I am a guest in the house, visitor in the great home, walking ghost on the stair, amusing addition to the architecture, plush bit of fussy furnishing, long waiting a permanent loving fixture.
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you won’t know by asking others I’m much better worse than they’d say don’t draft me on some graph paper my equation is in so much disarray I know well what my successes are not everyone measures the same way notice what I’ve done and stood for that’s so far beyond just hearsay The post…
Born 1957, 18th February, Shillong India. Welsh Mission Hospital. The eyes blue, so blue like a British exclaimed the doctor. A hundred years after the mutiny. Mother came from Mymensing, now in Bangladesh. A migrant with no stories of bloodshed, only that of one humanity. Hindu/Muslim. Now a migrant, I search for those living roots,…
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BEN SIDRAN (1943- ) Life’s a Lesson (1993) I first discovered Sidran when he was hosting a late-night program on VH1 called New Visions. It was amazing — he played the few jazz videos that would never get airplay on sister MTV (stuff like Donald Fagen’s New Frontier; Pat Metheny’s Are You…
Last month Poem-A-Day ran this wonderful prose poem by Ellen Bass that I can’t get out of my head…It reminded me of my grandmother teaching me “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” as sung by Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters. Though the song was recorded almost two decades before I was born, it remains one of my…
Suppress push them down – the pitiable residents – your tenants – but be ready for restless overthrowing. The post Landlords | M Spear appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
