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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Therefore the greatest poets have been always those who have had a large and powerful interpretative and intuitive vision of Nature and life and man and whose poetry has arisen out of that in a supreme revelatory utterance of it.
The Veda is a supreme example of a type of poetry in which the life of the symbol corresponds so intimately with the truth it clothes that it is indeed the living form of that truth.
It is her belief that the healing power of poetry will spread commensurate with the effort individual poets make to share their words, and she is also keenly aware that the responsibility lies with her to create a life that will help make such a vision possible.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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This is a gathering of poetry and prose, communications with unseen forces, mystical and magical understandings which are the accumulation of the author’s life as a practitioner of the Western Mysteries.
From the strange attractor who disrupts life's laminar flow to the mysteries of sensitive dependence and hurricanes in space/time, Dancing with Chaos links science and poetry in a passionate tango.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
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Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner
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I've been reading poetry for a long time and I've noticed that most poems are incredibly pretentious and about either love or how much life sucks.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Frost's poetry is based mainly upon the life and scenery of rural New England, and the language of his verse reflects the compact idiom of that region.
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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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Hanging around with gay friends who taught me life's possibilities; being introduced to Frank O'Hara 's poetry; and seeing the inside of my 1st (sort of) gay bar.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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We are interested in the short, English language haibun, commonly under 250 words, and seek to feature examples of this prose-and-poetry and prose-poetry genre as poets adapt it to contemporary idioms and life.
In this anthology, more than seventy women and men from all walks of life describe their lives as bisexuals in prose, poetry, art, and essays.
The poetry is accompanied with selected abstract oil paintings from the artist / poet / painter to provide a unique insight to the artistic vision of this poet / painter life.
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