Thursday, January 5, 2023

Divine Dream

Some poems begin slowly, as small whispers or suggestions. A poem can also start as an image in a painting. I can connect images that may become a painting that arrive from certain lines in one of my poems as well. I am really translating what has been recieved through my heart and out of the divine dream where they first began.

12/7/2022

1/5/2023

Sunday, January 1, 2023

The Beginning of The End

What is 
left of the
old may
now enter
the new/
Farther stars
in the mist
go dim 
& forgotten
orchids still
cry frozen 
tears.
All along 
the silent
way &
home-ward,
my cold shadow
greets me
like a 
lost friend.

1/1/2023

T’ang Poetry, Li Ho and the Influence on the French Symbolist Movement

 I realized that the best of what the French Symbolists (like Baudelaire and Rimbaud) had to offer really began with the T’ang period and Po...