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Old Poetry Day

Monday, June 25th, 2007

The past few days I have been searching through old journals and notebooks looking for notes on an event I went to years ago. I haven’t found the prize yet, but in the process of not finding what I was looking for I did find some other interesting stuff.

Back in 1990 I was taking a poetry class in the evenings, and I worked on those assignments in the same notebook that I used for recording meeting minutes, jotting down ideas for articles, and writing songs. Somewhere in the middle of all that I found the following, dated July 12, 1990. I have no recollection of writing it, but I think I was in the middle of writing a song that wasn’t cooperating, so this came out instead.

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Dreams

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Okay, well I guess I am now collecting poems having to do with dreams. I spent some time this evening browsing through a friend’s poetry collection, and came up with this beauty that I had to share. I don’t know whether Reya is doing her Poetry for Brigid blog this year, but here’s my first contribution anyway.

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Poetry and Dreams

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Back when Bowen and Lyra were about 5 and 3, I was a frustrated songwriter. I had several under my belt from years past, but not as many recent ones as I would have liked. There were two or three half-finished songs I was trying to pull together, and somehow I thought it was a failure on my part that I couldn’t find the time with two little kids to finish them. When I did take time from everything else to work on my songs I found I had nothing to say, or rather was too full of things I didn’t know how to say. Not understanding the cause or the cure, I called it writer’s block.

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On Dreaming a Song

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

It happened again recently, that most rarefied of dreams: I am performing a beautiful new song spontaneously as I compose it. The dream wakes me up, and on waking I remember part of the haunting melody and lyrics, and am able to transcribe them.

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O wild angels of the open hills

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Let us all bow down to Black Oak Books in Berkeley, where on a chance foray this afternoon I came up for air clutching gold in my stubborn hand. And the gold reads like this: O wild angels of the open hills Before all legends and before all tears: O voyagers of where the evening [...]

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The Shifting Balance

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Some years ago, my wise friend Cybele gave me a sacred challenge: to meditate on the Wild and the Domestic, and write a poem about each. Cybele has a well-deserved reputation for going right to the soul’s questions, and offering challenges which bring that material to light. Her challenge to me was no exception.

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A favorite poem, found again

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

I was introduced to this poem years ago and loved it. Last week, browsing in a used book store, I found it again and immediately bought the book of poems it was in: Praise, by Robert Haas. I used to use his line about longing and distance as my email signature. Ross and I took [...]

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Poems for Brigid

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

The City of Silence by William Matthews As far as a sound wave rings out before it’s heard, that’s where the city limits are. I keep the place clean. Anything you worship will let you be its priest. If I open my mouth a word falls in. Gods avoid their shrines. The streets are paved [...]

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…and knowing, choose you

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Choice Blindfolded I would know the touch the taste the smell of you among a thousand others and knowing, choose you –Maude Meehan, Chipping Bone

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