May 3, 2025 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
May May, and among the miles of leafing, blossoms storm out of the darkness— windflowers and moccasin flowers. The bees dive into them and I too, to gather their spiritual honey. Mute and meek, yet theirs is the deepest certainty that this existence too— this sense of...
Apr 1, 2025 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
A new book by author Ned Hayes. ( Coming soon! ) Preview of First Chapter I should have found you twenty years ago. Lost in impossible dreams I burned with impatience, looking for you everywhere. Where were you in those times? “J’aurai du te découvrir il...
Mar 9, 2025 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
– published on the date of his death… March 9, 1994 – THROWING AWAY THE ALARM CLOCK by Charles Bukowski my father always said, “early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our...
Feb 5, 2025 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little...
Jan 23, 2025 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
– published on the date of his birth… January 23, 1930 – Love after Love by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and...
Dec 18, 2024 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
This is One of Those Poems without any Rhymes by Brian Bilston This is one of those poems without any rhymes, the sort of thing you might read in the Telegraph or Times Guardian. For, as proper poets know, rhyme’s deleterious and only gets in the way when...
