“A writer’s notebook is not a diary. Writers react. Writers need a place to record these reactions. That’s what a writer’s notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don’t want to forget. A writer’s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer.” - Ralph Fletcher
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Write a #poem about this image. #njpoet
Twitter #Poem (Taken with Instagram)
Stressors: a very short poem
by Charles Bivona, exhausted poet
America, you made me
Sob and/or
Vomit this morning.
(Source: charlesbivona.com)
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence.
William Butler Yeats
(Source: online-literature.com)
Allen Ginsberg - Put Down Your Cigarette Rag: Don’t Smoke #poem
We should be conscious of the irreducible complexity of each life the war touched.
Christian Appy, Working Class War
(Source: uncpress.unc.edu)
I decided I want to meet George W. Bush: a random political #poem
I decided I want to meet George W.
Bush, just so I can refuse to shake his hand…
you know, war criminal,
and all. I mean, ick!
Yes! I want to say ick!
at the idea of
shaking George W.
Bush’s hand,
when I refuse to
shake George
W. Bush’s
hand
(Source: charlesbivona.com)
Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.
Wendell Berry #quote
In Trouble: a prose #poem
I got in trouble once, in school, for getting a D on some quiz. My teacher, fired years later for abuse, a town scandal, my teacher made me stand next to my desk as she circled, her heals clacking, as she berated, with her witch eyes staring: They said you’re supposed to be so smart, Charlie. So, what’s this? This quiz is just pathetic! When I finally started crying, she turned to my shocked classmates and declared: At least HE cares about his grades! Second Grade was a long year.
via @CharlesBivona
(Source: charlesbivona.com)
