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Alex Colvin Poetry

About Me

Hi! Welcome poets and good souls. I hope you enjoy these poems. I have some more poems in the blog on my personal profile.

I also have a poetry CD with 22 spoken poems.

For more bio please visit my Electroinc Press Kit

Various videos on YouTube

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/7/2007
Band Website: www.youtube.com/acecolvin
Band Members: Alex Colvin in various states of mind.
Influences: William Shakespeare, Lord George Gordon Byron, Galway Kinnel, T. S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Rimbaud, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Dar Williams, Leigh Hunt, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Richard Brautigan, Mina Loy, Rumi, The Bible, Janet Fitch, H. D., Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, William Wordsworth, Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickenson, Carl Sandburg, Alan Ginsburg, Rilke, mythology, Joseph Campbell, Neils Bohr, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Sigmund Frued, Albert Adler, Victor Frankl, Berdyaev, Dostoyevsky, Christopehr Moore, Leo Tolstoy, Jon Berryman, Rabindranath Tagore, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Theodore Roethke, Robert Bly, Kabir, Billy Collins, William Butler Yeats, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Robert Frost
Sounds Like: wind, water, earth, fire, wood
Record Label: Alex Colvin
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

So what can we say when the mind is moving so fast?

Pretty much absolutely nothing. Pure experience is the garden. What we know is all post experience. What we think we know is all post post experience.   We were in the garden of experie...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 04:12:00 GMT

The Plunge Not Taken

I came upon a sign in West Virginia once that said, "Do not drive across this river if bridge is under water."I had faith.I felt rebellious.I was tempted to test the waters at high velocity.But in the...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 13:17:00 GMT

Mortimus and Raphaella Unresolved

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Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:32:00 GMT

Dear Raphaella from the cage

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Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:37:00 GMT

Dear Mortimus

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Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Mortimus and Raphaella -- Letter Two

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Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:52:00 GMT

Mortimus and Raphella

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Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:01:00 GMT

Thoughts about suicide when I was young

Duiring a period in college, I spent much time in my little basement cave reading, listening to music, and practicing on my guitar. When I got bored I walked up to the coffee house and played che...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:11:00 GMT

Touched at Times by Africa

When I was fifteen. My roommate at Blair was The son of the vice president Of Esso Oil   He told me tales Of traveling through the villages Staring at the naked breasts Just like in National ...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 23:17:00 GMT

Like A Bee Around A Flower

I cannot be tied to this time To anger myself with present events Like a man in a fire tied to a stake   That is for politicians and preachers Who are paid or not paid Elected or not elected Fo...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:50:00 GMT