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Tag Archives: Poetry
So You Wanna Be A Writer
-The narrator of the powerful video below is Tom Bedlam -The music is Alice In Winter – Hold This Place. if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out … Continue reading
Just Another Sundry Sunday
Old internet hands may recollect the early days of the web when it all seemed so clever and exciting. One of those interesting 1990s projects has just been relaunched and is worth a look on a lazy Sunday afternoon. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Libraries, Tech, USA, Writing
Tagged Academy Awards, Cartoons, Comics, Poetry, Rare Books
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Randomness Follows
This wild-looking mechanical contraption is a typewriter. It was designed in 1867 and then patented in 1870. For the time, the Malling Hansen Writing Ball was a technological marvel and years ahead of its time. The unique functionality of this … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Tech, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Cartoons, forests, Poetry, Robert Louis Stevenson
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Insomnia
Insomnia All over the world people can’t sleep. In different times zones they’re lying awake Bodies still, minds trudging along like child laborers. They worry about bills, they worry whether the shoes they just bought are really too small. One’s … Continue reading
And so much satisfaction when a train goes by.
Living at the End of Time –Robert Bly There is so much sweetness in children’s voices, And so much discontent at the end of day, And so much satisfaction when a train goes by. I don’t know why the rooster … Continue reading
Winter mornings are made of steel
Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges. On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it’s plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, John Steinbeck, Mary Oliver, Poetry, Winter
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The price of popularity
The Shore by Rob A. Mackenzie It’s why the tourists arrive and why Time Out called Leith “one of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods”; why the sky is permanently blue and the sun flaunts the burnished stonework; why a red light area … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Restaurants, Tourism
Tagged Edinburgh, Poetry, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Running Into A New Year
Running Into A New Year I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard … Continue reading
Hymn to Time
HYMN TO TIME by Ursula K. Le Guin Time says “Let there be” every moment and instantly there is space and the radiance of each bright galaxy. And eyes beholding radiance. And the gnats’ flickering dance. And the seas’ expanse. … Continue reading
We shall by morning Inherit the earth
MUSHROOMS by Sylvia Plath Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room. Soft fists insist on Heaving the … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 