Ruins beneath an Old Oak Tree

ruins

Ruins beside a tree
Did they argue or sing
as they dug the root cellar,
as they made these bricks?
They lived their lives
beside this old oak.

I can hear their laughter,
the children calling to each other
as they ran beneath the limbs.
You have to be an old oak tree to remember the laugh,
to hear them run beneath you.

Someone has moved the pile and have built
a new house beside the tree now
pioneers of the internet
the cell phone
and they argue about the bricks
that built our country under that oak.
Is that hope I see in the distance,
old tree, or
a mirage of hope?

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The Sun Machine: Inside the Mind of David Bowie. Paul A Toth & Norman Ball

 
Take a walk inside the mind of David Bowie as he cross-examines his younger days. Rather than a documentary, this is an exploratory journey….a Specumentary based on research conducted by Norman Ball and directed by Paul A. Toth.
 
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My bio: Paul A. Toth is the author of four novels, including his 9/11 based Airplane Novel (2011), noted by ​​USA Today as the 4th Best Independent Novel of 2011. His latest is Let’s Go Shopping, The War Is Over, a collection of his best short stories. He is also the founder and publisher of Eye Am Eye Books
 
 
 
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NORMAN BALL (BA Political Science/Econ, Washington & Lee University; MBA, George Washington University) is a well-travelled Scots-American businessman, author and poet whose essays have appeared in Counterpunch, The Western Muslim and elsewhere. His new book “Between River and Rock: How I Resolved Television in Six Easy Payments” is available here. Two essay collections, “How Can We Make Your Power More Comfortable?” and “The Frantic Force” are spoken of here and here. His recent collection of poetry “Serpentrope” is published from White Violet Press.
 
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a Janet Kuypers interview 7/25/15 for the “Bon Voyage!” book release w/ haiku & poem readings on Chicago’s WZRD Radio (88.3 FM)

See YouTube video 7/25/15 of Janet Kuypers interviewed and reading poetry on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed from a Canon fs200 video camera)


See YouTube video of the first 16 minutes of the Janet Kuypers interviewed on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku cover from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku cover from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera, video flipped, cropped and saturated)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku don’t from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku don’t from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera, video flipped, cropped and saturated)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poor from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poor from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera, video flipped, cropped and saturated)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Visakhapatnam from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Visakhapatnam from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera, video flipped, cropped and saturated)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On a High Horse Like This from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On a High Horse Like This from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera, video flipped, cropped and saturated)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera, video flipped, cropped and saturated)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem ever leave me live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)


See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem ever leave me live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera, video flipped, cropped and saturated)


Search and Alternative, Poems by Linda Straub

Flooded Basement Poem

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I crawl on hands and knees,

Looking under furniture,

Turning up corners

Of yesterday’s carpet.

Walls rush in

and doors slam shut,

encapsulating me

With what I cannot find,

A little peace, one drop of joy,

The recollection of relevance.

 

 

 

Alternative

Once again the bent back,

Hands guiding a rubber suction hose

Over a flooded basement floor

Six times in one week,

And threats of further storms to come.

Bucket after bucket of muddy water

Hoisted up to the great outdoors,

Where blue skies have turned grey

And green grass is flecked with mud.

Bail, bail both night and day.

Oh,but to abandon “house”,

And let the water have its way.

Poems by Linda Straub

Copyright June 2015