[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM
- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:08:00 -0400
Mike -
Today's pieces sound like Tennesee haiku, if there is something like that.
If I had my druthers, I'd like to see you develop the first one more fully.
The broad brush-strokes you use immediately engage me, my sense of rhythm
and my ear, but it was too small an hors d'oeuvre to satisfy my appetite.
(like haiku, I guess. I have a hard time with things that whet my appetite
but I can only have a teeny bit of. I can't enjoy a tiny sip. I need to
drink the whole bottle. I could easily be an alcoholic.You're not helping me
get drunk.)
The way you start, the picture you draw in "The Tao of Dad" -- everything
works, but I'm lost when it comes to the significance of your title. I'm no
Eastern philosopher so when I looked it up, I found tao refers to the
universal force that produces harmony in nature. I don't see harmony in
nature in your picture of your dad like a wind-shaped tree.
Is it unfair of me to ask you to talk about your intentions? Usually you're
as subtle as a live firehose or a punch in the nose. Neither your humor nor
your diatribes show subtlety. How come here?
Stan Spiegel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "LIT-IDEAS" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 1:56 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] SUNDAY POEM
> THE TAO OF DAD
>
>
> See him? There on that hill. Yes,
> the one just standing there,
> looking for all the world
> like a wind-shaped tree,
> a survivor,
> while all around him,
> dust devils, ghost marauders, raid the fields.
>
>
>
>
> THE TAO OF DOING
>
> Listen. Is that the sound of stone bending water
> or of stone-bending water?
>
>
> THE TAO OF DOG
>
> A trail of dry paw-prints in dew-darkened dust.
> Even that, sun erased, left no trace.
>
>
>
> THE TAO OF DEATH
>
> Now he, too, has turned to dust,
> returned to lusting Earth,
> both he and the woman who gave me birth
> returned
> but I kept their mirth.
> What use is it to stupid Earth?
>
>
> --- Mike Geary
>
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
>
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