Tag: poet
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A Love Poem I actually Did Write
“You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. I look around me and I see it isn’t so. Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs. And what’s wrong with that, I’d like to know? Cause here I go, again. . . “ –Paul McCartney But apparently people are…
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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #5: More E. E. Cummings
Well, here we are. Officially by the almighty clock we have arrived on Cupid’s wings at the big V.D. Happy Valentine’s day, my lovelies. I have been recording a few little short love poems tonight that I will try to post tomorrow, well later today, but to me it’s not tomorrow until after I wake…
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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #4: with Walt Whitman
That’s right, Walt Whitman. He may not be as well-known for his love poems as others, and his critics might say he was too busy loving himself, but to that I counter that he loved himself no less than others, and no more. I just started going back to studying the “Calamus” section of Leaves…
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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #2: The Highwayman
I had the immense pleasure Sunday morning of reading a second time at the Priestly Chapel here in the tiny town of Northumberland, Pennsylvania. But I will tell you about that experience in my next post. For now, I want to skip ahead to talk about the next Poetry Under the Paintings event at Faustina’s Gallery…
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River Ice and William Stafford
Oh the weather outside is . . . actually it’s been rather freakish. We’ve gone from single digits three days ago to 60 degrees (Fahrenheit) yesterday to blustery wind and snow squalls today. Pennsylvania is one of those places in which they say, “If you don’t like the weather here, wait a minute.” Unless of…
