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A poet considers the intersections of language and numbers, connections between disparate entities – the currents stirring within the Phoenician iteration of our letter M and the Japanese character for water, mizu, or the intertwined strands of solar wind and shadows, black-chinned hummingbirds and  coastal death rituals – all, of course, while contemplating good food and that most magnificent of elixirs, beer, which may have been the very foundation of civilization. Or not.

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  1. A great post. I love poetry and have written a couple of sentimental poems to family members but I am not a poet. I write Southern Drama and Suspense. I believe it is important to know yourself well enough to know where your talent lies. Thanks for liking my post and please stop back by. I will of course follow your blog. God bless.

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    • I enjoyed some of your writing I only say some beacause there is so much of it; one needs a “selected” edition. Why, I wonder, are so many blogs so opaque? The “about” you is yet another poem that like a stained glass window is not great for seeing through. Are you from Boston? Black, white, gay, straight what? Thanks for liking my blog too …good luck and fair sailing.

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      • Thanks very much for stopping by. I can’t answer for others, but my “about” blurb was conceived to draw attention to the written work and not the writer. My hope is that the writing proves to be much more riveting than I, but one might, if interested, unearth a few facts about me from the writing on this blog and via the various posted links. That is, if I, a poet, can be trusted. 🙂 But since you asked, no, but I spent a hot day there in July of 1979, I’m not quite white (Japanese, German-Irish), and I’m straight, although right now my posture is anything but, as I strained my back a few days ago and have been walking a bit like Australopithecus afarensis. Fair winds and following seas to you, my friend.

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          • With any definition (race, religion, ‘roots’, gender, … etc.) we become smaller and smaller. We shouldn’t accept less (or more) but to be living beings (or just beings). And, I agree with you – if anything should define you, let it be your work. I like a stained glass window. It’s not designed for ‘looking through’, but for looking at it. Looking through is ‘déjà vu’. Thanks for the beautiful view.:)

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  14. Thanks for dropping by again, Robert. Always nice to see your responses. I trust you enjoyed Running its course. My poetry has slowed a bit of late, as I’m nosed into the activities of completing and rewriting my first stage play in a long, long time. Because it’s a bit of a historic piece (set in the South in Dec. 1864), accuracy is paramount for all those re-enactment buffs out there. And historians, of course.

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  23. Robert your pieces are splendid! so glad to have met through the artistry – would love to argue with you in step-and-style about the foundational imbibings of our original true see-through-the-veil-eye-sensations, with the loving civility of poetics. many cheers, friend over here, Michael
    post script – have you ever read Go Rin No Sho? your piece after Wang Wei reminds me, a very different style, and content but a similarly profound inspired poetica.

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  24. Thank you for visiting Creative Writing Ibiza. Your blog reminds me of one of my favourite lyrics — “There is a crack/a crack in everything/ it’s where the light gets in.” May you continue in light!

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  27. Thank you. I am glad you liked my post “A Journey of One Thousand Li” It’s the first time in years I produced anything remotely close, to poetry. When I started writing the post it just came out that way. I think it’s a good sign. I look forward to exploring your blog.

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  29. Robert–I’ve been asked to participate in a blog hop between poets. I was invited by a very fine Canadian poet named Linda Crosfield whose poetry website you can easily find by Googling it. I wonder if you are interested in participating as I’ve been asked to recommend three other bloggers whose writing I admire. Does this appeal to you? If so I need your email address so I can send you the directions. It’s a very simple process consisting of answering 4 questions on your writing process and style and sending me a 4 line bio. Then you in turn would recommend three other blogs by writers you enjoy/admire. Main purpose is to expand the audience of those writers we enjoy
    –and to share a bit of information on process. My email is jubob2@hotmail.com

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  30. thanks for stopping by my blog. i saw on your profile that you were once a sailor.. now does this mean you were in the navy or that you had a boat? if it means you had a boat, what kind? i am a new lover of boats with the 1970’s Hans Christian Cutter being my dream boat haha. I too love beer =) will check out some of your poetry

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  34. Thanks for liking my blog post. I really like what I’ve read on yours so far, especially your comment about noting what slips through the cracks – which echoes my tag line “squinting at life” – trying to see “through the trees,” as it were. Nice writing!

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  35. Thank you for liking my “Things to Know About Lily” post. I’m new to blogging and having quite a time getting things to work properly. I’m sorry for your loss. Jackboy was lucky to have found a forever home with you. He lives on in your words.

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  39. Robert,

    As a man who has always embraced the gifts that poetry and thoughtful prose can bestow, I find myself suddenly feeling as though I have somehow failed to fully realize these gifts upon browsing here this evening. I compose poems and pour my heart and soul into every expression as best as I know how, and I endeavor always to present a worthwhile read for anyone who visits my blog, but here in this place, you provide such a lush landscape of lovely language, and invite your readers to participate in the panoply of pleasing poetry and prose, that I am at once delighted as a reader, but also made to consider my less-than-stellar attention to the creative side of me. Your thoughtful attention to my writing is also a gift, and it pleases me that you thought to spend some of your time reading my work.

    I am most appreciative……John H.

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