August 6, 2013 – 10:35 am
In the past few hours there have been strange blog postings, some in Latin, to all my subscribers. I believe this is a result of my website designer doing some work on the site. I am trying to find out how to prevent this happening but in the meantime my apologies for this. I am […]
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One Heart Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. The work of wings was always freedom, fastening one heart to every falling thing. Li-Young Lee from Book Of My Nights, BOA Editions, 2001 Last month I was at Fort […]
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As I was searching for a document in my computer files recently I came across something I written to a friend a few years ago. It echoes some of what I tried to write in my recent blog on sorrow: Grief Struck Remedies. But even better it took me back to the poetry of the […]
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Worlds collide, words collide – the smoke that stays in the mouth, the eyes, from the Lac-Megantic oil-tanker train wreck and explosion in Quebec; and here in Port Townsend, Washington, the different smoke of morning mist on the tongue. It will burn away the young woman says who hands me my morning coffee. What will […]
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A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be in Kelowna to see the celebrated Canadian poet Patrick Lane receive an Honourary Doctorate from UBC – Okanagan. I also was privileged to hear him give the Convocation address. I was thrilled today to discover that the Globe and Mail has published a copy of the address. […]
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Richard’s Recovering Words’ Homepage and Blog site have been updated and renovated! My blog is now included on my Homepage below the new Welcome post. Also the recycling poetry quote feature is now a little lower down on the right! While the website was under renovation last week subscribers will have noticed a few unusual […]
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“The spirit of man is nomad, his blood Bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the spoor of his lost self; and so I come to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.” ~ Sir Laurens van der Post This is a […]
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Ars Poetica She was not blissful in that garden. Not blissful harvesting it. Not blissful not. She was not blissful, not inseminated, and couldn’t stand getting vast. She didn’t like the godforsaken vaccinations: Christ how those children wept! She didn’t like it when school was cancelled, and she liked it even less when it was […]
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A merganser is clucking in front of me in a little bay near our cabin on Cortes Island, B.C. I call it clucking but it sounds also like little honks. So much my ear and mouth cannot translate. Oh! This untranslatable world. Even a wing. A prayer. These mysteries that take flight- impossible the realities […]
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Overhead The sun is a slow gong in a brass bowl, the moon also rings her bell against the indigo steel of the night sky. By painting, Emily Carr decoded heaven as a coastline vast bays of ripped blue and Vincent drew his circles tighter than the tattered orbits of his own life. Art like […]
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By Richard Osler
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Posted in Poetry
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Tagged Denise Levertov, Edward Hirsch, Greg Wolfe, How To Read a PoemSpirituual Poetry, Image Journal, Kasim Ali, Luci Shaw, Of Being, Overhead, Stanley Kunitz, Stephen Dunn, The Denise Levertov Award, Walking Light, Wild Braid
