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
This poem continues from the last postcard poem and Levertov’s notion of the acts that serve as counterstrokes to the ills of the world. She would have been writing about WWII, a war in which she served as nurse so saw the atrocities first hand. She would also...
by Ryukan | Aug 24, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
As with all 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest poems, this one uses Levertov again as the source of its epigraph and the poem continues the theme of that quote and it weaves through familiar territory, including the time spent in the community garden (p-patch), the...