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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some have just learned to hide it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">don't argue with him</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you're just egging him on more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">let him die in peace</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-51691489963363308832019-11-17T11:21:00.001-08:002019-11-17T11:21:22.628-08:00truth<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the older I get</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't finish a poem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">without someone dying</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-80747233010848907852019-10-06T18:24:00.000-07:002019-11-17T11:21:42.806-08:00A new poem. . .<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">just like my poems</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the howlings of coyotes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">r soos</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-11905983457067718342019-06-15T11:35:00.004-07:002019-06-15T11:35:52.437-07:00Project Agent OrangeBeen awhile since I've submitted poems anywhere. <a href="https://projectagentorange.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/in-war/" target="_blank">In War</a> appeared today online in Project Agent Orange, and I'll dedicate it to my poet buddy, Hans Ebner.<br />
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Link: <a href="https://projectagentorange.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/in-war/" target="_blank">https://projectagentorange.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/in-war/</a><br />
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Thanks to editor <a href="https://amzn.to/2Ki2nxL" target="_blank">Michael H. Brownstein</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-79050327921483044512018-12-20T20:29:00.001-08:002018-12-20T20:29:24.886-08:002018 Reports<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always good to get publishing reports for a year already considered "over" I'm guessing if any books sell during December I get those particular royalties next December. Anyway, all my new books are available in six languages, which is cool; and I get separate royalty checks from each. Fun time of year for a writer =:-)</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-72851978865087900072018-12-08T11:40:00.001-08:002018-12-08T11:40:23.093-08:00Thank you Lennie. . .<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shelves</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">hold eternal thoughts</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">between unopened covers</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">of so many books</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">published by lennie cox in "<a href="https://adaysencounter.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Our Day's Encounter</a>" - Thanks!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-57408845288481883182018-12-05T16:46:00.000-08:002018-12-05T16:46:06.935-08:00my doctor speaks haiku<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the pains of old age</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the fun you've had</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-66909522028000717372018-10-13T22:32:00.000-07:002018-11-20T11:15:27.801-08:00accepting death<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A friend of mine died recently. I know his wife and children and we have kept in contact through the years, now through email and facebook. I have had many friends die on me, and it's easy to keep moving on because I trust all is well and as it should be. This one has a different impact for a very strange reason. My friend's wife sent me a file he had saved on his computer. He had written about me in the past tense, almost as if he knew me as already dead. That has a strange impact on me - making me wonder about our relationship. I explained this to his wife, and she said, "I see what you mean, but you are probably thinking too hard. He may have just assumed you would die first, so he had your obituary ready." She wasn't sure that was true, but I've decided to accept it as truth, so what follows is my obituary written by a friend who died before I did. I think it would be nice to be remembered in this way. Some of you will know from the style who it is. It is a style of writing we all were using at a certain point in time - he just never stopped. Till now, of course. I feel I should thank him and honor him by sharing his kind words. He remains unnamed to respect his wife's wishes for privacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he invited me to his apartment in san diego. we would drink. laugh. walk down to the corner and buy vegetables. he would allow me to read the poems people sent him. he seemed to be angry at times that people would send their work without thinking just to waste his time, and he also seemed angry that he felt obligated to give each reader a close reading "just in case there was a treasure hidden among the crap." he was not a kind editor, but he was a kind and generous host. he made me feel welcome any time to sit and think and talk and play chess or scrabble and ask questions and tell my own stories. he gave me his own poems to read. he wouldn't discuss them. he told me that if they needed to be discussed then he was a poor poet, and he apologized for wasting my time. when he moved to san jose we corresponded several times a month, sharing our new poems and family stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in his poetry, soos focused on solitude and simplicity. he saw life and poetry as one, and as such each is expressed with no pretense, no artificiality, no extra literary affect added. he believed life and poetry should be understood without the need of analysis by anyone coming in contact in person or on the page. honest and direct, his poetry thrived on experiences free of intellectual or scholarly whilygigs. he saw true poetry as a welcome journey through the depths of inner experience. he said that "poetry and life are both experienced as freedom through nature strengthened by the spirit of light. life and poetry provide each of us with a unique inner light which guides us on a path through the darkness."