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21st May 2013

I'm not certain if the blue
of the smoke is a trick
of my eyes or if the
plume is as sad
as I am

This cigarette is not sentient
it does not know it burns
but you know you do
and yet

One day this self-destructive behaviour
will kill you all and leave me
here thinking myself
at fault

at least then when I write
about smoke it will
that of your pyre
your peace

Hello. This week my selected topic is a relatively obscure poet as well as a contemporary. Here Name is Florence Anthony but she took the Japanese name for love, Ai. She had a career with eight published books, one of which, VICE, won the National Book award, She recieved an American book or award for SIN, and an Lamont Poetry award from the American Academy of Poets for KILLING FLOOR. She also recieved a Guggenheim Fellowship, A National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship and as late as 2009, she received a United States Ford Fellowship.

My Tuesday night chat is very informal. My hope is that participants would be ready to cut loose on some improvisational poetry written from a topic given by another member. It is a great excercise for quick thinking
and a fantastic gold mine of raw material for later work. Join me Tonight and every Tuesday night from 7-9 EST.
Hope to see you there! By the way, I realise there may be those who this format scares, due to not doing much improv work. Feel free to post a poem of your own or of a favorite poet. We want fun to be had by all here!!!!!

Ron
BlueDemon77

ALL
For God’s sake,
God bashing
God hating,
God believing
God disbelieving
Is getting on my God damned nerves,
For God’s sake
Can't we drop God?
For a God damned while,
God bothering,
Bending Gods ear,
In this God forsaken place,
Is ungodly, so can we have a break,
We are here to write poetry.
There is no God in my cave
Or any other deity,
That's how I can rest.
Night everyone!!

Speakers loud?? All is quiet around? Listen and enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIccHrTq3L0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEH14Odao7U

This chat is designed to be an open forum for sharing the poetry that influenced you the most. Of course, personal poetry is always welcome here as well. This next week I will be sharing work of one of my favorite relatively unknown poets, Ai. She taught at Arizona State for many years and won the Guggenheim fellowship as well as many other awards. Her honesty is striking and she spanned the gap from naturalist poetry to completely surreallistic poetry with an almost unnatural ease.

the longer, and harder, one tries to defend one's religion,
the more likely one will end up as an apostate.

Tools>undiscovered work.

Especially the newcomers.

of meditation
Many times out of my own minds common knowledge, over the years I have preached meditation as one’s mind flows all over the immense vastness of wilderness at lightning speed. Thoughts only spread far and wide rapidly and without the human minds control. It’s then we must need to concentrate our thoughts at a place and attend to the task in hand .Many times that does not happen .At such times we need greater attention and to concentrate our thoughts we need to utter some words of intent .A simple a line or a psalm ,but very brief like an

Hi Everyone ......

Please Join Me Wednesday Nights 7-9 EST We will Have Open Chat with a Scrolling of Authored Poets. Each Wednesday will be a different Poet........5-29-13 "Pablo Neruda" is our Authored Poet of Choice
anyone wishing reminders through PM's or other means of contact let us know by e-mail to [email protected]. : )
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We're looking forward to seeing you !!!