Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 14 Jan 2010
Linda Pastan’s poems follow this humble equation that from nothing or little comes much to those who look closely and perceive. Pastan’s poems are based on close observation that results often in profound expressions of truth from the human heart.
What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, [...]
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 [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 11 Jun 2009
As such reproducing poem by Neruda, considering the kind of reflective mood, I find myself presently in. It is also an escape for me to choose a poem and just meditate on what it is saying and its meaning to us. It is like meditating on a koan ( sort of a riddle to [...]
Life & Meditation-Introspection Entropy | 09 Jun 2009
This is a meditative essay by Pico Iyer in New York Times which a reminder that simplicity – either forced or voluntary–can teach us about ourselves…about Life. – “Simplicity is divine.” As Ben Okri, the Nigerian novelist, puts it, “When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.”
If [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 08 May 2009
Wendell Berry, a master of many literary genres, whether he is writing poetry, fiction, or essays, his message is essentially the same: humans must learn to live in harmony with the natural rhythms of the earth or perish.
How To Be a Poet
(to remind myself)
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, [...]