Posts Tagged Robert Frost
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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,...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston One of the things that stays with me, so far, is the arithmetic I learned in primary school. Add, subtract, multiply and divide. Fractions came later, percent came later than that, as I recall. This column on poetry and some other things begins its eighth year. That amounts to 84...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The art of poetry seems to be divided, in fact, and in fancy with line endings and the spacing of the resulting verse. But there is also a ferocity involved. First, there is a ferocious knowledge of language and its usages. A dictionary refers to ferocious as wild, the way we usu...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I’ve worked this “rehash” in a way to highlight two poets ability to reveal strengths and realities for advancement. I indicated I would be writing about flowers this month. I hope the blooms in your yard and surroundings came on time, and the blosso...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Valentine’s Day is big business in the greeting card kingdom, and it should be. Lots of us get to journey to our closest or favorite place to select a card that is just right for looks and sentiment level. What a winter season, so far, for those if ...
