Tired Sonnet
This is another mediocre sonnet that I wrote on the train going to and from Manhattan. However, it’s true that I often feel tired in the morning and don’t […]
Poetry
The Sun in Poetry
Sunset Great carnal mountains crouching in the cloud That marrieth the young earth with a ring, Yet still its thoughts builds heavenward, whence spring Wee villages of vapor, sunset-proud.— And
The Sun in Poetry
The Inward Morning Packed in my mind lie all the clothes Which outward nature wears, And in its fashion’s hourly change It all things else repairs. In vain I look
Pensive Parky Pens a Poem
Here’s Parky back at home in our backyard garden, thinking about the World Parkinson Congress and jotting down his thoughts and feelings as he prepares to write a sonnet.
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Parky Does Laurie Anderson!
Parky has always been attuned to the avant-garde, and he’s always loved Laurie Anderson! In anticipation of the upcoming World Parkinson Congress, he’s re-written Anderson’s “Sharkey’s Night” as “Parky’s Night,” which
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The Sun in Poetry
The Dream I have a dream to fill the golden sheath of a remembered day . . . . (Air heavy and massed and blue as the vapor of opium
Sunny Sundays!
In celebration of all things sunny, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week’s entry (as well as the next few weeks of entries) was
Heart, Awakened
Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School is the title of a book written by Georgia Heard, an internationally famous poet and teacher. I studied poetry (and
Iambic Pentameter: If Not Now, When?
As an undergraduate lit major, I read a lot about iambic pentameter. Ten beats per line, alternating weak with strong: weak strong weak strong weak strong weak strong weak strong Shakespeare’s sonnets
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The Sun in Poetry
The Afternoon Sun This room, how well I know it. Now they’re renting it, and the one next to it, as offices. The whole house has become an office building