With her dusty laces' pattern Trailing, as she straggles by. -Dorothy Parker

Emel -Holm

 

DOROTHY PARKER

22 August 1893 - 7 June 1967 / Long Branch / New Jersey

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August

When my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning
Down the wind that has beginning
Where the crumpled beeches start
In a fringe of salty reeds;
When my arms are elder-bushes,
And the rangy lilac pushes
Upward, upward through my heart;

Summer, do your worst!
Light your tinsel moon, and call on
Your performing stars to fall on
Headlong through your paper sky;
Nevermore shall I be cursed
By a flushed and amorous slattern,
With her dusty laces' pattern
Trailing, as she straggles by.

the high dunes-Ser Hibardiyan

 the high dunes

-Ser Hibardiyan

through the blazing sands

and of vicious storms I have wandered

out under the sun till my eyes dried out

only to realize I was in which I wondered

although this hourglass may cease

my will to love will not

and be revealed what lies under

these endless dunes we still wander

" a lesson to myself- a message to myself" Ser Hibardiyan

a lesson to myself

a challenge is not being retrospective

good or bad things may seem

solely based on one's perspective

a message to myself

simply a challenge is purely accepting

cemented memories becoming obstacles

molded old family mold is not objective

          by Ser Hibardiyan 

 

"In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt" John Green

Alex Hyner

Famous Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More

In 1849, a little over 167 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under mysterious circumstances very likely related to violent election fraud. It was an ignominious end to a life marked by hardship, alcoholism, and loss. After struggling for years as the first American writer to try and make a living from his art, and failing in several publishing ventures and positions, Poe achieved few of his aims, barely getting by financially and only managing to attract a little—often negative—notice for now-famous poems like “The Raven.” Contemporaries like Ralph Waldo Emerson disparaged the poem and a later generation of writers, including William Butler Yeats, pronounced him “vulgar.”

But of course, as we know, a countercurrent of Poe appreciation took hold among writers, artists, and filmmakers interested in mystery, horror, and the supernatural—to such a degree that in the previous century, nearly every artist even passingly associated with darker themes has interpreted Poe as a rite of passage. 

Ulalume is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847.

https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/famous-edgar-allan-poe-stories-read-by-iggy-pop-jeff-buckley-christopher-walken-marianne-faithful-more.html

 

BLACK LIVES MATTER

 

Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize

 The Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize is given to honor exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment at present.

Established in 2019 with generous support from Treehouse Investments, the prize will honor three poets. First place will receive $1,000; second place, $750; and third place, $500. In addition, all three poems will be published in the popular Poem-a-Day series, which is distributed to 500,000 readers. Poems may also be featured in the award-winning education series Teach This Poem, which serves 35,000 educators each week. 

Submissions for the 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize will be accepted from September 15 to November 15, 2021. The judges are environmental thought-leader and activist Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

for more pls go to: https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/treehouse-climate-action-poem-prize

Additional resources on the climate crisis: 

SDG 13: Climate Action
The National Resources Defense Council
The Union of Concerned Scientists
The Sierra Club
The Sierra Club, Redwood Chapter
Koshland Science Museum 
“How to Understand the UN’s Dire New Climate Report” by Robinson Meyer, October 9, 2018, The Atlantic
“Winning Slowly is the Same as Losing” by Bill McKibben, December 1, 2017, Rolling Stone

Read this interview with the team at Treehouse Investments about their work and their funding of the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize.

Paul Simon Tells the Story of How He Wrote "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970)

 

                                                               Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Audio)

Lyrics:

When you're weary, feeling small

When tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all (all)

I'm on your side, oh, when times get rough

And friends just can't be found

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down

Like a bridge over troubled water 

I will lay me down 

 

It takes a certain amount of hubris to write a song like “Bridge Over Troubled Water”—to write, that is, a secular hymn, a non-religious gospel hit for burned-out sixties’ folkies. Maybe only a tragic flaw could inspire a composer “coming off the back of four hit albums and two number one singles in four years” to soothe the disaffection of down-and-out Americans who could see the bottom from where they stood in 1969, a year notorious for its cultural disaffection and political gloom.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s status as superstar hitmakers at the end of the decade perhaps made it harder for viewers of Songs of America—the television film in which “Bridge Over Troubled Water” debuted—to take them seriously.

for more pls read: https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/paul-simon-tells-the-story-of-how-he-wrote-bridge-over-troubled-water-1970.html