Poetry for the Inner Ear

More Dangerous Than Wild Hogs all good comes from above shaman listens to to the sound: knocking at the sky past, present, today free sky never bothers I scratch thorn-thick tree and find unexpected waterfall  mute syllables graven on stone still waiting to be heard by a shaman system to annihilate earth- industry of nuclear weapons More dangerous than wild hogs wreaking havoc in USA a life well spent on Sermon on the Mount more than paradise of  all the books none  like Bible let your prayer enlighten terrorist take heed foe is invisible poetic fire dim muse drooping suicide bomber is here amid woods and meads river runs- silent nymph tyrants vex jew, christian, hindu beyond the world’s clutter wet grass and flowers- nature’s free gifts as I muse along passions storm the breast: a  gentle angel whispers peace

LITERARY FACTS                                            1. Saul Bellow is the only American author to win three National Book Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize (1976). 2. Saul Bellow was married five times. 3. Robert Frost died in Boston on January 29, 1963. 4. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was winner of three Pulitzer Prizes. 5. Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1953) for his masterpiece The Old Man And The Sea, and Nobel Prize for literature in 1954, committed suicide in July 2, 1961. 6. William Faulkner (1897-1962), one of the greatest American novelists, was rejected by U. S. Army for being underweight and too short ( 5 feet 5 inches). 7. Samuel Becket’s poem WHOROSCOPE (1930) has seventeen footnotes. 8. When Becket...