Seattle Participants |
DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH POETRY |
Seattle Participants |
VISITING SONOMA STATE To Lawrence Ferlinghetti A fortnight after our world disaster I come seeking flight path to service, training for trauma, enclave of empathy. Curriculum-laden I'm easily downed but poetry and an old poet's kind open face take me home-- A plane slices through my heart, my eyes are shattered windows, someone is leaping out. -Ellen Setteducati |
JUST ONCE before i die (& i can think of that time now) i'd like just once to close my eyes with yours in peace far out beyond the city lights & limits, the restless minds, a place where all our strivings come to naught a room so still (it must be still), a night so black, futons laid side by side, where we will wake isshou wake & laugh & know such peace & close our eyes again to make the feeling last just once before i close my eyes for good i'd like to lie in peace with you note: isshou means "together" in Japanese (the elongation of the final syllable carries the connotation of "together for life") -Sherry Reniker |
State of Myself: A Presidential Transcript "Thank you" will revive our culture. I celebrate mothers and sing terrorism, and what I assume you shall assume, for every God belonging to me as good belongs to you. Corporate America is high. It is proud to enact a new creed: "Let's roll" and deploy effective missile defenses for the mothers huddled over our allies. I thank the flight attendant spotted in a fiscally responsible manner. Shannon, I have found in the videos where they are. I loaf and invite my axis, I lean and loaf with my chairmen observing the missiles of applause. We've come to the best in tragedy, to Islam's own homes. We will develop vaccines to feel closer. Our nation owns those regimes that we can accumulate. My arms, every flag of my Guantanamo, formed from this alert, these aircraft, born here of aspirations born from parents the same, and their aspirations the same. I hope to cease not till Iraq. -Ron Starr |