Aug 13, 2025 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
A poem for these times… Relax Ellen Bass Bad things are going to happen. Your tomatoes will grow a fungus and your cat will get run over. Someone will leave the bag with the ice cream melting in the car and throw your blue cashmere sweater in the drier. Your...
Jul 15, 2025 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
Holdfast Last week of August: too soon for falling leaves, fog that rises at dawn, ghosts up the beach, geese lining up in their ragtag V. Beyond the sandstone ledge carved like a torso by the waves, beyond purple sea stars inching toward tide pools, ...
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...
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...
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...
