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PTV – Poetry on Video

I had some unexpected time today so I had a chance to play around with my recent poem, Launching Rockets, and put some film clips together for a new video. All the images and clips are public domain, except the rolling clouds, which I found at StockFootageForFree and downloaded free of charge. I recorded the [...]

Launching Rockets

This recent poem seems to be pretty well self-explanatory. I’m not sure yet how I feel about it. I’m not even sure if this is really a poem, or just an expanded question. Launching Rockets The road behind us is paved with atrocities. We circle and circle, our destination and our centre unknown. Ourselves, we [...]

There is a small terror here on earth some might call hell. You see it almost every day, though you might not recognize it. It’s hidden in the shadows of coffee shops and the late-night check out counters of grocery stores. It is a place where small demons rule, feeding on heartache and regret, while [...]

Did that get your attention? The title was just a lure. There are no rules of poetry any more than there are rules for what you should do after you wake up in the morning. The post I wrote recently on Murderous Poets seems to have cause a stir. It was only a small stir, [...]

We are as swimmers treading water. Our heads watch and listen as we contemplate cool white clouds and the vastness of sky and beneath our bobbing chins, the silky mirror of loneliness that keeps us distant and cool and aligned. Yet beneath this skin of water, fingers touch extended fingers and caress our rhythmic thighs, [...]

The Edges of Love

We must stretch the edges of our love, kneading the heart from its centre always outward to another. We must stretch our voices to fill the silence. We must stretch our hands to heal the impossible. We must pour out our spirit to fill the shallows with our abundance. We must extend ourselves to become [...]

I don’t personally suffer from writer’s block. If anything, I have a problem keeping new ideas from overwhelming the work at hand. However, that is not to say that I never suffered from it. In my early days, a blank piece of paper and I would engage in staring contests for days, and sometimes weeks. [...]

How Writing Saved My Life #143

Writing has saved my life on quite a few occasions. This is a deeply personal story, probably the most personal, and one I’ve shared with only four people. But the last person I shared it with urged me to tell it again, publicly, because, she said, it seemed important that I tell others. I trust [...]

More About Poets

Some time ago I wrote an article asking what is a poet, including some very insightful takes on the word by a dozen writers, artists and musicians. Someone recently reminded me that I had not actually answered my own question, so here it is, from the preface of First Stirrings… The poet is not the [...]

Where to Get Ideas

This is a question I’m often asked, Where do you get your ideas? Usually, people assume my ideas come from my own experiences and from people I know. In my articles and poetry, that is almost always true, but not in my fiction. Fiction can be inspired by personal experience, certainly, but almost never from [...]

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