Franz Wright: Like Touching a Bird’s Exposed Heart
Reading this poem on Vale of Soul-Making struck me to the core, it is so exquisite. That mingling of the …
Author Archives: Deborah J. Brasket
Neruda: Drunk With the Great Starry Void
One of my favorite poets, again, swept me off my feet, expressing the inexpressible with perfect eloquence. Poetry And it …
A Magical Day at San Simeon Bay
Dale and I spent a magical day recently at San Simeon Bay along Highway 1, just below Hearst Castle on …
A Trip Through Time and Space with Pauline Anna Strom
She calls herself a “musical consort to time.” She once wrote: “I endeavor, through music, to delve into all time …
Will Salmon Swim Upstream Through City Streets?
Once Upon a Time, A Poem In an eon, will Trumpism portend another Troy, a Trojan horse whose armies eviscerated …
Strange Dreams, A Poem
Strange Dreams You stood there heating your backside by the fireplace, I sat in bed telling you how real my …
Still Open to the Beauty of the World
“Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this …
A Young Poet and Rapper Throw Light on the State of Our Union
“A Return to Joy!” That’s what I was going to blog about today after watching the horror of the January …
“The Fierce Urgency of Now”: Dismantling the Big Lie, Bridging the Big Divides
Like so many Americans, I’ve been struggling these past twelve days to wrap my mind around what happened on January …
Joy Amid the Turmoil: A 2020 Recap
The year 2020 may have been the most turbulent year any of us have ever known. Blogging in such a …
