poetry

350th day of 2010 - 15 remaining Thursday, December 16, 2010 PETER RABBIT DAY On this day in 1901, the famous story, Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time, complete with Potter’s watercolor illustrations. Ms. Potter had come up with the Peter Rabbit concept eight...

1. River Bicycle Peony I woke up thinking abouy my brothr’s body. That q That was my first bit of early morning typing So the first dignity, it turns out, is to get the spelling right. I woke up thinking about my brother’s body. Apparently it’s at the medical examiner’s morgue. I found myself...

John F. Kennedy Quotes A child miseducated is a child lost. John F. Kennedy A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. John F. Kennedy A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John...

Here is an uplifting poem from an Earthmother: Maya Angelou:

Sara Nelson Daily Mail Sunday, March 14, 2010 Two government advertisements which use nursery rhymes to warn of the dangers of climate change have been banned for exaggerating the threat. Commissioned by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, the adverts are based on children’s poems Jack and Jill...

Richard P. Feynman Profession: Physicist. Born 1918, Brooklyn, New York. Died 1988, Los Angeles, California. "We could, of course, use any notation we want; do not laugh at notations; invent them, they are powerful. In fact, mathematics is, to a large extent, invention of better...

One. Our house of Quiet Restraint had so few gifts in it. My mother lived quiet as a ring in a velvet box. I wrote a poem about my father turning into a planet, of being that planet's anxious satellite, rising from its orbit into the atmosphere. In the poems, I burned down our modest house. I...

Here is the blurb that goes with this YouTube video: _______________________________________________ One of King Rollo's poetry and narrative philosophy tracts. From the album Music Of The Spoken Word. More details at www.king-rollo.co.uk In peace and harmony to you all, Rollo...

Open letter to all MSM (Main Stream Media) Journalists Monday, November 23, 2009 This letter is a translated version of a letter, on the 11th of October 2009 was sent to journalists working for media in Sweden and has since been widely distributed to a very rapidly growing in Sweden...

Vanessa Mock London Independent Sunday, Nov 15th, 2009 One is a young, dynamic reporter with a blond quiff who roams the world in search of adventure. The other is a greying, diminutive politician with glasses, a penchant for poetry and a love of country life. On the face of it, Belgium’s...

Ray McGovern Infowars October 2, 2009 Quagmire, anyone? The White Man’s Burden, a phrase immortalized by English poet Rudyard Kipling as an excuse for European-American imperialism, was front and center Thursday morning at a RAND-sponsored discussion of Afghanistan...

Webster Tarpley Infowars October 22, 2009 Delivered by Birgitta Jónsdóttir of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, October 5, 2009. Madam President. Dear countrymen. We have a choice to make. We are never faced with just one way, one solution. To assert so is a testimony to incredible...

tomorrow there will be a magnitude 7.0 quake off the coast of Harbor Island, the Bahamas, at 9:33 AM EST. no one will be harmed. the purpose of this earthquake is for verification so that you will be receptive to working on organizing solutions to the worlds problems. the powers that be will...

I became tongue-tied and didn't say anything when Philip Levine asked why R and I never visited him in Fresno in 1972. It was at a party in New York, in 1997, I think, and I couldn't, probably didn't want to, remember the real reason. R was the king of pain, he owned the most of anyone (he...

Looking at people for truth Wednesday, July 29, 2009 The truth is hard to define. Scientists who excavated in the past, scientists who search for an explanation of the universe, the atom of a butterfly; neighbors over the fence of their backyard to talk to each other, each trying to see...

That winter I had nothing to do but tend the kettle in my shuttered room on the top floor of a pensione near a cemetery, but I would sometimes descend the stairs, unlock my bicycle, and pedal along the cold city streets often turning from a wide boulevard down a narrow side street bearing the...

As long as I struggle to float above the ground and fail, there is reason for this poetry. On the stone back of Ludovici's throne, Venus is rising from the water. Her face and arms are raised, and the two women trained in the ways of the world help her rise, covering her nakedness with a cloth...

I had to pay one thing and another taxes and debts and the cable television bill the city was always too spread out for me I didn't have the time to pay it all if I were a millionaire I would hire a delivery service with a courier but I have to go in person to the banks and offices I didn't...

They've been handing out pamphlets in Leicester Square (for 'Leicester' read 'Worcester') ever since our latest victory (for 'victory' read 'disaster') and all the penguins in Worcester Square (for 'penguins' read 'pigeons') have, like dodos, forgotten how to fly (for 'fly' read 'do long...

The Teddy boy, all rebel cool circa 1956 in skinny jeans and biker boots, insolent, tough, the image mean, the attitude like Jimmy Dean posed by a street lamp in leather. The poems mapped the metaphysical constraints of finding in the real a car-buffed resolution won with the tricky scoping of a...