http://greasy.com/Arts_and_Culture/Poetry_and_Prose.htm Featured articles and news topics about poetry and prose. en-us © 01:18:39 Greasy.com All rights reserved. Sun, Jul 01:18:39 6 GMT 30 http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/bound_blood_david_thomas_lord.html Jean-Luc "Jack" Courbet is a vampire that was converted to vampirism in 1970s Paris by Phillipe the Maquis de Charnac. He has recently arrived in modern New York to start a New York in the gay community of Greenwich Village. Writing for one of the city's major newpapers with archaeology pieces, Jack is able to spend most of his evening trolling men. Each chapter seems to be set during an evening in which he finds a willing gay man to serve both as one-night-stand and dinner. It is this hab ... Fri, 4 Jul 2008 03:39:09 GMT http://greasy.com/brian45/need_rod_mckuen.html It’s nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you’re still alive. If nothing else it says to you– clear as a high hill air, uncomfortable as diving through cold water– I’m here. However wretchedly I feel, I feel. I’m not sure why we cannot shake the old loves from our minds. It must be that we build on memory and make them more than what they were. And is the manufacture just a safe device for closing up the wall? I do remember. the only ... Fri, 4 Jul 2008 02:02:02 GMT http://greasy.com/brian45/ask_question.html Ask me a question and I will tell you no lie. I keep it REAL unlike people who spy! You may not like me or you may love me, at 45, I really don't give a flying you know what. Respect those who have strong opinions and expect the same back. You may not agree with me, but you don't have to act whack in your reply :--) ...heh...heh.... Happy 4th, Brian Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:54:26 GMT http://greasy.com/anacoana/richard_eberhart_the_eclipse.html The Eclipse I stood out in the open cold To see the essence of the eclipse Which was its perfect darkness. I stood in the cold on the porch And could not think of anything so perfect As man's hope of light in the face of darkness. ~ Richard Eberhart ~ (Soul Food, ed. by Neil Astley and Pamela Robertson-Pearce) Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was a prolific American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. Eberh ... Wed, 2 Jul 2008 19:57:33 GMT http://greasy.com/brian45/battle_flag.html by Gary Huddleston   BATTLE OF THE FLAG A protest raged on a courthouse lawn,Round a makeshift stage they charged on,Fifteen hundred or more the say,Had come to burn a flag that day.A boy held up the folded flag,Cursed it, and called it a dirty rag.An old man pushed through the angry crowd,With a rusty shotgun shouldered proud.His uniform jacket was old and tight,He had polished each button shiny and bright.He crossed that stage with a soldier's grace,Until he and the boy stood face to fa ... Wed, 2 Jul 2008 19:27:15 GMT http://greasy.com/lizzieann/pray_wish_more.html I pray for you and wish I could do more, But more I cannot do from far away. Like leaves before the wind we cannot stay, Ripped dancing, dancing to the forest floor. I wish I could your ailing health restore And bring you to the strength of yesterday, But all we mortal souls can do is pray That God might alter what we have in store. The beauty in our fragile life is love, The only thing that makes the moment matter, The golden thread that binds us all in light. I wish, I wish I could your ... Wed, 2 Jul 2008 06:18:40 GMT http://greasy.com/brian45/road_taken_robert_frost.html By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Y ... Wed, 2 Jul 2008 04:08:43 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/front_patricia_cornwell.html In this short novel, readers get a second chance to join an adventure that centers around Win Garano, a Massachusetts detective with the state police who is of mixed Italian/African American heritage, and Assistant DA Monique Lamont, who seems to have little interest in anything more than self-promotion. As the primary protagonist, Win seems to be Cornwell's attempt at creating an Alex Cross-like (a la James Patterson) character. He is pretty good natured, bright, and seems to have his hea ... Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:41:22 GMT http://greasy.com/ayesart/you_spiritual_path_holy_grail.html So, what is the path of the Holy Grail anyway? The word Grail comes from an old Latin word, Gradalis. In French it was Sanreal. In Celtic it was Groal. The word Grail has had many meanings and definitions during its long history of useage. I seem to like this definition the best: The object of a prolonged endeavor. If you lean toward the mystical I think you will understand what I will be writing about herein. It has been my belief that the state we all are in right now is part of another ... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:27:34 GMT http://greasy.com/against/hey.html Has something gone wrong here? Have I just been asleep? During this time of cleansing When violet flowers weep I’m lying in a field of them asleep in the sunlight Where will my wanderings carry me? When will this journey end? Have I been away too long? Is that why I can’t connect? Was what she said so long ago right? Am I too shallow to reflect? All I can see surrounding me The light and coming rain I hope the sky pours down me At least it won’t be still the same I’m tired and I’ ... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:50:30 GMT http://greasy.com/brian45/quote_day_andrew_carnegie.html "And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." -- Andrew Carnegie Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:21:55 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/morrigans_cross_nora_roberts.html I actually read this one for the first time a while ago and was pretty harsh on it. I started it up again because I wanted to read the whole trilogy. I apparently was in more of a mood for it this time than last time. To be honest, I picked it up becuase of its vampire ties, like I picked up a previous trilogy by Roberts because it had a tie to witchcraft. I am not usually a fan of Nora Roberts, but the earlier trilogy was fun, and this one is turning out not so bad. It all starts on the w ... Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:17:50 GMT http://greasy.com/mattguru18/novel_idea.html "It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would ... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:55:05 GMT http://greasy.com/bumpedoff/hitler_reappears_israel.html Stalag Comics Israel Hitler Reappears in Israel Igal Sarna, FirstPost.co.uk W e are five on the bed, leaning with our backs against the wall like people watching television. I'm in the middle of the bed. Hitler is at one end. He is about 20 years old, at the time he was moving from one cheap men's hostel in Vienna to another, an ambitious and unhappy young ne'er-do-well. A painter of landscapes and advertisements. He places a box full of papers in the centre of the bed. He says to me: "I'm ... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:23:31 GMT http://greasy.com/brian45/henry_david_thoreau.html Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:34:58 GMT http://greasy.com/brian45/ayn_rand.html "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights can not claim to be defenders of minorities." Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:32:19 GMT http://greasy.com/looserobes/dottie.html I call her Dottie because there is not one bit of doubt in my mind that she and I would have been fast friends. She may be the only woman who ever lived with whom I can comfortably and sympathetically identify, though I'm not sure exactly why. I've never contemplated suicide; she did frequently, and tried at least twice. I've never been much of a boozer; she may have been an alcoholic. My life has been spent married to one woman; Dorothy Parker moved through romantic relationships like so ... Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:22:57 GMT http://greasy.com/bumpedoff/boldness.html Goethe "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:09:27 GMT http://greasy.com/brian45/word_day_cockaine.html Cockaigne \kah-KAYN\, noun: An imaginary land of ease and luxury. Outside, in the dark, a wobbly patch of life upon the blue snow, the deer perhaps browsed, her soft blob of a nose rapturously sunk in the chilly winter greenery, her modest brain-stem steeped in some dream of a Cockaigne for herbivores.-- John Updike, Toward the End of Time Everyone was seeking renewal, a golden century, a Cockaigne of the spirit.-- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum Cockaigne comes from Middle English cokayg ... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:08:07 GMT http://greasy.com/bumpedoff/tack_bumpedoff.html With this article I shift emphasis from reporting on criminal activities to prosecuting the villains. I hope you will find this approach fruitful. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:54:37 GMT