Saturday, October 24, 2009

Gratitude


After three months away from the blog, dear reader, I have decided to return. Over the past few months, I have been thinking about the endless navel-gazing that blogging can be--that so much technology can be these days. I am bit troubled by the role that social-networking, texting, and other technologies can serve in feeding our own narcissism.

However, I have also come to realize that blogs can be a great place to celebrate the wonderful things in our lives--poetry and so on. And lately, I am growing more and more interested in gratitude. Here are some little poems of mine on the subject that have appeared over the past few months. My thanks to these journals:


I also wanted to share some great poems that I discovered recently by some wonderful poets:


It's wonderful to speak with you again, dear reader, and I look forward to future conversations. Best wishes to this beautiful fall weekend.

2 comments:

Melanie said...

Love the new work. I didn't realize you had so many pubs in the last couple months. Guess that is why you need to update this thing more often!
Btw, what ever came of getting print copies of the chapbook?

Robert said...

Welcome back! And thanks for the link.