May 2015

Short poem (a poem)

2015/05/17 — Leave a comment

Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano suggests taking an index card, turning it so it is vertically oriented, then writing a poem. The small size of the index card would result in short(er) lines. As it turned out, I had a rather narrow space in my journal/sketchbook that would work quite nicely for this one…

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Bill Drummond: Live From The Dead Sea—Caught by the River

2015/05/16 — Leave a comment

I thought this article by Bill Drummond was worth sharing:

Live From The Dead Sea – Caught by the River.

I particularly appreciate these two statements:

[M]ostly I’m for politics that are about ideas. Ideas that are fluid and evolving. What I’m against is politics based on tribalism, be that class, religion or nationalism. And I’m obviously against politics based on dynasty or personalities.

and

I don’t want politics based on a notion of what we think our country once was and may be again.

Not that any of our politicians will be listening…

(16 May 2015)