Posts Tagged Musings
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston While those of us involved in reading poetry have certain favorites, they may be dead. That’s right, dead! Most of the poetry we are involved with nowadays is done by people within our memory, or within reach of our bookshelves or those at the bookstore or library we frequent....
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I compose poetry for those of us not schooled at University, even though some of us took an English Literature core course. I can be serious or write a poem that is filled with humor. Both are interesting for the poet, and one style may become the other as the muse driving the i...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston There is lots of potential in the middle of the year, the crown of it all, June. Weddings used to be in June—ours was, barely, on the 28th of June, 1964. There is lots more, including other family gatherings and vacations. If nature cooperates, flowering perennials, and buried ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Late in February, there was an article in the New York Times about “found” poetry of Rudyard Kipling. I dove into volumes on and of poetry to discover Kipling’s “Early Verse,” published in 1900, containing the known writings in prose and verse. The article claims 500...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Over the years, I have enjoyed relating how we are, sometimes with the poetry, and often with some of my own thoughts. I am fairly sure the column for April will begin my ninth year. During that time, you and your writer have done some maturing. Are we wiser than we were? I thi...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I don’t know if you could call February “the sweet month,” but I will propose it be so. Sweet mainly for St. Valentine’s Day, and also, I say, for the February thaw, a key signal for a coming change to spring. This month, I am giving you a poem I consider sweet. This is b...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston We are past one seasonal celebration, Thanksgiving, which aims toward culinary delight (in moderation). I hope that was your journey and destination, whether you hosted the meal or traveled some distance to participate. Now our heading is towards more family and, in most cases, p...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston For a month or so, I have been ruminating about an eastern poet and one from the midwest. As time has gone on, the eastern poets and their institutions try to hold sway over the best that is done, or at least the best, judged by poets other than the writers. In plain language,...
