Art and Earth

Because earth Without Art is Just "Eh."

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For MY ESSAYS, click here

For MY POETRY, click here

To browse my POETRY COLLECTION, click here

For CLASSIC POEMS, click here

For SHORT STORIES, click here

For ORIGINAL IMAGES, click here

For MUSIC, click here

Or, just browse posts by title (below).

MY ESSAYS:

Towards a New Theology and a Truce Over Evolution

A Sermon to the World’s Religious Leaders

A Story We All Know: The Hero’s Journey

Lily Yeh’s Mandala Journey

Restoring the Garden of Eden

The Remarkable Death of Annie Chase

Unconditional Love and a Modern-Day Saint

Aung San Suu Kyi, Peaceful Daughter of a Revolution

Thich Nhat Hahn, Christian Buddhist

The Great Turning, a Spiritual Revolution

The Great Turning in Action (by Gerry Wass)

Losing Your Religion, Finding Your Spirituality

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

The Four Spiritual Types (Supplement)

MY LITERATURE ANALYSIS:

Tips for Commenting on Literature

A Zen Master and a Word Surfer: The Writing of James Ciriaco and Tommy Tsnumai

Surrealism: Speaking the Language of Dreams

Parallel Universes: Winner of the Surreal Circus Flash Fiction Contest

Maiden, Mother, Crone: The Writing of Corinna Parr and Barbary Chaapel

Yin and Yang: The Modern Poetry of Susan Budig and John Kimball II

MY ART ANALYSIS:

For Art Geeks:  A Symbolist Paints My Psyche

Lucid Dreaming: Surrealism in the Movies

The Magical-Realistic Photography of Patrisha McLean

In Dreamtime, Patrisha McLean’s Flower Girls Blossom

Artistic Chameleons: The Sinister Minister Underground Theater

MY POETRY:

Master of Night (For Cats Everywhere)

Children of the Reef

Ghost of Earth Future

To My Dinosaurs


SHORT STORIES

The Last Drop Cafe by Magi (With links to the rest of the series)

Maiden Mother Crone by Corinna Parr

The Woman on a Piano by Brian Henry

Amerika in the Sky by Boris Glikman

Revelata Subterranea by Boris Glikman

The mePhone by Boris Glikman

Her Coffin Was Made From Water (Sci-Fi by Richard Thuss)

Ascent by Laurie Corzett (LibraMoon)

Empathy by Richard Thuss


WORK BY MY FAVORITE ONLINE POETS:

Albert Ahearn

Waves

Conch

Max Babi

The Mystical Gardens of Max Babi (3 poems)

John J. Beck

Jupiter, Rise

Stephen Berwaldt:

Stately Stones

She is Gone

I, Crimson (Erotica)

Chris Brockman:

Loves of My Life

The Red Truck

Susan Budig:

Mother Earth Chants

Sail Away

The Last Fugue

Robert C. Burnham:

Earth Dawn, Ode to a Biologist 

J. Butler

Star Stuff (Poem Excerpt)

Barbary Chaapel

View From a Leeward Shore

What Name, Where Bound

Estuary

Lunar Spell

Isal de Pasqua (Easter Island)

James Ciriaco:

Rustle (Haiku)

Becalmed

Hit by Pitch

Drought

Standing Wave (Erotica)

Biogenesis

Masterstroke

To Ann Marcaida, Patron of the Arts

Dan Collins, aka Atticus:

Severed Moon

Birth of the Rain

Guilt Fish

Darkly

Waterfowl Season (4 Haiku)

Once

Night Horse

The Butterfly Effect

Orange Bodhi

A Mewling Complaint

The Calculus of Flight

Laurie Corzett (LibraMoon)

Night Blooms

Harvesting Mooonlight

The Enemy

Mustafa Demiri

I Pray it Will Not Break (Chant Poem)

Daisho Tanka

In the Havens of the Lord (Kyrielle)

Mike Ellwood

Goldilocks and the Three Bears of the Apocalypse

Eagle (Golf Poem)

Self-Portrait

Audrey Howitt

The Salt Witch

A Fish’s Tale

Our Lady of the Pootens

John-Arthur Ingram

Submission (The Blackening)

