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Thursday, January 11, 2024

Find the answers to these big questions in a tiny book of poems.....

Find the answers to these big questions in a tiny book of poems.....

poem 1-Do love and compassion need to ne taught?

poenm 2- Would you decide to have a child when the world was on the cusp of armageddon?

Poem 3-What type of wealth does one need to experience Christmas joy?

poem 4-What was actually going on in America as WWI unfolded?

Poem 5-How is it that the dead seem to inspire us with their love even more so after their death?

poem 6-Where does one find the meek?

poem 7-wny is love an action word?

poem 8-What can one do when victory is bitter sweet?

poem 9-How can a group of people with no material possessions find gratitude?

poem 10-How can one find calm when faith is tested to the max?

poem 11-What is it that most of us seek on spiritual journeys?

poem 12-Why are loss and addiction so closely tied together?

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From Poetry Magazine in 1920

The new poetry strives for a concrete and immediate realization of life; it would discard the theory, the abstraction, the remoteness, found in all classics not of the first order. It is less vague, less verbose, less eloquent, than most poetry of the Victorian period and much work of earlier periods. It has set before itself an ideal of absolute simplicity and sincerity—an ideal which implies an individual, unstereotyped diction; and an individual, unstereotyped rhythm. Thus inspired, it becomes intensive rather than diffuse. It looks out more eagerly than in; it becomes objective. The term “exteriority” has been applied to it, but this is incomplete. In presenting the concrete object or the concrete environment, whether these be beautiful or ugly, it seeks to give more precisely the emotion arising from them, and thus widens immeasurably the scope of the art. All this implies no disrespect for tradition. The poets of to-day do not discard tradition because they follow the speech of to-day rather than that of Shakespeare’s time, or strive for organic rhythm rather than use a mold which has been perfected by others. On the contrary, they follow the great tradition when they seek a vehicle suited to their own epoch and their own creative mood, and resolutely reject all others.

Passage from Factotum

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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