THROWBACK THURSDAYS
Featuring posts from my past blogs as they were originally written
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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on March 25th, 2010 (so more than 16 years ago). I have always thought of movies as the laziest of arts. I do not mean their creation. I have seen movie sets. I know how many people it… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on November 22, 2010 (so almost 16 years ago). Donald Hall is, unfortunately, an under-appreciated poet. While his prose works like LifeWork and Ancient Glittering Eyes represent his greatest strengths as a writer, he remains a marvelous poet. “Names of Horses” is… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on September 30, 2013. Non-Fiction writers are disciplined. Poets not nearly so. And so the long hiatuses here. I pass time pushing lines of verse around on metaphorical pages. In short, I have been waiting for inspiration. A… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on June 28th, 2011. Billy Collins’ popularity and financial success make him one of those poets it is hard to ignore. The quality of his poetry makes him impossible to forget. Collins’ poem “The First Dream” is… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on January 22, 2011. William Carlos Williams said he modeled his original form and style of poetry on the language that he heard ordinary people using in his day to day life as a doctor. One of… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on January 1, 2011. On another snowy Minnesota morning, this poem by Rilke comes to mind as we “walk” into another new year. In my early 20s, Rilke was a favorite poet. In the many moves I… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on November, 23, 2010 While today Percy Bysshe Shelley is generally recognized as one of the shining lights of English poetry, during his own lifetime and for a generation after his death he was not so widely… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on December 02, 2012. The second day of December brings a foggy morning to the North Country. Out my back window only the black silhouettes of a few winter-bare trees and the nearest houses are visible. The rest… Read more
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