Boydstun Posted November 12, 2024 Report Share Posted November 12, 2024 My collection of poems In The Gathers of the World is now for sale, a paperback or audio, here. I made one of my poems into a song, and it is sung by a friend here, for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted November 19, 2024 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2024 The poems in that collection are from among those I wrote up until July 2023. The poems in that book are: Suns / Steads / Lifehold / Placement / Shadow-Wing / Is Love / Island / Would Be / Each Reach / His Day / Still One / Secret Wreath / We of Love / Stream / The Castle / Brushes / Dream to Sleep / More / Matters / Carriage / After all / So / Landers / Companion / Lines / The Song / Yes / Once / That It Had Been. My poems are more often appreciated by women than by men. So a gift of the book to your wife or girlfriend might stand you in good advantage. Below is a sample of the kind of poetry I write (this one from this year). Flicker Far flicker-point, radiant white, weaves upward tall city shadows, butterfly catching sunset light. Soft teardrop slips still-stand gone-soon lone witness, telling long-died child who once had chased a rising moon. Leaves green turned to gold, falling slow, flicker ceaselessly sinking sun behind this train of my window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted December 1, 2024 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2024 The audio book is by a professional reader. A few read by me are here. tadmjones 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted December 7, 2024 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2024 (edited) Steve Wheeler, a poet, is the creator of the FB site Invisible Poets (~50K). I have recently posted poems there, and I've found it a place for much to enjoy. Steve noticed this poem of mine and read it out, beginning at 12:30 here: https://www.facebook.com/521409601/videos/1092104835550268/ Edited December 7, 2024 by Boydstun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted December 8, 2024 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2024 A couple of Commenters during the live-stream remarked how fine was "Each Reach." One mentioned that it brought to mind the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. I had not noticed that resemblance before, but I see now that it is so. Hopkins was a Jesuit, and his poems are much of God in the glories of nature and in rescue of humans from despair. His poems give advice, and Creator and Christ and Holy Spirit are the answer. Some of my poems do have what might be fairly termed a metaphysical aspect, employing nature and human action and feeling. They almost never give advice, although at least one of my friends turns to them for serenity. Some of my poems can be read pretty well as a religious poem, even though my own meaning for them would be entirely within the realm of the natural and the artifices of humans. I do not agree with the common assumption that the author's meaning of a poem is the one true meaning. My poems create experience for literate persons, that sharing is all, and any meaning suiting the words is a right, right-for-person meaning of the words together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted December 15, 2024 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2024 Some of my poems are being read and getting some sweet and comprehending responses at the FB group Invisible Poets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted December 18, 2024 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2024 Such encouraging understanding of my poetry from among these other poets. Comment on "Yes". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted December 26, 2024 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2024 (edited) In 2024 I wrote a couple of poems that seem to be keepers. One was "Flickers" which I showed upstream. The other is the one in this post. I've needed to back off from poetry composition to keep on the beam with philosophy writing. Lately, that is the Aristotle portion of "Metaphysics and Geometry". When I have finished that paper, I should be ready to finish the paper "Necessity and Form in Truths" and compose "Science and Mathematics," a chapter unwritten so far for my philosophy book.* Edited December 26, 2024 by Boydstun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted January 2 Author Report Share Posted January 2 This post and next are a couple of poems not in the collection In the Gathers of the World (The photo is years ago at the headwaters of the Mississippi.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted January 2 Author Report Share Posted January 2 (edited) This poem is a recounting of the arc of the first love of my life, beginning when we were both 19. The photo was some months after his death 22 years later. A beautiful quilt panel was made by his office, which was here being added to the AIDS Quilt. (Click on photo.) Edited January 2 by Boydstun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted January 7 Author Report Share Posted January 7 This is a poem I wrote yesterday. The photo is part of what would normally be part of the living room of our house, but in our case, it is part of my main library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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