for blog action day today, october 15, 2010, i am posting 15 water poems in 15 hours. here’s #7: between green shadows a grey sky sends pearly light. raindrops soft and thin. Change.org|Start Petition
Category: creativity: poetry, art, etc.
blog action day: water poem #6
wallow in the thick waters that made your tiny, tiny boat bob on slimy, inky algae, your boots not high enough, the bubbles drop down to your socks, slobber them with muddy murk and you slosh through anyway because there is nowhere else to go but walk on through, walk on through until you get… Continue reading blog action day: water poem #6
blog action day: water poem #5
Change.org|Start Petition for blog action day on october 15, 2010, i am posting 15 water poems in 15 hours. . the russian in the shadow muttered half baked on the hard ice, all scrambled under his frozen bearded breath, some last words before the northern light changed it all. with one big bang of brightness… Continue reading blog action day: water poem #5
blog action day: water poem #4, a haiku
even in the rain she skippers on, full of mirth earnest, she? never. Change.org|Start Petition for blog action day on october 15, 2010, i am posting 15 water poems in 15 hours.
blog action day: water poem #3
Change.org|Start Petition for blog action day on october 15, 2010, i am posting 15 water poems in 15 hours. poem #3 i can hear the water running steady a light gurgling and then quiet rushing dripping but those are not sounds just words i want to tell you – really, i want to tell you… Continue reading blog action day: water poem #3
blog action day: water poem #2
for blog action day on october 15, 2010, i am posting 15 water poems in 15 hours. poem #2 jesus walk through the swamp moss on his head cross far behind eyes on the ground on the swamp jesus your eyes on the swamp in the swamp with the swamp jesus and moss and the… Continue reading blog action day: water poem #2
blog action day: 15 water poems in 15 hours
Change.org|Start Petition for blog action day on october 15, 2010, i will post 15 water poems in 15 hours. here goes the first one: brilliant short tendrils come out of a night full of noises and dripping and busy spiders gleaming in the first sun that yawns its way past barely open pods of rainbow… Continue reading blog action day: 15 water poems in 15 hours
writers festival
here are some of the events i’m considering going to at vancouver’s annual writers festival. 33 old friends linwood barclay ontario gail bowen saskatchewan quintin jardine united kingdom host: the honourable larry w. campbell thu, oct 21, 8:00pm revue stage $19.00 (buy tickets online) one of the draws for aficionados of crime fiction is the… Continue reading writers festival
almost wordless doodle, not even on a wednesday
an hommage to nancy white, one of my heroes. among a gazillion other things, i admire her for her graphic representation skills. this doodle here represents the stories of people who were talking about all the places they’ve worked.
august 2010 buddhist carnival: right action
every month i delve into the buddhasphere to come up with interesting tidbits in buddhist writing. this time around i was interested in the concept of right action. the poem we start out with today is the famous shin jin mei poem the perfect way knows no difficulties except that it refuses to make preferences;… Continue reading august 2010 buddhist carnival: right action