Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Suheir Hammad
A student recommended the performance-poetry of Suheir Hammad. It's very good.
Here is a link to a video from Youtube:
Hammad
Here is a link to a video from Youtube:
Hammad
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Down to the Crossroads
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Down to the Crossroads
Probably Robert Johnson just went away
and practiced blues guitar. The story
about the crossroads and the Devil
is a good one, though. Hell
yes, let the Devil take the credit.
Let glamor glow in its seductive
light as you know playing better
came from playing a lot. Meanwhile,
when you're not playing, not telling
the tale, keep practicing and moving
and hope no one gets all poisonous
with envy. You know how they do:
If someone else does good, then
it has to be bad for them. People
need stories that are about more
than the hard work they do.
People need to hear the blues, too.
Copyright 2011 Hans Ostrom
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Down to the Crossroads
Probably Robert Johnson just went away
and practiced blues guitar. The story
about the crossroads and the Devil
is a good one, though. Hell
yes, let the Devil take the credit.
Let glamor glow in its seductive
light as you know playing better
came from playing a lot. Meanwhile,
when you're not playing, not telling
the tale, keep practicing and moving
and hope no one gets all poisonous
with envy. You know how they do:
If someone else does good, then
it has to be bad for them. People
need stories that are about more
than the hard work they do.
People need to hear the blues, too.
Copyright 2011 Hans Ostrom
Yoga Poem #8
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Yoga Poem #8
Ill, I've had to be away from yoga.
It's like it's something over there now:
miles away. Hey, yoga! Ironically,
yoga's here. It's my body. Nothing
mystical about that, just fact. Yoga
is one's body doing yoga.
So when I yearn for yoga,
I'm really yearning for my body,
which is here, which is odd.
I'm yearning for my body to
behave in a certain way. After
I get well, I'm going to take my body,
which is yoga, to yoga.
Copyright 2011 Hans Ostrom
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Yoga Poem #8
Ill, I've had to be away from yoga.
It's like it's something over there now:
miles away. Hey, yoga! Ironically,
yoga's here. It's my body. Nothing
mystical about that, just fact. Yoga
is one's body doing yoga.
So when I yearn for yoga,
I'm really yearning for my body,
which is here, which is odd.
I'm yearning for my body to
behave in a certain way. After
I get well, I'm going to take my body,
which is yoga, to yoga.
Copyright 2011 Hans Ostrom
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