Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

The usual pushing aside an empty glass The grasping of a table knife Its dull blade The sweeping of crumbs over the cloth Into the palm of the hand The pocketing of such treasure The look around Somewhat guilty By pretending curiosity just enough That no one notices Then back to self-absorption Chin...

every time I see that despicable face on TV, on the internet, in the newspaper.

James Joyce would have loved the language here. Rich.

I like the ending----got to act fast meeting 4 & 8 yr olds----and what made me smile---"a good happy family."

A lot to like---when I dream the voices are as clear as artesian well water bubbling up from between the rocks and the hard places from a lifetime of salmon-like swimming, and---- safer than buying some drug from a some wiry bearded self-proclaimed preacher who's pedaling his one speed bicycle peddl...

Dog—sick as a dog Tail between legs—butt scraping floor Adding barf to arf Poor joke—not funny I apologize—not funny Give me a blanket, a rug Sweep me under it—dowse me with warm Water please don’t pour cold Water on me please—please I promise To be good—Christian—I’ll think pure thoughts Never get ...

after midnight I'm typing a poem of sorts no, not the kind in Poetry magazine or the kind texted from an iphone or meticulously carved from traditional forms and the mutter language that matters like people sprawled in the shock of death from a gun fired indiscriminately at the court building or the...

have a minute here---like the poem. It captures a scene----contemporary and antediluvian scene also. This is really great: Until then I sit and watch cloud terrains, dream-spun bluffs, outrageously puffed, dark collision zones, white canyon rifts. Millions of years of sky geology unfold in minutes. ...

let us not be bitter let us be better----- ----surely someone has copyrighted that put their handcuffs on it charged passersby and tourists and connoisseurs of slogans big money if they can get it surely little money if poetry sells only a little or axioms and adages aren't popular in Hollywood beca...

another excellent poem. All I can say is yes.

Took a brief class on Hinduism and meditation. This has the essence of that.

I'm thinking would this poem get into one of those academic journals? I don't know but this poem is pretty damn interesting. Your imagination led you off into a rich communication of your visions. Maybe the ending----I'm gonna----might be a question or a resolution but I think the poem accomplishes ...

I smiled after reading this. Hit the right notes.

A lot in this. As with much modern and contemporary art/music/poetry----maybe even novels or essays----there are shifts of focus in this poem. The transitions are abrupt but the subject isn't the particular stories being quickly (and effectively) mentioned but your emotional throes. The particulars ...

This poem comes with strings attached. I got tied up in it.

Graph paper can not hold the coordinates that pop in and out of the mind.