Self-Existing Moon day 15; Year of the Red Magnetic Moon; kin 47: Blue Galactic Hand
This is how I see it. Poetry today belongs to the state, bought and paid for by educational institutions, in service to its religion of secular materialism, and generally ignored by the greater population, probably for the reasons of all the above. It, like most things religious, has succumbed to the great temptations of power. Its coin is publication and its holy dollar, professorships. But somewhere in its great apostasy, the seed of something sacred waits.
THE YIN TIME OF YEAR
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Halloween. It signifies the beginning of the darkest and coldest part of
the hokku year. Here is a verse very appropriate for this time, written by
a reade...
1 week ago

1 comment:
In which countries? Poetry in many places in the world is definitely not the domain of the state.
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