tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.comments2023-06-05T04:09:43.837-07:00Miscellanea...Mareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02424135776902766867noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-63687804543478269772022-03-25T01:40:35.404-07:002022-03-25T01:40:35.404-07:00My friend, Kathy, with whom I attended Wolter'...My friend, Kathy, with whom I attended Wolter's elementary school, had the coolest older sister named Jen. Jen would take us on the occasional excursion to Penny Candy when it was still located on Cedar, across from the high jump court at Fresno State. If I had cash I would buy little glass test tubes full of 'love beads'. We'd string them on dental floss and add a peace sign charm. Those hippie necklaces were the height of fashion at the time. Once, while looking at the books, I found a copy of Mason Williams' 'A Reading Matter'. It was a wry and witty book of poetry, with adult (although not terribly explicit) themes. I was only ten years old but I loved that book! After saving for a month I finally had enough money to buy it. Oh, how those poems tickled my mind. I knew that I was reading some exciting stuff, harbingers of experiences that were still beyond me, but upon which I was creeping fast. One poem, titled 'Talking A Bath' described the intense love and satisfaction a man feels while sitting on the bathroom floor, conversing with his beloved while she bathes. Heady stuff! Anyhow, my teacher found the book in my desk during a parent-teacher conference with my mom. Those ladies couldn't decide if they were more scandalized or confused! What was I doing with such a book!? They didn't confiscate it, but they did rip out 'Talking A Bath'. I still have that book, 52 years later, and the love bead necklace as well.angryexwifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12230825064167361348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-11565306596498656132021-07-11T05:46:22.255-07:002021-07-11T05:46:22.255-07:00Thank you for posting this poem. It's got line...Thank you for posting this poem. It's got lines that are some favorites for me. I briefly got to meet Tony Hoagland at a writer's workshop. He could find the best in any student's poem and was a really kind soul. Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14971946745653431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-67742808940707003692018-04-12T02:52:38.316-07:002018-04-12T02:52:38.316-07:00We will be rather squashed for a while but we have... We will be rather squashed for a while but we have other plans long term. Kat has promised me that she has reduced her extensive shoe collection. <a href="https://www.movingapt.com/long-distance-movers" rel="nofollow">low cost long distance movers</a><br />jhonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258690520992269231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-37851498403719751142017-04-04T11:19:04.993-07:002017-04-04T11:19:04.993-07:00Very cool.
you RITE.
Lemme assist you, dear,
to re...Very cool.<br />you RITE.<br />Lemme assist you, dear,<br />to reach for the stars<br />where I'll be someday...<br /><br />Would U please help a plethora of King Size, wildchild, rawkuss poetry/wordz which are lookin 4 a home in thy novelty?? Thx. Whew. They're pretty insane. They're bereft of reason. Oi! Blimey! They're bloody PINK spiders!!<br /><br />Gotta lotta gobba shrewd, surreal, supersonic, sardonic satires, sassy N savvy elixers N electronic elegance ( ...and palpable nuance) on our YOUTHwitheTRUTH blogs. Wannum? Have'm. N'joym. Gettm outta my hair!!!<br /><br />How mucha wanna betcha our sugar-high-mojo, antioxident, hot-shot, full-throttle, pleasure-beyond-measure, fuse-blowin-exploits R a copious madhouse of one lavish bookay D.O.A.? Our proFUSE NRGod who leads U.S. to explosive fairy-tales in the 'one-stop-shop' symphony Upstairs? God's the BigDude, the Owner of ElysianFields, the Grand Prize, the Austere Overdrive, NoPurchaseNecessary: our bombastic tenaCITY on a Hill which'll plant the Seeds 4u2 grow-up to new N greater heights!! Mama mia! Thatsa good pasta!!<br /><br />CAUTION: our 22ish, avant-guard, accurately-atrocious, offa-the-reservation-like-Jimmy-Hoffa, metal breadcrumms R sooo out-of-order, toots, they're an intimate wealth of bottomless sophistication. And dats da lethal fak, Jak. Go ahead. Sue me. Yawn. But, yet, here's the perennial KOO D'TAH: who else has actually SEEN the Great Beyond in spirit & lived to tella youse bout the bionic, bloated, brevity-like-earth we're living on?? Yes, earthling, I had an NDE, almost salivating4salvation. So gain altitude, never attitude: death has no intrinsick favorites.