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Anything is subject for a poem : A catalog of boxing equipment, a collage of other poems, Serpentine trail of incense, raised deer fur, old shoes pointed pigeon-toed, Glass and steel cityscape, almond eyes of a saint, weeping tiny flowers, Sunlight on whitewashed walls, blue shadows of stooped women, A spring mousetrap, a trickle of blood in the gutter, The homing swoop of a gull, chill whitecapped bay, scent of eucalyptus. Green lawn of broken blades, clods of fat earth. Anything is subject for a poem.
Even in sleep, write a poem. When waking, write a poem. While loving, write a poem. Even voting, write a poem. When angry, write a poem. While dreaming, write a poem.
The sages say quite seriously that those who wish to know better should cultivate the poet in themselves.
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
–Edgar Allan Poe
Language helps us to understand and communicate. Poetry adds the dimension of “shape” and “movement”. Poetry seems to go beyond words and ideas to the very essence of what life is about; it hints at divinity!
When I was drinking, I never understood the art of poetry. Today I use poetry as part of my adventure into meaning and self-knowledge.
So much more is open to me in sobriety, and I am able to appreciate things I never used to comprehend. Poetry is part of “it gets better”.
Anything is subject for a poem : A catalog of boxing equipment, a collage of other poems, Serpentine trail of incense, raised deer fur, old shoes pointed pigeon-toed, Glass and steel cityscape, almond eyes of a saint, weeping tiny flowers, Sunlight on whitewashed walls, blue shadows of stooped women, A spring mousetrap, a trickle of blood in the gutter, The homing swoop of a gull, chill whitecapped bay, scent of eucalyptus. Green lawn of broken blades, clods of fat earth. Anything is subject for a poem.
Even in sleep, write a poem. When waking, write a poem. While loving, write a poem. Even voting, write a poem. When angry, write a poem. While dreaming, write a poem.
The sages say quite seriously that those who wish to know better should cultivate the poet in themselves.
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Anything is subject for a poem : A catalog of boxing equipment, a collage of other poems, Serpentine trail of incense, raised deer fur, old shoes pointed pigeon-toed, Glass and steel cityscape, almond eyes of a saint, weeping tiny flowers, Sunlight on whitewashed walls, blue shadows of stooped women, A spring mousetrap, a trickle of blood in the gutter, The homing swoop of a gull, chill whitecapped bay, scent of eucalyptus. Green lawn of broken blades, clods of fat earth. Anything is subject for a poem.
Even in sleep, write a poem. When waking, write a poem. While loving, write a poem. Even voting, write a poem. When angry, write a poem. While dreaming, write a poem.
The sages say quite seriously that those who wish to know better should cultivate the poet in themselves.
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Anything is subject for a poem : A catalog of boxing equipment, a collage of other poems, Serpentine trail of incense, raised deer fur, old shoes pointed pigeon-toed, Glass and steel cityscape, almond eyes of a saint, weeping tiny flowers, Sunlight on whitewashed walls, blue shadows of stooped women, A spring mousetrap, a trickle of blood in the gutter, The homing swoop of a gull, chill whitecapped bay, scent of eucalyptus. Green lawn of broken blades, clods of fat earth. Anything is subject for a poem.
Even in sleep, write a poem. When waking, write a poem. While loving, write a poem. Even voting, write a poem. When angry, write a poem. While dreaming, write a poem.
The sages say quite seriously that those who wish to know better should cultivate the poet in themselves.
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POETRY “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” –Edgar Allan Poe Language helps us to understand and communicate. Poetry adds the dimension of “shape” and “movement”. Poetry seems to go beyond words and ideas to the very essence of what life is about; it hints at divinity! When I was drinking, I never understood the art of poetry. Today I use poetry as part of my adventure into meaning and self-knowledge. So much more is open to me in sobriety, and I am able to appreciate things I never used to comprehend. Poetry is part of “it gets better”. Help me to seek You through all aspects of art.
