The Kennedy Center
...The Kennedy Center is known to the world
For honoring those in the arts –
From Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Astaire,
Whose talents top all of the charts.
Sinatra, Gene Kelly, L. Bernstein, Ka...
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Categories:
tharp, art,
Form: Rhyme
Twyla Tharp and Interstate 81
...TWYLA THARP AND
INTERSTATE 81
I had been watching a documentary
about a white-haired woman, a legendary
master of creative processes whose intensity
of focus was a cautionary tale of explosi...
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Categories:
tharp, memory, teacher,
Form: Free verse
The Director
...The Director
By Sy Roth
The directors--
For want of a nail
They were not wanting
So many nails,
A cache of nails
To drive into their coffins
Paid in j...
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Categories:
tharp, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Melancholy Man and His Magic Pen
...The melancholy man who loves a poem -
into a hidden room will now descend
to there unloose his mind and soul to roam;
his pen, meanwhile, grows a feathered end.
This implement can take away ...
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Categories:
tharp, on writing and words,
Form: Sonnet