Forgive me for the way I have misused my words to spread hate, lust, and ugliness. Forgive me for using a pen as a sword. This is my pledge to bring wholeness with words instead.
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Deseret for John Ashbery Out here someone else is thinking of you, turning now towards you, to the west and away. Your table has been set—and that’s scary, why not? But the nominations have begun and soon you’ll substitute yourself in doorways, and on stairs when these hillsides burst in flames. It’s like tearing the…
My dear friend and fellow poet Jane Lunin Perel passed on February 22, 2024, which just happened to be my birthday. When I got the call, trying to deal with a multiple shitty emotions, I instead looked above and said, “Janey, couldn’t you have waited a week?” Some of you may find such gallows…
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“Ne Lâchons rien” Jean-Christophe Bleton. Photo © Laurent Paillier Jean-Christophe Bleton’s Ne Lâchons rien (“Don’t let up”), was one of the featured pieces in the Faits d’Hiver 2024program. It is cap piece to an admirable and amusing dance performance trilogy called Bêtes de Scène (“Stage Warriors”), which turns around getting older while working in the…
My throwaway delinquent pack of lies go over, fly over birds’ wings in a soulless search, into sudden dreams. The post Sudden Dreams | Ananya S. Guha appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
The sea turned to turquoise from grey.When my memory lapsed, I remembered what I was here for.The rain fell like a rainbow that had missed out on people who couldn’t stay.People who were inas you knockedbut who hid behind their door. All those excuses to keep horizons in the distance behind lenses double-thick.Smoking behind the…
What do they have in common: Robert Schumann Frank Lloyd Wright Barbara Bush Nancy Sinatra & Julianna Margulies? Related Stories D-Day, June 6, 1944: “I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle.” Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