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We died of pneumonia in furnished rooms where they found us three days later when somebody complained about the smell. We died against bridge abutments and nobody knew if it was suicide and we probably didn't know either except in the sense that it was always suicide. We died in hospitals, our stomachs huge, distended and there was nothing they could do. We died in cells, never knowing whether we were guilty or not. We went to priests, they gave us pledges, they told us to pray, they told us to go and sin no more, but go. We tried and we died. We died of overdoses, we died in bed (but usually not the Big Bed) We died in straitjackets, in the DT's seeing God knows what, creeping skittering slithering shuffling things. And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried. We went to doctors and they gave us stuff to take that would make us sick when we drank on the principle of so crazy, it just might work, I guess, or maybe they just shook their heads and sent us to places like Dropkick Murphy's. And when we got out we were hooked on paraldehyde or maybe we lied to the doctors and they told us not to drink so much, just drink like me. And we tried, and we died. We drowned in our own vomit or choked on it, our broken jaws wired shut. We died playing Russian roulette and people thought we'd lost, but we knew better. We died under the hoofs of horses, under the wheels of vehicles, under the knives and boot heels of our brother drunks. We died in shame. And you know what was even worse, was that we couldn't believe it ourselves, that we had tried. We figured we just thought we tried and we died believing that we hadn't tried, believing that we didn't know what it meant to try. When we were desperate enough or hopeful or deluded or embattled enough to go for help we went to people with letters after their names and prayed that they might have read the right books that had the right words in them, never suspecting the terrifying truth, that the right words, as simple as they were, had not been written yet. We died falling off girders on high buildings, because of course ironworkers drink, of course they do. We died with a shotgun in our mouth, or jumping off a bridge, and everybody knew it was suicide. We died under the Southeast Expressway, with our hands tied behind us and a bullet in the back of our head, because this time the people that we disappointed were the wrong people. We died in convulsions, or of "insult to the brain", we died incontinent, and in disgrace, abandoned . If we were women, we died degraded, because women have so much more to live up to. We tried and we died and nobody cried. And the very worst thing was that for every one of us that died, there were another hundred of us, or another thousand, who wished that we could die, who went to sleep praying we would not have to wake up because what we were enduring was intolerable and we knew in our hearts it wasn't ever gonna change. One day in a hospital room in New York City, one of us had what the books call a transforming spiritual experience, and he said to himself "I've got it ." (no, you haven't you've only got part of it) " and I have to share it." (now you've ALMOST got it) and he kept trying to give it away, but we couldn't hear it. We tried and we died. We died of one last cigarette, the comfort of its glowing in the dark. We passed out and the bed caught fire. They said we suffocated before our body burned, they said we never felt a thing , that was the best way maybe that we died, except sometimes we took our family with us. And the man in New York was so sure he had it, he tried to love us into sobriety, but that didn't work either, love confuses drunks and he tried and we still died. One after another we got his hopes up and we broke his heart, Because that's what we do. And the worst thing was that every time we thought we knew what the worst thing was something happened that was worse. Until a day came in a hotel lobby and it wasn't in Rome, or Jerusalem, Or Mecca or even Dublin, or South Boston, it was in Akron, Ohio, for Christ's sake. A day came when the man said I have to find a drunk because I need him As much as he needs me (NOW you've got it). And the transmission line, after all those years, was open, the transmission line was open. And now we don't go to priests, and we don't go to doctors and people with letters after their names. We come to people who have been there, we come to each other. We come to try and we don't have to die.........
Anything is subject for a poem : A catalog of boxing equipment, a collage of other poems, Serpentine trail of incense, raised deer fur, old shoes pointed pigeon-toed, Glass and steel cityscape, almond eyes of a saint, weeping tiny flowers, Sunlight on whitewashed walls, blue shadows of stooped women, A spring mousetrap, a trickle of blood in the gutter, The homing swoop of a gull, chill whitecapped bay, scent of eucalyptus. Green lawn of broken blades, clods of fat earth. Anything is subject for a poem.
Even in sleep, write a poem. When waking, write a poem. While loving, write a poem. Even voting, write a poem. When angry, write a poem. While dreaming, write a poem.
The sages say quite seriously that those who wish to know better should cultivate the poet in themselves.
Why not sign up to get emails with all daily posts included? Or Follow Us On Twitter #essentialsofrecovery
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
–Edgar Allan Poe
Language helps us to understand and communicate. Poetry adds the dimension of “shape” and “movement”. Poetry seems to go beyond words and ideas to the very essence of what life is about; it hints at divinity!
When I was drinking, I never understood the art of poetry. Today I use poetry as part of my adventure into meaning and self-knowledge.
So much more is open to me in sobriety, and I am able to appreciate things I never used to comprehend. Poetry is part of “it gets better”.
Help me to seek You through all aspects of art.
Why not sign up to get emails with all daily posts included? Or Follow Us On Twitter #essentialsofrecovery
“Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.”
~ T. S. Eliot
God is able to communicate Himself in a thousand different ways and one such way is poetry.
Spirituality is discovering God in His creation, and this involves more than religion or denominationalism. Spirituality is a comprehensive approach to God’s world and is the unifying factor at the center of the universe. Spirituality is about what is true — wherever it is found in the world.
Poetry and other art forms become part of the spiritual journey for us as we struggle to understand and communicate truth.
In poetry may I find an expression of Your love for me; in my use of poetry, may I express my love for You.
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We died of pneumonia in furnished rooms where they found us three days later when somebody complained about the smell.
We died against bridge abutments and nobody knew if it was suicide and we probably didn't know either except in the sense that it was always suicide.
We died in hospitals, our stomachs huge, distended and there was nothing they could do.
We died in cells, never knowing whether we were guilty or not.
We went to priests, they gave us pledges, they told us to pray, they told us to go and sin no more, but go. We tried and we died.
We died of overdoses, we died in bed (but usually not the Big Bed)
We died in straitjackets, in the DT's seeing God knows what, creeping skittering slithering shuffling things.
