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Posts by Smalljones aka Paul Jones

Mother Earth - Memphis Slim
Mother Earth - Memphis Slim YouTube video by iVenge

You may own a half a city
Even diamonds and pearls
You may buy that plane baby
And fly all over this world

Don't care how great you are
And I don't care what you worth
Because when it all end up
You got to go back to Mother Earth

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How appropriate

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No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night No moon floods the memory of that night only the rain I remember the cold rain against our faces and mixing with your tears only the rain I remember the…

No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night

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"A revolutionary is a doomed man
with no certainties but love and history.”
“But our children must grow up with certainties
and they will make the revolution.”
“By example we must show the way so plain
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Wuz harder than I expected

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6 Poems You Should Know by Heart The poets Major Jackson and Frederick Seidel share the verses they always return to.

Prayer’ (1985)
by Galway Kinnell

Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.

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Legit four

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One more four

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What’s Going On in This Poem? | ‘Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’’ by Robert Hayden

Monet’s “Waterlilies”
by Robert Hayden

Today as the news from Selma and Saigon
poisons the air like fallout,
I come again to see
the serene great picture that I love.

Here space and time exist in light
the eye like the eye of faith believes.
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Four is a very popular number

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Satori by Mark Smith-Soto - Rattle: Poetry In the budding white morning I crawl out of bed and wander barefoot down the stairs and yawn into the kitchen where you’re making coffee

Satori
-Mark Smith-Soto

In the budding white morning I crawl
out of bed and wander barefoot down
the stairs and yawn into the kitchen
where you’re making coffee, and I
see a woman making coffee and wearing
what must be my red shirt, and I watch
her move sternly as [...]

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My third is a word, but

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Open and Closed Spaces “Amnesty,” goes whispering through the grass: “amnesty.” A boy runs with an invisible line angling up into the sky where his wild dreams about the future…

Open and Closed Spaces
-Tomas Tranströmer

A man feels the world with his work like a glove.
He rests for a while at midday and has laid his gloves on the shelf.
Where they suddenly grow, spreading out
and darkening the whole house from within.
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Hot Tuna - Water Song - 6/24/2011 - Wolfgang's Vault
Hot Tuna - Water Song - 6/24/2011 - Wolfgang's Vault YouTube video by Paste Magazine

No words necessary...

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Not braggin'
Just sayin'

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Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market Here,    among the market vegetables, this torpedo from the ocean    depths,    a missile    that swam, now    lying in front of me dead. Surrounded by…

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
-Pablo Neruda

Here,
among the market vegetables,
this torpedo
from the ocean
depths,
a missile
that swam,
now
lying in front of me
dead.

Surrounded
by the earth's green froth
—these lettuces,
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Humbled

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That's what I say

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Basque Folk Song ⨳ Txistu egin (feat. Dunure) ⨳ by Tartalo Music & Ian Fontova
Basque Folk Song ⨳ Txistu egin (feat. Dunure) ⨳ by Tartalo Music & Ian Fontova YouTube video by Tartalo Music

Atzo goizean goiz yagi nintzan
Birigarroa goizago
Atzo goizean goiz yagi nintzan
Birigarroa goizago
Birigarroan txinta soinuan
Lo eiten dogu gozaro
Birigarroan txinta soinuan
Lo eiten dogu gozaro
Eperra kantatzen dau
Goizean bostetan
Eperra kantatzen dau
Goizean bostetan

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The Widening Spell of the Leaves Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill.

The Widening Spell of the Leaves
-Larry Levis

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The books lying open to the flat, neglected
Light of dawn; & it settled like dust on windowsills
Downtown, filling the smug cafés, schools,
Banks, offices, taverns, gymnasiums, hotels,
Newsstands, courtrooms, [...]

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No other word will do

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What Happens When We Die? This Poem Has Thoughts. A.O. Scott contemplates the great unknown in Wallace Stevens’s “Of Mere Being.”

Wallace Stevens' OF MERE BEING

The palm at the end of the mind,
Beyond the last thought, rises
In the bronze decor,
A gold-feathered bird
Sings in the palm, without human meaning,
Without human feeling, a foreign song.
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Still in their leaves, throughout the sliding years First of all, welcome to a large number of new subscribers.

The Sound of Trees
-Robert Frost

I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
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50/50 chance for a two
But three is good

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Falling Today, I've come to see the angel, and to remember that winter day, how my brother looked in his suede jacket, how soft my face appears in the photograph,…

Falling
-Esperanza Snyder

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Nothing about heartbreak. In Madrid,
we drank coffee spiked with cognac, walked
around Plaza Mayor, sat in restaurants for hours.
We had gray days—like the day we saw Picasso's
painting of Guernica—and we had dark,
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The Byrds - Eight Miles High (1971)
The Byrds - Eight Miles High (1971) YouTube video by Beat-Club

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Back in the four groove
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R.E.M. - The One I Love (Official Music Video)
R.E.M. - The One I Love (Official Music Video) YouTube video by REMVEVO

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love
Fire (she's comin' down on her own, now)
Fire (she's comin' down on her own)

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Poetry and Earth – Love, and .  [ poems by Connie Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour,  Jenny Bates, Annie Woodford, Paul Jones]  .  Song at Daybreak   .  Behind the mountains this morning a soft curtain of pink, dawn dipping into her…

Today, for Earth Day and Poetry Month, Bill Griffin's GriffinPoetry Verseandimage features poems by Connie Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour,
Jenny Bates, Annie Woodford, and @smalljones.bsky.social

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Busted!
Down to 2 choices
And I choose the wrong one

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Wahoo! A two

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