Monday, September 19, 2022
9/19/ 2022 Attention Short Story Lovers/ New Coolest American Short Stories Anthology/ New Annual Short Story Anthology Will Captivate You
""Love short stories? This collection is for you. Not yet sure how to feel about short stories? This collection is definitely for you. Whoever you are, wherever you are: read these stories!" -Lori Ostlund, Flannery O’Connor Award winner and author of After the Parade and The Bigness of the World"
Coolest American Short Stories
Listen to podcast with the editors Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey.
My Story Auras will be in the 2023 Anthology More on the 2023 Anthology in future posts.
9/19/22 Mary Oliver Poem Geese and Drawing
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Thursday, May 26, 2022
5/26/22 A Meditation on Grief / Jack Kornfield From Gratefulness
"When after heavy rain the storm clouds disperse, is it not that they’ve wept themselves clear to the end? —Ghalib"
"Grief is one of the heart’s natural responses to loss. When we grieve we allow ourselves to feel the truth of our pain, the measure of betrayal or tragedy in our life. By our willingness to mourn, we slowly acknowledge, integrate, and accept the truth of our losses. Sometimes the best way to let go is to grieve."
Read more here
Friday, May 13, 2022
5/13/22 The Tragedy of War. We Have A Choice. Why Do Humans Choose War? Moving Poems From Ukraine War Poetry in Ukraine: Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk
There are two sides to everything. Somethings like night and day we can't change although electricity has allowed our nights to be brighter. When we have a choice we often choose that which makes our life better. War in human terms does not make life better for anyone except perhaps governments or certain businesses ( war it is said helps economies).
When you see the destruction in Ukraine and all around the world you wonder what have we as a human collective done to this glorious planet and to ourselves and each other. Who in their right mind would choose suffering over peace for all? Who could defend bombing magnificent museums, defenseless civilians, children, relics, hospitals, peoples' homes and innocent animals? It really seems to come down to what you believe, have been taught or experienced in your life.
Isn't it time collectively to stop wars? Don't you want that? Don't you want to experience the earth being free of man made pollution, new ways to provide food and freedom for those struggling, new forms of governments that promote freedoms and resources for all? Don't you want to experience higher states of inner peace and happiness, live up to your potential? See your families prosper?
Lets stop the suffering.
Remember beyond nationality and race we are the same. Maya Angelou said
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems
The Human Tragedy of War
Poets From Ukraine- W Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/war-poetry-in-ukraine-serhiy-zhadan-and-lyuba-yakimchuk/
Sunday, April 10, 2022
4/10/22 Another Time, Another War Poetry W.H. Auden
September 1, 1939
"I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,..."
Read the rest at Poets.org
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
1/12/2022 " Poems for Peace Young people living in conflict use poetry to express their hopes for a more peaceful future."
Mandala for fearlessness. We need to be fearless in our pursuit of inner and outer peace.
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Poems for Peace
Young people living in conflict use poetry to express their hopes for a more peaceful future.
https://www.unicef.org/children-under-attack/poems-for-peace
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
11/23/2021 The Genius of Bob Dylan His Music is Relevant in Our World Today.
Come gather 'round people, wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
And if your breath to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
For the loser now will be later to win
'Cause the times they are a-changin'
Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
Don't stand in your doorway, don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt, will be he who has stalled
'Cause the battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticise what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'
The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast
The slowest now, will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
'Cause the times they are a-changin'
Updated Version 2018 Dylan on Jimmy Fallon Show
Thursday, March 11, 2021
4 Pandemic Poems Elizabeth P Glixman at Oddball.com- Love this Online Magazine Check it Out
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