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Beginner's Heart
nightmares, poetry, & beginner’s heart ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I’m trying to see learning these days. Which means I’m looking for it in unlikely places. Like nightmares. I’ve always been prone to nightmares. Today’s poem for National Poetry Writing Month is about that, a particular ongoing nightmare that reappears in my life sporadically. I have what are called ‘night terrors,’ although less frequently than…
Buddhism for poets (and vice-versa…) ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I’ve written about becoming a Buddhist elsewhere, but as with most of our memories, I may have that wrong. I may have been born w/ Buddhist longings, but I also may have found my Buddhist mind through poetry. Poetry is air and water, food and sleep to me. It has saved my life, paid karmic…
poetry and the new Poet Laureate ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
There’s a new US Poet Laureate — Philip Levine. This may not be earth-shaking to many, but to a poet, whose vanity plate gives her ‘POETIC’ license, it’s HUGE :). And I like Levine’s work. I never like all of someone’s work — not even my own :). And Levine’s mentor was a poet I’m…
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