Poet(witte)ry

On my ever-growing list of things I want to do more of is writing poems. If I don't happen to have pen and paper with me at any given moment, I should have no excuse, because, like so many people nowadays, I always have my cell phone with me. It might sound strange to some, but Twitter and other technologies are more and more becoming platforms for writing poetry.

Witness my latest T9 poem on Twitter.

Frankl's 3 Ways To Meaning

Viktor Frankl's logotherapy seems to find its way into many parts of my life & thought lately. I must commit this triad to memory:

According to logotherapy, meaning can be discovered by three ways:

"(1) by creating a work or doing a deed;
(2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and
(3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering,"

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The Red Hatchback

I've been reading Julia Cameron's The Right To Write (which I highly recommend), and have been writing more recently. Here's something I wrote this morning, based of course upon William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow." In the same visual form, it hardly does justice to a red hatchback, but it's interesting to ponder. It was originally a red sedan, but thinking back, the car actually is a hatchback, so it's easier to enjamb than "sedan." And yes, I was looking at a red car parked behind my house, in exactly this setting.

The Red Hatchback

so much depends
upon

a red hatch
back

blazed with sun
light

beside the white
garage.

Perhaps if I inverted the lines, it would make more visual sense.

so much
depends upon

a red
hatchback

blazed
with sunlight

beside
the white garage.