Tag: poet
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PePoWriMo – Attempted Comeback from NaPoWriMo Fail
My explanation on Youtube for why I never got passed April 11th for this year’s Poem-a-Day (NaPoWriMo) challenge for National Poetry Month. Ah well, my mom had a saying for when I didn’t eat everything on my plate. She said my eyes were bigger than my stomach. Ah well, at least the grades were good…
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National Poetry Writing Month
Well there is a National Ice Cream Month (July, thanks to Ronny Reagan), National Blood Donor Month (though that seems like it would be draining), National Soup Month, and a National Hemorrhoid Prevention Month (OK, OK, so I made that one up), so why not National Poetry Month? Great idea, right? Well, too late, the…
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Two Original Poems Read by DJB
This has been a busy two weeks. Midterm exams, papers, enough reading to overload Carl Sagan’s brain, and six nights of work. Ugh! But I’m sitting here now with my baby, listening to Michael Buble and Josh Groban, soothing my soul after the American Idol travesties of the evening. A glass of wine in my…
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“To a Contemporary Bunkshooter,” by Carl Sandburg, a Poetry Reading by DJB
The text of this poem can be viewed by clicking right here. I was a little unsure about making this video public for several reasons. My reading is a bit over the top in places, but then again it’s nothing compared to an over the top Billy Sunday sermon. Also, it was hard to make…
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Love Poem, Written and Read by DJB
Tons of things I’d like to write this week. I need to get back to a previous thread. No, Brother I haven’t forgotten. But 50 hours at work, plus school and trying to be a descent dad and boyfriend as well as a poet. lol No wonder my apartment looks like a wrecking crew was…
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Here I Love You, by Pablo Neruda – Poem Read by DJB
A sad but beautiful love poem by Pablo Neruda, translated by W. S. Merwin from his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Here I love you. In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself. The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters. Days, all one kind, go chasing each other. The…
