Do Cats Meditate? Chris Smith Again you’re thereUpon my chairDistant in your mindWith content purrYou do not StirRighteous and DivinedWhere do you goI just don’t knowOnly can I surmiseYour natural flowWith breathing slowThe distance in your eyesIs your elevationA Feline meditationOf ancients you connectFor the great preservationOf a whole human nationEntrusting that you protect ***** […]
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I was so angry that I banged the side of my fist into the stockade fence until it hurt, which made me angrier. I wanted to go to the rodeo at the fair, but I didn’t have the five dollars to get in. My dad said he’d pay me ten dollars to clean out the
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All That I Can Be John Thomas Dodds only ever one glass of wine no matter how beautiful the pair might seem together, each crafted individually, exquisitely unique engendered with a particular essence a minion among snowflakes, crystals, stars. Yet nothing about us uniquely other than one person, an individual cell, a single being, being
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Biography, Martin A. BojanI’ve been writing poetry since college, graduated, and became an attorney. I fell in love, and have loved writing ever since. Born in Brooklyn in 1945, my poetry often follows the experiences of baby-boomers thru the years, to now, aging. In addition to poetry, I have written several plays, and short stories.
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This poetry page is devoted to haiku and senryu. A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature intuitively linked to the human condition. In Japanese a typical haiku has seventeen on (sounds) arranged in lines of five, seven, and five sounds. On has often
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This month’s column is dedicated to the memory of Jeremy Monroe, who died Thursday, August 12, 2021, the result of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was born in Chicago December 6, 1939, and lived many lives. He was a banker and a lawyer but his card only said poet. Jeremy moved to Lakeside in 2012
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Anticipation The vivid hues of flowers are muted by the dust. The radiant green of leaves now dully turned to rust. The nightly coquetries of dews, Prove but a faithless lover’s ruse. The empurpled glory of jacaranda bloom, lie in dusty heaps beneath a gardener’s broom. The barbed-wire whine of the cicadas, disturb the heated
HAIKU A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature intuitively linked to the human condition. The term haiku is credited to Japanese poet and literary critic Masaoka Shiki, who lived in the late Meiji period (late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries). Most haiku in
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In this month’s Ojo you will see two pages dedicated to poetry. It is the Poetry Niche, and we have added Mel Goldberg to the staff as the poetry editor. As you will learn, Mel has an extensive background in teaching as well as writing and is an international award-winning poet.
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