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Rich Boucher commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Lisa Gill... Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, XVI & XIX'

"Perhaps my grandma’s skewed vision, corrected like a straying sheep, was an opportunity for all of us to reassess what we find so right-side-up in this world." - My goodness, Lisa, this hit me like a ton of bricks. A ton of them. Your writing is...

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lisa gill commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Lisa Gill... Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, XVI & XIX'

Thanks all and especially the ditchrider! Gratitude,

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JeSais commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Lisa Gill... Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, XVI & XIX'

Lisa, how nice to relish your words, to roll them around in my mind this Sunday morning......

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Merimee Moffitt commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Lisa Gill... Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, XVI & XIX'

Lisa, I love the first lines and phrases and everything that follows like a good day the beginning to the end, in both You are a comforting poet, a soft inspiration, a gentle teacher (newspapers, stones)--poems about stuff, things that are keys to...

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Merimee Moffitt commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Merimee Moffitt... The Seco Bar, 1973'

I think Jon posted a photo of a bar in Santa Fe, 70s--Seco bar may be a B&B these days--haven't slowed down enough to look closely the two times I was there inthe last few years--Seco has revived, however, from it's malaise of the 80s, 90s-it's hi...

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Ben Moffett commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Lisa Gill... Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, XVI & XIX'

Perhaps Emily Dickinson felt that her words would never be heard, but they are recited somewhere every day,despite the fact that they were not much noticed during her lifetime. You seem to be off to a much faster start.

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BARBARA BYERS commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Lisa Gill... Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, XVI & XIX'

Thanks for putting these out for my Sunday morning. I will be reading the rest. I love your work. Thank you for all of it, the work on all levels and in all communities. Thanks for sharing the planet with me.

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Margaret Randall commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Lisa Gill... Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, XVI & XIX'

Lisa, it is wonderful to see and reread these poems here, powerful and to the point as they were when I first devoured them in your book. Merton still has so much to teach us, as do you. The first poem flashed Eduardo Galeano's El mundo patas arri...

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The Sunday Poem: Lisa Gill... Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, XVI & XIX

In his Seeds of Contemplation, Catholic monk Thomas Merton wrote, "The purpose of a book of meditations is to teach you how to think and not to do your thinking for you." Living alone in a trailer next to an alfalfa field, Lisa Gill wrote back. R...

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Ben Moffett commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Merimee Moffitt... The Seco Bar, 1973'

I assume the photo is of the Seco Bar. Nice. Isn't that a studebaker parked out front?

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Merimee Moffitt commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Merimee Moffitt... The Seco Bar, 1973'

Ben, I've heard about that game--those soccerplayers get pretty fired up! I can relate!

November 10

Ben Moffett commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Merimee Moffitt... The Seco Bar, 1973'

Sounds a lot like a recent UNM-BYU women's soccer game, but that match obviously stemmed from comparatively shallow and insignificant roots.

November 9

Merimee Moffitt commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Merimee Moffitt... The Seco Bar, 1973'

wow--thx for all the encouraging support from all of you-- I am grateful to Jon for loving this piece enough to post it--for me this poem is now an buoy marking those times--I will return to the times and dig around for more gold.

November 9

cathyray commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Merimee Moffitt... The Seco Bar, 1973'

I'm with Grumpy! Been here several times today.

November 8

Grumpy commented on The DitchRider's blog post 'The Sunday Poem: Merimee Moffitt... The Seco Bar, 1973'

I've come back to this poem several times today. Like a re-discovered home movie in which I see things I swear I've never seen before.

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The Sunday Poem: Lisa Gill... Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, XVI & XIX

In his Seeds of Contemplation, Catholic monk Thomas Merton wrote, "The purpose of a book of meditations is to teach you how to think and not to do your thinking for you." Living alone in a trailer next to an alfalfa field, Lisa G… Continue

Posted on November 15, 2009 at 7:00am — 8 Comments

The Sunday Poem: Merimee Moffitt... The Seco Bar, 1973

It takes a special kind of poet to write a great poem about a bar. The only other ones that come to mind are The Shooting of Dan McGrew and… Continue

Posted on November 8, 2009 at 8:00am — 13 Comments

The Sunday Poem: Rich Boucher... Please have Pity on these People; They are From the Past

Irony and humor are not the tools of every poet. But here Rich Boucher wears them like six-guns in this look into American history and how it is viewed.

A past member of five national poetry slam teams (Team Worcester, MA 1995 & 1996, Team Washington, DC in 2001, Team Wilmington, DE in 2007 and Team… Continue

Posted on November 1, 2009 at 7:30am — 16 Comments

The Sunday Poem: Gaurav Rajen... India: An Invitation (1988)

The adventure that is Gaurav Rajen's life began in India where he was born. This look back to his native land tries to come to grips with what has to be one of the most complex countries on the face of the planet. Packed with emotions and vivid images, this poem both dances and broods.

A short second poem,… Continue

Posted on October 25, 2009 at 7:29am — 4 Comments

The Sunday Poem: Elaine Schwartz... Auntie Margaret's Hungarian Pastry

Lies are just as entertaining as Truth. Just ask cable TV. Yet there are those moments when you can not only see what is true, you can smell it...taste it. Just ask Elaine Schwartz.

This wonderful piece awakens the hunger for truth in all of us.

Auntie Margaret’s Hungarian Pastry

If it… Continue

Posted on October 18, 2009 at 8:00am — 4 Comments

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At 3:28pm on April 8, 2009, Joseph Franklin said…: Thanks for your response to my post about Harrison Ridley. Don't know if you're from Philly and knew of him but, well, he was a beautiful soul.