The Poet's Room

You Are Invited!  Live Poetry & Music  At the Wil-Mar Center  The Wild Hog in the Woods Coffee Shop Friday November 8,  7:30 to 9:30 pm 504 S. Brearly St. Madison, Wi 53703           Friends Romans and Country persons ... I've not come to bury Caesar for he died long before my time. Although my name is Anthony I had nothing to do with that event. Instead have been invited to read some of my poetry by Dave Schindele, a fine musician and friend. I will be reading an excerpt from a collection of poetry I recently submitted t o a contest for possible publication. The title of the collection is Black Ink On White Paper  . Below is the title poem and a bit of a long poem titled Song of the Frivolous Man.  For all of you who are local and can make it I would love to see there.  Black Ink On White Paper Black ink On  White paper, Words Upon a Page; Out of Diapers, I toddle Across The floor, Open  The door ...

 Monarch Rescue -- Emmett Gives Back 

                                                          Groundhog Listening to Whispers         While moving slowly from Dutchman Breeches to Woods Anemone on a recent outing in search of spring beauty, suddenly this Groundhog popped up halfway out of its dug burrow. Not considered beautiful to we two legged beings, yet certainly robustly plump and attractive to another four pawed Groundhog this Whistle Pig posed for several still photos as I whispered softly urging her to come out fully and commune with me and the wildflowers on an eighty degree day. Ah, but she seemed reluctant to fully expose herself. Maybe heat made her reluctant to leave the burrow that had to be cooler. Maybe she had a litter of young! Soon she popped back down into the hole. Assuming I wouldn't see her again I moved closer. Suddenly she popped ...

  Dragonfly Kite!         Early Spring! Lake Mendota's ice is melting, The sky Wisconsin blue, Around eve's and corners of buildings, The wind hums a kite flying tune; *           THE IDIOM   -- "Go Fly a Kite" means; Beat it, be gone, buzz off, take a hike, shove off, get lost, run along now, scat, go take a running leap at a rolling doughnut, go jump in a lake, and just in case the person didn't get the message you could switch to Spanish with vamoose! No friends that does not reference a Spanish Moose. The idiom originated in the 1940s and represented that to "Go fly a kite" meant that the person would literally have to leave, go some place else, like outside where the wind can be found.          Now in the year 2024 I wish to suggest that we turn this negative around so that when some one tells you, me or whom ever to "Go fly a kite", we respond with. Wow! Great idea. After all consider  that ...