For day three’s favorite poetry selection, I give you American poet T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:” S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero, Senza tema d’infamia [...]
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World Poetry, Third Edition
Posted in Thoughts, tagged J. Alfred Prufrock, Love Song, Modernist, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Prufrock, T.S. Eliot, World Poetry day, Writers, Writing on March 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
St. Patty’s
Posted in Poems, Thoughts, tagged Buck o Nine, Cheer, Dance, Drinking, Dropkick Murphy, Drunk, Dubliners, Erin Go Bragh, Flogging Molly, Galford, Green Beer, History, Ireland, Irish, Isles, Michigan, Music, Observations, People, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, St. Patrick's Day, St. Patty's Day, Stephen Lynch, Writing on March 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Hello, my name is Chris, and I’m not Irish. My ancestors are from the isles, but they never did call the white-foamed cliffs or the emerald fields of Ireland their home. I know, I’m sorry – but now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, allow me to add that I appreciate a good [...]
C’est la vie
Posted in Poems, tagged C'est la vie, Deppression, Failure, Galford, Giving up, Hope, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Rejection, Sadness, So it goes, Success, Thoughts, Wishful Thinking, Writing on March 15, 2011 | 26 Comments »
They say success never tastes so sweet without the sour hors d’oeuvre of failure’s bounty; were I but once to taste the former I might have some basis to compare. * My latest contribution to the wonderful One Shot Poetry Wednesdays! If you get the chance, be sure to check out all the other talented [...]
Coughing Camels
Posted in Poems, tagged America, Camels, Cigarettes, Death, Galford, History, Indians, Joe Camel, Life, Observations, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Photographers, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Self-destruction, Smoking, Tobacco on March 13, 2011 | 12 Comments »
It began with little Indians rolling crude puffing psychoactive spirituality in lieu of peace signs in the sand. Pet plants petted coughing Camels patronizingly, coaxing out life one voice at a time. Every breath breathes history says the shaded mammal; it sucks it up in fossilized harmony and spits it out, in yellow – it’s [...]
Senryu
Posted in Haiku/Senryu, tagged Commercialism, Free Trade, Galford, Globalization, Haiku, International. Humanity, Observations, People, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Senryu, Short Poem, Thoughts, Writing on March 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Copper pawning shops by Afghans made in Taiwan– blue oceans delude.
The Runner
Posted in Poems, tagged Delusion, Denial, Dreams, Galford, Life, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Pursuit, Reflections, Resistance, Short Poetry, Stars, Thoughts on March 8, 2011 | 28 Comments »
“Never,” said the man, and on he ran pursuing the stars like a drunkard to his bars, crying “No” awash in the glow, but never yet to know. * My latest contribution to the wonderful One Shot Poetry Wednesdays! If you get the chance, be sure to check out all the other talented One Stop [...]
Curtain Calls
Posted in Poems, tagged Acting, Galford, Inspired by, Jacob Lucas, Life, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Photo Prompt, Photography, Photos, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Theater, Writing on March 6, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Rotted regality recompense Take wing and take heed beneath the sunlit— Spotlights? Well they never did Reveal nothing anyhow Save empty chairs and broken sets Where bands play in flat, The fat ghosts singing cabaret Behind dilapidated careers, Writ grandiose in neon letters Somewhere between dignity and destiny. * My submission to this week’s edition [...]
Arrows in Sherwood…
Posted in Haiku/Senryu, tagged Fantasy, Galford, Haiku, Make believe, Observation, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflection, Robin Hood, Senryu, Sherwood, Short Poem, Thoughts on March 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Arrows in Sherwood never sound as sweet as to bald men, damsel dreams.
Undercover
Posted in Poems, tagged Childhood, Children, Cinquain, Dreams, Fear, Galford, Hiding, Imagination, Life, Monsters, Nightmares, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Thoughts, Under the Covers, Writing on March 1, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Breathe light. The moment the candle flickers to dark no covers keep the monsters back– life holds. * My latest contribution to the wonderful One Shot Poetry Wednesdays! The style used here is known as Cinquain, a five-line stanza form containing twenty-two syllables, in the sequence: 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. Notice I’ve been on [...]
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