backyard song, Diane Seuss; a song in the front yard by Gwendolyn Brooks; Backyards by Nikki Donadio; What we are and Metonymy As An Approach To A Real World by William Bronk; Life While-You-Wait by Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
O Pen: will start with Symborska, Plato, or Why on Earth
Fun session looking at Diane Seuss' "golden shovel" where she seems to look to Gwendolyn Brooks as her Mama ...
tell me about appearances and desires...
The Bronk and Szymborska got us going on a good philosophical romp.
Paul added his own summary of Plato:
John offered a different way of reading
The Ideal, formed of light
Not content with self
Came to Earth
Seeking excitement
Within bad matter
With no longer a prospect
For eternity
Wisdom crippled
Harmony asunder
Beauty badly altered
Good in shadows
All betrayed
By Naked Truth
Revealing that
Which is its covering
They are all now mute, Plato,
Insufferable poets,
Mere flakes of shale
Scraps of stony silence.
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poem by Michael
Czarnecki, which comes from his newly released book, YOU.
there is an inner self
mostly hidden from others
mostly hidden from our own self
which occasionally surfaces
allows for little glimpses
then retreats back in
I want my inner self
to connect with your inner self
not just fragmentary glimpses
but real seeing, knowing, feeling
beyond surface illusion
when can we start
To
view the cover of the book, read another poem or to order:http://foothillspublishing.com/2018/czarnecki.html
John's idea of reading What We Are by William
Bronk.
John read this column as the priest… the group
read this column as the congregation's response
What we are? We say we want to become
what we are or what
we have an intent to be.
We
read the possibilities, or try.
We get to some. We
think we know how to read.
We recognize a word,
here and there,
a syllable: male, it
says perhaps,
or female, talent -
look what you could do -
or love, it says,
love is what we mean.
Being
at any cost:
… in the end, the
cost
is terrible but so
is the lure to us.
We
see it move and shine and swallow it.
We say we are and
this is what we are
as to say we should
be and this is what to be
and this is how. But,
oh, it isn't so.
