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Richard Denner
a traveler f/an Antique Land
a Warrior/Pacifist
Achilles & Aesculus
Chiron & Prometheu
Savior, Man, Titan
Gentle knight
fought fifteen mortal battles
decorated, Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts,
3 times in hand to hand combat and each time killed his man
Traveling with his son, who is studying for the priesthood
Fought in The Battle of the Trees-defended the timber line
older soldier who doesn't want his son to go to war, has become a forrester,
US Forest Service, Inspector on his way to becoming District Super
Born, 1941 in Washington, mother killed by Japanese balloon bomb near
Hanford, at the beginning of WW II
married, 1960, draft 2 D, student/married, feels he should serve his country
divorced, 1963
Votes on the right, The Party of God and the Bible
conflicted around secular humanism, not sure he wants Darwin's Origin of the
Species and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity added to the Bible,
stuck right in there before The Book of Revelations were it says nothing can
be added or subtracted
Blames the failure of the Democrats on the Queers this time, not the Greens,
clarified the "family values" issue
Easy targets to machine gun
"Ducks on a pond"
"I'm not happy about our nasty little war with Civilization
even if you call it a Holy War
the fury of the Furhur
the fragmentation of the psyche
the consolidation of wealth, along with the monopoly of media
I Invoke Duncan,
Our old king
"Compassionate conservatism", he says, "what's that?"
They invented it
"What is it?"
Something mystical like trickle-down economics
"Well, when you dismiss your poets in time of war, you are dismissing
your first line of defense."
An old Bardic tradition
Zogchen and the art of poetry, base, essence, void, nature, manifest,
energy, three, mind, voice, path, view of what is, action, mind, voice,
body, space, essential, conduct, fruit, rainbow body
poesis, to make, process of meditation, things, writing, book making readers
writing equals path, view of what is, vision, action, meditation practice,
pen, typewriter, computer, the poem, conduct, being a poet 24/7, view,
vision, no ideas but in things
winning out against the poem, outside, view of what is, poem as a box, no
ideas but in things, "follow the lineaments of desire," book as measure
base of poetry, poetry is everything, "try and buy the well and it springs
up somewhere else," experience, contemplate mahamudra
action equals writing, eye-mind-hand conceive, mind-lungs-voice, sing speak,
dick-gut-heart, compose, mind series
space series, form/content
logopoeia, melopoiea, phanopoeia
pithy series, "after all's sd and done, it's the feelings remain"
How we look@ world
illusion
material
both
BASE
The Source
From whence comes the poem
"inspiration"
need to fulfill promise
result of a prayer
habit
Inspiration
flooding feeling, bliss
groovy, the zone
vision-externality, apocalyptic need to write like crazy
PATH
MAKE THE POEM
both
mind treasure - Ter
Chaucer as Garab Dorje
Jakespear as Guru Rinpoche
build like a box
"for Gail" - a poem for her birthday, an occasion
inside out school lessons
subconscious or nature
first word, best word
beauty
(photo of trees in Santa Rosa Lagoon)
outside in channel
ghosts, Martians, The Muse
Demons/Angels
Mind Ter
- the Unconscious
hypnotic intoxicants, both
just starts to happen
Visualization - mind
Breath/rhythm - energy
Word - body
Crazy Wisdom of Ol' Dog
Traditional teachers, Ketsun Sampo, Norbu, Soygal, Adzom
Tulku Sangnak, beaten in prison, dances The Dance of King Gesar
"Don't Worry! Be Happy!"
How do you go about
making poetry?
+ =
somehow things come
together
+ =
want to express
FEELINGS
BROUGHT ITS OWN SOLUTION
WHICH WAS
VERY POETIC
taught me how to draw
a bunny
saying something
is more appropriate
than you could dream of
saying something
more prfound
even if you don't get it
AESOP's fables
-crow story-
how he got drink
in the poem I was
able to cry
to name it kills it
"my cat died the other day"
confessional poet, in the 50s
sheparded into a pen,
and then you stamp it
don't want you to miss
the point
"capture
phrases
that
come to
mind"
the occasion arises
by the occurance
of the phrase
and it grabs
then, you somehow write it
"I met a traveler from an antique land"
stuff coming into life
that hauts you
things said
you shouldn't have
things said
you could have sd better
things other people said
"It was a beautiful day, and I want to remember it."
"Misery comes from every direction."
"Whatever are we going to do about it, we can't always be watching TV.?
Inner story
a séance
a poem
a book review
a skit
the voice of the Supreme Source
Do you feel like a
blindman who
doesn't know
where he is?
Did you think
the Kaliyuga Age was going to be easy?
Did you think samsara would vanish
if John Kerry was elected president?
AND NOW
a theocracy ascends, supported by the oligarchs
a Protestant Reformation, a revival of God in public space, a central
government at the helm of a P. reformation of secular government, the lights
and orbs of the battle from the pulpits, as the power flows through
spiritual channels, pulpits on every roadside, in every suburb, pulpits in
the laboratories and the schoolrooms, old party politicos, atheists and
other religious will have to go, not forgetting artists, intellectuals and
gypsies of all ilk
poetry of the mind
poetry of the voice
poetry of the body
engage base-body-vase-incarnate carnage
thrre's art, and then there's social art
Hitler's art+politics=power
commentary, documentary, virtual reality, internet, reality tv, i pod
"Am I forgetting anything, anyone?"
Call her Her. Her name was a pronoun.
Her friends know her as Vajratropa
runs by with her little dog,
God dog god consort,
protector-
just because it's a little dog doesn't mean it can't rip your crotch out
or rip into your juggler.
juggler
fool
Parsifal
Peaceful fool
belligerent fool
sarcastic fool
a clear day in autumn
clear as Vajratropa, jogging with her dog on a leash
all ornament
a Zogchen sky day
"She took him out on a speedboat, and I could tell by her tone, she was
worried and a bit resentful. She was wearing pink, but enough about her
clothes, let's get on with her tale."
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Who Her was is the first beach to cross. Past the pill boxes.
Life isn't bad enough to take downers.
Her was her secret name. Margaret was her outer name, and her inner name was
Norma. Her came from Normal, Illinois. Normal, here is a town that had a
normal school, a college to teach teachers, and Her knew that this was not
the path for her, so she cut out for the Big Apple.