WORDS OF WISDOM

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.


~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

WORDS OF WISDOM

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.


~Henry David Thoreau, Author (1817-1862)

POEM

                                       SUBWAY RIDE

A girl is sitting in a boy's lap

The buzz of quiet conversation

drowned out by the train's rumble

along iron rails.

The conductor's scratchy voice on the speaker hollers

Next stop, 42nd Street!  

Folks read or listen music on their Ipods

A few doze off

Me? I'm just sitting here, capturing it all

And writing about it.

Bowery Poetry Club-R.I.P.

Literary East Village Loses Another Longstanding Page

 

 

When the Bowery Poetry Club closed its doors last week, it sent a familiar ripple of dismay through the rapidly gentrifying East Village.

It was the second loss of a neighborhood literary beacon within the past year. Last September, Life Café, a longtime hub for poets and writers on East 10th Street—Jonathan Larson penned "Rent" there—closed after 30 years. Two years before that, Holiday Cocktail Lounge on St. Mark's Place, a favored haunt of W.H. Auden and Allen Ginsberg, closed after 44 years.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443437504577547114169410338.html

Book Of Quotes

I am presently writing my favorite quotes in a notebook. I'm not sure at this time if I'll have it published.

WORDS OF WISDOM

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into ideas, then into more tangible action.


~Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

Favorite Authors

Over the years I have read the works of many authors. Some have made a huge impression on me so much that they serve as mentors.  I'm sure that you have writers who have influenced you. Here is my list.

Top Five  
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Langston Hughes
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sylvia Plath


On My Radar
Jack Kerouac
T.S. Eliot
Theodore Roethke

POEM

I never traveled this road before
Lined with thick brush and boulders
It looks strange and forboding
There's nothing to guide me.

Each step forward is a step closer
To an unknown destination
What awaits me, I know not
But I trek on.

I'm nudged forward
By an unseen hand.
I turn around and
The footprints of my life are gone.
 

Focus

I have been trying to decide what I should do first. I'm working on 3 short stories, a chapbook of poems, and an essay. I have ideas of writing a play later in the year. I often think faster than I write so I need to remind myself to slow down and focus on one thing. Not always easy but it's necessary.

WORDS OF WISDOM

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

~Pericles

Writing and Reading Goals

Every New Year I set new goals in which will be achieved. I have some writing and reading goals in which I am working on.

1. Publish a chapbook of poems. 

2. Write an essay on one of my favorite authors. 

3. Read a biography of one of my favorite authors.

WORDS OF WISDOM

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for its not the same river
and he's not the same man.

~Lucretius, Greek Poet 544 BC-483BC