Tuesday, October 21, 2014

POETS, WRITERS and BUDDHISTS


POETS
Sunday
At Suite Bar
Chander Malek, Proprietor
The Red Harlem Readers
R.Nemo Hill, David M. Katz, Rick Mullen, Robert Murphy, Paul Pines, Henry Weinfield and Anne Whitehouse--Presented by John Foy and Hosted by Cordis Heard
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  Rick Mullen-Cordis heard-John Foy
 John Marcus Powel and R.Nemo Hill
Long bus to another bus ride home in the cool night
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WRITERS
Monday
The Creative Center at University Settlement
weekly meeting with my group
(example from my past)

Idling
by Ms.

When this old hull starts sinking,
I turn my spinning rumination
to rest on groundless thinking,
or inter-galactic speculation.

I turn my spinning rumination
toward global thoughts, cloud shapes,
or inter-galactic speculation.
I'm wondering, what will it take?

Toward global thoughts, cloud shapes,
landscapes of imagination,
I'm wondering, what will it take
to quell this dangerous agitation.

Landscapes of imagination
cannot prevent starvation, nor serve
to quell this dangerous agitation,
and won't repair a damaged nerve.

Cannot prevent starvation, nor serve
to multiply the loaves and fishes,
and won't repair a damaged nerve.
We need far more substantial dishes.

To multiply like loaves and fishes,
to feed the greed of trillions.
we need far more substantial dishes,
not rhetoric, rhyme, cotillions.

To feed the greed of trillions,
change has to be quite drastic,
not rhetoric, rhyme, cotillions,
nor goals that seem fantastic.

Change has to be quite drastic;
a giant leap, one-to-the-power of ten
not goals that seem fantastic.
Examine all the facts again.

A giant leap, one to-the-power of ten,
like launches to the moon or Mars.
Examine all the facts again-
We are such hot exploding stars!

Like launches to the moon or Mars,
an idea is a galaxy.
We are such hot exploding stars,
are limits, then, the fallacy?

An idea is a galaxy
that rests on groundless thinking.
Yes, limits are the fallac
when this old hull starts sinking.

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BUDDHISTS
Tuesday
Two Films At Tibet House

'AWAKENING'
 Documentary Film narrated by Harrison Ford

http://youtu.be/fgiNutr0pig
and
'COMPASSION IN ACTION'
http://youtu.be/9zTnJxOM-aw

Kashyar Darvitch 
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