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embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt So happy to have this done!! Look out for more cool poemy things… share your thoughts, Love and Thanks to Tom Vandas who shot and directed “Two Clocks,” and “The Crew” (mugshots on the way!) that helped put this together. By the way, you can find “Two Clocks” and lots [...]

Koroga: To stir up/ To stir into/ To stir around/To be stirring

to plant blue gum trees because they would sell to the power company, because it would help the environment, to plant, even if we replaced the ones God planted – destroy them – to make farms for profitable fashionable green things, like maize and coffee, neglecting and forgetting the plants we grew before, the trees [...]

The pothole is gone; the one I hit once and remembered every other trip home, knowing it was there when I passed like a road sign. It’s been      recarpeted– by the Chinese, mum says, only they will fix a road in a day. I drive over the spot to celebrate and mourn, the same way [...]

By Karl Shapiro As you say, (not without sadness), poets don’t see, they feel. And that’s why people who have turned to feelers seem like poets. Why Children seem poetic. Why when the sap rises in the adolescent heart the young write poetry. Why great catastrophes are stated in verse. Why lunatics are named for [...]