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a few quotes from letters soos sent me in 1977:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"work that must be analyzed by a phd student in order to be understood by my neighbor is not truly poetry - because it is the analysis that my neighbor understands and appreciates. the work itself remains a game played by a wordsmith who has no intent to communicate with his fellow humans. this is proven by the next phd student who finds a completely different analysis of the same words. one must be very careful. A simple poem about how old age has the effect of causing exaggeration of memories by Robert Frost has completely been destroyed by "the academy" (anyplace academics hang out) and is now used as an uplifting quote for a graduation speech because a simple, honest, truthful reading is no longer 'acceptable' in the halls of university." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"poetry looks deep into our life. from time to time it makes us shout. it always keeps us from pitying ourselves. tears fall, sweat flows. we savor experience unconcerned with circumstances. poetry is the sound of our soul. anything not present in our heart is not poetry. moon flowers insects water - all these are present wherever we walk and while more apparent in the desert, we realize their importance all over this earth. no place exists without them. this is essence, this is poetry."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> Rich Soos, the man behind Cholla Needles (which is now known as Cholla Needles Art and Literary Library now that non-profit status has been bestowed), has been publishing monthly collections like this since 1973. His early poetry magazine <a href="https://amzn.to/2KUi2zP" target="_blank">Seven Stars</a> even published early works by Charles Bukowski, among countless others. Soos, a poet himself, has masterfully focused on the overlooked medium of the Haiku for his prolific output. For me, one of his most visceral efforts is his book "<a href="https://amzn.to/2KGYBPa" target="_blank">Fiddlin' Around In An Orchestrated War</a>," a war-themed Haiku collection that contains a not just a lifetime... but a deathtime, in each economical, solemn outburst. Your stomach will churn with breathless empathy, thanking God you may live a life of trivial challenges in contrast to these realities of true sacrifice.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"> A true man of God, Rich Soos has helped ignite a tight-knit yet ever-growing literary community up here through <a href="https://www.chollaneddles.com/" target="_blank">Cholla Needles</a> and his monthly open-mic readings at Space Cowboy on the second Sunday of every month (<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-anHl0AhmB98/WyAJbNolSkI/AAAAAAAABLU/nKgtYXFA6jQ4ZAcHdjYONU47UWn2hdt_wCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/July-8th-2018-Flierb.gif" target="_blank">see you this Sunday</a>), creating a Church of The Word for many of us. While some believe writing is something that is earned for a select few, Soos believes that everybody should write, that it's an inherent other voice in all of us that he implores us to explore. A refreshing perspective, as he altered my own elitist attitude when he expressed this in his own "Personal Poetics" Teddy Talk last year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">César Vallejo wrote the poems in this pamphlet in 1918 he was 26 years old. He grew up in Santiago de Chuco, a small village in the Andes Mountains. He went to College in Lima, a strong fishing and port city as well as the Capital of Peru. Vallejo's heavy Catholic upbringing is evident in the poems in the form of anger towards God as he struggled with the prophetic writings and began to see God as capricious - attacking mankind at will without regard to how individuals lived their lives. In the title poem he struggles with the third of the four "horsemen of the apocalypse", where famine is brought to the world. In the Catholic tradition, the messenger, or herald, on the horse is also known as an angel from God. Other poems in this selection from his first book explore the ports and fishermen of Lima, and look back in fond memory at the village where he spent his formative years.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-69347098641687821082018-03-18T12:30:00.000-07:002018-03-18T12:30:13.792-07:00Poets<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Poets</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A lot of poets profess to be democrats - poets of the people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And they sell their tiny books at readings for $15. I have to ask.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After all, as a publisher, I know how much they're paying for printing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And do ask. "Well, I don't want to seem like I'm worth less than all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the other poets selling their books for $15, so I feel good about</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">selling my books for 10 x's what I paid for it." Do you sell many?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Not really." Would you rather have money or readers? "Readers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for sure." You write about people, for people, and you want to have</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">people read your work, but you don't want them to be able to afford it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"I don't get you. I have a book out, so leave me alone? Why challenge me?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I apologize, I'm not challenging you. I'm just curious. I'm a curious guy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I look at these lines and think this could be a shakespearian sonnet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">if only I would twist it around and put some rhyme at the end of lines</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and finish one more all the way to the end. Oops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the end</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-68071033786761612282018-03-16T22:30:00.000-07:002018-03-16T22:30:22.925-07:00Friday Night Poetry Reading<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday Night Poetry Reading</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first reader brought her children.