Come gather round people, wherever you roam!

Guess what time it is?

It's open mic night time is what.




Come to the

Unitarian Universalist Church

@ 701 B Ave.

Saturday night at 6:30

Unfortunately, I was not able to attend the last reading, but the famous Terry Gresham was there, and he made a post featuring two of the poems read that night, by Monty May.

Here is one of them:

MUSIC

Sing and play,
Cast a ray,
Draw from the wealth within you;
Dance, direct-
Use your own dialect,
The Muses are waiting to guide you.

Day raining dreams,
Sky reigning themes;
Circling motions of wonder-
Rising within, rising without,
Ringing like carols of thunder!

You can read the other at Terry's awesome blog, Toenail Moon, where he also keeps his poetry, links to interesting things, and musings about Frenchmen, Woodchucks, hipsters and werewolves.

I hope both Terry and Monty will be back tomorrow night, and I hope to see you there, too!

what does poetry do?

Gerald M. Edelman said, "Science is imagination in the service of verifiable truth."
This is a beautiful and succinct definition. I wonder if we can come up with one for poetry that is as clear and definite. "Poetry is imaginationin the service of...............

Highlights from the Last Open Mic

Things We Know and Love

Peanut Princesses
Lawton Municipal "Airport."
William Butler Yeats

Things We Didn't Expect

Steamy, sexy slash
Three very surprised giraffes
Stars fallen to ash.