“In Flanders Field,”written byJohn McCrae, a Canadian soldier who would later die in that conflict. That poem was included in my mother’s precious 1929 edition of “One Hundred and One Famous Poems,” so I must have heard it read aloud many times in my youth. Its words had been bu...
So now we wait. Wait for some bloke to upload an English scene from my favorite film, inspired by the poems of Rilke, where angels seemed to dwell. A beautiful drifty sad trapeze artist who lives in a trailer and dances by herself to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Hapless but knowing a...
Since there was talk of my surname being linked to an island, I thought I’d leave you with the most ‘Island’ poems of all, in which we can sadly acknowledge that “Any man’s death diminishes me” as it relates to the ongoing wars. No Man Is an Island No man is an island, ...
I am grateful for my ability to read and all those who inspire me by their words put down for me to discover. I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to cr...