Pippa passes. Language! It's a virus!

 Pluto is hazier than expected and appears to be covered with flowing ice, leading to a better understanding of what music is: What is its power? and how do people respond to it?

Power Ranges!

Pluto explorers now plan to delve deeper into the repertoire of Romantic composers. It’s time to restore the early techniques to try to bring us even closer to the way music sounded at the time of Beethoven.  Laurie Andersen said although sound is a mechanical wave that results from the back and forth vibration of the particles of the medium through which the sound wave is moving. If a sound wave is moving from left to right through air, then particles of air will be displaced both rightward and leftward as the energy of the sound wave passes through it. The motion of the particles is parallel (and anti-parallel) to the direction of the energy transport.

Parallel Is exactly like Where you are right now.  Only much much better. I saw this guy on the train And he seemed to gave gotten stuck In one of those abstract trances. And he was going: "Ugh...Ugh...Ugh..." And Fred said: "I think he's in some kind of pain. 

I think it's a pain cry." And I said: "Pain cry? Then language is a virus!" 

Spring clouds dance with joy, and seem to say it all.

--maurizio fevrier

 

Of thee I sing... of Youth Laureates

 

 ("Glorious in my fragmentation," she has written) and confronted social issues. Her poem “In This Place (An American Lyric),” written for the 2017 inaugural reading of U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, condemns the racist march in Charlottesville, Virginia ( “tiki torches string a ring of flame”) and holds up her art form as a force for democracy:

Tyrants fear the poet.

Now that we know it

we can’t blow it.

We owe it

to show it

not slow it

change and changers couple

 

Excellent Climactics Coupled. With Essence of Deep stairwells 

Indian summers, enumerations. Angels, are you still mine? Lonely rivers flow to the sea. To the sea, coupled with essences of deep, resonant stair wells.

To all the empty tunes suspended in time, and the riviera. 

After changes upon changes this is the Poland Warsaw enumerative of the Beethoven Truth project, framed and filmed by the Susquehanna in late Summer 2010. What is the truth? Freezing bubbles and off-kilter sunsets. And why is everyone searching for freezing staccato and off-kilter baubles.  

Snowplows, delivery invocatios and tractor-trailers were among the numerous vehicles to get stuck in the heavy snow in Binghamton, New York. Heavy snow, Indian summer? Bombay, Pakistan. 

Calcutta, Craig Czury? Shiller and Shubert. Streets and curbing.

Paving; utilities; ...  writers, composers, a solitary seamstress, dressmaker, or tailor. Mmm. Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn radiant. Titilates, radiates all the baffles near the vibrating Plaza. Good vibrations in point of fact. Vibes, vibes, vibes.

A sunny halo graces the sky because Kevyn Knox has thrown his hat in the ring.

Knox is running, with some vigor, to be mayor of Harrisburg, PA. Knox is the right man for the position. 

His constitio

ncy is abuzz. Tingling!

--mge, esworthy

Ars Poetrica [sic]

I love a charade. And fond memories of Malazina Snyder.

On occasion, I augment, or depart from traditional lyrical form to heighten tension, leading my interior self to declain in the patio area, if you will.

I love excellent climactic condtions coupled with deepstairwells and extended-intermission led versifiers, which provide a new world view  as well as surprisingly good acoustics. 

There was a time when I'd be was totally hovering above the line of authentic meaning, often called amateur-quakes or homemade porn (I jest), that I delighted in predicting them, foreshadowing their below-the iceberg power. 

Not simply their energy, but their converntrated synergies. The method I latticed into and around "Rim Shots" became pure energy release, quite rythmic in action. Pure.

I got rhythm. And I can spell it too, forward and back.

Elegant, deductionarily spraching.Very pretty but it seems odd to have the trees so regimented. Can you bake a pie?

Can you turn a poem into  a solvent for clogged sinks? 

mge, esworthy

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Happy Birthday Kali V!

 

 hOPE YOUR BIRTHDAY is a Special Event that vibrates throught the rest of all days.

 

 

Everything's waiting for you.

Mound Art Lives!

 Mound Art in America

Step one-- Mound Art theoretician 

Marty Esworthy considers the possibilities. 

Looking for form. Theorizes. 

I mean, the Appian Way wasn't built in a day. --z.k.

Mound art ain't easy. But it's fulfilling. It's outdoor work.

     You start with the raw material and landscape.

It's mainly about shape and form and moving earth, gravel and other foundations into a pleasing form 

that continues to grow with grace through wind and rain, heat and cold. You work with Mother Earth

and try with work in harmony with the surrounding landscape. You sculpt and shape with natural elements

whenever possible. 

You start with your concept and work with the good earth and that's what makes America great.

Work quickly before the oceans boil over. For real. Y'know life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

Way back when, large earthen monuments were built by Native Americans, often in the shapes of animals...  

On the Watson Brake mound complex on the west side of the Ouachita River approximately twenty miles south of West Monroe were found eleven mounds constructed in a circular pattern, with each mound being connected by a low manmade earthen ridge. 

The Watson Brake mounds are the oldest known human construction in the entire Western Hemisphere. Watson Brake, in fact, is older than the Egyptian pyramids and England’s Stonehenge.

https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/history/the-first-mound-builders/

https://www.broadstreetreview.com/museums/penn-museum-presents-moundbuilders-ancient-architects-of-north-america#

http://www.artificialgrassseattle.com/grassphotos/how-to-install-artificial-grass-grand-mound-washington/426/

https://sites.google.com/site/postdadapress/directions

http://variationsonabullmoose.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-05-15T19:06:00-07:00&max-results=7&reverse-paginate=true

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Remember Pearl Harbor! Remember the Pandemic....

It has come to the attention of the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel that     
     a "compassionate listening non-profit" has launched a website that hopes to act as a digital library to remember the pandemic. People can submit stories, poems, and articles for publication. interested in publishing your pandemic poetry, sharing your story? Check it out.
Interact with a world of literature outside your own 'hood.

Step outside your boundaries. Live, love, laugh & be happy!
You don’t have to be sad or isolated to write poetry or to smash out of your writer's block. Just do it.
I mean, heck, you don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's.

Life could be a dream. Send them something, if you like.  https://www.coronaviruschroniclesarchive.com

see also: https://www.facebook.com/almostuptown/?eid=ARDl4DQ4sCaB7ubyJUOhuao66fCBTt9InK81oEhYyqxp_AdpfetnxsF_wNGR0p6RGP0z_xlPv0xX73Yq

come, read on thursdays at our home on zoom. 

read out loud. share with the world.

Zoum into cyberspace for congeniality and the sound of verse in early Spring

Open Poetry Mic,  April 2, Zoom
     

Okay, listen up.

Sound in poetry:
in ordinary listening, one responds
to the speaker's intention without attending overmuch
to shape and presentation.

In poetry-- with its double coding-- both sound and sense
are important, and the two are processed on different,
not necessarily, parallel tracks.

     Choo choo ch'-boogie! know I'm sayin'?

There'll be an open
mic, at Zoom, Olé!
The Almost Uptown Poetry
Carter continually hosts
Thursday night (7--9pm)
verse events.

Come to Zoom.
Check our Facebook page for info.
Directions, etc...

                                                                                          We don't miss a beat.
                                  Indeed, we're constant as the Northern Star,
                  everything's waiting for you.

                No sign-up sheet.
                          It's Quaker-style-- read as the spirit moves you.

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