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Daniel W. Rasmus

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About Me

Poet. Futurist. Poetic views of the future as it unravels and reveals itself in all its uncertain glory.

My Interests

Writing poetry, reading, the kids and the dog.

I'd like to meet:

People with inspirations and thoughts that challenge conventional wisdom as a way to build the next generation of wisdom so it will be less conventional.

Music:

Dido , The Beatles, Matchbox 20, Steely Dan, Elvis Costello, Green Day, Frank

Movies:

Blade Runner, Top Gun, Die Hard, anything Star Trek, the early Star Wars, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Idependence Day, Tess

Television:

Trek, Nova, ER, Gray's, Boston Legal, Antique Roadshow

Books:

Stranger In a Stange Land, Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot, Complete Works of Shakespeare, Look Homeward Angel, Ulysses, Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Dune, Anything by Stephen Jay Gould

Heroes:

Captain Kirk, William Shatner, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T.s. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Heinlein

My Blog

Priestess

  You sit on the swing and drag your foot in the sand Drag your foot in the sand What was it this time?  your ask What was it this time? Fog crawls slowly up the sloping hills and fills ever...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:46:00 PST

An Annotated Torch Song Mix - Draft Conclusion

An Annotated Torch Song Mix   Draft conclusion... Let me know what you think...     We have no chance in this. So you say Why do I continue to resist 'cause I don't want to love you an...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:34:00 PST

An Annotated Torch Song Mix

A little something I am working on. Much more refinement to come. Thing of all those songs you hear and what they mean to you in different moods and situations. And then, make them your own. That is w...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:46:00 PST

A Birthday Poem

The annual return to my birth place Not the gritty LA skyline covered with fog and smoke Not the hospital converted to a church then abandoned But that point in space Where concentric circles merge p...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:03:00 PST

Winter Routes (A fragment)

hurry      without looking the cold is coming here a promise you failed to retrieve a dried offer pitted with remorse for its submission        I hang you...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:33:00 PST

O the Prayers

O the Prayers Return my giggles and kisses with the gift receipt kept just for just such a moments as thisreplace the books that littered our lives and bind them like newBraid your hair to hide the pa...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:01:00 PST

A new fragment

  Shout the expletives in orange They  are a caution A warning of unilateral action A removal of trust Thrust out of space like an atom appearing from nowhere Nowhere expected Taken from so...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:52:00 PST

Unframed - a fragment

Unframed   Your elastic nose pushes into space fractured eyelashes turn fragile failing away from the focal point of one fine eye melted along the fault line of your face filled with quantum e...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:50:00 PST

No One Here To Bend The Light

No One Here To Bend The Light                               &...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:21:00 PST

A New Fragment

  Exquisite voices Overt over the clutter of spring Neighbors dance on the ceiling with steel shoes Daffodils first Then maples Tulips just in time for resurrection The chestnut finally and the ...
Posted by Daniel W. Rasmus on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:11:00 PST