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Column: Dear diary- August 21, 2009, Chicago at allpoetry
I am in Chicago. The non-stop flight was not bad, good weather. However, Chicago is cooler than Redding and the house is cool.
Column: How do I write poetry every day at allpoetry
My rant on the inability to keep writing poetry every day. I am supposed to have this fantastic muse inside me but i don't. How do I write?
Column: On reading Virginia Woolf at allpoetry
This is a kind of internal journey that occured after reading Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. The year she gave the talk about the topic mentioned in the book- 1928 my mother was born. India gained independence in 1947 and so my mother grew up in a

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on The Crystal Cabinet by William Blake, on April 8

A mysterious story but so lovely
Blake has here given a poem so exquisite, so delicate, and so enchanting. It is a story that ends in a sad way but with more questions than there are answers. Are there two maids, does the "babe" become a " weeping woman"?
on Hate by James Stephens, on March 16
This is a dramatic poem with an indirect moral- the futility of hate. While we read articles of long-drawn battles in Gaza, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, we know that there is more reasons to live and let live than to kill, but like the narrator of this poem we all flee to the comfort of our own hatreds which we embrace in desperation.
on On The Porch by Harriet Monroe, on November 23, 2008

Remarkable poem
The contrast is stunning where she talks of her protected life inside this bubble and the world unfolding outside. The new thrust to the war with aeroplanes, armoured trains which threaten not only her little world but that of the earth itself. She gives this sense of watching through a telescope and the beauty of the cities and the earth itself under the sun come poring into her vision. It is like an Eden being besieged with dread and fear 'the seas of war' It is a visionary poem.
on The Crow by William Canton, on July 23, 2008

Vibrant poem
I love the way he paints the picture of the crow with words and the colors are imprinted on your brain. And the description is so apt," old ungodly rogue" A great poem.