(1) Art of Arts
I say to you:—Poetry is the ars artium
of the coming era. Nowhere else
do rhythm and sound,
or meaning and feeling,
converge so forcefully
with such sparse means,
and with such power to transform
our way of being in the world.
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| Picture/Poem Poster Art of Arts shown at the right (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (64 K) | |
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(2) In Praise of the Economy of Buds
Store up the light and quick energy
needed for next Spring during the slow
and easy months of high Summer;
Prepare for the worst of Winter by making
oneself small and motionless against the twig;
Forget about absolute size and sequence,
knowing that beauty resides in the measured,
rhythmic unfolding of the well-proportioned web.
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(3) Dangerous Crossings
Once defined more by what it wastes
than what it creates, more by
what it destroys than what it builds,
a culture crosses a crucial divide
on its way down the road of its own demise,
a road, which, as the ultimate act of self-deception,
it cannot help but call the only reasonable route—
to Paradise.
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| Picture/Poem Poster Dangerous Crossings shown at the right (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (68 K) | |
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(4) Of Boots and Cars—
My friends who own cars
tell me they can be in the high
country in but half a day.
No car, I just have a pack and
a pair of old walking boots, but
I say, I stay—in the mountains.
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| Picture/Poem Poster Of Boots and Cars shown at the right (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (60 K) | |
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