just
around the corner
over
the next hill
Month: December 2017
“Silence is the message, just as doing nothing is an act. What you do is who you are.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Silence is the message, just as doing nothing is an act.
There’s no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility.
What you do is who you are.”
Leonard Peltier, Native American, activist,
“Silence is the message, just as doing nothing is an act. What you do is who you are.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Silence is the message, just as doing nothing is an act.
There’s no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility.
What you do is who you are.”
Leonard Peltier, Native American, activist,
holding the heart
two hands
over ribs
holding the heart
in place
Snow by Yun Dong-ju (December 1936)
another translation from the Korean by Geul on the blog Cardiac Slaves of the Stars
(translated from the Korean by geul)
Last night
snow came down in heaps
*
It must be a blanket to cover
the roof
the road the field
so they won’t be cold
*
That’s why
it only falls in cold winter
in books
it was always
about books
reading writing
losing oneself
to find oneself
in books
“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.”
another from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.”
Karl Kraus, Austrian, journalist, 1874-1936
“We can’t control whether our public servants lie to us. But we can control whether we hold them accountable for those lies…”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“Not only is there such a thing as objective truth, failing to tell the truth matters.
We can’t control whether our public servants lie to us. But we can control whether we hold them accountable for those lies
or whether, in either a state of exhaustion or to protect our own political objectives, we look the other way and normalize an indifference to truth.”
Sally Yates, former Attorney General, Quotes for Now, source
this poem
is not about who
or even why
just when
and where
as in here
and now
as to how
that’s under
construction
or consideration
but definitely not
apprehension
or hesitation
’cause the who
it could have been
about
is definitely definite
about why
it isn’t
with a nod to Mevlana Jelaleddin Rumi
like the rain
I will moisten
your soil
to help your love
to grow
Leonard Durso 