11/23/2006

Poetry Thursday : Poetry Reading

For the 1st time , I attended a poetry reading in a local bookstore .I don't know what to expect . Wait . Maybe , I have a pre conceived notion of senior people sitting and listening attentively to someone equally ' old ' reciting a poem only he or she can understand . I was wrong . So wrong . There are a lot of young folks and ' hip ' at that ! While not exactly a ' rock concert ' , poetry reading is ' cool ' . Especially when this beautiful lady read her poem ' that touched my being '. Wonderfully done indeed was her work and equally wonderful was the way she read it ! And so with apologies to Ms. Roberta Flack , I reworded her song to capture what I felt that day .


Killing Me Softly With Her Poem


I heard she writes a good poem .
I heard she had a style .
And so I came to see her ,
To listen for a while.

And there , there was this lady .
A stranger to my eyes .
Describing my life with her reading .
Reciting my life with her words .

Killing me softly with her poem .
Killing me softly , with her poem .
Telling my whole life with her words .
Killing me softly , with her poem .
xxx

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11/09/2006

Poetry Thursday : Post Election Snapshot..













The last 3 days were really exciting for me . I stayed late . Really late to watch the results of the U.S. Mid term election . What can be more exciting than this election ? Maybe the ' chad ' election of 2004 . This election was a seesaw battle for the control of the U.S. Senate . The election deserves a lousy poem from this election nut .

The election is a done feat .
That Macaca Senator conceded defeat .
The 2 Houses , the GOP lost .
The Democrats are the proud new boss .

This campaign was conducted ,
Some in dirty ways , just to be elected .
Negative ads were all around .
' Harry , call me ' in sound surround .

Even Michael J Fox was'nt spared.
Support for stem cell research he aired .
He appeared on TV shaking ,
Rush Limbaugh said he was just acting .

They say it's a referendum .
On Bush' presidency & his doom & gloom .
And even his ' stay the course '
That the U.S. voters rejected, of course .

Now we will have Pelosi .
To tackle the illegal immigration , Si !
In the Senate . it's Sen.Reid
Instead of Frist in the papers you will read .

Is it the wind of change truly ?
Like what the Dems shouted continously .
Or else it's trouble no doubt .
They will face next said CNN's Lou Dobbs !

At Fox after election night .
It was a 'funeral athmosphere' in sight.
One NY Times writer wrote .
Hannity & O ' Reilly his hatred she sought .

Bipartisanship is now needed here .
 The voice of the people they should hear.
No. 1 is the damn Iraq War .
But 1st , an oversight with no holds bar.

Finally a heartfelt announcement .
Thanks to all for democracy's advancement.
And to Tom , Dick & Harry .
Next election , don't forget to vote for Hilary !

This advertisement/poem is approved by me .

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11/05/2006

Sunday Scribblings : Morning

Morning has broken ... That's a line from a song by Cat Stevens . He's the guy who sang the classic ' Father And Son ' . Somehow , I associate morning with early practice involving fathers and sons . Like this day , at 5:30 AM , I know boys all over Canada are practicing hockey . Unbelievable . Why would parents do this thing to their kids ? Or why would kids, 5-7 years old , ' voluntarily ' go to early morning hockey practice ?
When I was young , about 12 yrs. old , we would wake up early moring to do some jogging before heading to the basketball court . I have a hard time conforming to the schedule eventhough I love playing basketball. That's why I wonder how these kids , nay babies , are able to do it - be up so early in the morning . These tots must be really love their sports to be up and going so early in the morning . Wrong . Their dads want to live their dreams thru their sons . Frustrated athletes-dads want to see their sons be the next Gretzky or Jordan or Tiger ! I guess , the early morning haze is needed to blur their clouded judgement.

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11/02/2006

Poetry Thursday :Favorite Lines

The lines I chose were from a very simple poem from my childhood days . As you can see from my poems , the influence of Kilmer is obvious .



TREES
by Joyce Kilmer

The poem's 1st 2 lines set the tone of the whole poem .

I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.

The last lines are particularly brutally frank..

Poems are made by fools like me .
But only God can make a tree !

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