The Best Poems Take Long Journeys. I Like Poetry Best That Journeys--while Remaining In The Human Scale--to The Other World, Which May Be A Place As Easily Overlooked As A Bee's Wing
We're Waiting For The Pendulum To Swing Back Again, Which I Am Absolutely Confident It Will.
The Attack On Clinton On Terrorism Is Entirely Politically Inspired By The Right-wing Of The Republicans, And Has No Basis In Fact Whatsoever.
When Most People See The Word "radical," They Think That It Must Refer To Something Left Wing. Some People Also May Think Of It As Referring To Far Right-wing Marginal Groups. But Here We Have A President Of The United States [george W. Bush] At The Center Of Power, Sitting In The White House, Who Is A Radical.
Love Can Transform Us. It Can Be A Healing Force Or A Disaster, A Tidal Wave, A Tornado. It Can Burn And Scar Us Or Heal Our Scars. It Can Be The Ghost That Haunts Us, Or The Best Friend Who Reads Our Every Thought. Love May Arrive Like An Angel Of Mercy, A Fairy With Raven Wings Or A Hairy Beast That Will Tear Us Apart Limb From Limb, Kill And Savor Us Down To The Bones.
For I Dance And Drink And Sing, Till Some Blind Hand Shall Brush My Wing. If Thought Is Life And Strength And Breath And The Want Of Thought Is Death Then Am I A Happy Fly If I Live Or If I Die
The Pure Soul Shall Mount On Native Wings, . . . And Cut A Path Into The Heaven Of Glory.
