Category: Poetry
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WWW.ALBANYPOETS.COM http://saintpoem.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/how-it-all-began-albany-poets-the-albany-wordfest How It All Began : A Memoir On Albany Poets & The Albany WordFest
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Arm yourself with pens and imagination, the paper is the empty space between the silence and the void. Fill it with words and ideas of grand thoughts and designs, unseen moments glimpsed out of secret corners. ~ R.M.
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‘Let’s have a look at the dark side of the moon – Marlowe as spy, Rimbaud as gun-runner, Shakespeare as lodger’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/30/life-in-writing-charles-nicholl A life in writing: Charles Nicholl
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” I love you “ These words that he said A thousand lifetimes ago. A thousand women weeping A thousand flowers burned. The poem, Just written for someone, somewhere Once. Beloved A wife A daughter A love. About the archeology of her smile, About her hidden voice, The joyful noise of her child Or just the…
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All men should possess a ‘visionary faculty’. Men do not, because they live wrongly. They live too tensely, under too much strain, ‘getting and spending’. But this loss of the visionary faculty is not entirely man’s fault, it is partly the fault of the world he lives in, that demands that men should spend a…
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THE SOUL PARADE Y’know. This poem, ain’t about you. And this poem ain’t about a raging heart Or a saving grace. This poem has nothing to do with the blues,Robert Johnson, the devil or evenAll the saints. And this poem has nothing to do with the paranormal,Demons or the neon electric lights ofNear death,…
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I WAS ONCE DEAD TOO In a famous paintingof Christ nailed toand crucified upon the crossI am the watching leper on the right.And with my one good eyeI watch as Jesus diesand screams up intodarkening sky askinghis father for a reason why? And then, suddenly as the clouds open upand the rain beginsthe Romans scatter like mice,the…
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OCCUPY THE WORDPoetry At The UAG! On Monday, JANUARY 16th the Saint Poem Reading Series will be holding a special event for all those who have poems they would like to share concerning politics, wall street and the current state of the world and America! Poets & Musicians Welcome! What do you have to say? SAINT POEM…
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The World According To Poetry September 3, 2009 By Lena Vanelslander If poetry can represent something meaningful, it is in the way it presents us shared and divergent perceptions of life and the world around us. In “The World according to Poetry” I will present you every fortnight a specific poet who can sway your body…
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IN THE CHURCH OFCOFFEE AND SMOKES “And now, Let us all pray” Ex-hale. Does anybodyHave a cigarette? Let’s all talk about your day,Light up simultaneously. Oh Lord,I need more sugarIn my coffee And not that artificial Crap Confession; One on one,Let’s all talk aboutAll of your sins, Smiling. No hail Mary’s, no regretsFor our God only…
