Today is e.e. cummings birthday. Expose yourself to some perfect lines:
Seeker Of Truth by E. E. Cummings
seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here
Can poetry inspire you to a new perspective?
This city:
the
always
noise
grinding
up from the
subways
under
ground
slamming from bus tires
and taxi horns and engines
of cars and trucks in all
vocabularies
of
clash
flash
screeching
hot metal language
combinations
as planes
overhead
roar
an
orchestra
of rolling drums
and battle blasts
assaulting
my ears
with
the
always
noise of
this city:
street music.
Street Music by Arnold Adoff
I am still on my poetry bent:
I followed happiness to make her mine,
Past towering oak and swinging ivy vine.
She fled, I chased, over slanting hill and dale,
Pursuing rapidly over dashing stream.
I scaled the dizzy cliffs where eagles scream;
I traversed swiftly every land and mountain.
But always happiness eluded me.
Exhausted, fainting, I pursued no more,
But sank to [...]
I have a number of things open on my desk that are to inspire me to write. I took a cue out of my new book addition to my creative idea-generator, The Awe-Manac by Jill Badonsky. It was to write something about poetry.
If my life so far was a poem. I am not sure what [...]
