Notes on the Art of Poetry
I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on
in the world between the covers of books,
such sandstorms and ice blasts of words,,,
such staggering peace, such enormous laughter,
such and so many blinding bright lights,, ,
splashing all over the pages
in a million bits and pieces
all of which were words, words, words,
and [...]
Life & Poetry & Science Entropy | 25 Aug 2008
Wish to share Wonderful poem by Robert Pinsky an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. What makes Mr. Pinsky such a rewarding and exciting writer is the sense he gives, in the very shape and structure of his poems, of getting at the depths of human experience, in which everything is always repeated but [...]
Life & Poetry Entropy | 21 Aug 2008
Alone..
Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
There are some millionaires
With money they can’t use
Their wives run round like [...]
Globalisation & Life & Nature Entropy | 19 Aug 2008
The recent passing away of Masanobu Fukuoka, the pioneer of ‘‘natural’’ farming, which eschews plowing, weeding and the use of fertilizers or pesticides, led me to connect and reproduce the this under noted article , which was published in Oct 2007 Orion Magazine . Fukuoka was the author of ‘‘The One Straw Revolution,’’
The heart warming [...]
Life & Poetry Entropy | 15 Aug 2008
Mondays are meshed with Tuesdays
and the week with the whole year.
Time cannot be cut
with your weary scissors,
and all the names of the day
are washed out by the waters of night.
No one can claim the name of Pedro,
nobody is Rosa or Maria,
all of us are dust or sand,
all of us are rain under rain.
They have spoken [...]
Metaphysical Poetry & Poetry Entropy | 11 Aug 2008
My friend Nimesh shared The wonderful poetry of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) which is marked by brilliance, originality. Please also care to read poems meaningful & penetrating interpretation by our literary mentor Max Babi also being appended
Among black butterflies
Goes a Moorish girl
beside a white serpent
of mist.
Earth of light,
sky of earth.
She goes [...]