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Poem – Carl Sandburg – Fog
This reader suggested poem is “Fog” by Carl Sandburg. The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Poem shared from the following resources. http://carl-sandburg.com/fog.htm http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174299
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Poem – Tomorrow
There is always tomorrow to put off tasks and obligations. There is always tomorrow to pay the bills and do laundry. There is always tomorrow to worry and fret. There may not be tomorrow to say I love you and now is the time.
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2016 National Poetry Month
With April just around the corner, National Poetry Month is upon us. I will be posting selections from writers I have been influenced by over the years, including John Haines of course, to this blog and over at Stone Path Review. If anyone has suggested writers and personal favorites please share here as I would…
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If Jackson Pollock was a photographer, #7
I imagine one his photographs might look like this:
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Arts – Slant Art and Culture Magazine
Photographer Aaron Bowen (Facebook), a frequent contributor to Stone Path Review, has published the first issue of “Slant”. “Slant, Wichita’s new art and culture magazine, is here! I have 100 copies, and the rest will be delivered Monday or Tuesday. I will be talking with different businesses as to where it will be sold, and will…
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If Jackson Pollock was a photographer, #6
I imagine one hos photographs might look like this:
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Poem – What Becomes
(1) Long ago that path became an object in the mirror fading into the dust of the present experiences. I look back with nostalgia at moments I have built and pieced together from the scenes I have witnessed, the people met and the forgotten glorified sense of purpose. (2) What becomes of the road after…
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Film – Meru (2015)
I finally watched the documentary film “Meru” about a first ascent of the Meru Peak via the Shark’s Fin route up the central peak. For anyone interested in mountain climbing, overcoming obstacles, and the human spirit, this is an excellent film with gorgeous cinematography. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2545428/?ref_=nv_sr_1 http://www.jimmychin.com http://www.conradanker.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meru_Peak http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web11f/newswire-meru-sharks-fin-anker-chin-ozturk
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Robinson Jeffers – Carmel Point
The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses- How beautiful when we first beheld it, Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs; No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing, Or a few milch cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop rock-heads- Now the spoiler…
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John Haines – City of Orphans
I typically read and have been influenced by John Haines nature poems and memoirs, but this poem is timeless. How strange to think of those street sand vacant lots, the sandhills where we played and dug our trenches; the forts we built, the enemies we conjured to aim our stick-guns at, and then went home…