by Ryukan | Sep 30, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This poetry postcard was written August 11, 2014, also at the 14th Subud World Congress. The Bhakti referenced is Subud Portland Co-Chair Bhakti Watts whose name means “devoted one.”
by Ryukan | Sep 29, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
My recent trip to Mexico was quite an experience. My real first visit since I was a little boy (I did see the airport in Cancun in 2005) my parents told me that back then all I wanted in Mexico was to get back to the U.S. and eat a hamburger. This time, in addition to...
by Ryukan | Sep 26, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
As I have mentioned in previous posts, I used epigraphs by Denise Levertov for all my postcard poems in 2014, and deepened my appreciation for her gesture. I can see why she ended up in Cascadia, with her fierce commitment to peace and justice and her love for the...
by Ryukan | Sep 24, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Was going over last year’s journal entry for this date and came across John Olson’s wonderful birthday poem for me, as well as some of his comments regarding my essay Organic In Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies. He said: Dear Paul, Glad you dug the...
by Ryukan | Sep 23, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
My poems written in Mexico in August are starting to arrive at their intended destinations and so I continue with the posting here. The last few lines from this poem are taken almost verbatim from a sign at Casa Azul, the home of Frida Kahlo, to which I made a...
by Ryukan | Sep 17, 2014 | Blog
Tashi Ko sent me this appeal. SHE is the global dynamo who deserves support for her latest project and modest request: Hi Paul, I could use a little bit of luck right now in the form of a windfall and wanted to virtually squeeze your hand for some of that magical...
by Ryukan | Sep 16, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
At last count, forty poetry postcards came my way as part of the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. Having just completed its eighth year, the fest is an effort to build community, to allow participants to experience the joy of spontaneous composition and to reach back...
by Ryukan | Sep 15, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This is the first of my poems written in Mexico for the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. For more details on all the postcard poems I wrote in 2014 see this page. This poem, like many in Mexico, was inspired by my visit to Casa Azul.
by Ryukan | Sep 13, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I got back yesterday from a short (annual) backpacking trip to the Olympic National Wilderness. I have tried each year to recreate a 1995 experience of visiting the Olympic Mountains, specifically the Boulder Creek watershed and Appleton Pass. This year, like the last...
by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog
The third annual celebration of poetry and peace, Poems for Peace, sponsored by the Subud International Cultural Association, is set for Saturday, September 20, 2014, at 7PM at the Spring Street Center/Seattle Subud House, 1101 15th Av, Seattle, on the corner of 15th...
by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This is the second of two intentional collage poems I wrote during the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. (More on all my 2014 postcard poems here.)
by Ryukan | Sep 6, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Inspiration for this poem came, in part, from a dream.
by Ryukan | Sep 3, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
by Ryukan | Sep 3, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I’ve blogged about the inspiration for this poem before but here is the text and postcard image and below find the Soundcloud widget.
by Ryukan | Aug 25, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It was quite a melange of cultures in Puebla during the 14th Subud World Congress August 1-17, 2014. (See my previous posts here and here.) To give you some sense of how diverse the event was, these lines went into a postcard poem written while in Puebla: & this...
