by eyes cast down | Apr 8, 2015 | Poems
daughter’s silent room; eternal empty neatness between our weekends
by eyes cast down | Apr 8, 2015 | Poems
Discovering Bashō (at long last) has inspired me to finally have a serious go at haiku and tanka, and take up the poetic brush again, after a 19-year break. First, there are two old ones, to clear the buffer… icy street corner, icicled bedroll huffing, bristled...
by eyes cast down | Sep 9, 2014 | Poems
Another character who always drew my attention, and therefore had to be reckoned with in words, somehow or other. I hugely enjoyed his two two books, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? when I read them years ago....
by eyes cast down | Jun 16, 2014 | Poems
This poem was published three times, making it one of my best-received. Another sad character study, like (though more unlike) Twilight Child; this described a flesh-and-blood person, not a fictional one. Between these two and Camille Claudel, there was a...
by eyes cast down | May 20, 2014 | Poems
On further review, a couple of the poems in the old Divinations series turned out to be publishable as they were… This one speaks to my musical vocation, which bloomed a little late – but at least it has… Ivory Sunrise Old worn wooden shell Dingy...
by eyes cast down | Apr 30, 2014 | Poems
Early in this blog’s life, I posted five poems from the mid-’90s, which I collectively call Divinations (after the book that would have contained them all). If you missed them, feel free to filter using the “Poems” tag, and there they are....