<br /><br />If Mr. abSUREditty's an ultra-great-reward, and not everyone enters, Q: why is it an excruciating deluge of epic-.357-caliber where the quality's a limitless bulldozer plowin, pushin-your-power-cord with eternal goodies? A: the Prize-A+-TheEnd just gives U.S. moe-curley-graphix 2 VitSee: an explosion-of-extravagance which few R asking 4 anymore! Grrr. They're too concerned withe grotesque sanity of ambivilant piss-ants which swiftly crawl like lemmings to their scorecard, effusive destruction. C'est la guerre.<br /><br />THANK GAWWWD!!! the Don has the ebullient BAWLS!!! to do the Manifest Destiny!!! To lead U.S. forward to the White House Upstairs with his SQUARES!!!<br /><br />So, break-free, earthling; be like a contraversial outgrowth of incredibly-intoxicating-effusiveness in your zeitgeist to give the ultimate stunning, avant-guard, bareknuckle potency: Wiseabove. Wanna join this useFULL idiot Upstairs 4 the most zany, kooky, X-acto-knife antidotes? Extremely exquisite, explicit endorphins in abundance? Puh-lenty of pulverizingly-tantalizing psychopathic psychosomatics with eXtras? i2i-kick-velocity's-ass-ultra-maximum-rocket-fuel-party-hardy at my pad ya ever encountered without d'New Joisey accent 4 an eternal slew of precarious, magnanimous & primeval absurdities indelibly etched in the granite corridors of eternity with a total-barrage-of-melt-in-thy-mouth 'depth-of-undenial'???<br /><br />Make Your Choice -SAW<br />...cuzz nobody gitts outta here alive, earthling.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09161116712679365281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-45245005176905195062017-03-25T23:04:22.065-07:002017-03-25T23:04:22.065-07:00Can you explain what the poem means?Can you explain what the poem means?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04948824070568368211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-2479275742303150302012-10-29T15:13:31.688-07:002012-10-29T15:13:31.688-07:00Hi...very nice poem, but not entirely correct:
La...Hi...very nice poem, but not entirely correct:<br /><br />Late Spring - W.S. Merwin<br /><br />Coming into the high room again after years<br />after oceans and shadows of hills and the sounds of lies<br />after losses and feet on stairs<br /><br />after looking and mistakes and forgetting<br />turning there thinking to find<br />no one except those I knew<br />finally I saw you<br />sitting in white<br />already waiting<br /><br />you of whom I had heard<br />with my own ears since the beginning<br />for whom more than once<br />I had opened the door<br />believing you were not far<br /><br />you can hear it from Merwin himself here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQ1aCS6PbwClovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13622125746348169461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-61445326987186528492012-01-11T10:34:51.862-08:002012-01-11T10:34:51.862-08:00There was nothing uninventive. It was just plain e...There was nothing uninventive. It was just plain ethics. Which of course is redundit but when it is truly thought about you realize that she wanted the class to think deeply and that Linda Pastan wants the readers to do the same. The poem is a genius way to examplify the problems of what is actually ethical and what is just plain selfish desire.C.R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00534560036992304607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-14484358531310527142011-12-24T11:49:10.148-08:002011-12-24T11:49:10.148-08:00Your words are wise. I feel true darkness in these...Your words are wise. I feel true darkness in these words, don't let such a talent to go away. I seek the truth inside all that is unique, and your words are just the thing that inspires truth. These words are brilliant, you could become a famous poet I'd say. And that is just what i needed to read right now. Your words made me feel alot better about myself. Thanks.Tsukiko F. Risuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01675870346972127448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-41025660653810786952011-09-18T11:48:32.831-07:002011-09-18T11:48:32.831-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.acneanonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00372434532652161934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-7937644563932686792011-06-17T15:11:28.716-07:002011-06-17T15:11:28.716-07:00fellow fan of Jack Gilbert here-- ran across your ...fellow fan of Jack Gilbert here-- ran across your blog today. You might like my stuff. xxxjJenne' R. Andrews https://www.blogger.com/profile/15744946229300234443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-6633459388983690962011-02-28T13:32:31.563-08:002011-02-28T13:32:31.563-08:00Hey, I just discovered your blog. It's great! ...Hey, I just discovered your blog. It's great! Lots of poems I knew and already loved. Lots of poems I didn't know and loved right away. Thanks! Keep it up; we need you out here.