Thanks & Musings
The poetry muse or fairy didn't visit last night or this morning, so I have nothing new in verse to add to the ether today. I want to take this time to thank all who visit and leave comments. You've been most kind of late to enjoy what I write. For years I've been my only audience and that's like one hand clapping. You know there's some noise, but you're never sure if it adds to anything. So thank you all. And I might add here thanks again to Billy Jones for providing this space and to Shirley Allard for providing me space in WordCatalyst.com. If you've not had the time to visit WordCatalyst then I would suggest that you do so. I would hope that if there is something that you read by my fingers and you do not like or think that I'm full of it, please let me know that as well.
And... This morning I opened my latest Kirpalu newsletter (it's a newsletter about yoga and meditative thought - a very good endeavor if I might add) and one of the lead stories is about Rumi. I laughed as hard as if I'd just read something by Bob Church. As the choice for the best selling poet in America, I would still wish we could look to ourselves. As the choice for meditative endeavors, he's as good as any, but there are others whom I've read that fill that bill as well. My favorite would be the Tibetan poet Trijang Rinpoche or even better still Lao Tse. However, here any of the three that leads you to peace is a good choice. In my humble opinion for shear lyrical power there are also many others, including: Keats, Yeats, Coleridge, Blake, Milton, the Bible, The Koran, Whitman, etc. Or as I've found, there are some great folks writing who contribute to this air space. Click around and discover the treasures that I've found. I will next week add links to my space here in the ether to them, including but not limited to: housemouse, JO, Bubba, darksoul, dermott, Billy, et al. If I've missed adding your name here, I'm sorry; however, as I've said, I will be adding links and keeping up with my "friends" so please let me know if you wish to be added, if I miss adding you. As once told to me, there are many paths to the edge of the cliff or to the field in the forest. It's always good to have a well seasoned guide.
So, if you've read this far, thanks again. If I can ever peek someone's interest in a great poet, then I feel as though I've added something to the general discussion. I know that I'm preaching a bit to the choir here, but if we all bring a little poetry to our worlds I feel as though the bigger world will be a bit better. And with so much noise in the general world, wouldn't a little lyricism be welcome?