Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tarmac in Puerto Vallarta
Labels:
airport,
Bar None Group,
Jalisco,
Mexico,
poem,
Puerto Vallarta,
PVR,
Tarmac in Puerto Vallarta
Friday, January 27, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Drunk Dialing
Calling you at this ungodly hour
Almost certain that you will be bothered
Apologizing for my drunken state
I guess this is how my feelings translate.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Alone And Drinking Under The Moon
Amongst the flowers I
am alone with my pot of wine
drinking by myself; then lifting
my cup I asked the moon
to drink with me, its reflection
and mine in the wine cup, just
the three of us; then I sigh
for the moon cannot drink,
Labels:
Alone And Drinking Under The Moon,
China,
Chinese,
Chinese New Year,
Li Bai,
Li Po,
moon,
poem,
poet,
Tao
Friday, January 20, 2012
Poetry Celebrates 100 Years
CHICAGO — Poetry magazine, published by the Poetry
Foundation, celebrates its centennial in 2012. Founded in Chicago in
October 1912 by editor Harriet Monroe, Poetry is the oldest
monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. As the magazine
turns 100, it holds fast to the principles that guided it from the
beginning: to discover new voices, present new work by internationally
recognized poets, and enliven discussion about and readership for
contemporary poetry.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Fairy and The Firefly
Fireflies are mortals, they are destined to die
How come the fairy had expected it, to show the way to fly?
Trapped in the Cimmerian tunnel of despair and false hope
There resides a lost fairy who still yearns for the light
As the folklore depicts, a fire beetle in the tunnel
Had been once a source for her lambent delight
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
It's The Passion
It is the passion
within
that causes me the most trouble
the passion
because it is so raw
so new
that it surges within me
roars
and I can’t stop the noise
Labels:
Drumpoet,
El Barrio,
It's The Passion,
New York,
Paz Villaronga,
poem,
poet,
street art
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
A Box Upon You
Labels:
A Box Upon You,
Mark Butkus,
moving,
poem
Monday, January 16, 2012
Library Walk: Gwendolyn Brooks
In 1996, the New York Public Library, the Grand Central Partnership and the New Yorker Magazine convened a panel of esteemed lovers of the written word and came up with a collection of quotations from the never-ending oeuvre of literature.
Friday, January 13, 2012
J'accuse
Monsieur le Président,
Me permettez-vous, dans ma gratitude pour le bienveillant accueil que vous m'avez fait un jour, d'avoir le souci de votre juste gloire et de vous dire que votre étoile, si heureuse jusqu'ici, est menacée de la plus honteuse, de la plus ineffaçable des taches ?
Vous êtes sorti sain et sauf des basses calomnies, vous avez conquis les cœurs. Vous apparaissez rayonnant dans l'apothéose de cette fête patriotique que l'alliance russe a été pour la France, et vous vous préparez à présider au solennel triomphe de notre Exposition Universelle, qui couronnera notre grand siècle de travail, de vérité et de liberté. Mais quelle tâche de boue sur votre nom — j'allais dire sur votre règne — que cette abominable affaire Dreyfus ! Un conseil de guerre vient, par ordre, d'oser acquitter un Esterhazy, soufflet suprême à toute vérité, à toute justice. Et c'est fini, la France a sur la joue cette souillure, l'histoire écrira que c'est sous votre présidence qu'un tel crime social a pu être commis.
Puisqu'ils ont osé, j'oserai aussi, moi. La vérité, je la dirai, car j'ai promis de la dire, si la justice, régulièrement saisie, ne la faisait pas, pleine et entière. Mon devoir est de parler, je ne veux pas être complice. Mes nuits seraient hantées par le spectre de l'innocent qui expie là-bas, dans la plus affreuse des tortures, un crime qu'il n'a pas commis.
Labels:
13 janvier 1898,
Émile Zola,
francais,
J'accuse,
L'affaire Dreyfus
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
A Winter's Elegy
Hearts break for your wife
She who carries on with tears and memories
Long after the shock subsides
for those who called you, friend
Labels:
Barra de Navidad,
elegy,
Mexico,
Mike Mathews
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Happy New Year y Gracias!
This has been an incredible year!
The first moments of 2011 were spent on a beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and the last moments of 2011 were spent shivering in Times Square, New York. The one constant in filling those 363 days in between was Teresa Puente. On 11-11-11 she became my wife. I owe her this year and every year going forward. But my debt of gratitude is not limited to Teresa it extends to all of you who have read, contributed, inspired and shared the words within the pages of the Bar None Group.
Happy New Year to:
Labels:
2011,
artist,
Bar None Group,
contributor,
gratitude,
Happy New Year,
poet,
writer,
Year in Review
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