[News] PIW 15 March 2011

 

PIW 15 March 2011

The poems of our second March issue are crafted, surprising and tender, reacting with deep poetic sensibility to local natural and domestic environments, and reaching out with love to the people that inhabit those spaces. The India domain presents poetry in Hindi, Malayam and English that reflects on community, family and daily life, introducing Prabhat, Anitha Thampi,  Gayatri Majumdar and Marilyn Noronha  to the pages of PIW. The UK domain presents three poets, from England (Philip Gross), Scotland (John Glenday) and Wales (Gillian Clarke), whose work examines the memory-sites of domestic and linguistic landscapes.

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Poem of the Week

FAMOUS LAST WORDS
John Glenday (UK)

Clip of the Month

LOOK AT HIM
Hasso Krull (Estonia)

 

Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam 2011

The 42nd annual Poetry International Festival will take place in Rotterdam this year from 14 until 19 June. This year's theme is Order and Chaos, which will be explored in a number of special programmes focusing on poetry and literature, society and current events. Guest poets will include Doina Ioanid (Romania), Yan Jun (China), Bachyt Kenzjezev (Kazakhstan/ Canada) and PIW poets Ann Cotten (Germany), Daljit Nagra (UK) and Admiel Kosman (Israel). In the coming months via PIW and our festival blog, we'll be giving you more information about the festival and its events and participants.

 

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Funny Poem of the Week by FunnyPoets.com

a href='http://www.funnypoets.com'>FunnyPoets.com Your funny poem of the week is: Ringo Blues Copyright; Graham Fredriksen From his book 'Paradise Revisited' He's bought himself a set of drums - Seems that's the latest fad For them with teenage craniums Just to annoy their Dad. So now it's straight into his room When he gets home from school: A raucous thunderous sonic boom - Could make die dead rise from die tomb ...And those alive to fear their doom - A racket dial is cruel; An audio nightmare of gloom As decibels and senses zoom, My ears and I can now assume... That Ringo's on his stool. As drums resound and cymbals crash, The airwaves saturate; Bush poetry's a culture clash - He says I'm out of date. His hair is fifteen shades of blue... He only wears what's cool... He bangs away the evening through... He says I wouldn't have a clue... But oh!! that noise!! I'm tellin' you... When Ringo's on his stool!! With peace and quiet vanished now From in our neighborhood, I get no more milk from the cow, The dog's left home for good, The chooks have all stopped layin' eggs, The goldfish left his pool, The cat has even found his legs, My home-made beer has turned to dregs. Is that a tune ? - the question begs... When Ringo's on his stool. The ducks from on the billabong Have all flown south for Spring; No more we hear the magpie's song - He's lost his urge to sing. T.V.'s a relic of the past - Those drums win every duel; Not even ghetto-blasters blast As loud or even half as fast... While ear-drums flutter at half mast... When Ringo's on his stool. The Flick man has no need to call - Our cockroaches have gone; The termites that live in the wall - They too are moving on. It could well drive a man to drink... But who am I to fool ? I have already crossed that brink - I cannot hear myself to think - And oh...this week, his hair is pink... That's Ringo on his stool. So I thought I would be the bird And grow myself some wings, Until today...! got the word That somehow changes things. The music shop is on the phone: This afternoon it comes - An instrument that's all my own - He need no longer play alone - We'll form a band that's all home-grown I'm flexing up my gums; Though I'm tone-deaf as any stone, I'll join the raucous monotone - Me playing my new saxophone... While Ringo...plays his drums. Copyright; Graham Fredriksen View more funny poems at FunnyPoets.com-1 unsubscribe FunnyPoets.com 5646 Fairway Road Fairway, Kansas 66205

[Poetry Chaikhana] Wu Men (Hui-k'ai) - One instant is eternity;

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One instant is eternity; By Wu Men (Hui-k'ai) (1183 - 1260) English version by Stephen Mitchell   One instant is eternity; eternity is the now. When you see through this one instant, you see through the one who sees.   -- from The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell Amazon.com / Photo by Tobyotter /

============ Thought for the Day: Open your heart further. Fight injustice more boldly. It's all on the line anyway. ============

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Hi Omss -

I was a typical Aries kid growing up, always leaning into the future minute. The present made me itch. It took a desperate moment of spiritual exhaustion in my early 30s for me to finally drop the reflex to rush forward and just, finally, sit and settle into "this one instant." My inflated fantasies about myself collapsed and I came to a full halt. I figured that maybe this little moment was all I had. I fell silent.

Slipping into that tiniest space of "now," an amazing thing happens -- it opens itself up into a timeless vastness.

Finally we see. Well "we" don't see... The person you thought you were isn't even there to look; instead, there is some great, clear, steady sight that sees through us. And in that still, living moment, we participate in that seeing.

Eternity isn't somewhere far off in the future. It is, and always is, right here and right now. Nowhere else.

See if you can squeeze into the tight space of this very moment. See for yourself.

Ivan

 

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