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LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: You’re Killing Me, Ms. Dickinson, Or: Samurai Surgery

  

  "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." - Emily Dickinson It's mean accuracy and angry power that can cleave... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Sunset on the Sea

  

  Will those trawlers haul their nets through the night, even after darkness has descended? When clustered stars offer the only light, and the land-locked day... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2018 TRAVEL

• Ninja Nursery Rhymes

  Ninja be nimble, Ninja be quick, Ninja knock you on the noggin with a big stick. *** Ninja be stealthy... healthy... and wise, Ninja snatch like a snake, pull... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Desert Story

  

  Play it out, like a six-gun Western. Let the sun hang in the mid-day sky. Have him search for a cool-water cistern. Croaking and choking that "the end is... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 Haiku on Consciousness

  

  thoughts form float, reflections of a gliding bird over murky pools. sleeping deeply, universe? where art thou? do you rest too? within my dreams, i feel the... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare by Wm. Shakespeare

  

  The Sonnets of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This book consists of 154 sonnets that were published in a quarto... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

  

  The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This book offers an account of the activities of Ken Kesey and the Merry... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Destroyer

  

  Mighty Fungi, the destroyer, rending like a divorce lawyer. There are no bonds you can't dissolve. It's by your graces our world revolves. Your rap is bad, but... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Be As You Are Ed. by David Godman

  

  Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi by Ramana Maharshi My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page In the early days of yoga, before there was Power Yog... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living by Paul Collins

  

  Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living by Paul Collins My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most intriguing writers in American... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: My Nature, Or: Water Cycle

  

  Lay me down amid the mountains, where the sky can call to me. Set me under the falling rains. Let me flow down to the sea. I will float up toward the... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Dizzy

  i'm seeing the world through spin arc, like long exposure photos of a night sky, the ones that generate Van Goghesque color swirls, and always offer a... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Himalaya

  

  How the feet slow, up amid the ice flow. Where air is rare, and each step goes higher, thinking of those who froze or maybe lost a toe, yet trudged through the... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Varanasi Haiku

  

  Sacred Ganga, Welcome to our city. What gifts you'll take. Narrow warren, lanes lined with bright-hued goods, bangle blind and lost. Cattle herd roams the... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 Books About the Mental Side of Yoga

  

  5.) Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi: This book, which is presented in Q A format, explores Sri Ramana's approach to , and explains... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Urban Wildlife Haiku

  

  crowded skies, circling raptors weave invisible baskets. little chipmunk, screeching relentlessly, stop! all are warned. rat slinks away as cat creeps near,... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Lake Haiku

  

  alpine lake, depth a guarded secret, mirroring mountain ships sit on your sandy bottom, yet, you're called "lake" in sunlight your glistening canvas, a bowl of... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Monsoon Haiku

  

  outside? muggy; from inside: gray skies look like Viennese winter cool mornings, after a rainy night, soothe the spirit the guard shack, topped by a wading... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  

  Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This novella is divided into two uneven parts. The first part consists of eleve... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy by Bret Contreras

  

  Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy by Bret Contreras My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This book combines a calisthenics manual with the anatomical... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL