It’s simple. It’s succinct. It’s honest. It’s random. It’s crazy. It’s different. It’s me. I’ve written and still do write straight ahead poetry, but I’m not that interested in writing it that often. I want to create a new form. Something to make people think. Something interesting. Something that comes out of nowhere and knocks people off their little step stool. I think sensical poetry has an important place and time, but that’s just not what I usually like to write. I think in poetry, it’s not advertising, so the writer doesn’t have to appeal or go to the reader. The reader stretches their self to appreciate what the poet is trying to do or communicate. And the communication may not be direct. It may be artistic, it may be creative. It may be only understood as a whole, not meant to be dissected line by line and picked apart. Then again, there is always room for analysis, but that’s just not the goal of the poetry. Rather, it is to just enjoy reading it, just for pleasure. That’s what I try to do.
Tag: doitfortheprocess
Ten
Medicine low key realm popcorn palace tidy put
Transformer chicken leg evil charter switch open
Talent texture beneath great green soliloquy too
Taint narrow sparrow nearby angel Metamucil pi
Front cheaper beg monopoly sugar Sasquatch ten
Lint
Robot tangent noodles heart balanced horse hat
Global semiconductors youth moose sinking gay
Swarming telephone crackerjack beaten rewind
Tackle wheels sweet warehouse bees cranberry
Pincushion teacher fused ripe lint cooperate on
Bought
Trap mike leave ankle rewind table cackle tribe
Belief amiable trout tank tree stipend quietude
Succulent sweep banter switch reap rowdy near
Move week ward bottle stick vitamins wok not
Buckle nip wand silk mope render feed bought
Hit
Bomb sweater lift angle rowdy pickles table beet
Maneuver beam rankle narrow tangent seal tent
Pillow searing stalwart tutelage sick sharp sample
Green kneel band rainbow centered shaken until
Hackles frame grail cereal tale swat real bring hit
Reek
Singe open loud space cry close balance tide react
Reach custom needle lounge meal tricked goose
Plea tarry jumping course tentative juniper old
Rude freedom psyche nose higher fault become
Pop trees candle wane yell flood solder neck reek
Bible Stories, True or False?
Bible stories are an enigma. Some of them are so intimate, private and personal. Some of them are so extraordinary, hard to believe, supernatural. So many are so alien to life as we know it. And who could have originally accounted for each story? When John leapt in Elizabeth’s womb upon a visit from Jesus’ mother Mary, who recorded that story to be passed on for centuries? When Moses encountered the burning bush, when the Hebrews followed a pillar of fire and smoke, when a touch of Jesus’ robe healed a bleeding woman, who wrote down these things? Who told the story to others? So private, so personal. So hard to believe that they came to be part of a book that we read. I don’t think Jesus told these stories. Was it a disciple? An apostle? Who passed it on? Did leaders in the first churches started by Paul tell these stories in church? Before there was a written record from the Catholic Church? So many questions, so many unanswered doubts. The Bible stories are so foreign to life as we know it today. How could they have really happened? Isn’t it more likely that they were made up to enhance the power of the church over its followers? And the synagogue over its faithful people? Other religions have stories that we assume are just literature made up by followers of a religion to give power to their leaders. Why don’t Christians believe the same thing about their own religious books? Is it too terrifying to consider that these stories could be false, made up, simply literature to build up a myth?
Rod
Drink orb light trick benevolent create stopping
Jumbled stork main realize cozy power scrawl
Pond together stipulation honey briefly beans
Pointing refrigerator lied rooftop bramble type
Prevention detour zoological nominate oil rod
Puncture
Swivel ring boost hype banal require slope drink
Heavy wicker slant hope rewind apple pressure
Looking stream ballad quagmire relief downturn
Leaves crunch sifted stovetop alienation solace in
Potable Yuletide rearrange viewfinder puncture
Banned Books
Banned books are silly. Why try to control people’s access to knowledge? Let them read what they want to read, especially if teachers approve it, and even more so if it’s considered a classic. Banning books is futile anyway, as it just makes people curious about them and want to read them even more. And usually the reasoning for banned books is based on incomplete knowledge of the book or misinformation about the book from people who haven’t read the book or people who don’t understand what they’ve read.