Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Turkeys are my people I'm heading down to the garden to get some rhubarb stems. / I detect some movement by the garden gate. / There are some people there.
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Saturday, July 2, 2022
The poppy followed by a note This was not a rose, / But it was the intense red of this flower / That first caught my eye.
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Friday, July 1, 2022
Crow VS the Sea followed by a note No sooner had I settled in / At one of my favorite spots / High above the ocean, / Than I noticed a crow
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Thursday, June 30, 2022
Ka-ching Looking out at the harbor / There is an antique cash register / On a shelf above me/ Ornately conceived of brass and iron
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022
This is what I wrote (in awkward solidarity with Philip Levine) Setting: Monhegan, early, / sitting with my coffee, / just finished reading a poem by Levine.
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Sunday, June 26, 2022
Humble I handed her a book of mine./ You might not like them (the poems)./ She said, "You're just shy."
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Friday, June 24, 2022
We are closer / we are here We're getting closer, almost there, as to the ocean / who has so many ways of letting us know / that she is close.
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Thursday, June 23, 2022
I didn't die in Albuquerque Two zombies, half crazy./ We were young, driving your father's jeep./ Now we needed coffee.
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Friday, June 17, 2022
Spirit of seeing I carried the irate turtle across a small patch of field / To a soggy spot where the meadow / transitioned to marsh
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Thursday, June 9, 2022
Someone's birthday followed by note You were advised to travel to India / With your spiritual questions / That couldn't be answered by science
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Sunday, June 5, 2022
The end of normal is almost here followed by a note "Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd,. . ."
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
My life as a bridge: In memory of Frank followed by a note We would share a waking dream / Of the two bridges / And an hour goes by.
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Monday, May 30, 2022
All I got We have just as little control / Over what our governments / Decide to do / As we have over what we dream.
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Sunday, May 29, 2022
Another unendurable age My father took me fishing / When I was little / He baited the hook for me / I didn't want to hurt the worm
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Friday, May 27, 2022
I love our invasive plants followed by a note Nightshade (This is a poison plant straight from a fairy tale.) Knotweed (Hollow stems snap with a boink, used to treat Lyme.) Lemon balm (Calming. A favorite of the faerie folk, you know, the little people.)
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Happy Trails followed by a note . . . putting all of one's eggs / In the Thinking basket / Can lead to loneliness, / As Thinking winds down.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022
21 Dead and Counting We know the old ways have to die. What we need is demolition. Not tearing buildings down but the lie.
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Monday, May 23, 2022
The great intervention It means the way we live / Has upset the balance / It means that soon / If the animals fail to turn us out, / Then the storm will try,
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Sunday, May 22, 2022
The stone gun What an usual find! / It was formed by at least three kinds of stone: / The "barrel" was limestone, the handle, / Some kind of amalgam of quartz and basalt.
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Thursday, May 19, 2022
The end of a world It's hot. Everything is hot and bright./ The stones are hot and . . . glinting./ I think they have lots of mica in them./ The ground is hot. Page 10 of 33 First Last Back Next 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 View All |