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13137472003638984433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-18127820020556357882010-11-24T22:31:04.806-08:002010-11-24T22:31:04.806-08:00It has some nice imagery and some of the metaphors...It has some nice imagery and some of the metaphors are really touching.Mareehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424135776902766867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-77919935629547600442010-11-23T10:35:57.753-08:002010-11-23T10:35:57.753-08:00While that's a rather broad-brushed summary of...While that's a rather broad-brushed summary of Buddhist philosophy, it works in your poem.<br /><br />Nice piece!Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-28241951333855786842010-11-09T11:39:49.663-08:002010-11-09T11:39:49.663-08:00Yes, that's what I love about it. Creepy and h...Yes, that's what I love about it. Creepy and hilarious. :^DMareehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424135776902766867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-65541680439239583592010-11-08T14:05:46.288-08:002010-11-08T14:05:46.288-08:00Hilarious. Creepy, but hilarious.Hilarious. Creepy, but hilarious.Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-59752352482673623412010-10-02T10:48:42.303-07:002010-10-02T10:48:42.303-07:00Love this poem, though I always wanted to know why...Love this poem, though I always wanted to know why she was taking the class over and over again, and why the teacher was so uninventive.T Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292927572877415923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-16031164713684540812010-10-01T13:56:59.211-07:002010-10-01T13:56:59.211-07:00(I meant piece, wonderful piece.
Although there i...(I meant piece, wonderful piece.<br /><br />Although there is a wonderful peace within it as well... that is, until the loons started dying.Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-81389072141717638252010-10-01T03:42:22.299-07:002010-10-01T03:42:22.299-07:00This is a wonderful peace! I enjoy seeing and hea...This is a wonderful peace! I enjoy seeing and hearing loons too. There are loons on the lake where we go camping every year. We walk down to the lake shore early, while the fog is still drifting on the water, and listen to the loon-calls greet the day.Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-78381969652398253142010-09-16T06:18:35.585-07:002010-09-16T06:18:35.585-07:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-82443530823395480632010-08-30T03:44:51.054-07:002010-08-30T03:44:51.054-07:00Yeats - one of the greats.
Hey, I'm a poet an...Yeats - one of the greats.<br /><br />Hey, I'm a poet and didn't know it!<br /><br />I make a rhyme every time!Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-91301997851716618602010-08-10T07:55:24.151-07:002010-08-10T07:55:24.151-07:00Indeed, being truly lost means staring, inescapabl...Indeed, being truly lost means staring, inescapably, at your own death, being unable to turn away.Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-52382818530852602982010-08-03T18:14:07.190-07:002010-08-03T18:14:07.190-07:00Yes, that's real poetry - when someone can pai...Yes, that's real poetry - when someone can paint an emotional picture that is visible to anyone. It's such a visceral and moving piece, love it.Mareehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424135776902766867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-7012638577247346742010-08-03T11:29:19.753-07:002010-08-03T11:29:19.753-07:00(What I meant to say)
What a stellar piece! Patri...(What I meant to say)<br /><br />What a stellar piece! Patricia really captured those raw emotions and inlaced themt with the random, scattered thoughts that can occur in the midst of such an ordeal.Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-4874630430889108242010-07-20T06:24:25.963-07:002010-07-20T06:24:25.963-07:00Mr. Cohen is quite exceptional. Thanks for posting...Mr. Cohen is quite exceptional. Thanks for posting "You Have the Lovers" here.David Cranmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749857752139212888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475979.post-86302858031835463322010-07-12T09:44:01.145-07:002010-07-12T09:44:01.145-07:00Thanks for sharing this one!
Maybe you can read s...Thanks for sharing this one!<br /><br />Maybe you can read some of my stuff when you have a chance. Don't let the name throw you... I'm not a redneck.<br /><br /><a href="http://thisisbubbasplace.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Bubba’s Place</a> <br /><br />Also, if you appreciate non-traditional haiku: <a href="http://haiku-koo-koo.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Haiku Koo-Koo</a>Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927345716112968689noreply@blogger.com