The Sacrament

The Dark Loves of John-Arthur Ingram (3 poems)

Paxon Kale:

The End Comes Gradually

J. I. Keaton:

Calcify

John Kropf:

A Midwestern Boy Mows the Great Fields of the Republic (Prose Poem)

Time and Space at the 7-11

Michelle Kennedy:

Selah

In and Down

John Kimball II

Synchronicity

Supernova Sunrise

Craig Lawson:

Zen Lepidoptery

The Winter Guest

Skiing Alone

Richard Lynn Livesay:

Cobweb Whispers

Meta-Poet (3 Poems)

Janey M.

Oh to Hear the Stones!

Seán MacFalls

Body of Ocean, Milk and Sky

D. W. Moody

Clay Human

Corinna Parr

Ode to a Happy Man

Like This

Peace, Poet

Selene Skye

Schrodinger’s Girl

Inside Old Man Rattler

Colliding Worlds

David Wainland

Lullaby on a Pthalo Blue Sea

Thomas Washington:

The Blackmorrow Riding

Amarantine

John F. Walter

Reality or Virtual Reality?  The Poetry of John F. Walter (3 poems)

Doug Westberg

Cantare Pater Noster

Umar:

The Traveler’s Guide

Miss Sapphire

The Soloist

LXVII (Math & Poetry Humor)

My Fractilious Blue Universe

She Owns No Name

The Moon People

For You, The Woods is Full With Silence

Sight Line Home

Poetic Collaborations:

Biogenesis by Corinna Parr & James Ciriaco

Masterstroke by Corinna Parr & James Ciriaco

Colliding Worlds By Selene Skye & Bard Constantine


CLASSIC POETRY:

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

Rain by Edward Thomas

The Moment by Margaret Atwood

The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke

After Years by Ted Kooser

The Horses Came by Edwin Muir

The Diver’s Clothes by Rumi

I Am Not Yours by Sarah Teasdale

Hymn by A. R. Ammons

Do Not Stand by My Grave and Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye

Silver by Walter de la Mare


Tributes From My Poet Friends:

To Ann Marcaida, Patron of the Arts by James Ciriaco

A Mewling Complaint by Atticus

MUSIC I LOVE:

The Bone of Song by Josh Ritter

Hal an Tow (For May Day/Beltane) by Oysterband

Wisteria by Richard Shindell

The Good in Me is Dead (For the marathon bombers) by Martyn Joseph

Castaway by Richard Shindell

Desert Dream (Erotica by Kelly Mulhollan).

The Broom o’ Cowdenknowes (Traditional, performed by Silly Wizard).

She Will Not Say by Krista Detor

Meteor City by Joe Purdy

Amid the Falling Snow by Enya

Jim Fryer, Jazz Genius

Did Galileo Pray? by Ellis Paul (Tribute to the convicted Italian Earthquake Scientists).

Grim Cathedral by David Francey (9/11 Tribute)

Artistic Chameleons: The Sinister Minister Underground Theater

Oysterband: The Best British Band You’ve Never Heard!

The Fall of a Poet (Raglan Road) by The Twilight Lords

Battlefield Ghost (In Honor of Memorial Day) by The Church

Of Weeds and Early Religion by JohnSmith

The Last Wild Animal by The Great Lake Swimmers

Sea and Shore as Lovers by The Great Lake Swimmers

Starling Man Celebrates Spring by Josh Ritter

To Join the Pack by Josh Ritter

Tomorrow, Wendy (To the Catholic Church) by Concrete Blonde

Solstice Worship in the Woods by Peter Mayer

Ghosts of the Desert by The Handsome Family

MISCELLANEOUS:

Waves of Life (For the Victims of the Connecticut School Shootings)

The Liquid World (Photo)

Blessing for Road-Killed Animals

Thich Nhat Hahn on the Events of September 11

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Photo credits: 1. Stock Image  2. passonapoem.com  3. What’s the Matter by Nora Sumberg  4. Poetry Reading by Charles Bukowski  5. Yee Von Chen  6. Elizabeth Evans