January 2011
29 posts
the sky is the lonely blue of distant galaxies
readymades and unrealities →
she’s doing it again, breaking my heart
A Poet Reflects: ATTENTION!!! A POETRY CHALLENGE... →
apoetreflects:
ATTENTION!!! A POETRY CHALLENGE FOR MY FOLLOWERS!!!
Below this announcement/prompt you will find the poem “Possibilities” by Wisława Syzymborska, which is an excellent example of a list or inventory poem.
Here is what I propose:
I would like to challenge my followers to create their…
Fresh To Death: Day 3: Your favorite poem and why →
mrwcase:
This poem, Love Song, by Rainer Maria Rilke is definitely one of my favorites. I love his understanding of the delicate nature of the heart and desire to hide it. But most of all, I love the eloquent way he describes the attraction of being drawn into singularity with someone, two coming together…
As angry as a breeze
Tugging hard upon the sails
I’ve been moving...
– ryan adams - friends
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...
– Sylvia Plath (via fragilesouls)
Come sail your ships around me
And burn your bridges down
We make a little...
– nick cave - the ship song
Saturday afternoon
the sky collapses
rain plummets
hastened by the insurgent wind
single-minded assassin of the afternoon
the streets are thunderstruck
lightning cleaves me in two
as i cling to this vagrant night
Let everything that’s been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them...
– (via shockfusion)
You talk and talk
words to fill a silence
words to fill an accidental horizon
yet they fall abstract on my ears
deaf to all except to your body
the poetry of your hands
reshaping
the silence around my heart
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If you're in NYC: Installation at Sean Kelly... →
An exhibition that focuses on a collaborative project between an artist and a writer. Works on paper by the Scottish painter, Callum Innes, are exhibited alongside text by the Irish writer, Colm Tóibín, excerpted from a short story (inspired by Innes’s watercolours) specifically commissioned by the gallery.