Light-years It’s a beautiful world, you said, with these trees, marshes, deserts, grasses, rivers and seas and so on. And the moon is really something in its circuits of relative radiance. Include the wingèd M, voluptuous Venus, hotheaded Mars, that lucky devil J and cranky Saturn, of course, plus U and N and the wanderer [...]
My virtual friend and gifted photographer Marie Ancolie introduced me to charming world of Russian poet Vera Pavlova and suggested to share her work on Entropy… If There is Something to Desire- is the first full collection of her poetry is published in English. The collection is translated by her husband Steven Seymour. I broke [...]
Advice to writers Even if it keeps you up all night, wash down the walls and scrub the floor of your study before composing a syllable. Clean the place as if the Pope were on his way. Spotlessness is the niece of inspiration. The more you clean, the more brilliant your writing will be, so [...]
I return to Wislawa Szymborska once again.. for her simple yet profound words..”My apologies to great questions for small answers.” This poem like all her poems can be interpreted on several levels but what can be felt especially strongly is the universally human meaning, here having both an existential and a deeply ethical dimension. A [...]
Meditation &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: [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 23 Dec 2009
Wishing all the Entropy readers and friends Seasons Greetings… LET’S GIVE THE WORLD TO THE CHILDREN Let’s give the world to the children just for one day like a balloon in bright and striking colours to play with let them play singing among the stars let’s give the world to the children like a huge [...]