March 1, 2023

“A Little Space for Happiness” by Michael Larrain

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“A Little Space for Happiness” by Michael Larrain

Poetry lives on in the soul I know this sentence, which I wrote here in 2014 when I first met Michael Larrain “selling blissed-out flowers from the back of his Jeep about two blocks east of downtown Cotati (California), sounds a lot like the first sentence in James Crumley’s finest novel, The Last Good Kiss. Which may or may not be coincidentally set in nearby Sonoma (California). It could also be something evocative about The Land that is Sonoma County. I don’t know. But you might want to find the time to read Crumly’s novel and endulge yourself in that first sentence. But before you do, please read (and comment on) this magnificent poem by our featured poet today. Another of his poems appears here in a week’s time. A Little Space for Happiness Between…

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February 17, 2023

Max Orkis’s Stunning Poetic Visions

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Max Orkis’s Stunning Poetic Visions

Eight poems you won’t soon forget. Poems you’ll want to read again and again. Each reading reveals new layers, depths, insights, poetic visions, and an overwhelming desire to understand the heart and the mind of a true poet. Missing  Fold, collapse, telescope.  How piercing glows a ray — if  The star rolls round once every so many  Forevers while night falls daily?  So cold to hope,  In an ice age, for global warming  As streams   Grow stiff,  Like a bay leaf,  Harden,  Fossilize, like a trope,  Like the uncanny  Flower that buds more   Slowly than   Death blooms — so, grow wild, bow, garden.  How real are dreams  If even after brainstorming  One can hardly recall one or   Forget disbelief  Again?  ~ ~ Divine Dream  I often wonder why my dreams so seldom  Remember me in…

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September 10, 2020

What “God” Is: A Philosophical-Scientific Essay by Steve Sangapore

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What “God” Is: A Philosophical-Scientific Essay by Steve Sangapore

Pictured Above:LIBERATION72″ x 48″ x 1.5″Oil, mirror, and 24k gold leaf on canvas2020 What God Is (WITHOUT THE WOO WOO) Why God is the Pursuit of Meaning The evolution of the concept of God is one of the oldest, deepest and most important developments to ever have risen out of the human psyche. Throughout almost every culture on Earth we have seen evidence of belief in the divine. The idea of God or a creating force has evolved from the earliest known manifestations represented as human-animal hybrids, to pantheons of intervening superhuman gods, to God as man made flesh on Earth, to more contemporary notions of God as the totality of the universe and its contents. Humans in their desire for answers to life’s most pressing questions have creatively reimagined and transformed God over the…

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