Three Poems by the Great Sergei Yesenin
on 12/11/2024

Three Poems by the Great Sergei Yesenin

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIn this world you can search for everything, except Love and death. They find you when the time comes. ~ Sergei YeseninSergei Yesenin was a Russian poet born in 1895 who allegedly took his own life at the young age of 30 year

To Live is to Be Madly Alive
Poetic Outlaws on 10/11/2024

To Live is to Be Madly Alive

By: Erik RittenberryPhoto: Erik RittenberryText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedTo live is to be alive and to be alive is to defy the unlived moralizers and cyber prophets who harbor a relentless compulsion to preach the trendy ideologies of the day. To be alive i

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To Return Again
Poetic Outlaws on 09/11/2024

To Return Again

By: Horace KephartPhoto by George MasaText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedYes to return again and again; to leave the exhausted air of the cities, the imprisoning walls, the din and strife, the jostling of unsympathetic crowds; to escape from this artificial l

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Leonardo da Vinci: On the Mastery of Oneself
Poetic Outlaws on 07/11/2024

Leonardo da Vinci: On the Mastery of Oneself

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”― Leonardo da VinciOne can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. The height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-m

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POEM FOR JACK MICHELINE
Poetic Outlaws on 06/11/2024

POEM FOR JACK MICHELINE

A.D. Winans and Jack MichelineThe street poet Jack Micheline was born on this day in 1929. If you’ve been a follower of this page for some time, you’ve probably come across his outlaw poetry. I’ve also written a little bio poem about him. Jack Micheline was a frenetic poet and painter who loitered w

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Tortures
Poetic Outlaws on 05/11/2024

Tortures

By: Wisława SzymborskaText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedNothing has changed. The body is susceptible to pain, it must eat and breathe air and sleep, it has thin skin and blood right underneath, an adequate stock of teeth and nails, its bones are breakable, its j

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Time Change
Poetic Outlaws on 03/11/2024

Time Change

By: John BennettPrometheus | Painting by Theodore Rombouts, 1597 – 1637Perhaps we’ve got things ass-backwards, perhaps the Big Bang wasn’t darkness exploding into light but light shattering into darkness, maybe the Big Bang was Satan bursting free of his chains, like Prometheus, maybe that accounts

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There May Come a Moment in Life...
Poetic Outlaws on 01/11/2024

There May Come a Moment in Life...

By: Jean KleinArt: Daniel Arnold"Be knowingly silent as often as you can and you will no longer be a prey to the desire to be this or that. You will discover in the everyday events of life the deep meaning behind the fulfilment of the whole, for the ego is totally absent." —Jean KleinJean Klein (191

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Ulalume: A Ballad
Poetic Outlaws on 31/10/2024

Ulalume: A Ballad

By: Edgar Allan PoeWhat better way to usher in Halloween than to read a poem by the master of gothic horror—Edgar Allan Poe?Poe’s works descend into the shadows of the human soul, exploring madness, death, and realms beyond the earthly veil. He weaves an atmosphere where darkness itself seems alive,

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Krishnamurti: One Has to be an Outsider to Society
Poetic Outlaws on 30/10/2024

Krishnamurti: One Has to be an Outsider to Society

Photo: Rui PalhaThere is no leader, there is no teacher, there is nobody to tell you what to do. You are alone in this mad brutal world. — KrishnamurtiOne may live in society, but one has to be an outsider to society. And to be an outsider to society one has to be free of society. Society demands th

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Your Pain Is....
Poetic Outlaws on 28/10/2024

Your Pain Is....

By: Khalil GibranText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in

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Wandering in the White Mountains
Poetic Outlaws on 26/10/2024

Wandering in the White Mountains

By: Erik RittenberryArtist Bluff: Erik Rittenberry"No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength." - Jack KerouacIf you read my post earlier this mo

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Emerson: I lead a New Life
Poetic Outlaws on 25/10/2024

Emerson: I lead a New Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of those rare souls whose words feel like a quiet conversation with an old friend, always ready to offer a spark of insight when you need it most. His works are foundational to American literature, and he had an immense influence on writers like Nietzsche, Walt Whitman, He

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Whom I Write For
Poetic Outlaws on 23/10/2024

Whom I Write For

By: Irving Layton“If you are wondering what happened to us all, you might consult the poems of Irving Layton.”–Leonard CohenText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWhen reading me, I want you to feel as if I had ripped your skin off; Or gouged out your eyes with my

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Song of Autumn
Poetic Outlaws on 21/10/2024

Song of Autumn

By: CHARLES BAUDELAIREText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedSoon we shall plunge into the cold darkness; Farewell, vivid brightness of our short-lived summers! Already I hear the dismal sound of firewood Falling with a clatter on the courtyard pavements. All winter

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The Wisdom of Eric Hoffer
Poetic Outlaws on 18/10/2024

The Wisdom of Eric Hoffer

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”― Eric HofferEric Hoffer was often referred to as "The Longshoreman Philosopher." Born in New York City, he became a self-educated thinker who wrote ext

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Henry Miller on Becoming a Writer
Poetic Outlaws on 16/10/2024

Henry Miller on Becoming a Writer

If you are an artist, that means that you are denuding yourself more and more, that by the time you die you are stark naked and your bowels turned inside out.— Henry MillerI think I should also confess that I was driven to write because it proved to be the only outlet open to me, the only task worth

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The Seething Poetry of the Incarnate Now is Supreme
Poetic Outlaws on 14/10/2024

The Seething Poetry of the Incarnate Now is Supreme

By: D.H. Lawrence“One great mystery of time is terra incognita to us: the instant…The quick of all time is the instant. The quick of all the universe, of all creation, is the incarnate, carnal self. Poetry gave us the clue: free verse: Whitman. Now we know.” — D.H. LawrenceLife, the ever present, kn

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Mythology Begins Where Madness Starts
Poetic Outlaws on 12/10/2024

Mythology Begins Where Madness Starts

By: Joseph CampbellThe way to find your own myth is to determine those traditional symbols that speak to you and use them, you might say, as bases for meditation. Let then work on you.—Joseph CampbellMythological images are the images by which the consciousness is put in touch with the unconscious.

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