Life & Poetry Entropy | 25 Jul 2009
In this poem Richard Jackson has the compassion to mourn, to understand and to redeem. His thoughts helps us to make sense of the distortion of the world.
Cause and Effect
It’s because the earth continues to wobble on its axis
that we continue to stumble down the streets of the heart.
It’s because of the loneliness of [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 20 Jul 2009
Flying at Night.
Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn
back into the little system of his care.
All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,
tug with bright streets at [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 16 Jul 2009
Edward Hirsch’s poems insist that art is not some category we go to for entertainment, to be sequestered away from regular life. It’s just the opposite. These poems are as essential as walking down the street. They have as strong an existence as a loaf of bread. – Stuart Dybek
I’m Going to Start Living Like [...]
Life & Poetry Entropy | 10 Jul 2009
Mary Oliver’s poetry is an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization, wrote one reviewer for the Harvard Review, for too much flurry and inattention, and the baroque conventions of our social and professional lives. She is a poet of wisdom and generosity whose vision allows us to look intimately at a world not of [...]
Music & Poetry Entropy | 07 Jul 2009
If Bach had been a beekeeper
he would have heard
all those notes
suspended above one another
in the air of his ear
as the differentiated swarm returning
to the exact hive
and place in the hive,
topping up the cells
with the honey of C major,
food for the listening generations,
key to their comfort
and solace of their distress
as they return and return
to those counterpointed [...]
This is an inspirational excerpt from a article on Jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan in New York Times . According to Blue Notes she one of the Jazz World’s best kept secrets. Also explore this enlightening feature on NPR .
When the jazz singer Sheila Jordan is in Manhattan, she has ready access to the musicians, clubs [...]