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• BOOK REVIEW: All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

  All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This play, like "Measure for Measure," is one of Shakespeare's "problem... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Dark City Sonnet

  

  any city you enter after dark will not reveal itself until the morn you'll see it like a scrawny sheep unshorn vague blankness punctuated by landmarks you'll se... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Tripless Trip

  

  In the outlands lives a shaman, an unkempt medicine man of some renown. He grinds some roots with a wooden pestle, black and shiny on its business end. His... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Silent Wild

  Looking through a window at the falling snow flakes. Silent is the snow fall that piles upon my sill. And though it weighs limbs down, it doesn't break the... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Virus

  Oh little spikey spinning sphere, drifting across the fresh clear air, you think you'll hijack my machine for replication of your genes. Something inside does... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Desert Haiku

  

  offset prints bisected by tail drag lizard sign gnarled driftwood, snake skin, rusty barbed wire in red sand cold morning, the rising fire ball, a silent... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Yoga for Sports by B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga For Sports: A Journey Towards Health And Healing by B.K.S. Iyengar My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This is a book by the renowned Pune yoga guru who... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Letters Written and Not Sent by William Louis-Dreyfus

  Letters Written and Not Sent by William Louis-Dreyfus My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This collection consists of about 55 poems, mostly of the short-form... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Thoughts of a Traveler Traveling Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

  

  I just returned from a week of traveling in Rajasthan and Punjab for Holi and Hola Mohalla, respectively. Because my trip involved only domestic travel within... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

  Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page "Measure for Measure" was originally grouped as one of Shakespeare's comedies... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas

  Amazon page Obviously, in the annals of popular music, the work of Bob Dylan matters. To make sense of the title and related objective of this book (which... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Morpheus’ Shroud

  Last night the drape was thin and billowy. Dreams seen through the weep of a willow tree. Shapes without texture, beings without plights. A curtain of fog,... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Dhammapada Trans. by Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita

  Dhammapada: a practical guide to right living by Acharya Buddharakkhita My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page The Dhammapada consists of 423 sayings attributed... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Three Tang Dynasty Poets by Wang Wei, Li Po, and Tu Fu

  Amazon page This book is in a series put out by Penguin Books entitled "Little Black Classics." As the series name implies, these are booklets featuring... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Tempest: Or, Overstimulated

  

  A quiet kind of lightening storm will fire in wild moments of mass, when thought chunks rush to the center - the very center - of my mind. It's a ten ton pile u... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Corpse in Snow

  

  When she saw a corpse in the snow, fringed by a clear melt line, she knew he'd lain there quite a while, taking his time to die. What'd you suppose he'd been... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Acid Dreams by Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain

  Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion by Martin A. Lee My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This is a microhistory of America's interaction with... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Ash [Haiku]

  wind-whipped ash swirling in an eddy light as snow ash flutters from a darkened sky, piling, drifting the path made by footprints tracked through ash tells a... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch

  Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This book consists of a series of topical... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Agriculture & Nature Haiku

  

  grazing sheep, loitering head down; what awes them? rice terraces, disguising man's order in nature's green ripe wheat, bobbing in a breeze - sea-like moves on ... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL