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I have two journals for poetry. One where I write some certified stinkers and the other where I try my best to write good ones.
And sometimes, I write some personal favorites in the bad journal and have to transfer it over to the good journal anyway.
Is this weird? Shouldn't I just have one journal where the good and the bad poetry can live next to each other?
#poetry

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
#Poetry #Philosophy

‪Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)
full poem here:
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I’ve been thinking about how we stay sane in the constant unfolding crisis and dizzying spectacle — what practices help us stay true to our own minds and hearts?
One possibility is the alchemy of turning news into poetry, like fairytale straw into gold.
#poetry #news

““Pay, pay attention to the sky,” he shouts to passers-by. The planets gather dust from passing trucks.”
— The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali
#poetry #environment

Do you keep a journal or diary? Would you like to?
I invite you try out the ancient and contemporary form of tanka (as transformed by poet Harryette Mullen) as a way of documenting something of your own intimate experience of these extraordinary times.
#poetry #journal