Well, I got through last Sunday and then petered out. Just got all caught up in lesson plans and such. So here are seven short poems to get me caught back up. Land of Chin and Han Shang Chou T’ang dynasty built on dynasty relics and art intermingled (China) Manet Monet Debussy Saint-Saens Rodin Louis […]
Month: April 2011
Poem a Day # 10 April 2011
lava flows hot springs and ice thermal energy hydrogen cells and power ancient odes modern muses true art whale hunting fishing shepherds ice and fire island (Iceland)
Poem a Day # 9 April 2011
The former land of promise is now a land-locked prison. The widows and orphans, those who remain must scratch a living on sugar plantations. Servitude, for those who remain, the ones not yet stolen, the ones not yet lost. They’ll be lucky to reach twenty five, cursed to see thirty. The king ignores, the Libandla […]
A test run…
I have decided to try using the form maker in google docs. If you want to play along, check out my Food preference quiz. And thanks in advance!
Poem a Day # 8 April 2011
gradual association of disparate cities, states, city-states from counts to barons princes and an emperor or two out of many, one a shared linguistic heritage rivalries of creed or coffers now full now empty and must needs be replenished the armies or ragtag mobs desperate crusading or caroling from the tall mountains to the lowlands […]
Poem a Day # 7 April 2011
Over the mountains, northward they came mountain people warriors into new territory rich and ripe fertile lands between the mountains free for the moment from the rampaging empire-builders to the south here a new culture as rich as the land brewmasters musicians artists farmers and saints they set their sights on prosperity and posterity and […]
Poem a Day # 6 April 2011
tucked between the mountains and the lake, tiny and vulnerable wracked by warring natives and warring foreigners who will control the copper mines and the cobalt who will look after the goats and the sweet potatoes the fields ripening in the sun the coffee harvested by hand and drunk overseas who will look after the […]
A look in the garden
I haven’t had a lot of time in recent months years, but this week I am trying to notice what is happening in my yard again. The trillium have been blooming for quite a while now, and the daffodils weren’t far behind. Tulips are, I fear, no more in our yard. We’ll have to plan […]
Poem a Day #5 April 2011
House of Windsor, Edwardian, Victorian, Hanoverian, Stuart Tudor, York, Lancaster, Plantagenet, Norman — the Conquerors who spent so much claiming land pre-occupied: farmed, tilled, managed and lived on countless thousands of years ——-don’t confuse the rulers with the ruled—— chalky to rocky, beach to bluff so close to history step here dig there reveal the […]
Poem a Day #4 April 2011
The khan’s legacy sand and legend the winds still whisper his name across the wide steppes the broad plains through mountain passes hidden and fortified the silk and spices regulated by the great horsemen financed empire until chaos returned dust devils swirling in time (Mongolia)