Poem-a-Day for Carl Leggo

  heart stars   heart stars ink images   imaginings spill love  light poet night skies   with wonder hold fast to all the alchemist sought in the milky way by Jen Selman

  Dear Carl, when you shared the influence of Ted Aoki’s work at Provoking Curriculum 2017, you said “lingering with his writing and memory shows how influential one teacher can be in our lives.”  Carl, YOU are that teacher for me, and for so many.  In your words, “poetry can sustain us, always. All ways!” […]

  “Stories Lived With Hope and Love”   Today, summer day, laugh. Flung out gazing around Shining and blessed. The grasses-fall down into the grass! Across the field, through the fields Wind sighing over the land, grasshopper eating sugar out of my hand. I meant to do my work-but, too soon idle A rainbow floats […]

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world. Perhaps I can never achieve the last, but that will be my attempt.   I am circling around God, around the ancient tower and have been circling for a thousand years and I still do not know if I […]

For Fire-Master Carl Leggo From Lake Windermere, in the middle of the lake.   Marilee and a Newfoundland eagle insisted I work with you, unsure why, I packed myself to another ocean.   I swam a few laps and you opened the gate, ushered me out of the swimming area to face the generous wild […]

On Your Behalf by David Jardine Click on link above to read poem

On Being Poetry Being Be   To be or not to be, is to be, because being, in being be, maybe a poetics of being, or not to be, because, be, cause, causing us to be, in being and not being. To be, or not to be, is to be… by Nicholas Ng-Fook

Dear Carl So Just remove five degrees of separation so just one step removed I am connected to you for she who walks this world with me certain stones for her own stepping you set in place just so so just to let you know I too step where you let her go as we […]

The Thank You Song (for my dear friend Carl) The end has come to our day There’s one more thing I’d like to say You’ve made it such a special day: thank you With all of you I want to be You’re my secret recipe Me and you and you and me: thank you Thank […]

In the Meantime In photography there is no meantime. -Geoff Dyer The land is empty. No one on the grassy horizon. Only a path shaped by wind, where an open spirit rises into the fullness of blue. Yet there in the stand of aspen, shadows of bison graze, unaware of wagons passing, the hooves of […]