tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-83447330468173580 2011-01-26T15:01:00-05:00 Poetry, Philosophy, Rhapsodies and Rants TypePad WitAndWisdomOfMarvinWildsteinhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with FlurrySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily RotationThank you for subscribing -- you'll receive all my future Poetry, Philosophy, Rhapsodies and Rants. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0133f64a98e5970b 2011-01-26T15:01:00-05:00 2011-01-26T15:01:00-05:00

Elegy For Iris And John nothing ever deeply felt can ever disappear the week the month the stately year are but counters in a game that must ever end the same 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0133f64a8328970b 2011-01-19T14:39:00-05:00 2011-01-19T14:39:00-05:00

The Truth is beautiful because it is true no smear of color no music the particularity of pain the authenticity of grief a Sicilian quarry at high noon bedrock 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01348968e873970c 2011-01-12T14:34:00-05:00 2011-01-12T14:34:00-05:00

The Desert Sun 1. blinded by the desert sun the Hebrew prophets divined in darkness a beauty deeper than had been known 2. an old retainer of Charles The First asked to defect to Cromwell’s side replied as follows I have eaten the king’s bread for thirty years I will not desert him in his hour of need 3. the beauty of the moral act 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0133f64a4bab970b 2011-01-05T13:47:00-05:00 2010-11-21T14:32:47-05:00

Aesthete adrift on the couch I spot a ship my Chinese hat a peasant’s handiwork upon a ledge the crown is a prow breasting the waves the brim a curve curving seawards Oh a ship is a beautiful thing even when at rest dreaming of the open sea

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01348968bc31970c 2010-12-28T13:55:00-05:00 2010-11-21T14:28:54-05:00

Proust the only paradise according to Proust is paradise lost perhaps so but one can always read Proust 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0133f64a54f2970b 2010-12-21T13:56:00-05:00 2010-11-21T14:11:33-05:00

The Sport Of Kings (with apologies to Hemingway) I was fucking a good-looking kid from Baltimore whose uncle owned a great horse (Spectacular Bid) feeling like family I rooted him home to win the Derby two weeks later it was the Preakness when he lost the Belmont I felt like shit then the kid takes off for Maryland when she gets back it’s not the same I don’t know sometimes it seems they don’t leave a guy nothin’ 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01348968bed0970c 2010-12-14T13:57:00-05:00 2010-11-21T14:24:31-05:00

Laura someone Lorca I think said that a poem should be like a knife in the heart Laura beautiful girl pulse of my blood I am that heart you are the poem 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01348968b094970c 2010-12-07T13:43:00-05:00 2010-11-21T14:23:33-05:00

Metaphysical Marv do not be angry I still pursue the noblest man is mainly water and like that stream by whose side we lipped away a lazy summer my course is set we both must follow the lay of the land

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01348968d80d970c 2010-11-24T14:14:00-05:00 2010-11-24T14:14:00-05:00

Waugh Evelyn Waugh wrote the following to know and love another person is the beginning of all wisdom if this is true my darling Nan my English girl you have made me the wisest fool in all the world

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01310f44b3fe970c 2010-06-06T16:34:00-04:00 2010-11-21T14:58:24-05:00

love and loss are the two great themes one girl will do 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

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