And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.
We went to doctors and they gave us stuff to take that would make us sick when we drank on the principle of so crazy, it just might work, I guess, or maybe they just shook their heads and sent us to places like Dropkick Murphy's.
And when we got out we were hooked on paraldehyde or maybe we lied to the doctors and they told us not to drink so much, just drink like me. And we tried, and we died.
We drowned in our own vomit or choked on it, our broken jaws wired shut. We died playing Russian roulette and people thought we'd lost, but we knew better.
We died under the hoofs of horses, under the wheels of vehicles, under the knives and boot heels of our brother drunks.
We died in shame.
And you know what was even worse, was that we couldn't believe it ourselves, that we had tried.
We figured we just thought we tried and we died believing that we hadn't tried, believing that we didn't know what it meant to try.
When we were desperate enough or hopeful or deluded or embattled enough to go for help we went to people with letters after their names and prayed that they might have read the right books that had the right words in them, never suspecting the terrifying truth, that the right words, as simple as they were, had not been written yet.
We died falling off girders on high buildings, because of course ironworkers drink, of course they do.
We died with a shotgun in our mouth, or jumping off a bridge, and everybody knew it was suicide.
We died under the Southeast Expressway, with our hands tied behind us and a bullet in the back of our head, because this time the people that we disappointed were the wrong people.
We died in convulsions, or of "insult to the brain", we died incontinent, and in disgrace, abandoned .
If we were women, we died degraded, because women have so much more to live up to.
We tried and we died and nobody cried. And the very worst thing was that for every one of us that died, there were another hundred of us, or another thousand, who wished that we could die, who went to sleep praying we would not have to wake up because what we were enduring was intolerable and we knew in our hearts it wasn't ever gonna change.
One day in a hospital room in New York City, one of us had what the books call a transforming spiritual experience, and he said to himself "I've got it ." (no, you haven't you've only got part of it) " and I have to share it." (now you've ALMOST got it) and he kept trying to give it away, but we couldn't hear it. We tried and we died.
We died of one last cigarette, the comfort of its glowing in the dark. We passed out and the bed caught fire. They said we suffocated before our body burned, they said we never felt a thing , that was the best way maybe that we died, except sometimes we took our family with us.
And the man in New York was so sure he had it, he tried to love us into sobriety, but that didn't work either, love confuses drunks and he tried and we still died.
One after another we got his hopes up and we broke his heart, Because that's what we do.
And the worst thing was that every time we thought we knew what the worst thing was something happened that was worse.
Until a day came in a hotel lobby and it wasn't in Rome, or Jerusalem, Or Mecca or even Dublin, or South Boston, it was in Akron, Ohio, for Christ's sake.
A day came when the man said I have to find a drunk because I need him As much as he needs me (NOW you've got it).
And the transmission line, after all those years, was open, the transmission line was open. And now we don't go to priests, and we don't go to doctors and people with letters after their names.
We come to people who have been there, we come to each other. We come to try and we don't have to die.........
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Anything is subject for a poem : A catalog of boxing equipment, a collage of other poems, Serpentine trail of incense, raised deer fur, old shoes pointed pigeon-toed, Glass and steel cityscape, almond eyes of a saint, weeping tiny flowers, Sunlight on whitewashed walls, blue shadows of stooped women, A spring mousetrap, a trickle of blood in the gutter, The homing swoop of a gull, chill whitecapped bay, scent of eucalyptus. Green lawn of broken blades, clods of fat earth. Anything is subject for a poem.
Even in sleep, write a poem. When waking, write a poem. While loving, write a poem. Even voting, write a poem. When angry, write a poem. While dreaming, write a poem.
The sages say quite seriously that those who wish to know better should cultivate the poet in themselves.
Why not sign up to get emails with all daily posts included? Or Follow Us On Twitter #essentialsofrec
“Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.” ~ T. S. Eliot ~ God communicates in a thousand different ways, and one such way is poetry. Spirituality is discovering God in creation, and this involves far more than religion or denominationalism. Spirituality is a comprehensive approach to God’s world and the unifying factor at the center of the universe. Spirituality is about what is true— wherever it is found in the world.
Poetry and other art forms become part of the spiritual journey for us as we struggle to understand and communicate Truth.
Anything is subject for a poem : A catalog of boxing equipment, a collage of other poems, Serpentine trail of incense, raised deer fur, old shoes pointed pigeon-toed, Glass and steel cityscape, almond eyes of a saint, weeping tiny flowers, Sunlight on whitewashed walls, blue shadows of stooped women, A spring mousetrap, a trickle of blood in the gutter, The homing swoop of a gull, chill whitecapped bay, scent of eucalyptus. Green lawn of broken blades, clods of fat earth. Anything is subject for a poem.
Even in sleep, write a poem. When waking, write a poem. While loving, write a poem. Even voting, write a poem. When angry, write a poem. While dreaming, write a poem.
The sages say quite seriously that those who wish to know better should cultivate the poet in themselves.
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