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Poem – Warchild’s Innocence
Written in 1992 Standing among the ruins. He looks out over to the west, as the sun sets upon the land And the smoke billows from the ruins. Many thoughts at once run through his mind and collide. He stands alone, afraid to look. Afraid to ask. In his arms, he holds all that is…
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Interview in November
An interview I completed with Marya Hornbacher is set to be published in the November edition of the Edge.
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Response to Northography – A Photo by Gina Kelly
Response to Northography #253 – A Photo by Gina Kelly http://www.northography.com/responses.php?stimulus_id=253 Poem 1 – Rest bicycles succumb to rust; natures persistent chase returning forged steel to earth. paint chips lifted by ocean wind, orange and blue confetti land and rest at my feet. neither memory tarnished. Poem 2 – Dust I road from the coast…
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Response to Northography – Woman and Skeleton
Response to Northography #254 – Woman and Skeleton http://www.northography.com/responses.php?stimulus_id=254 I have pondered in silence from near and far, a photo of a woman pulled into herself seated on an antique couch. She is not alone. A silhouette, or projection, perhaps, upright facing toward some distant painting of the renaissance era. Nothing comes to me, so…
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Somber
In somber, quiet reflection, I have added 3 poems I wrote about 9/11 from years ago. They are located here.
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Ashford, Day 1
I am writing this from Ashford, WA while sipping on coffee and admiring tall mountain peaks with low grey clouds. Already the armor built to withstand the city of industry is gone.
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Submission Forms
New submission forms have been added for The Edge and Whistling Shade. They are located within the Editor page at www.williamricci.com
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Response to Northography – Helios RIsing
In response to the latest Northography stimuli titled “The Ninth Wave”: http://www.northography.com/responses.php?stimulus_id=252 desperate moves within the churning sea lost is the hull and deck left with the mast and sails we climb limb over limb. tumultuous shades of green swallowed by the black chaotic waters. towering white capped waves red tinged a reflection of the…
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Next Review – “The Dance Most of All”
Currently reading and reviewing the latest collection of poems from Jack Gilbert.
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Book Review – “Tao-Zen Verses”
08/01/11 Review of “Tao-Zen” Verses, by Hanakia Zedek Whistling Shade Press, 2010 http://www.amazon.com/Tao~Zen-Verses-Hanakia-Zedek/dp/098003759X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312235188&sr=8-1 A Guide Through and With Chaos How to describe Hankia Zedek, his philosophy, and review his first published book? The most appropriate way would be through anecdotes, and what Hanakia’s purpose is. Tao-Zen Verses represents the intersection of these two schools of…