket of apples brown in our kitchen,
their warm scent is the scent ...”
05 04 03
Prayer On Leaving The Body
“by James Deahl
O taste and see that the Lord is good. --Psalm 34: 8
These feet ...”
02
Keep Trying to Tell Him
“by Hiram Larew
Pretend for a minute
That you're a duck
In muddy water
And that whatever's teasing your ...”
01
KINDLY
“by WILLIAM AARNES
Like you, both the man
and the woman who soon followed
have sorted through ...”
National Poetry Month 2009
“April 1st begins this blogs most active time of the year. April is National Poetry ...”
| Jan 19 15
Coming Alive - Spiritual Healing
“Howard Thurman has said “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what ...”
12
The Gift of The Unknown
“As our culture changes, Walter Brueggemann has observed, we must restate eternal truths in order ...”
11
To become aware
“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness ...”
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2008 “What are your hopes?” | Dec 31
Te Deum
“Not because of victories
I sing,
having none,
but for the common sunshine,
the breeze,
the largess of the spring.
...”
29
Silent World
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| Nov | Sep | Aug 31 29 17
A line of peace . . .
“A line of peace might appear
if we restructure the sentence our lives are making,
revoked it's ...”
10 02
Olga's Gallery
1 comments
| Jul 17
The Color Keeper
“Here is something I stumbled across (isn't that how we find everything?). I knew I ...”
14 10 09
It's been a while . . .
“Yes, the end of April was the last time I posted to this blog. I ...”
| May 01
I give myself to it
“Although April 30th signals the end of National Poetry Month I sincerely hope you have ...”
1 comments | Apr 30
Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes
“The Day Is Gone, And All Its Sweets Are Gone
The day is gone, and all ...”
29
Why, then, do I reject the bliss
“On Preparing to Open the Bible
Why must I measure my accomplishments
against sick
and dying, the saint, ...”
28
How wrong we both were
“I Married You
I married you
for all the wrong reasons,
charmed by your
dangerous family history,
by the innocent ...”
25
'May you live in interesting times.' Chinese curse
“Being Boring
'May you live in interesting times.' Chinese curse
If you ask me 'What's new?', I ...”
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An apology to William Doreski and Nancy Henry
“If you read today's poem 'Death of An Old Dog' earlier today and cameback to ...”
She lies down there to be sipped up by the dewy grasses
“Death of the Old Dog
It is time for the old dog to slip down
beneath ...”
23
There is time to read
“The Perfect Day
You wake with
no aches
in the arms
of your beloved
to the smell of fresh ...”
22
Earth Day is just a reminder for everyday
“Earth Day
Dirt”
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
“The Trees
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and ...”
21
To coax an inquisitive soul
“Happiness
Because yesterday morning from the steamy window
we saw a pair of red foxes across the ...”
18
I am burned out of it like the melody underneath
“Diary
Spring is not so very promising as it is the thing
that looking back was fire, ...”
17
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
“The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what ...”
16
. . . caught in the eye. It stays
“The Sycamore Gathers
The sycamore gathers
out of the sky, white
in the glance that looks up to ...”
Quotation
““Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
-Carl Sandburg”
15
. . . waves washing against the shore like promises.
“Snapshot of a Lump
I imagine Nice and topless beaches,
women smoking and reading novels in the ...”
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses
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When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry
reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows ...”
14
The seen, the known . . .
“Monet's Waterlilies
Today as the news from Selma and Saigon
poisons the air like fallout,
I come again ...”
12
. . . Grace Where I Live.
“What I Have Found
This place that claims my midlife
labor is not an Eden I have ...”
10
I didn't for a moment doubt you were dead.
“The Embrace
You weren't well or really ill yet either;
just a little tired, your handsomeness
tinged by ...”
09 08
Then I heard wings overhead
“The Bat
I was reading about rationalism,
the kind of thing we do up north
in early winter, ...”
07
Doors and Windows
“Door
Why should I care
Which way you go through me?
I am responsible only
For the dividing furniture
From ...”
1 comments 06 04
Sick of your camera? Want to toss it?
1 comments
Browsing the dim back corner . . .
“Browsing the dim back corner
Of a musty antique shop:
Opened an old book of poetry
Angels flew ...”
03
I planted the seeds, I watched the first shoots . . .
“Vespers
In your extended absence, you permit me
use of earth, anticipating
some return on investment. I must ...”
02
Dwelling In Possibility
“I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - ...”
01
The Written, The Lament and The Spoken
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| Mar 31
April: National Poetry Month
“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been ...”
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A connect for you writer types
“The Festival of Faith & Writing is a biennial gathering of readers and writers ...”
22
A different kind of painting found
“Some of the earlies known paintings have been discovered in the Bamian caves of Afghanistan. ...”
Two of four stolen paintings found
“This almost old news now but I needed to follow up on my entry about ...”
17 13
Friends are going to Louisiana
“I have friends leaving for New Orleans at the end of the week to help ...”
11
" There was such a glory over everything."
“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to ...”
10 07
Foreign Films
“If foreign films aren't the kiss of death for you then will you share with ...”
06 04
American Masterpieces: Democracy and the Arts
“American Masterpieces: Democracy and ...”
03
Scholastics books: a memory.
“Last week I saw a Scholastics' book order belonging to a co-worker's son. This brought ...”
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Music To Sample
“I have added a new Links category called Music to Sample. Click on the link ...”
01
Bob Dylan
3 comments
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Who is the chairman of NEA?
“The poet, critic, and best-selling anthologist, Dana Gioia (Joy-a) in ...”
09
Transforming Culture:A vision for the church and the arts
“There is a conference on the arts coming to Austin TX that I would love ...”
A Beginning . . .
“Last night I was visiting a friend and he asked "do I have a blog?" ...”
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