13 Jan 2015
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: a sheet of flame, alive, David Schultz, ecstasy, in a stricken field, Jack London, moonlight, paradox of living, summit of life, the artist out of himself, The Call of the Wild, the old wolf cry
From Jack London
In The Call of the Wild, he wrote:
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.
And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame;
it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter;
and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.
12 Jan 2015
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: Airport stole my coat, Airport stole my meds, Albany NY, definition, empty caddy, freezing fingers, frozen legs, hoarfrost snow ice, loss, nutrients, Sedona Az, six AM, six PM
Sedona AZ Sunrise
Jan 6, 2015
Six AM dawns empty;
Airport stole my meds…empty
caddy…nutrients.
Home to Albany, NY
hoarfrost, snow and ice
Jan 11, 2015
Six PM welcome;
Airport stole my coat…freezing
fingers…frozen legs.
10 Jan 2015
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: a desire to be good, Dorianne Laux, feels as it thinks, poetry, simply slow down, talking to myself
“I love poetry that feels as it thinks.” That’s Dorianne Laux, born in Augusta, Maine (1952)
She grew up poor in San Diego, barely making it through school. Her stepfather abused her throughout her childhood and teenage years, and through it all she wrote poems. She said: “I wouldn’t have gotten through that without a friend. If I hadn’t been able to talk with myself, with respect, as a whole human being, who had a mind and heart and desires, a goodness, a desire to be good — you know, all of those things,
She didn’t think she would ever make a living from poetry, but she started giving readings and publishing poems, and published her first book, Awake (1990). She said: “You could’ve knocked me over with a feather. That was not something I thought would ever happen.” She wrote four more books of poetry, including What We Carry (1994) and The Book of Men (2011).
And, “Any good poem is asking you simply to slow down.”
09 Jan 2015
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: coast through time, deep wells, definition, elegance, firm roots, hold on, Hyatt, Hyatt builds in Rock, Pinon Pointe, Sedona Az
Fountain @ Pinon Pointe
Hyatt Residence in Sedona AZ
Hyatt builds in rock:
firm roots, deep wells, elegance.
hold on: coast through time…
08 Jan 2015
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: a great poet, dedicated to his wife, definition, plots, stories, William Greenway
Good Stories
by William Greenway
1.
The one where the preacher’s kid
from Georgia, growing up in a house
with no books but the Bible,
became a great poet.
2.
The one where the great poet
remained faithful to his wife
even after her stroke, devoted
to her for fifty years.
3.
The one where he won the Nobel Prize
and finally got to live by the sea,
fishing every dawn
waist deep in the blue-green water.
4.
The one where, near the end,
he found the love of his life
and left behind the child
he’d never wanted before.
5.
Once there was a man
who failed at everything he tried
but wrote it all down
before he died.
“Good Stories” by William Greenway, from The Accidental Garden. © Word Poetry, 2014. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
07 Jan 2015
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: calligraphers, calling pens, colors, definition, flourishes, John Stevens, love thyself, Selfies
John Stevens’ Gothic Selfie
calling pens, colors,
calligraphers,flourishes
contemporary
03 Jan 2015
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: a truly great and virtuous nation, alert, aware, definition, degradation of women, find a woman, fountains of life, Lecretia Mott, source, strong, USA, Woman President
Lucretia Mott
Stanton
Susan B Anthony
Will the USA
find a woman-bonneted
aware-alert-strong?
Mott wrote:
“The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation,
because in the degradation of women,
the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.”
02 Jan 2015
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: ancestors, big girl capes, big girl panties, definition, for cats to follow, greatness, illuminated prints, independant woman, just like you, loam, moss, musk, Quenby, shores of iceland, starkness, volcanos, wild fairies to adorn, wool dainties
Quenby 1975
Poem for Quenby
New Years Eve 2014
Big girl panties
Carry you to greatness:
The family sees
its independent woman
and wants to be just like you when they grow up.
Big girl capes
Carry you farther than all the ancestors-
Even to the shores of Iceland!
it’s volcanos, starkness, and wool dainties
Big girl feet
Step in places ne’er discovered,
Leave illuminated prints
For cats to follow
For wild fairies to adorn
With moss and loam and musk.
Mom
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