Friday, October 7, 2011

Ed Markowski: Meditation Hall






MEDITATION HALL
NO ONE’S HOME
        AT
NO ONE’S HOME




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If you're a fan and you have ten minutes, check out the interview with legendary small press poet T. Kilgore Splake at Michigan Public Radio station WMUK. He touches all the Splake bases ...

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The Poetry Foundation has posted a new Gerald Stern poem from the October issue of Poetry God, how I love this man.




Leaves
He was cleaning leaves for one at a time
was what he needed and a minute before the two
brown poodles walked by he looked at the stripped-down trees
from one more point of view and thought they were
part of a system in which the dappled was foreign
for he had arrived at his own conclusion and that was
for him a relief even if he was separated,
even if his hands were frozen,
even if the wind knocked him down,
even if his cat went into her helpless mode
inside the green and sheltering Japanese yew tree.
Gerald Stern

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Finally, very sad news - Bert Jansch, one of the most important figures in British and world folk music has died. I was privileged to see him when he came to Pittsburgh in an intimate setting at a local Unitarian Church. What a show. He will be missed.




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plum blossom scent--
a hazy memory
of my nanny's house
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue






best,
Don



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3 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

There is no meditation as good as a tree.

aditya said...

There are many poems by Ed Markowski which have left a life long impression on my mind. Here are two of them -

dad's grave
all the flowers
he wouldn't let mother plant

thunder ...
farmers at the credit union
applaud

Like a knife in the ribs

And equally sad is the news of Bert Jansch passing away. Many people called him the Bob Dylan of Britain but I have always believed he held his own ..


farmers at the credit union.. applaud
thunder

aditya said...

farmers at the credit union
applaud
thunder