Category Archives: Poetry

SNOW-WHIGGITY by Gianni Rage

July 30, 2014 – 2:27 pm

Gianni Rage posted this poesie. It tells of a time of the back then before the rich ruled Manhattan. It was our city and for a good reason. People like hookers, pimps, and dope fiends. They protected us from the rich. enjoy SNOW-WHIGGITY by Gianni Rage It doesn’t have a title ironically, that was not […]

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WHAT MUST BE SAID by Gunther Grass

July 14, 2014 – 4:14 pm

Poetry by eighty-four year-old Germans is rarely read by anyone, however in 2012 Gunther Grass’s WHAT MUST BE SAID has reaped the Nobel Prize winner a firestorm of condemnation from Israel and Germany. The Israeli interior minister went so far as to declare the writer of THE TIN DRUM ‘persona non grata’ and demand that […]

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For Peter, on Dark Illusions and Giddy Phantoms by Irene Zimmerman

May 24, 2014 – 11:17 am

Dear Peter, sometimes, when I am sitting on the subway or walking past an ugly park or eating eggs while I wait to move my laundry to the dryer I wonder why it is that I only seem to write when there is conflict spheres of energy at war with each other inside me but […]

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Snow Now Haiku

February 19, 2014 – 8:25 pm

New England forest in the snow. White going gray. The light going white. Foto by Aleta Wolfe

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17 On

February 18, 2014 – 7:51 pm

Pale sky, golden moon, purple horizon, blue waves and a road at dusk 17 on = a haiku. I cheated with the photo, however there is no greater expression than what we see when we cease to not see. This is not a haiku. Basho’s poem OLD POND 17th Century at the age old pond […]

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