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| Will you miss me?
Posted: 5/8/2007 6:17:34 AM | Ah Jer, been reading here.
Have a day off to my pleasure.
Morning coffee and poetry read
It’s a need
I like to full fill
When I can.
Saw that Autumn wrote of our night
Stolen from children and work and busy life
To connect, just connect and be.
Loved the tales of women free
Reminded me
Of a picture I have hidden here.
A dozen women,
Two dozen babes and young ones
Canoe in camp spot
Far away from anyone
Naked in the water
Laughing splashing
Crying holding…
Many of us changed our names that week
Reworked ourselves into the now
The lucky children who were part of that witnessing
That embracing
That legacy
One week. Water. Women. And freedom.
Changed the world.
That is why,
The real reason why
Most cultures gave all women a week off,
To be together,
Once a month.
Made the light harmonize us tribally
Unite us in secret rhythm.
Nature made it that way
So we could continue to evolve.
It is a practice that should be resurrected.
IMO.
I’m in Montreal next week Jer..up for dinner?
We can write about it later! | |
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| Will you miss me?
Posted: 5/8/2007 7:12:38 AM | | Ravin you shouldn't have told Jer about that picture - now he will put on a wig and want to join in. Geesh it's suppose to be a sacred right of passage of us women, isn't it? | |
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| Will you miss me?
Posted: 5/8/2007 7:24:17 AM | Picture was taken more'n twenty years ago
wild women weekends I had come to know
so many sisters sharing their life
somebody’s mother somebody’s wife
taking time out from the roles that they play
recharging life force the old fashioned way
Am planning a drumfest here on my land
Second weekend in August due to popular demand
All genders invited.
In rhythm united
Bring drums, flutes and shakers
All music makers
Weekend of devotion
To Poetry in motion. | |
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| Will you miss me?
Posted: 5/8/2007 7:25:54 AM | | Ok I will be there - are children welcome and tents? | |
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| Will you miss me?
Posted: 5/8/2007 7:41:25 AM | Not to be the party pooping lepper
But hey autumn please pass me the pepper?
- Erik - hehehehe,...   | |
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| Will you miss me?
Posted: 5/8/2007 7:45:21 AM | Even teenagers are welcome.
And tents, yes tents.
Past tents, present tents, in tents
sequence of events, future tents
but not too tents
or uptight,
That ain't right
But pepper's OK
spice it up that way. | |
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| [quote]To connect, just connect and be. [/quote]
Posted: 5/8/2007 8:24:39 AM |
To connect, just connect and be.
Ah, my dear Krow, only a lifetime
of boiling away the inessentials,
the pretty lies and extravagant
dreams could result in something
as pure and clear as the above!
What more do we need?
Some bread, some water or wine,
the varied, suffering earth
around us and awaiting our care...
To connect, just connect and be.
Oh yes!
I’m in Montreal next week Jer..up for dinner?
We can write about it later!
Too late! I’ve already written you about that! It was Vietnamese last time. What’ll it be next time: Thai? Chinese? Greek? Canadian (i.e. hamburgers! Yes, hamburgers! I know of two places that do them as if they were a rare art form!) | |
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| [quote]To connect, just connect and be. [/quote]
Posted: 5/8/2007 8:31:46 AM | What is it the shuffler did say?
Trade you tomorrow for a hamburger today?
As long as it isn’t a "Have it your way!"
Or false golden arches rainforest decay
The catalogue ordered beef on a bun
Are not my idea of very much fun
But I know you to be a man of good taste
And on commercialized franchised you’ll not money waste
So I know you will pick the very best spot
That serve real good burgers, with French fries still hot. | |
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| Darfur
Posted: 5/12/2007 4:23:29 AM | Darfur [/I]
The long march of humankind
up from the ‘Dark Ages,’
we like to think, is precisely that:
up . We must be getting better
or what good are we?
What’s the use of us?
Stasis offends us. We are hardwired
to move, to change: if we can’t get better
then let us get worse.
Let us, at least, be going
somewhere.
“After the Holocaust,” it has been said,
“poetry is no longer possible.”
But no, after the Holocaust,
as before, everything is possible,
even the Holocaust.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry Newman © May 12, 2007 | |
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| Speak to the child in your heart
Posted: 5/26/2007 4:45:14 AM | Speak to the child in your heart,
the one who still hungers for certitude
for whom it is a sacred thing
that green be always green
and every Tuesday is followed
by Wednesday, Thursday, &c. &c.
&c.!
Speak to him or to her gently
and explain that there is certitude
in the grave
and that to be alive, truly alive,
is to wonder.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry Newman © May 26, 2007 | |
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| Come to me
Posted: 5/30/2007 6:24:53 PM | Come to me lightly,
but come. But come.
Come to me freely,
but come. But come.
Come to me joyfully,
but come. But come.
Come to me. Come to me.
Come to me soon.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry Newman © May 30, 2007 | |
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| Tiny Reasonable Dreams
Posted: 5/31/2007 1:55:41 PM | Friend here writes
that wanting to be different and happy
I may be asking too much.
What can one say
to those who have only tiny,
reasonable realistic dreams?
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| Tiny Reasonable Dreams
Posted: 5/31/2007 2:24:33 PM | so you think your friend
has tiny dreams?
or are you saying that
you have tiny dreams?
wanting to be different and happy
is that reasonable and realistic?
of course it is
but of course that depends
on what you dictate
to be happy and different | |
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| Tiny Reasonable Dreams
Posted: 5/31/2007 3:58:04 PM | so you think your friend
has tiny dreams?
or are you saying that
you have tiny dreams?
‘Scuse me, Marm, I know you speak the Queen’s English over there, but I would have thought it was perfectly clear whom (get that: whom ) I suggested was having the tiny, reasonable dreams!
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| Speak to the child in your heart
Posted: 6/2/2007 4:27:24 AM | Your judicious use of commas is exemplary! Are you aware of the statement by St Flaubert that: "A comma, carefully placed, can kill." (Approximate quote.)
Or, in this case, "A comma, carefully omitted, can cheer!"
Thank you.
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| Speak to the child in your heart
Posted: 6/2/2007 1:21:38 PM | I love him more
then a breath away
to the deepest, darkest
parts of my soul.
He completes me.
Always a surprise
each new day.
Another side of him
to fall in love with
over and over again.
He completes me. | |
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| Speak to the child in your heart
Posted: 6/2/2007 9:26:04 PM | Words swallowed like a bitter pill
then the sweet taste of honey
filling my soul
inward reflection reflecting
peace
I am who I am and I am
become more
I am who I am
me... | |
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