Octavio Paz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz
http://www.poetrycat.com/octavio-paz...ng-and-staying
Printable View
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-one-listens-to-the-rain/
Paul Muldoon... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...l/paul-muldoon
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/holy-thursday-5/
Paz poem-Beautiful, even in translation!
Muldoons poem reminds me of this one by Erich Kästner:
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/sachli...ranslated.html
Matsuo Basho
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D
http://www.poetrycat.com/matsuo-basho/stillness
re: Erich Kästner's poem: Yes, I see it. re: Basho: Assuredly a minimalist poetry master.
Bruce Larkin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Larkin
http://brucelarkin.com/poems/
Quote:
Being a Poet
What do poets really do?
Children sometimes ask,
“Is writing poetry lots of fun,
Or a really boring task?”
“How do you get the words
To rhyme the way they do?”
“What kind of mind matches words
Like gnu, canoe, and kazoo?”
I think we are all poets
In our own little way.
Poems are when an open mind
Lets its thoughts out to play.
Bruce Larkin
Larkin-Lovely poem!Did for small children what Monteiro Lobato did in Brazil for older ones: awaken their interest in several subjects.
Exceptionally repeating B- Bob Dylan
http://www.seewhatisthere.com/poetry-dylan.html
(The obligatory) Dylan Thomas... http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-ref...re-of-a-child/
Beautiful poem!
Tom Jobin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Carlos_Jobim
Jean Sibelius... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ls8-pk4IS4
Saint Augustine
Aphra Behn... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/43640
re: Sibelius video... Enjoyed all but the 2nd movement. The video had a segment with an inverted exclamation point that I explored with a modest poem I dedicated to my sister pk vaille on her birthday while in Maple Valley, WA tending to our dying Mother:
~~o~~~~ sunsets
daily tie-dyed
pastel skies
all too soon
dematerialize
mountains, vales
and prairies fade;
glaciers chill -
deserts defied
oceans drink
in exultation;
the sun retreats
in exclamation ¡
7/29/2014
I liked the poem, but didn´t know about the sad memories associated with the music
Aphra Behn: Interesting woman! Going to look for her plays in the internet.
Bret Harte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Harte
No... the music video I hadn't seen before, but the music would have been quite appropriate for the time. The inverted ! ( or "¡") is what I had expressed from a fonder memory at the beach. Re Bret Harte... he once lived in Sonora in the Sierra foothills as I do; only ~141 klicks South. I used to have family and old friends living there. http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/marys_album.html
Hanshan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanshan_(poet)
Probably the first Chinese poet of this "antology"!
Hermeto Paschoal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeto_Pascoal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ptOJ33u1bQ
He played with Miles Davis: Good enough for me. I'll listen to the music later.
Peggy Lee... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0PYTaX372A
HP- There are shorter "minimalistic" videos if you prefer them
PL- I like jazz. "Fever" sounds somehow very familiar to me
Liza Minnelli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8P80A8vy9I