Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine released Issue 9 tonight; if you’re so inclined, you can peruse my poems, “Amanda” and “Amanda II, A Haiku.” (You can find them on pages 16 and 20, respectively.)
You can actually download the magazine for free right here:
Or, if you’d like to have a hard copy of Peeking Cat delivered to you, you can purchase it here:
Once again, thanks to Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine for allowing me to have my work included among that of so many talented authors.
Dead Snakes published two new poems by Dennis Villelmi on Monday — “What I Had Stolen For Heaven’s Sake” and “Greenhouse Hot Contempt.” Read them both at the link below.
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/11/dennis-villelmi-two-poems.html
Poet Paul F. Lenzi has written a particularly nice piece entitled “Agape.” It reminds me of what Dr. Cain taught us in Introduction to Christian Theology so many years ago at Mary Washington College.
I thought I remembered learning about three types of love delineated by basic Christian philosophy: Agape, Philia and … Eros? But tonight this newfangled Internet thingy is telling me that there was a fourth — “Storge,” which was familial or empathetic love? (That class was 23 years ago, I think.)
Anyway, enjoy Mr. Lenzi’s poem at this link to his blog, “Poesy plus Polemics,” right here:
“Agápē.”
I am quite happy today to discover from Poetry Editor Samantha Rose that my poetry will be featured again in Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine. Two of my pieces will appear in the upcoming Christmas issue (Issue 9): “Amanda” and “Amanda II, A Haiku.” (The former was originally featured by both Dagda Publishing and Dead Snakes in 2014.)
I really am honored to look forward to seeing my work published alongside that of so many talented writers who contribute to Peeking Cat. I’ll share a link upon publication of Issue 9, which will be for sale both in hard copy and pdf. format.
Photo credit: “Young kitten” by That Guy, From That Show! – Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
“The Second Coming,”
by W.B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Photo credit: Icon of Second Coming, circa 1700, Greece. Christ is enthroned in the center surrounded by the angels and saints, Paradise is at the bottom, with the Bosom of Abraham (left) and the Good Thief (right) holding his cross. The creator is anonymous, the source here is Wikimedia Commons.
You people need to read “Spending and Saving” by poet Dennis Villelmi, recently published by Dead Snakes. I swear it’s the best poem I’ve read in a long time.
Damn, I wish I could write like this.
Click here for the link to Dead Snakes:
“Spending and Saving,” by Dennis Villelmi
Photo credit: “Greek Silver Stater of Phaistos (Crete), Depictions of Herakles in Greek Numismatics” by Ancient Art – Flickr: A Rare and Magnificent Greek Silver Stater of Phaistos (Crete), Among the Finest Depictions of Herakles in Greek Numismatics. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
I am honored yet again to see one of my poems published by Dead Snakes. Thanks to Editor Stephen Jarrell Williams for allowing me to share “Graceless Ravens Envy You” at the link below:
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/11/eric-robert-nolan-poem.html
And, by the way, my friend Tejal Jhaveri Moen has also published a new piece at Dead Snakes! Click the link below to read “A Tearless Cry.”
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/11/tejal-jhaveri-moen-poem_13.html
Anyway … in searching Wikimedia Commons for a public domain photo for this post, I learned that there is such a thing as a “Chihuahua Raven” (corvus cryptoleucus). That’s just wrong on several levels. I suggest that we hunt it to extinction.
Photo credit: by Shahnoor Habib Munmun (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
Here is a second very nice piece by my friend Tejal. By the way, she is now a published poet! Dead Snakes published her poem, “Don’t Touch My Soul,” on October 30th.
Enjoy “A Tearless Cry.”
“A Tearless Cry,” by Tejal Jhaveri Moen
I am grieving the loss of you,
Yet you have not died.
The innocence of the morning mist,
Torn away by your gracious lie.
Abdicating yesterday’s love
Just for the memory of your kiss.
A selfish surrender of an unsettled heart,
Renders a tearless cry.
(c) Tejal Jhaveri Moen 2015
Photo credit: “Morning Mist and Sunshine,” by Imogen Cunningham (flikr) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
I am quite happy to have a guest poet here at the blog — my friend Tejal Jhaveri Moen.
Enjoy “Don’t Touch My Soul.”
Don’t Touch My Soul
By Tejal Jhaveri Moen
The fairy dust settles
On my lashes,
Lightly, magically
Making me see
An optical illusion,
A reflection of love
Of which I seek.
The enchanting rose,
So maliciously sweet,
Touched my soul,
A most beautiful scar
Given by a single kiss.
A drop of blood
After the embrace of a
Most handsome thorn
Is cherished yet grieved.
The sadness and beauty of life —
Which am I to believe?
(c) Tejal Jhaveri Moen 2015
Dead Snakes has featured another one of my recent poems; click the link to read “Not of Byzantium.”
As always, thanks to Editor Stephen Jarrell Williams for allowing me to share my voice with the readers of Dead Snakes!
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/10/eric-robert-nolan-poem_30.html
Photo credit: “Field Hamois Belgium Luc Viatour” by I, Luc Viatour. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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