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanked us for participating in her experiment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My daughters absorbed poetry as they matured</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and grew up to be much better poets than I ever hoped to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I applauded the "experiment". And was happy to see kids there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She proceded to read, including poems about her children.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm not sure I understood what was going on. I think maybe the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">kids were doing their homework in the car on the way home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After the reading I went over to the kids and thanked them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for their wonderful behaviour. The youngest one asked me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Are you an adult?" "No, no way, I would never claim that"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Good, because I don't think adults are supposed to talk to kids".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I asked him if his mom talked like she talked in her poems a lot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"No. . .most of the times I understand her...and sometimes I wander."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the end</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-61411727167601363412018-03-14T21:24:00.001-07:002018-03-14T21:24:51.358-07:00New book by r soos! during the music =:-) <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I feel blessed to be able to share another collection of my own words with my friends. The cover alone is worth the cost. Cost you ask? How about a penny a poem? That's right - 500 poems for a mere $5. That's exciting to an old guy like me. Pennyapoem. Poemapenny. </span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-78091197666359298732018-03-13T22:27:00.000-07:002018-03-16T22:29:04.332-07:00My Mother-In-Law<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My Mother-In-Law</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">said she thinks my hair looks good today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Same hair I've always had, and I simply said "Thank you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Don't thank me. I still don't like you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the end</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-29503597647477008482018-01-28T18:56:00.001-08:002018-01-28T19:03:19.287-08:00dry<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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sand lives in nostrils<br />
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appeared today on <a href="http://micropoetry.com/dry-3.html" target="_blank">micropoetry.com</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">bones bleach and strike earth<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />with ruthless hope of winning<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />an age old struggle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published today at <a href="http://micropoetry.com/snake.html" target="_blank">micropoetry</a> =:-)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-80273396955225266982017-11-27T07:42:00.001-08:002017-11-27T07:42:15.216-08:00My new book - Translations of Lorca<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My new book, translations of Lorca, came out a week earlier than planned =:-) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Buy a $4 stocking stuffer for someone you love - Lorca's best poems are full of love =:-)</span><br />
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the chips from my ears
or you will soon find my hand
crawling to your bowl
r soos
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with one missing string<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />sings the careless poetry<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />crying in notebooks</div>
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Thank you, Luke. Published today at <a href="http://micropoetry.com/guitar-2.html">http://micropoetry.com/guitar-2.html</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-68366443697055661272017-10-24T06:38:00.005-07:002017-10-24T06:38:57.219-07:00Micropoets Society - 52 poems<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">52 poems published by the Micropoets Society in one year. Thank you Luke! The poem published today will encourage many during flu season:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">warm cold repeating<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />forehead pumping old mirrors<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />shaped within one skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://micropoetry.com/author/rsoos">http://micropoetry.com/author/rsoos</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-23277096318914054322017-10-18T18:42:00.003-07:002017-10-18T18:47:06.305-07:00hurricanes<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
hurricanes</div>
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spin life exploding<br />
as your mystery performs<br />
with broken dances</div>
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Thanks to Luke for publishing hurricanes in <a href="http://micropoetry.com/hurricanes.html" target="_blank">Micropoetry</a>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287943003615415848.post-44693983005859532782017-10-16T20:58:00.001-07:002017-10-16T20:58:36.170-07:006 poems in Stray Branch<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thanks to Debbie Berk for publishing these six poems in Stray Branch magazine: </span></div>
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handfuls of cookies<br />lighten the spirits of those<br />eating day old bread</div>
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Luke, Thank you for publishing food line today!<br /><a href="http://micropoetry.com/food-line.html">http://micropoetry.com/food-line.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a thousand voices<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />fill my head with wounding sounds<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I speak from one mouth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thanks Luke!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0