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“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” -Goethe ************************************************************ * "Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music." -Rachmaninov ************************************************************ * "Music is love in search of a word." -Sidonie Gabrielle ************************************************************ * "Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul." - Plato ************************************************************ * "Poetry is the music of the soul" - Voltaire ************************************************************ * "Writing a poem is discovering." -Robert Frost ************************************************************ * “Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.” -Van Gogh ************************************************************ * “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” -Plato ************************************************************ * “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” -Robert Frost ************************************************************ * “I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” -Socrates

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My Blog

Leslies Blog made me think of a poem....

My Father's Diary  by Sharon OldsWhen I sit on the bed, and spring the brassscarab legs of its locks, insideis the stacked, shy wealth of his print.He could not write in script, so the pagesare s...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:24:00 GMT

A Poem

Amphibious  by Erin MurphyMy daughter wants to take a framed oil painting to school,a nude with loose breasts and a bellyripe as the full moon. Why? Becausewe're studying frogs, she says,and it'...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:47:00 GMT

Another Poem

The Dinner By Gregory Orr   I invited Mozart to dinner on condition he didn't embarrass me. In the middle of the meal he began weeping uncontrollably. "You silly fuck," I screamed, "what a...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:03:00 GMT

A Poem

A Letter in October By Ted Kooser   Dawn comes later and later now, and I, who only a month ago could sit with coffee every morning watching the light walk down the hill to the edge of the p...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:42:00 GMT

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Government Application and Information (Indiana) http://www.in.gov/sos/elections/pdfs/50504.pdf   Vote for Change (Obama/Biden)         ;    &...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:01:00 GMT

Pacers Trade Rumors

I just posted this on the Star's web site and thought that I would share it here: I usually just read the commnents but thought I would chime in. A couple things struck me about this whole thing-that ...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:16:00 GMT

W S Merwins Birthday!!!

Air by W. S. Merwin   Naturally it is night.Under the overturned lute with itsOne string I am going my wayWhich has a strange sound.This way the dust, that way the dust.I listen to both sidesBu...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:48:00 GMT

What We Want

What We Wantby Linda Pastan What we wantis never simple.We move among the thingswe thought we wanted:a face, a room, an open bookand these things bear our namesnow they want us.But what we want appea...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:09:00 GMT

something good has begun

What an awesome night!!! I hung with Chris, Leslie, Jurgen and Michelle.   Listen to some jazz,  chatted, drank some martinis and ate some tasty munchies!!!  Actually this has bee...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:50:00 GMT

A Poem

Snow, Aldoby Kate DiCamillo Once, I was in New York,in Central Park, and I sawan old man in a black overcoat walkinga black dog. This was springtimeand the trees were stillbare and the sky wasgray and...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:21:00 GMT